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| 2005 Toyota Prius Wheel 15in 14lbs Image Source: http://bit.ly/1MHfzaw |
Tire & Wheel Weight : Vehicle Fuel Economy
Guns Are Dead
I put a gun on the ground and yelled at, but it would not respond. I demanded that it get up and do something, but it laid their lifeless making no choices at all. It dawned on me, this gun is an inanimate object that requires a Human operator.
Ubiquitous Surveillance
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| Laser Bounce Audio Harvesting Off Sheetrock |
The computational power of todays computer networks will pave the way towards a more honest future. In the future the truth about everything will be easier to access because of ubiquitous surveillance.
Charge where you park : Or Not
The key to electric vehicle mass market success evades society because of a simple problem that can be easily fixed in most places: the lack of electrical outlets where cars are parked.
Why Blame Lance Armstrong
Grand liar of Cycling, King of performance enhancing drugs, but not a drug chemist. What about the system of doctors and drug companies that produce the juice that these athletes use to dope?
Fenix LD60 2800 Lumen LED Flashlight
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| Image Source : http://goo.gl/zyQGLc |
Star Trek with Fusion Energy
Magnetic mirrors, like Q switching a gas laser, the Fusion Pulse Hydrogen engine of tomorrow will bring mankind to new reaches in the universe. Translating secret defense technology of yesterday into the power we need to go interstellar tomorrow........
Beard Blast 2015
I have not posted anything in a long time, for this I am sorry to my blog readers. I have been busy, sick, and most of my idea outreach efforts have been on FaceBook, in a more casual fashion. This post is a simple GIF creation to document my early 30's experiments with beard growing ^^
1L Ford Eco-boost
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| The One & Only Ford 1L Ecoboost Engine ^^ Wow |
With 123HP and 90% of the available 148 lb-ft of overboost torque available at 1350rpms, this little beast produce the same power output per liter as the 8L engine from the Bugatti Veyron^^
January 2015 Update ***
Fuel Economy : MPG
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| 2015 Honda PCX : 100MPG Freeway Capable 2up Scooter |
2013 Leaf Single Charge Range Explored
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| Eva the 13 Leaf S & Meg & I Blink Charging at the Ballard Fred Meyers |
Officially rated at 75mi per charge (EPA), the owners manual tells that the single charge range you will experience as a LEAF operator varies between about 47 mi worse case and 138mi ideal 38MPH cruise case. That old saying YMMV fits the LEAF range estimate like a glove.
To buy the Leased Leaf S or Not * Updated July 2014
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| Lost Image Credit : Probably Nissan Motors |
VW EA 288 TDI Clean Diesel
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| Image via : http://goo.gl/syUu9K |
1000+ miles per charge : The Electric Vehicles of Tomorrow
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| (Image via http://goo.gl/l8ktQd) |
Vehicle Fuel Economy : Budget Math 0.1 in $2014 USD Prices
Your budget is affected by fuel prices and the fuel economy of your vehicles. Here I examine in a crude brief way the relative impact that fuel prices will have on your annual budget given current and emerging vehicle energy economy trends projected into the future.
Positive Ideas Enhance Information and Knowledge Processing in the Human Brain
Lies, greed, theft, hatred, bigotry, overpopulation, pollution, corruption, dishonesty, infidelity, betrayal, killing, objectifying others, narcissism, apathy, foolishness, stupidity, failure.
The human brain is a knowledge engine, where your senses take in information from the world and pipe these experience to your consciousness via your nervous systems information network. The brain itself is massively parallel information processing network. As you go through life your brain learns concepts, ideas, knowledge, philosophies, and other forms of information in your mental index. Your biochemical emotions help to shape the ongoing direction of conscious information processing in your brain. Your emotions act like artistic filters on your objective information processing core. If you think of your brain like a google search engine of your own life experiences, then you might come to understand that your are an ongoing composite information engine that self construction and automatically adapts as you age, to control your movements with biological kinetic control superior than any current commercial humanoid robots. The humans brain computer is a powerful information and knowledge engine. If you run negative software in your computer, it will reduce the power of your information processing. Sick toxic ideas diminish the brains computational efficiency and throughput power.
When you think about how toxic thinking gives rise to reduced information processing in the brain you will see that bad people make the world less enjoyable to themselves and all other people. Toxic thinking holds people back from achieving their true potential. When evil people start to reject sin and evil ideas, the start to heal, and when they start being happy and kind, it causes changes that give rise to an increase in wisdom and intelligence. Experiences and life experience that gives old people deeper perspective, only comes to those who have the highest and most honorable mental processes. The kindness, most intelligent, and best people have extremely powerful minds that they use to show themselves and other other people love and kindness with. Evil thinking causes people to abuse each other. Toxic thinking causes some people to make choices that end up causing pollution for all other people. Even the people in the oil and gas sector have to breath in some of their industrial pollution.
