Our hot tub is a 500 gallon commercial hot tub that we leave at operating temperature (100' fahrenheit) 24/7. Here's the cleaning procedure that seems to work for us. Test the chlorine and pH levels of

I'm borrowing an RV from a friend while I remodel the cottage where I normally reside. Unfortunately, the RV has some mold due to a roof leak. Unfortunately, most mold remediation articles I've seen recommend

New programmers sometimes ask, "Which language should I learn first?" My answer is step back and ask "What do I want to create?", then pick the language that will be most useful for

[Note: these are my notes on making platforms/boats /art for the Ephemerisle festival ( This is just a "capture" post, intended to collect the information. No attempt is made at organization,

I seem to be writing the same thing in response to bunch of people, so I'm going to start collecting them here. A friend writes: "Will "increased competition" bring down healthcare costs

[Note, this is very rough, just to capture my idea for later perusal. Expect grammatical/spelling errors, non-sequitors, etc.] Alexander Green asks: "Okay hive mind-- how would you approach this project?

I have good news and bad news. First, the bad news. Imagine that an asteroid crash landed on earth, unleashing an infectious disease that caused every infected human to turn into a pile of rotted meat

I've found that I'm often making the same response to people infected with death cult ideology, so I putting them here so that I can refer to them later. This is going to start very rough, so be warned

I found that keep writing out a list of my favorite TV shows for friends, so I'm going to put the list here so that I can refer to it as needed. Bob's Burgers -- a loving family try to run a struggling

Is ipfs.pics defunct? The website now redirects to the git repository. If so, what's the recommended best way to host images now?

Who should read this? Computer security is not something most people want to think about. It's boring, and complicated, and not really their thing. However, they see news reports of thieves stealing Yahoo's

Summary If you want to install Bitshares / graphene from source on Mac OS X Yosemite, there are a couple of gotchas not documented in the official instructions, located here: In my case, if I followed

Summary 150,000 people die of "natural" causes every day. Fatalism--once an adaptive response--now prevents people from pursuing anti-aging technology. Curing major classes of disease, like heart

"The European Central Bank is manufacturing more than $1 trillion worth of euros a year. The U.S. Federal Reserve has created over $3 trillion dollars of new money in the last decade (after taking

Summary Increasing immigration rates would benefit both US citizens and immigrants alike. However, many native citizens believe immigrants impose more costs than benefits, by increasing crime, consuming

"Utilizing the new NFC technology, Plutus aims to make physical Bitcoin and Ethereum payments as easy as tap and go, with merchants not being aware the payment was a digital currency based transaction,

Here's my crack at an "Explain Like I'm 5 Years Old" explanation for theDAO exploit. Questions, comments, and suggestions for improvement are welcome! Ethereum is a cryptocurrency, similar to

Great news! (Assuming the article is true--the Santa Monica Observer appears to be a real newspaper, but this article does not follow proper journalistic standards. See here) "The U.S. Drug Enforcement

Gun control advocates often say "no one is coming for your guns". Amitai Etzioni puts the lie to that assertion. "Given that even micro gun control measures will be effectively blocked by