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Mar 21

Abraham’s Misguided Melody

A Baffling Ballad of Belief and Blood — In the ancient land of Canaan, a tale was often told, Of Abraham and Isaac, a story brave and bold. A man who heard a voice, a command from up above, To sacrifice his cherished son, a test of faith and love. “Take your only son, dear Isaac, to Moriah’s…

Satire

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Satire

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Mar 20

Scam mails from times past

Greetings, thou beloved of the Lord, I, the humble servant of the Most High, have been divinely inspired to make known unto thee an opportunity of miraculous proportions. I am Mordecai, the last living descendant of a forgotten king, whose fortune has been hidden away in a distant land. Alas…

Scam

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Scam

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Mar 20

Dusty old books

And it came to pass, in a land far off, a humble goat herder named Abner was known throughout the village for his wisdom and the prosperity of his goats, the finest of all the land. Now, as Abner tended his goats upon the mountainside, he found an ancient scroll…

Wisdom

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Dusty old books
Dusty old books
Wisdom

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Mar 19

Sunday Sermon — Mozzarella Messiah

In the days of Caesar, there lived a humble dairyman named Joseph, betrothed to a virtuous woman named Mary. And it came to pass that Mary was visited by the angel Gouda, who announced unto her, “Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with the Lord of Curds and…

Religion

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Sunday Sermon — Mozzarella Messiah
Sunday Sermon — Mozzarella Messiah
Religion

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Feb 27

Build Experience

I would like to build my own house and in preparation I have been taking on a few small building projects. First I built a deck around our pool area which went smoothly but took longer than planned. Then I started building a 50 square meter workshop which is going…

Owner Builder

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Build Experience
Build Experience
Owner Builder

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Dec 10, 2022

Noah’s Ark

What am I meant to make of the flood story? — The great flood is one of the few bible stories that everyone (Christian or not) seems to have heard at some point in their life. However I don’t think that the take on the flood story is universal. Some people take it as word for word literal truth, others think…

Religion

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Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Ark
Religion

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Feb 25, 2022

How the brain works and the reason we dream

I just learnt something I thought I we would never know — I have recently been reading an amazing book called “From Bacteria to Bach and Back” by Daniel Dennett, and in it he presented an idea from neuroscience that I found simply astonishing. …

Neuroscience

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How the brain works and the reason we dream
How the brain works and the reason we dream
Neuroscience

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Feb 20, 2022

How much screen time is OK for children?

Why this is probably the wrong question to be asking — When raising children we are often told that too much “screen time” is bad for them and that we need to limit their screen time to something like 1 hr per day. However, I think that there is a fundamental problem with this approach. It is emphasizing the wrong thing…

Parenting

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How much screen time is OK for children?
How much screen time is OK for children?
Parenting

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Feb 11, 2022

Why “eat less and move more” could make you grow fatter than ever before

The problem with current health advice and how to actually lose weight for good — So what is wrong with the advice, “eat less and move more”? It makes sense doesn’t it? If you eat less you will be consuming less calories, and if you move more then you will be burning more calories. …

Intermittent Fasting

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Why “eat less and move more” could make you grow fatter than ever before
Why “eat less and move more” could make you grow fatter than ever before
Intermittent Fasting

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Dec 14, 2021

Setting up Proxmox and Ceph for a home lab

This is just some high level notes of how I set up a Proxmox and Ceph server for my personal use. The hardware was a AMD Ryzen 5900x with 64MB ECC DRAM, and 3 x 8TB HDD. First, enable CPU virtualisation options in your BIOS (for me this was the…

Ceph

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Ceph

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