Mental illness are negative unproductive thinking and information processing malfunctions
Greed is a mental illness, as is dishonesty, bigotry, corruption, etc. These sick aspects of people are forms of mental illness: dangerous mental illnesses that allow bad people to harm other people in sick and twisted ways. A polluter poisons other people or the environments we share for example.
A team is only as strong as the weakest player. A business is only as strong as the weakest employee.
States are made of people, and so is the federal government. These sleazy crooks in public office are just normal people overcome by the sick dishonest bribes of evil heathen corporations that care only for increasing their bottom line at any cost. If we want a better government we need better people who do not fold like a house of cards to bribes from evil people and sociopathic corporate entities.
Fat, sick, tired and half dead, many Americans are checked out mentally to physically sick and weak to do anything about anything and too tired and in too much pain to care about much of anything. What kind of country does a population like this produce ?
The SAD standard american diet is filled with toxic semi-edible food like substances, pesticides, synthetic preservatives, artificial dyes and sweeteners, high fructose GMO corn trash, and other low upfront cost high sickness cost processed food garbage : and the people who consume these toxic cheap boxed foods regularly are sick with diabetes, obesity, cancer, joint failure, heart disease, and neurodegenerative diseases caused by inactivity and an unhealthy diet; sick with preventable diseases that come from living an unhealthy lifestyle of mediocrity, ignorance, stupidity, apathy and laziness.
Yes, autism speaks, and so do all the other preventable diseases that Americans suffer from regularly. Theses disease all shout very clear messages :
Eat Sick and Live Sick
Pollution causes Diseases
Pesticides cause Sicknesses
GMO is Toxic
Greed is Bad
Laziness is Unhealthy
Sick Mothers = Sick Children
Many American Children are sick with strange diseases because their mothers are eating the SAD standard american diet, and living lifestyles of exposure to synthetic toxic chemical products that cause major problems to the fetus.
Many American mothers are unknowingly making their children sick by living near golf course chemical exposure; to agricultural fungicide, herbicide, and pesticide spray. Many mothers spray poisonous chemical artificial perfume chemicals on their skin, eat poisonous preservatives, dyes, and artificial sweeteners, and consumer other chemicals that harm the unborn next generation.
Many mothers are fat sick and half dead when they are pregnant, handicapping their children with a sick lifestyle, just as the alcoholic mother gives her unborn children fetal alcohol syndrome.
Many mothers have been unknowingly feeding their children foods with plastic chemicals and other conventional synthetic food toxins. While BPA has become the thing to avoid, we are literally swimming in a sea of industrial pollution that can be prevented, poisonous consumer products that many incorrectly assume are safe that can be redesigned, and a GMO food system rife with industrially engineered dangers like chemical weapon derivatives (pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, preservatives) with toxic consequences, although food does not have to be grown this way.
If you want America to be great, then we need to work together to cultivate more "Great People", who exercise regularly and eat healthy: we need a country full of people living healthy lifestyles to have a strong vibrant economy and sustainable future.
It all comes down to each individual making informed healthy lifestyle choices in all areas of their lives. One drop of red paint can change the color of an ocean full of white paint. It only takes one evil person to ruin a corporation, a state or a government. Think of Hitler for example. To build a stronger future we need to inspire the entire population of America to start living healthy lives. This is not just about America. No matter which country you live in, the country is only as great is the people.
Thinking on a global scale, we need to get population and pollution under control. We need to replace toxic energy sources with clean, abundant and sustainable energy sources. We need to replace ignorant mono-crop agriculture with intelligent sustainable water conserving, soil nurturing organic seasonal and local agriculture. People need to move away from inhospitable unsustainable desolate environments like Palm Springs to clean, green, lush, lovely and sustainable environments like Oregon.
Today the world still has slavery in many forms because of overpopulation and sick governments that take advantage of impoverished uneducated people.
Today the world still has sweat shops, where children are chained to machines in order to serve the masters who own and control the factory.
Today the world still has smog forming pollution the obscures the air we breath with toxic foul smelling industrial fallout, the largely caused by overpopulation and the resource demands that a such a huge population places on the worlds environments and nature resources.
Today malnourishment exists side by side with gross obesity : both forms of extremism that cause sickness, suffering and death. Inequity grows and speaks, and is attenuated and amplified by marginalized swollen populations.
Billions of humans alive today live in sewage sludge dumps that breed viral disease like bird flue, rapidly evolving infectious diseases that harm all people. As these people embrace vain incompetent materialisms, the pollution toll and natural resource destruction increases in scale and magnitude.
We are ruining the worlds natural environments at an alarming rate that will completely poison the food chain, fresh water supplies and gases that we breath. Everyone has to share the world, we only have one earth. With billions more people, the slice of natural resource that each person can enjoy shrinks.
