FYL'z Brainz

Sorry about the title but I couldn't really come up with a summary. I personally hate the Left vs. Right definition of the political spectrum. It may be OK for those with an IQ similar to that of a carrot but thinking that political positions can be placed along a line is, well, dumb. For as long as I can remember, if forced to come up with a position for someone with a low IQ, I try to get them to at least see that a ring is a better representation.

Let me say that I have read, enjoyed and been impressed with the work of investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker for years. He is one of the few I have seen that seems to be fearless to just tell it like it is.

While Mena, Arkansas was on his list for a while, his recent concentration has been on Venice Airport, most recently famous for training 9/11 pilots. Not giving up on building connections, he continues to uncover a lot of interesting things going back to the 1960s.

Many if not most religions support the idea of reincarnation. The major modern exceptions seem to be Christianity and Judaism. After listening to quite a few of the Open Mind radio programs from the 1980s (which I blogged about here about a month ago), it seems that neither of these religions is really an exception. That is, current marketing may be anti-reincarnation but historically that is not the case.

Each time there was a good reason to develop alternative energy (at least in the U.S.) there was some reason not to. That is, we were told alternative energy didn't make sense, there really wasn't an oil shortage or whatever. Well, I think I just woke up.

Up until a couple of weeks ago, my only electricity source was about 2000 peak watts of PV panels. What's new is a 400 peak watt wind turbine. So far, so good.

The PV array usually supplies all my energy needs. Everything here is electric except the kitchen stove. In almost a year of living here, I have run my backup generator for about eight hours and half of that was just because it is a good idea to start it every couple of months. True that our rainy season wasn't rainy enough but that still shows PV was a good thing.

Just in case you are a Linux geek and thinking about Kubuntu or Ubuntu 10.04, I figured I would toss this out. I have a combination of (mostly) 9.04 and 9.10 running on my systems but needed to set up a new system for someone and decided to try the 10.04 beta. This is my very preliminary look.

While I had a bread machine years ago, I am taking my new one more seriously. That is partly because where I live there are really no decent bread options and, well, almost no bread options at all. I have a Zojirushi machine which was described by many as the best that can be found. It certainly is a serious step up from the old machine I had. I am very happy with it.

I ran across a P2P (bittorrent) archive of a series of radio programs hosted by Bill Jenkins on KABC in Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Some seem wacko but many make sense. Maybe even more sense 25 years later. If you have an open mind, there is bound to be something interesting in the series for you.

This is from the description:

In the 1980s, radio station KABC carried the ground-breaking radio program "OPEN MIND" with host Bill Jenkins. The subject matter covered included UFOs, alternative energy, spirituality, ancient religions, and more.