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A variety of maps, writings, and photos on a various topics that can’t easily be categorized into a county or place.

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Bread and Salad

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A pan of salad and some bread next to it. Looks good to eat.

This abstract photo, played a bit with in GIMP is from the Boy Scouts camp out.

Wednesday March 19, 2008 — Exploring the Apartment

How to overcome opposition to Solar Farms

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There is a very simple solution to overcome opposition to solar farms. Just mandate that people who oppose solar farms next door, should be required to live next to a liberal that can’t’ stop complaining and has the cops on speed dial.

Knowing Coding is Important.

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In the modern era, it’s important that everybody know how to do a little computer programming. Not an expert on every langauge, but basic profinency on the concepts behind computing coding can make individuals much more productive. It’s hard to describe how many times before, I’ve used little bits of code to make my life better, to automate processes, to find solutions to problems that nobody else has addressed.

Bookmarklet for Logging Into Newsbank

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This actually can be adopted for any login site, just by adjusting the login fields. It does require two clicks of the login script, but whatever.

javascript:(function(){
  const targetUrl = 'https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/user/librarycard?destination=easy-search%3Fp%3DNewsBank';
  
  if (window.location.href.indexOf('infoweb.newsbank.com') === -1) {
    window.location.href = targetUrl;
    return;
  }

  const form = document.querySelector('form#nbauth-library-card-form');
  if (form) {
    const fields = {
      'nbauth_library_key': 'xxxx',
      'nbauth_library_card': 'xxxxxxxx',
    };

    for (let name in fields) {
      let input = form.querySelector(`[name="${name}"]`);
      if (input) input.value = fields[name];
    }

    form.submit();
  } else {
    alert('Login form not found. Please ensure you are on the NewsBank login page.');
  }
})();

That craving for the hills I get some times … 😍

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I am a country boy at heart. I might live in the city, work downtown and take the bus every day but that’s not where my heart is.

Seeing those mountains in the distance, the forested hills and the little farms and homesteads carved out of the mountains just touches something inside me. The rundown trailers, the old tractors, the pigs, goats and cattle. The rusting away junk cars, the burn barrels and the brush / debris pile some day soon to be burned.

A lot of people call them ignorant hicks and hillbillies. But I don’t know, I think anybody who can scrape together a living either partially or entirety off the land is pretty damn smart and educated, even if it’s not through traditional channels.

They call it rural poverty. A lack of material stuff. Although I don’t think one can really call homesteading cheap when you look at the cost of machinery and feed. And many of rural people live a life much richer than city folk.

Hills Outside Petersburgh