Today with carbon energy, Americans enjoy liberated energy equal to having 100 other people bicycling at full speed 24/7. 12kw of continuous energy use per person in the United States : we are an energy squandering and wasteful country, with tons of room for improvement in every sector.
We can solve every problem I have mentioned by simply cultivating better people. We each have the power to make the future better by choosing to live healthy lives of balanced intelligence and respect for God's unique creation: Life, in all of its forms.
We can't find or access another planet like earth in the near future, and may never be able to find anything as magnificent and beautiful as earth. Respecting earths natural resources is part of protecting future generations.
How do you want to be remembered 300 years from now ?
What part are you taking in solving these problems ?
Think about it !
The human brain is a knowledge engine, where your senses take in information from the world and pipe these experience to your consciousness via your nervous systems information network. The brain itself is massively parallel information processing network. As you go through life your brain learns concepts, ideas, knowledge, philosophies, and other forms of information in your mental index. Your biochemical emotions help to shape the ongoing direction of conscious information processing in your brain. Your emotions act like artistic filters on your objective information processing core. If you think of your brain like a google search engine of your own life experiences, then you might come to understand that your are an ongoing composite information engine that self construction and automatically adapts as you age, to control your movements with biological kinetic control superior than any current commercial humanoid robots. The humans brain computer is a powerful information and knowledge engine. If you run negative software in your computer, it will reduce the power of your information processing. Sick toxic ideas diminish the brains computational efficiency and throughput power.
When you think about how toxic thinking gives rise to reduced information processing in the brain you will see that bad people make the world less enjoyable to themselves and all other people. Toxic thinking holds people back from achieving their true potential. When evil people start to reject sin and evil ideas, the start to heal, and when they start being happy and kind, it causes changes that give rise to an increase in wisdom and intelligence. Experiences and life experience that gives old people deeper perspective, only comes to those who have the highest and most honorable mental processes. The kindness, most intelligent, and best people have extremely powerful minds that they use to show themselves and other other people love and kindness with. Evil thinking causes people to abuse each other. Toxic thinking causes some people to make choices that end up causing pollution for all other people. Even the people in the oil and gas sector have to breath in some of their industrial pollution.
Mental illness are negative unproductive thinking and information processing malfunctions
Greed is a mental illness, as is dishonesty, bigotry, corruption, etc. These sick aspects of people are forms of mental illness: dangerous mental illnesses that allow bad people to harm other people in sick and twisted ways. A polluter poisons other people or the environments we share for example.
A team is only as strong as the weakest player. A business is only as strong as the weakest employee.
States are made of people, and so is the federal government. These sleazy crooks in public office are just normal people overcome by the sick dishonest bribes of evil heathen corporations that care only for increasing their bottom line at any cost. If we want a better government we need better people who do not fold like a house of cards to bribes from evil people and sociopathic corporate entities.
Fat, sick, tired and half dead, many Americans are checked out mentally to physically sick and weak to do anything about anything and too tired and in too much pain to care about much of anything. What kind of country does a population like this produce ?
The SAD standard american diet is filled with toxic semi-edible food like substances, pesticides, synthetic preservatives, artificial dyes and sweeteners, high fructose GMO corn trash, and other low upfront cost high sickness cost processed food garbage : and the people who consume these toxic cheap boxed foods regularly are sick with diabetes, obesity, cancer, joint failure, heart disease, and neurodegenerative diseases caused by inactivity and an unhealthy diet; sick with preventable diseases that come from living an unhealthy lifestyle of mediocrity, ignorance, stupidity, apathy and laziness.
Yes, autism speaks, and so do all the other preventable diseases that Americans suffer from regularly. Theses disease all shout very clear messages :
Eat Sick and Live Sick
Pollution causes Diseases
Pesticides cause Sicknesses
GMO is Toxic
Greed is Bad
Laziness is Unhealthy
Sick Mothers = Sick Children
Many American Children are sick with strange diseases because their mothers are eating the SAD standard american diet, and living lifestyles of exposure to synthetic toxic chemical products that cause major problems to the fetus.
Many American mothers are unknowingly making their children sick by living near golf course chemical exposure; to agricultural fungicide, herbicide, and pesticide spray. Many mothers spray poisonous chemical artificial perfume chemicals on their skin, eat poisonous preservatives, dyes, and artificial sweeteners, and consumer other chemicals that harm the unborn next generation.
Many mothers are fat sick and half dead when they are pregnant, handicapping their children with a sick lifestyle, just as the alcoholic mother gives her unborn children fetal alcohol syndrome.
