Havana Syndrome Attacks

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Monday April 01, 2024 · 9:31 AM PDT

2024/04/01 · 09:31

Did anyone see the 60 Minutes story on the Russian attacks on US government agents and their families?

Initially it was a mystery why some US diplomats in Havana and FBI agents investigating Russian issues were suffering ear and brain injuries while traveling or posted overseas. However, 60 Minutes presented interviews with some of the injured parties as well as some evidence that Russia is apparently using a directed (acoustic) energy weapon against US persons and their families.

Mike Johnson, Donald Trump, and all the other Republican traitors may want to look the other way, but Putin is still our enemy. He has no qualms about directly attacking Americans.

Obamacare for me?

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Saturday October 19, 2013 · 10:10 AM PDT

2013/10/19 · 10:10

This is just a quick note on my Healthcare.gov experience today. I have insurance through my employer right now, so I was in no great hurry to hit the website when it first opened. I'm a contract engineer though, so my employer does not contribute to the cost of my insurance and it is very expensive. I thought I'd take a look at the ACA marketplace and see what my choices are.

The first surprise was that everything I looked at worked perfectly. I did not create an account or sign up (yet), but I was able to look at options and prices with no trouble at all. The website options were clear and straightforward. It looks like I am probably making too much right now to qualify for any subsidy to insure my family, so that will simplify the process for me. But as a contractor, it's great to know that these options for insurance will still be available when this job ends. I also get a lot more options to chose from. And it looks like I can save two or three hundred dollars a month for an equivalent plan by buying through the marketplace instead of buying through my employer. Obamacare looks like a big win all the way around! Woohoo!

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My Aquaponics Experiment

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Saturday May 18, 2013 · 3:16 PM PDT

2013/05/18 · 15:16

Inspired by reading about Travis Hughey's Barrelponics system and Will Allen's much larger scale operation (Growing Power) in Milwaukee, I decided to try to grow some of my own food by making a small home aquaponics system.

Aquaponic gardening is a combination of aquaculture and hydroponic gardening, where the waste products from fish fertilize plants, and in turn the plant roots filter the waste from the water and absord nitrates so the water is clean when recycled to the fish tank. The key to the system is bacteria that convert the ammonia from the fish waste into nitrates that are easily absorbed by the plants.

My aquaponics experiment started with an ambitious dream of a backyard pond full of perch and a greenhouse full of vegetables. That isn't what happened. Instead, I ended up with a basement laboratory (Mwa-Ha-Ha!) filled with flourescent grow lights, gurgling water, and a soil-less garden full of lettuce and peas. More after the squiggle.

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