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Republicans may have ‘awoken a sleeping giant’ by repealing net neutrality
Well, they did it! The FCC will now allow Internet service providers to provide differential service based upon content. The reason this is bad is because service should be neutral in relation to content. Think of our First Amendment free-speech rights. Places of public accommodation are not allowed to discriminate against any type of speech on…
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Appalachian Trail, 2017
I’m sitting in the public library of Hot Springs, NC, writing this blog entry and contemplating the magnitude of what we all just did. Not because it was a feat of athletic ability, or extreme endurance, or any such example of human exceptionalism. No, rather it was, as it always is, a magnum of human…
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Thank you, NPR!
Most of you know that I’m a Boy Scout leader. Part of my current job is to teach young scouts about citizenship as a merit badge counselor for Citizenship in the Community/Nation/World. These are three eagle-required badges that are frankly, in my opinion, the best and most important badges scouts earn. Here’s requirement #1 for…
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Switches and Relays
It’s amazing how clarifying a prototype can be! While I had a general idea of what I wanted to automate for my brewery v3, I didn’t have a clear idea of how to exactly put it together until I got all of the pieces on my dining room table and started to solder and drill.…
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Communication Issues
The Sweeney Brewery v3 has lots of electrical controls. I have six 2-way electric ball valves – three for tun control and three for gas control, and two 3-way valves for various fluid routing processes. I also have a new Omega CN7500 (more on that later), and the system pump. Controlling everything, I have an…
Very nice!