Many mothers have been unknowingly feeding their children foods with plastic chemicals and other conventional synthetic food toxins. While BPA has become the thing to avoid, we are literally swimming in a sea of industrial pollution that can be prevented, poisonous consumer products that many incorrectly assume are safe that can be redesigned, and a GMO food system rife with industrially engineered dangers like chemical weapon derivatives (pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, preservatives) with toxic consequences, although food does not have to be grown this way.
If you want America to be great, then we need to work together to cultivate more "Great People", who exercise regularly and eat healthy: we need a country full of people living healthy lifestyles to have a strong vibrant economy and sustainable future.
It all comes down to each individual making informed healthy lifestyle choices in all areas of their lives. One drop of red paint can change the color of an ocean full of white paint. It only takes one evil person to ruin a corporation, a state or a government. Think of Hitler for example. To build a stronger future we need to inspire the entire population of America to start living healthy lives. This is not just about America. No matter which country you live in, the country is only as great is the people.
Thinking on a global scale, we need to get population and pollution under control. We need to replace toxic energy sources with clean, abundant and sustainable energy sources. We need to replace ignorant mono-crop agriculture with intelligent sustainable water conserving, soil nurturing organic seasonal and local agriculture. People need to move away from inhospitable unsustainable desolate environments like Palm Springs to clean, green, lush, lovely and sustainable environments like Oregon.
Today the world still has slavery in many forms because of overpopulation and sick governments that take advantage of impoverished uneducated people.
Today the world still has sweat shops, where children are chained to machines in order to serve the masters who own and control the factory.
Today the world still has smog forming pollution the obscures the air we breath with toxic foul smelling industrial fallout, the largely caused by overpopulation and the resource demands that a such a huge population places on the worlds environments and nature resources.
Today malnourishment exists side by side with gross obesity : both forms of extremism that cause sickness, suffering and death. Inequity grows and speaks, and is attenuated and amplified by marginalized swollen populations.
Billions of humans alive today live in sewage sludge dumps that breed viral disease like bird flue, rapidly evolving infectious diseases that harm all people. As these people embrace vain incompetent materialisms, the pollution toll and natural resource destruction increases in scale and magnitude.
We are ruining the worlds natural environments at an alarming rate that will completely poison the food chain, fresh water supplies and gases that we breath. Everyone has to share the world, we only have one earth. With billions more people, the slice of natural resource that each person can enjoy shrinks.
Today with carbon energy, Americans enjoy liberated energy equal to having 100 other people bicycling at full speed 24/7. 12kw of continuous energy use per person in the United States : we are an energy squandering and wasteful country, with tons of room for improvement in every sector.
We can solve every problem I have mentioned by simply cultivating better people. We each have the power to make the future better by choosing to live healthy lives of balanced intelligence and respect for God's unique creation: Life, in all of its forms.
We can't find or access another planet like earth in the near future, and may never be able to find anything as magnificent and beautiful as earth. Respecting earths natural resources is part of protecting future generations.
How do you want to be remembered 300 years from now ?
What part are you taking in solving these problems ?
Think about it !
One Xbox
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| Image via : http://bit.ly/19KAKAD |
With tremendous power under the hood, the Xbox One hardnesses more than 5 billion transistors for fluid performance and 4k resolutions that will please gamers and regular people alike for years to come. Taking a trip down memory lane and all the way up to present, I examine the Xbox One and previous Xbox's in the context of broadband internet and TV resolutions that make or break the experience.
The upgrade generation is in full effect now / Consoles, Phablets, Tablets, Touchable Computers, Wearable Computers, FitBit, Google Glass, Android, Galaxy Gear Wrist Computers / This bit is getting real up in this Whole Foods parking lot, you like the deal with those little shopping carts they got ^^ ref.http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/31/5261042/welcome-to-the-age-of-the-upgrade
Tiny Home 160sq ft Shipping Container Home
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| Ultra-Tiny Low Cost All Electric Home |
Here I briefly explore my next home that never worked out. The objective was to make it truck portable (in a 20ft shipping container), with a totally functional kitchen, bathroom, shower, sink, toilet, washer dryer all in one, murphy bed, love seat, AV setup, and as much storage as possible. As fate had it, this never came to be, and I ended up moving to an urban apartment with underground parking ^^ which worked out perfectly :) At 375sq feet, the apartment is tiny, but more than 2x bigger than the container home I was planning ^^ Woot woot, still good practice in minimalist living. The following was the plan that never became reality, but it contains some solid ideas that I would like to share anyway if you care to take a look.
Desensitized to Everything : The Information Age of Enjoyment Burnout
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| Lost Citation or Reference : Thanks whoever Shot This :) |
People are always looking for new movies, new music, new TV shows or something new to read. The difference between "needs" and "wants" have been blurred by material wealth, even poor Americans enjoying large flat screen TV's, a warm home, running hot water, etc.
