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If Hell Existed
If hell existed it might look a little like South Point Hotel in Las Vegas. It’s only 9:30 am. Already hordes of people are waisting health, money and time on rigged games of chance, unhealthy food and...
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The 99% in Vegas
In my last post I mentioned a conversation I got in to with the cab driver who helped me Escape from Hell!, also known as the South Point Hotel. The cabbie was genial and talkative. So I asked him how...
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The Amazing Meeting 2013 (Part 1)
I had the good fortune, OK, the good foresight to send myself to The Amazing Meeting (TAM) in Las Vegas this year. For the uninitiated TAM is the largest gathering of skeptics anywhere, put on by the...
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The Amazing Meeting 2013 (Part 2): What I Learned
Last week I posted my initial impressions and an overall context for The Amazing Meeting that took place in July in Las Vegas. It’s important for me to try and record some of the most important lessons...
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The Amazing Meeting (Part 3): Taking Action
The conference, which took place in Las Vegas in July, was fun, exciting and stimulating. Meeting James Randi and other skeptic heroes, attending a live recording of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe...
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I’ve Been Workin’ on the IPad
….all the live long day. So I am finally getting forced to make my IPad more useable as a work machine. My MacBook Pro is in the shop. The Dell laptop where we do bookkeeping and other Windows specific...
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A Small GMO Victory
I wanted to share a small victory. A relative had proclaimed herself an anti-GMO person to my consternation. She started sending me links, all of which I refuted. Then she told me she’d watched these 2...
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Rifting on Oculus Rift
If you haven’t heard of the Oculus Rift, it’s a newly developed 3D virtual reality device that sits on your face like a large pair of goggles. It’s said to be immersive and quite amazing even at this...
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Net Non-Neutrality
Update: If you’d like to comment on the new FCC proposed policy, the comment period is open. I Loves Me Some Netflix. But Come ON! When Netflix signed a deal with Comcast to pay them extra for faster,...
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Don’t Believe the FCC
In spite of their recent blog post defending their new non-net neutrality policy, the FCC really is changing course. But don’t believe me. Here, read this post from Stanford’s Center for Internet and...
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Absorbed by the Borg
We Are All Data Already we feel compelled to post so much of what we do on Facebook in order to validate our activities or to prove how active we are or what scrumptious meals we make. We share our...
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Will Wanders for a Cause
We’ve started offering our home again, via the Warm Showers website, to cyclists passing through town. I know, it sounds a little illicit, but it’s really quite innocent. Most people offer up a place...
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Roadside Assistance
Travelling can be fun. It can also be fraught with trouble and misshaps, especially when you depend on technology to keep your life and work moving while on the road. My work is all on line. So...
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Betas vs Silicon Valley
I try out a lot of shows. I like winding down with a good show on the tube/pad/laptop/phone/some device. Netflix, Amazon Prime and iTunes. They’re everywhere I am. What a world we live in. So, when we...
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Backslash
A couple days ago i was listening to a podcast and the speaker was describing a URL for a website and he said something like www.blahblah.com backslash somepage. Backslash? I always thought it was a...
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