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I have 2 tickets to see Robert Ballard in San Mateo Wednesday night. Want to join me?

Undersea robots, adventure and Leonardo Dicaprio!

Call or email. More about Robert Ballard.

Computer running slow. Virus? New Android drivers? Jury is still out.
New girlfriend maybe not girlfriend.
Fancy Android phone still a PITA… though getting better.
Boss yelled (yes, yelled) at me for no good reason.
Feeling very ungrounded.

I’ve still got my friends though.

This is a followup to my first and second posts: Nonyx Nail Gel and Nonyx Nail Gel: Part 2. It’s gotten so many comments that it’s hard to sort through these older posts.

Please make followup comments here.

And don’t forget to read the original post and other related posts including Fungal Nail Infection Treatment and Zetaclear.

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There are many discussions about nail fungus going on on my blog. Search my blog for the word “fungus” for more.

Let it be known that on this day and hour, one D-Nice Hill has registered with the Emoticon Registration Authority a new, novel and unique emoticon design. It has been certified to pass each of the tests of this authority and is hereby granted status of “awesome”.

The meaning of this emoticon as registered in this office is:

Rock on

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My friend Sara has started Secular Schoolhouse, a blog and resource for non-religious homeschooling. It’s also on the Facebook. Rock on!

Update 1-27-12: You don’t need to call them every 5 years any more. They have made it a permanent registry.

Every 5 years you should go to donotcall.gov to re-register your phone number on the Do Not Call list. This will keep away most telemarketers. It takes 5 minutes and will save you countless dinnertime telephone frustrations.

I’m travelling to Honolulu Hawaii in February and I’ll have a spare day. What should I see?

I hear the Pearl Harbor Memorial is powerful. What can I do that will honor the Brady Bunch Hawaii Vacation double episode? What else?

Schuyler’s Kickstarter project is running! Friends, family and even some total strangers have helped Schuyler start his blacksmithing portfolio!

“With your help, smithing will become my full time job next semester. And the portfolio that you have helped me build will be the key to my success after the Kickstarter funding has run out.”

Awesome!

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ABOUT THIS PROJECT

This project really consists of twelve smaller pieces that will all be displayed together in my portfolio. I want to make a wide variety of pieces that will show off all my skills as a blacksmith, while helping me improve old skills and learn new ones.

The first three projects I have planned all go together. They are a fireplace grate, set of tools, and screen that all coordinate. The grate will be a bowl shape, and be made of branches shooting out of the base and twisting around each other, with lots of forged leaves for detail. The tool set will have similar branches for the handles, and the screen will follow the motif with more forged leaves.

I will also be making a hanging wall garden, a Damascus steel knife, a set of table legs, and two abstract sculptures. The final project I hope to be something quite grand, and I have a few ideas. However, it will be the privilege of my backers to help me decide what to make in the end.

The money I raise with Kickstarter will go towards the costs of materials, transportation to and from the shop, and room and board for the duration of the project.

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PLEDGE $1 OR MORE
For $1, you will receive a card describing a cool fact about steel (a piece of which I’ll include in your card!) and a considerable heap of my appreciation.
1 BACKER

PLEDGE $15 OR MORE
Send me $15, and I’ll send you a handmade bottle opener. Each will be numbered, and signed. Enclosed with the openers will be a cool fact about steel, and a thank you note.
28 BACKERS

PLEDGE $30 OR MORE
If you’re generous enough to send me $30, I’ll be happy to screen print you a t-shirt bearing my anvil logo. The shirts are black American Apparel, and the graphic is a white circle centered on the chest, defining an anvil in its middle. Each of these will be slightly different, so get lots!
10 BACKERS

PLEDGE $150 OR MORE
This is a big one: for $150, I will personally make you a knife. Like the bottle openers, they will be numbered and signed, and like all rewards, will include a thank you note.
10 BACKERS

PLEDGE $2,000 OR MORE
Thank you so much for deciding to contribute such a substantial amount! In return, I would like to make you a replica of any piece out of this portfolio project. The piece you choose will be sent with a t-shirt and a more sincere thank you note than you have ever read in your life.

If we’re going to live in a world with rules, here’s one rule I can live with.

Every time I go a relative’s house, I see my family subject themselves to insanely loud TV ads. It’s like out of Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron. Every few minutes a television somewhere in the house starts blaring. TVs are on all day and night in every room of the house, even the 10 year old’s room. So for their sake, I welcome this new law:

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President Barack Obama today signed into law S.2847, the Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, which forbids television ads from playing at a volume noticeably louder than the programs during which they air.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse says, “With the signing of the CALM Act, the top consumer complaint to the Federal Communications Commission for over a half century is now addressed…

Households across the country will now get the relief they deserve from the annoyance of blaringly loud television commercials. Consumers will no longer need to dive for the ‘mute’ button during commercial breaks,” she said. “My simple, two-page bill reduces the volume of television commercials, allowing them to be no louder than regular programming. It gives the control of sound back to the consumer, where it belongs. While this small bill doesn’t solve the many challenges facing our country, it is a commonsense solution for a national nuisance.”

S.2847 was signed into law December 15th 2010.