Advertisements and commercials condition people to engage in unwise credit debt spending, needless consumption, and waste creating lifestyles that are good for "Sales" but perhaps not necessarily good for anything else. Happiness is not for sale, no matter what someone tries to tell or sell you.
The 2013 Nissan Leaf
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| The 2013 Nissan Leaf Image via http://bit.ly/1acCpSx |
The all electric 2013 Nissan Leaf represents a light revision of the original, with a few cool changes that extend range and let you lock the charging port ^^ More good things have come to the Leaf just as the CEO of Nissan promised. The Leaf is now so cool that I decided to lease one, the price was right too ^^
Android Kit-Kat 4.4 for Everyone
Project "Svelte" has Google's favorite mobile operating system, Android 4.4, on the way to older and less powerful devices. A lot of under the hood tuning to make the OS more resource efficient, along with loads of new awesome features that developers can exploit to bring android apps to a whole new level.
Game Changing Energy Technology
From sunlight to nuclear energy and coal power, the real game changing problem we need to solve is energy storage. The liquid metal battery from Ambri has the potential to finally set renewable power free of its intermittent shackles.
Mavericks 10.9 Macbook Battery Abnormalities
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| My Late 08 MacBook after a 256GB Samsung SSD Upgrade |
Thousands of people are reporting on the Apple forums that installing 10.9 cut their battery life in half; people with the latest Macbook airs seeing a decreased runtime for 10+ hours with Mountain Lion 10.8 to less than 6 hours with Mavericks 10.9
"Forgiveness" the song by Matthew West | Lyrics
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| My Work :) A sunset through the trees |
iPad Air, iPad Mini with Retina, New Macbook Pros, New Mac Pro, New OSX Free : Blown Away yet Disappointed Again
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| The 2013 iPad Air Image Source http://www.apple.com/ |
Thinner, lighter, faster, more powerful, more beautiful, more robust, more of what matters. The new iPad Air allows you to focus on creating or enjoying content, apps, photos, music, movies, documents, and books. Apple's long string hardware hits continue to come with breathtaking innovation and beautiful designs that inspire. Almost all good news at their latest Oct 22nd 2013 Event, but a critical flaw remains.
Project Glass : Smart Watch : Fitbit : Plugging into Wireless Mobile Technology
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| Mr. Brin, Founder of Google, Shows of Project Glass Image via http://goo.gl/dylo2Q |
Wearable Devices : You can now wear high performance technology that interact with your portable "smartphone supercomputer", which connects to computer cloud networks via wireless technologies like wifi and LTE. Keeping you plugged into information while you are unplugged wirelessly ^^
High Performance Computing or Not
Can a 1w smartphone computer give you all the computer you really need in day to day modern life?
iPhone 5s & 5C
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| Sept 2013 iPhone 5S Image (c) Apple 2013 via http://goo.gl/4CpGVO |
Here is my scathing editorial on this half-baked, energy storage problem that found its way into more "new" revisions of the now iconic iPhone that got the whole "smart-phone" revolution started.
Sealed Battery Again = Fail || Eco-friendly my A$$
Sleeping in Two Sessions
Due you find yourself waking up spontaneously in the middle of the night to a brief window of wakefulness where you are intellectually productive? If you sleep in two bulk sessions you are engaging in segmented sleep that is perfectly normal and healthy.
Things to Think About
Guns, homosexuality, and abortion: three minor but significant issues that people get hung up on. What about the other things that matter?
Efficient Driving Styles Save Money
You can actually get better than EPA rated fuel economy with some simple driving tricks. EPA window sticker fuel economy ratings might seem disingenuous or misleading, as many so called 40MPG vehicle rarely return such fuel economies for their drivers. It turns out that the "Driver" is the real key.
Losing Someone You Love
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| I photograph sunsets because they remind me of life, the cycle of the sun rising and setting. The sun powers life on earth, through plants that we eat directly, or indirectly through animals. |
Two Wheels or Four
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| Buzz the Gixxer : I traded him for Howard the Scooter : Picture taken at the Wild Horse Wind and Solar Power Facility |
Automotive HID vs LED
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| 35W 4300K "OEM White" D2C HID Bulbs Soon to Replace the 6K Bulbs in Astro |
Rugged Electronics and or Cases
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| My 2013 Galaxy Note 2 in its OtterBox Defender "Protected on Both Sides" |
Descriptive marking terms used to describe functional attributes of rugged consumer electronic designs (Pentax W90) that can stand up to challenging real world conditions.
Christian Consumerism Hypocrisy Conundrum
Gods Word should give us cause to stop and reconsider our position as "consumers". The bible warns us in Mathew 6:19 that Hording gold, money, diamonds, valuable things and resources is specifically a violation of Gods laws. || For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 1 Timothy 6:6-7
Plastic Gears in Tools
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DEWALT 20-Volt Li-Ion Cordless Brushless Compact Drill
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Siggis Yogurt
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| Click to Reference |
Happy Life Choices
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| That is Me being "Goofy" having "Fun" |
Here I explore the subject of happiness in the context of lifestyle choices, emotions, and social interactions. After watching the documentary film “Happy” I was inspired to dig deeper and pull together different ideas about life in this posting.
