This old nugget came up on social media again. At least here in Boulder County there is a belief that the number of unlicensed vehicles are the reason that the roads are in such a poor state of repair. Boulder … Continue reading Car Registrations pay for Roads? Nope.
Over the years Microsoft has continued to turn it’s flagship operating system into a bloatware nightmare. I still like Windows, despite being one of the biggest advocates for IBM’s adoption of Linux some 25-years ago, yes really. That said, Microsoft … Continue reading When Windows Is No Longer…
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow It would indeed be ironic if the capitalist juggernaut that is America for the last 100-yeats came crashing down because it failed to heed the warning of Elinor Ostrom, Nobel … Continue reading NYTimes: America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
While researching a music project for ctproduced.com, I stumbled across this article by Anita Poirier in the Los Angeles Free Press, December 28th, 1973. It’s a fascinating read given how we are depending on electric Vehicles to save the planet from an impending planetary melt-down. Both pages of the newspaper can be read here (PDF) – the pages also contain an interesting article on the EPA. Detroit and the federal government have turned their backs on the discovery of a low-cost, smog-free engine. This amazing machine, perfected by a Van Nuys engineering firm, actually operates on four wet cell, 6-volt … Continue reading Smog Free Engine Ignored
Turns out I’ve had two valid passports for most of my adult life, this is the first time I’ve two from different countries. It turns out that once you go to Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China and a few other … Continue reading Passport Palooza
I post from time to time about segments or whole This American Life shows. The program is remarkable both in content and durability. In a recent program, Act 1. was about Ghost stories. Specifically, it was about ghost stories in … Continue reading When Stories Go Bad
I regularly post here about how backward, slow and relatively useless the American banking system is. This post is another in that series, but one that potentially impact’s you every time you use your bank or credit card. How so? … Continue reading More Backwards Banking
This isn’t a post about AI, and chatGPT has a very long way to go before it becomes factually useful, if you want to see a recent experiment I did with it, see this thread of mine on twitter. Until … Continue reading The Innovators Dilemma – Google
Just to wrap up on a less than perfect start to the year, I have no idea if my appeal on my suspension from Mastodon was even read, but the 30-days came and went, just like my Mastodon ID. Gone. … Continue reading Mastodon – Gone
Amazon pharmacy is such a mess I could laugh, but it’s also potentially dangerous. If you read my earlier post on troubles with my Part-D drug insurance and moving the prescriptions to Amazon, you’ll enjoy this, or maybe not. Turns … Continue reading Amazon Prescription Update