Philosophy for staying healthy
Q: Doctor, I've heard that cardiovascular exercise can prolong life. Is this true?A: Your heart only good for so many beats, and that it... Don't waste on exercise.Everything wear out eventually....
View ArticleFirst electric bill after a month with an electric car.
Today we got our first bill of our utility company while having our fully electric car.I placed a kill-a-watt unit in between the "trickle charger" (120 volt 12 amp) and the mains to keep track of...
View Articleweb server log files
I just found this in one the log files of one of my servers:74.63.221.49 74.100.111.212 - [18/Jul/2011:18:45:44 -0700] "GET HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1" 404 345 "-" "Toata dragostea mea pentru iEdi"A google...
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Our oldest chicken is no longer with us
We started in april 2010 with 2 chickens: one brahma and one orpintonThe brahma got snagged by a coyote and since the orpington always seemed to verbally complain about everything we called her...
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New pet toy
Yeah! A new toy !Tastes funny ...What am I supposed to do with it anyway ?Something like this ?Woohoo!!!
View ArticleJuly stats
From the useless information department:The month of July was _hot_Gave us 110 eggs (month before was 89)Our coffee machine used 10 kWh (about $1.25) of electricityOur office (printer/scanner/2 laptops...
View ArticleEssay: The Story Behind Our Food
The Story Behind Our Foodlink*update*Sorry for the missing link ;-)
View Articlehoney laundering
Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. Grocery ShelvesA third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal...
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we haven't the faintest...
Bought at our local TraderJoe, just because of the label ;-)
View ArticleCal and mouse game
Yesterday, unknowingly I brought a field mouse home. It was in an abandonded hive that I took home. Cal was fascinated by the mouse.
View ArticleDid You Know Reading Food Label Can Be So Tricky?
Did You Know Reading Food Label Can Be So Tricky? 1. Look Out for Hidden MSG! Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), the miracle flavour enhancer often associated with Chinese foods, is known to be neurotoxic...
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holiday spirit
People in socal know how to get up the spirit of the holiday. Complete light shows on their homes, and on their car:
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full load
Los Angeles skylineLA Honey Company Today we drove to LA Honey to buy 100 supers of deep or super bee boxes, for expansion of existing hives. Together with 1000 frames it is about a truck full! Some...
View Articlecar rental: my story with Hertz
Today turned out to be a "not so usual" day It started that the last coffee beans went into the coffee machine.Since I can not start without coffee in the morning, we drove to the people of beacon...
View ArticleNew solar panels/inverter online
Since 8th of Feb I have new solar panels and a new inverter online.Yesterday I finally managed to "talk" to it via a rs-485 interface.With the aid of some people I managed to upload the data to...
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Fast charger cable for EV
Finally finished yesterday:The cable with fast load capability for our EV (electric vehicle)It used to take up to 17 hours to recharge our EV when the batteries were depleted using the supplied trickle...
View Articleapril stats
The month of April in numbers:Egg production: 118 (-12% compared to last month)Number of laying hens: 6 (-15% compared to last month)Total electricity used: 662 kWh (normally would have paid $122 for...
View Articleis this for real ?
I still read a lot about "world news" on non-us websites (in my native language) If what they claim here is true, it is not good (TM) 6 corporations control 90% of the media
View ArticleI hope it is a troll
One day to stay at home and don't go out on the street: Jesus, Take The Wheel dayif this isn't a troll, it's insanity
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