Solar Power
The sunlight is starting to break through the clouds more frequently where I live and I am reminded of the suns power. The sun is a massive fusion powered heat and photon (light) emitting engine that fuses hydrogen into helium to produce mind boggling amounts of energy every second.
Nissan Leaf Battery Better By Design
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| Image Source : http://www.nissanusa.com/electric-cars/leaf/colors-photos/#_exterior |
The all electric Nissan Leaf was the first affordable, mass produced, lithium battery electric vehicle. Key to the Leaf's success was a battery design that balances safety, performance, cycle life, calendar life, energy density, power density, charge rate, discharge rate, weight, structural integrity, and thermal management.
Hybrids Go Multi-Platinum
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| Astro the Prius in Olympia Wa, parked in front of a "Performance" Truck |
BMW I3 and Efficient Dynamics
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| Image from : http://www.autoblog.com/photos/bmw-i3-0/#photo-5094887 |
Furtive eGT another amazing Electric Supercar
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| http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/exagon-motors-furtive-egt-production-version-revealed-photo-gallery_2.jpg |
While I have long waxed and waned about the virtues of the Japanese Nissan Leaf and all American Tesla Model S, I have never spoken about the French Furtive eGF from Exagon Motors.
http://www.exagon-motors.com/
Cars Hog Energy: Drive Less = Lower Carbon Footprint
A lot of media attention has been given to the 40MPG claims of the major automakers latest 4cyl compact cars; mostly because it can be difficult for normal people to achieve the "optimistic" EPA sticker fuel economy ratings.
Distracted Drivers Deliver Death and Suffering
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| Here at PCC in Issaquah WA, we can see the excellent parking work performed by the operator of this Acura MDX. "Limited" says it all ! |
Toyota Hybrids, Tesla Electrics & The Nissan Leaf
Toyota has proved in over 4 million real world road going hybrid vehicles that $3000 worth of carefully computer controlled 6.5Ah 1.2v nickel metal hydride batteries can enhance the energy efficiency of the automobile in terms of minimizing tail pipe pollution and fuel consumption.
Apple Tax Avoided
In one of my recent postings about upgrading to a smartphone I noted that I did not go with the iPhone 5. After years of holding IOS enthusiasm and zeal for Apples latest hardware the magic feelings that Apple conveyed to me were muted and ultimately silenced by customer betrayal and environmental hypocrisy.
Focusing on Gods Amazing Love
Re-baked this Photo on my mobile phone using one of the Samsung art apps on the GN2, then posted it to blogger on the same device. ^^
Howard the Honda PCX150
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| 2013 (C) Honda Powersports |
Extending Lithium Ion Battery Life & Value Performance in your Mobile Devices
There are a few simple things to remember in order to maximize the value performance of your lithium ion batteries.
1. Format the battery on its first cycle with a deep cycle (to calibrate the battery computers)
2. Avoid charging the battery to full, do not leave it camped on the charger
3. Avoid discharging the battery to empty or to very low states of charge
4. Store the battery at 50deg F and half charged
5. Regularly use and cycle the battery, exercise it
6. Keep the battery cool, avoid direct sun
1. Format the battery on its first cycle with a deep cycle (to calibrate the battery computers)
2. Avoid charging the battery to full, do not leave it camped on the charger
3. Avoid discharging the battery to empty or to very low states of charge
4. Store the battery at 50deg F and half charged
5. Regularly use and cycle the battery, exercise it
6. Keep the battery cool, avoid direct sun
A Samsugn Galaxy Note 2 replaces my 5 year old ENV3 feature phone
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| (C) Samsung 2013 All Rights Reserved |
I have long waxed and waned about how "Smartphones Suck", with poor battery life, overpriced data and security issues that combine to what amounts to carrying a spy satellite in ones pocket with a battery that dies after 1 day.
Solar Energy, Mobile Energy, Moving Forward
Every facet of modern life is affected by energy technology. Vehicles use a lot of energy and their energy use affects food prices. The next 100 years is going to one of many energy technology innovations. Lets looks through the lens of a 20 year vehicle cycle to see how things are going to change in the future :) Enjoy
Storing Energy Wisely (Tesla)
The battery is what really set off the modern electronic world as we know it.
Movement is Life
Movement is Life
Your lifestyle choices have the largest impact on your health. Your body is made of about 100 trillion cells all living, working, dying and composting themselves constantly with one another in a way that enables your living existence. Genetics do play a role in many diseases, but do not in anyway underestimate the power you have to control your health with diet and exercise.
