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De-carbonizing Fashion

April 24, 2024 No Comments

Last week, even after Earth Day 2024 came and went, SOSV continued, like so many…

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Happy Earth Day

April 22, 2024 No Comments

Of course, everyone knows Earth Day is far more than one day. Like a birthday,…

Hiding in Plain Site: My Little Pony and a New Theory on the Illuminati

September 10, 2024 No Comments

What? It is the attention economy. An economy a truly advanced species should be well…

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The Debby-cation Silver Lining

August 27, 2024 No Comments

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series <a href="https://mindfuel.blog/series/debby-downer-my-existential-vacation-through-a-tropical-depression/" class="series-1499" title="Debby…

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Reality as a Subset of Dreaming

August 23, 2024 No Comments

This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series <a href="https://mindfuel.blog/series/debby-downer-my-existential-vacation-through-a-tropical-depression/" class="series-1499" title="Debby…

Trekking Through Python’s “DLL Hell”: Versions, Packages, Virtual Environments

September 13, 2024 No Comments

PYTHON DLL HELL On my local system (Ubuntu of some flavor), I had Python 2.7….

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Overcome the Bitbucket Authentication Blues

July 31, 2024 No Comments

TL;DR Although it was my fault, GitLab has been completely unhelpful getting me back into…

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Finding Tomcat Version on Linux

April 17, 2024 No Comments

OK, there are a bunch of different ways, but it depends how Tomcat was installed….

Amazon Week in DC

September 5, 2018 No Comments

Well, I was going to write something introspective about my Labor Day weekend, but I…

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From Sustainability to a Sustainabilist Economy

September 24, 2022 No Comments

Dreams to Intentions They say time flies when you are having fun. In truth, I…

Parental Rambling: The Google Science Fair Competition

February 14, 2013 1 Comment

So, Google was sponsoring a science competition: https://www.googlesciencefair.com/en/2013/?utm_medium=hpp&utm_source=en-hpp&utm_campaign=gsf2013 I sent an email to my son…

The Age of Misinformation

April 27, 2014 1 Comment

It’s funny how my mom would say, “You kids didn’t come with an instruction manual.”…

Courting Fullpack Trickster in the US (Part 2)

May 17, 2013 No Comments

Technical support from Trickster didn’t respond. I guess I am not surprised, but then again,…

Challenging the Bubble

September 2, 2012 No Comments

We all live in a bubble of our design… OK, maybe that is just another…