Swivel pipe clamps →

Published October 11, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 11  ·  

EIGHT. DOLLARS. I found a place which sells these online for 8 (eight, EIGHT?!) dollars each. Sure, it took forever to get here, their box exploded and FedEx apparently had to re-box and re-label it. But EIGHT dollars? So, uh, bribe me if you want to buy clamps from this site before they figure out they have these priced wrong… *scurries off to play with clamps* (This is probably like that time when that well known Scotch-selling web site based in England finally figured out that it’s illegal to ship alcohol to Pennsylvania… after I ordered from them a bunch of times :P

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Growth hormone may rise 300 percent with exercise →

Published October 11, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 11  ·  ,

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Ned Kock's "Health Correlator"

Growth hormone stays flat for about 40 minutes, after which it goes up steeply. At around the 90-minute mark, it reaches a level that is quite high; 300 percent higher than it was prior to the exercise session. Natural elevation of circulating growth hormone through intense exercise, intermittent fasting, and restful sleep, leads to a number of health benefits. It helps burn abdominal fat, often hours after the exercise session, and helps builds muscle (in conjunction with other hormones, such as testosterone). It appears to increase insulin sensitivity in the long run.

~ Ned Kock from, Growth hormone may rise 300 percent with exercise: Acute increases also occur in cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenaline

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Always a Child →

Published October 9, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 9  ·  

He who knows only his own generation remains always a child.

~ Cicero

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Keep on keepin’ on! →

Published October 7, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 7  ·  , ,

This entry is part 58 of 72 in the series My Journey

 

 

Keep on keepin’ on!: I’ve filled in the rest of the bars and this thing now needs a name. Until you’ve tried moving in a complex space, you won’t know how supremely capable the human body is; shoulders, grip, torso, knees, feet, vision, proprioception, spacial mapping… that meat-frame your mind lives in is meant to M. O. V. E.

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A tree! →

Published October 5, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 5  ·  

Conversation and nature… doesn’t get much better. Wow, what a convenient place to drop an entire tree…

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This to this →

Published October 5, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 5  ·  

Put this together yesterday. Incredibly gorgeous morning to be moving… aka rapping my head on the bars first thing in the morning :P

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Intermittent renewables can’t favorably transform grid electricity →

Published October 4, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 4

Few people have stopped to realize that intermittent electricity isn’t worth very much. It may even have negative value, when the cost of all of the adjustments needed to make it useful are considered.

Energy products are very different in “quality.” Intermittent electricity is of exceptionally low quality. The costs that intermittent electricity impose on the system need to be paid by someone else. This is a huge problem, especially as penetration levels start exceeding the 10% to 15% level that can be handled by operating reserves, and much more costly adjustments must be made to accommodate this energy. Even if wind turbines and solar panels could be produced for $0, it seems likely that the costs of working around the problems caused by intermittent electricity would be greater than the compensation that can be obtained to fix those problems.

~ Gail Tverberg from, Intermittent Renewables Can’t Favorably Transform Grid Electricity | Our Finite World

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I’m not saying “abandon all renewable energy sources.” I am saying, “you should go read this article… and everything else on that web site.”

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Jeep! →

Published October 4, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 4  ·  

In other news… actually went off-roading today. Pennsylvania shale and mud; smells like home :D

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QM in the real world →

Published October 4, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 4  ·  

Three foot crawl space. Yeup, Craig is detail oriented and checks everywhere. First use of sideways monkey when it was literally the best form of locomotion :)

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A house! →

Published October 4, 2016  ·  All posts on Oct 4  ·  

Had the first walk thru today…

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