Your lifestyle choices have the largest impact on your health. Your body is made of about 100 trillion cells all living, working, dying and composting themselves constantly with one another in a way that enables your living existence. Genetics do play a role in many diseases, but do not in anyway underestimate the power you have to control your health with diet and exercise.
1 Year of Pseudo-Vegan Complete
My lovely partner Megan and I embarked on a semi-vegan mostly vegetarianism diet at the start of 2012. With a few notable exception, we abstained from eating meats and other animal proteins, while making certain occasional exceptions for dairy milk, cheese, ice cream and butter. After a year of trying a mostly vegan foods we are resuming semi-vegetarian diets.
Money is Energy (An Abstraction Thereof)
Money is an abstraction of energy (a derivative thereof), and anyone that says otherwise is either ignorant, confused or dishonest. The cost of anything loosely represents the net energy footprint of that item or service. Lets examine and explore what this means in different contexts.
Fortune Cookie Reflections
From a bunch of American made "Chinese Fortune Cookies" emerged a series of small white strips of printed paper with words of prophetic encouragement for the cookie consumer to read while enjoying the simple carbohydrate dense cookie :)
Self Defense : Saving Yourself and Others
When criminals exert violence against honest people seconds can make the difference between life and death or worse. Sadly the police cannot be there for you when you need them most, when you are being mugged or having your front door kicked in by dangerous criminals during a home invasion.
Clean Fifteen vs Dirty Dozen : Good to Know
This info-graphic can help you get the best deals on safe foods. The dirty dozen (red) are foods that have high levels of pesticides remaining, so if you want to buy those foods you should probably spend a little extra for the organic versions. The clean fifteen (green) are foods that are naturally safer with far lower pesticides contents. You can buy less costly conventional versions of these foods knowing that even the conventional versions are safe to consume.
Blessed is the Name of the Lord
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| (C) Aaron Kenneth Schwarz 2012 "Sunset Beams of Bellevue" |
Mental Illness and School Shootings
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| Image (C) prepper chicks on facebook |
The news of schools shootings
has been on the rise lately. Mentally unstable people with guns are
clearly very dangerous. There is an underlying cause and driver
behind all of these terrible school shootings, unresolved mental
illness.
Let Go of Stress & Live Healthy
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| (C) 2012 Aaron Kenneth Schwarz "Sunset Colors 3AB" |
Violence and Sex in Media : Shifting Norms
Many Americans find the sexual content of modern media off putting. Many Europeans find the violent content of modern media off putting. Is a sex scene in a movie worse that a brutal violent scene of torture or murder? I am writing this editorial as a follow-up to my previous op-ed piece about online pornography.
Low Utility Prices = Waste
Cheating Future Generations
Fresh water is wasted because it is relatively cheap! Lets take a look at why fresh water is wasted, how it is wasted and what we can do about this to embrace conservation and other sustainability solutions.
Fresh water is wasted because it is relatively cheap! Lets take a look at why fresh water is wasted, how it is wasted and what we can do about this to embrace conservation and other sustainability solutions.
Understanding the Weather
Meg gave me this 1963 GM Delco Print about Weather and Air Conditioning. The beautiful pastel art and accessible language in this printing make climate science easy to understand. I am posting this document as a climate science primer for environmental, ecology, meteorological and other higher educations students. Enjoy
Forgetting : Essential to Mental Health
Now more than ever people are exposed to huge amounts of information in media. The twitter post TV world dense with an impressive gamut of constantly changing information. Information overload is now a possible psychological conditions from over-exposure to information. Forgetting is a mental memory clean up function that helps mentally healthy people discard "useless" information effectively. It turns out that marijuana is often used by people to help them unlearn "bad ideas", specifically helping people that are hindered by memories of negative life events or those who internalized toxic negative ideas from the world. The positive power of learning to "let go" and to "forgive and forget" in many ways underscore why forgetting is such an essential mental function.
Enjoy The Music :)
The world we live in is full of music. Music exists as an integral part of modern human existence. People have been making and enjoying music for thousands of years. The age of internet radio makes music you will love more accessible than ever. I like to stream free internet radio with Pandora. Put the name of a song or artist you like into the search box and Pandora will automatically build a free ad supported playlist, enjoy :) You can also pay a subscription fee to get ad free listening. Spotify, Rdio and many other internet music streaming providers exist. Google search for "internet radio" and give some different ones a try until you find one that serves up music you enjoy!
Cold and Flu Viruses vs God :)
The common cold and flu virus's we circulate and pass between each other are not really alive, these viruses complete a life-cycle process in each new host, rapidly evolving into new strains as they jump from one person to another, but they are never really completely alive.
