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Today I read an article about another study purporting there to be health benefits to drinking red wine.  I feel that such studies as this are highly deceptive.  They get disseminated in the media with headlines about health benefits of red wine.  But the real question should be: Is there any benefit to having red…

There was some article in the news about more BS circulating about 2012 relating to galactic alignment or something like that.  I actually don’t want to even bother reading the full story explaining that its BS – I already know.  But it did actually make me wonder about the plane of our galaxy vs. the…

Many people are not aware that, when they receive abusive or offensive e-mails, they can report it to the company which hosts the e-mail account.  Finding out where to make the report can be tricky.  Today I needed to report an abusive mail from a Yahoo mail account.  If you type “report abuse yahoo mail”…

Large 5-alarm fire at Golden Gate & Eddy 3 news choppers and one airplane/drone SFO Aircraft Noise Abatement Office (online complaint form) Stations’ contacts: – CBS5 KPIX – ABC7 KGO – KTVU 2 – KRON 4 As per callback from one station, KGO, KNTV, KPIX, KCBS and possibly KRON will be sharing a helicopter (good…

Try this variation of the Change of Season Tea I wrote about the other day.  To make this tea I used a 32 oz. glass jar (which originally was a pickle jar): – Grated fresh ginger.  Grate the equivalent of about 2 tablespoons.  Put in jar and pour hot water over it, filling jar about…

Sometimes a cup of the right tea, made with the right herbs, can be extremely therapeutic.  I have a sensitive stomach and a lot of things can upset it.  These include virtually all dried fruits in anything more than the tiniest amounts, nuts and seeds in anything but the tiniest amounts, and things like granola…

Today the department store didn’t have the half-size of boots I really wanted to get.  I went online and ended up at shoes.com.  They had the boot!  In the size I want! During the checkout process there was a box to enter a coupon code.  I thought “Why not at least try?” so I did…

Today I finally got disgusted with the bloated ads on many websites I visit with my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.  There are two main ways to block ads – using a proxy, or using a hosts file.  A proxy listens on a port on the local machine and mediates requests and answers to and from…

Was reading today about the concept of “degeneracy” for various subatomic particles, which among other things explains the properties of white dwarf stars (electron degeneracy) and neutron stars (neutron degeneracy).  Mention was made in the article about quark stars – a hypothetical type of star that basically consists of quark matter bound by gravity (instead…