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  • Changing Emails is Hard

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    I’ve had my old address, johnk@riceball.com, for more than 20 years. I think. I don’t remember when I first established email for my own domain. I remember picking the domain out around 1998, when the first domain land rush happened. I probably set up the email on the Cyberjava servers. I don’t remember anymore. Later,…

  • Protected: RIP Mark

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  • The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More

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    This is shocking to me: Why Ditching Processed Foods Won’t Be Easy — Barriers To Cooking From Scratch The worst part is at the end. During the survey, one of the participants became homeless. Back when I was a child, the processed foods cost more, and the fresh foods cost less. That’s because we had a…

  • Reupholstering an Old Chair’s Seat with Scrap Fabric

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    A work in progress – how to reupholster a chair seat for cheap or free, with scrap fabric and recycled stuffing. These pictures show some of the progress. This chair’s seat had torn, and the foam was coming out. I wanted to reupholster it, but for as little money as possible. I watched a few…

  • Erasing Racism with Revisionist History about Ichimatsu Dolls

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    I stumbled across and ad for an old Japanese doll, and wanted to get an idea of what’s out there, so I went to eBay and found out. On there, I saw listings for “Ichimatsu” dolls, which I’d never heard of before. A little research turned up some info, but the most interesting story was…

  • The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)

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    This is going to sound crazy, but I think there’s a conspiracy  by plumbers to frustrate DIY plumbing repair efforts.  My mom had a hose bibb that was leaking, so I went to fix it. What a nightmare.

  • Should Prisoners Have the Vote?

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    Bernie got into a bit of controversy over his position, that prisoners should have the vote. He called it a fundamental aspect of democracy. It’s also the policy in two states, Vermont and Maine. Personally, I’m not 100% comfortable with having prisoners vote, but so many arguments come out about how prisoners lose their rights,…

  • On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism

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    I enjoy reading about alternative currencies (and laughing at them, for the most part) so Yang’s “Human Centered Capitalism” was an eye opener – a presidential candidate pushing an alternative digital currency for social good works. Well, here’s a rebuttal from the Wrench in the Gears blog, “Social capital” scrip? Fin-tech experiments with new forms…

  • Copyright, “Copyleft”, Creative Commons, Public Domain, Anti-Copyright

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    Recently, I got asked a few things about copyright, by a friend, and I guess copyright was a bone of contention. Others in an organization with her had been trying to post a book written by her. The impression I got was that people don’t know what copyright is. This article tries to address this.…

  • Medium Paywall Blocking Posts

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    I haven’t paid attention to the Medium paywall, but I was deleting some stories and comments, and the site told me a comment wasn’t visible. I don’t know how this works, but they probably have a pay-to-comment scheme. I guess I’ll need to either pay up, or move some articles out to this blog. Oh…