Pleople Blame Obama, Corruption is the Problem
The main problem in the US government is the bribery and corruption in congress. Campaign finance reforms thus far implemented are tantamount to legalized bribery. So who is bribing congress and perverting our democracy into a socialist handout system for the department of defense, big oil, big pharma and chemical companies?
Are you a non-stick person?
Joel Osteen #556 A No-Stick Anointing
"There will always be people that don't understand you, those that are critical and find fault. It's very easy to let their lack of approval stick to you and change who God created you to be. But in this empowering message, Joel will teach you how you can be strong in who God made you to be and move past those who've hurt you. Even Jesus Himself had to learn how to move past those who criticized, were disrespectful, and didn't approve of Him. Instead of using your energy to gain others' approval, you will learn how to look past these distractions, run your own race, and let God take care of those who oppose you."
~Published on Nov 4, 2012 by TheReyRegio
On YouTube
"There will always be people that don't understand you, those that are critical and find fault. It's very easy to let their lack of approval stick to you and change who God created you to be. But in this empowering message, Joel will teach you how you can be strong in who God made you to be and move past those who've hurt you. Even Jesus Himself had to learn how to move past those who criticized, were disrespectful, and didn't approve of Him. Instead of using your energy to gain others' approval, you will learn how to look past these distractions, run your own race, and let God take care of those who oppose you."
~Published on Nov 4, 2012 by TheReyRegio
On YouTube
Yes I-502 : Legalizing Marijuana
Let's stop wasting law enforcement resources, generate new tax revenues, and quit subsidizing drug cartels. Learn more atwww.newapproachwa.org.
Click "Read More" to Learn about Marijuana Legalization and Why it Matters!
Click "Read More" to Learn about Marijuana Legalization and Why it Matters!
Net Neutrality Essential for Online Freedom
Giant greedy telecom companies like Time Warner and Comcast want to control what you can access online. Without net neutrality, they could make a deal with a company like Walmart to keep you from accessing Amazon for example.
Grid Power Storage
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| Hot Liquid Metal Grid Battery Mg Sb (Ambri) |
Tesla Model S : For The Win
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| Image from: http://goo.gl/MT1El |
Nexus 4 an iPod Touch Alternative ^^
A smartphone without the contract has finally arrived :) for years I have been complaining about the required data plan of smartphones, and their off contract prices were mostly north of $600. Now google is offering the Nexus 4, a real world iPod Touch alternative for $300, boasting all the best internals ^^ Woot Woot ^^
Cold Virus -- :(
Started with a dry nose, then a sore throat, then a nasal infection, then heachache, then stomach ache, joint soreness, congestion, and a mixture of tiredness and physically drained feelings: I got hit by a cold virus that is now in full swing. OTC pharma to the rescue!
Hurricane Sandy (A taste of poverty)
As the people in the east coast of the United State begin recovering from Hurricane Sandy, millions of Americans got a taste of what billions of earths people live without all of the time (modern grid power, natural gas, running water). Are we really so cold, cruel and dis-connected to blindly ignore the poorest of people in the world?
Pandora Radio Online
I have been listening to internet radio with Pandora for several years and I really like it!
Microsofts "8" Ecosystem
This article focuses on Microsoft's launch of Windows 8 and Windows RT and then goes on to consider how these operating systems and the Metro UI they share is creating a unified cohesive ecosystem with Windows Phone 8 and Xbox. The 4 screen paradigm for Microsoft, read more to dig in ~
Yes on Prop 37 : Label GMO Foods
The people have a right to know what they are buying and eating. Yes on Prop 37 to Label GMO foods!
Lance Armstrong is Guilty : I was wrong
I was wrong: Lance came forward and admitted he doped! With this in mind, that fact should raise serious concerns about professional sports and doping, and the conspiracy and corruption required for it to happen.
Cleaner, Fuel Efficient Vehicles
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| The upcoming 2014 Tesla Type X (CUV) Image from: http://goo.gl/500VX |
Things Are Getting Better
In all areas of life things are improving if you look at the things in the world through a lens focused on progress and innovation.
The Solutions to Failed Western Medicine
Sickness yields tremendous profit for those that treat it! Fat, sick and half alive, Americans have access to high tech medicine while simultaneously enjoying preventable heart disease, preventable cancer, preventable stroke, preventable diabetes, and preventable birth defects. The solution to these preventable diseases are healthy diet and regular aerobic exercise, solutions that are increasingly rare in our culture.
Understanding Vehicle Smog
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Do you breath in the stuff that comes out the tail pipe of your vehicle?
Someone else does!
IKEA Commits to Efficient LED Lighting
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| A $20 Philips 12.5W 805Lumen LED A19 Bulb |
LED for the win!
80% less electricity, 10x longer lasting!
Philips claims their 12.5 Watt AmbientLED *60W eq* will save its users around $130 worth of electricity, while also being fully dimmable.
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