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Emergency Preparedness April 2020 Revision
I admit it. Sometimes I feel silly about maintaining an emergency preparedness kit. It is prudent to have a kit considering Whidbey Island’s potential for disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and wild weather. Decades of keeping a kit that is never … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, earthquake, earthquakes, emergency preparedness, Island County, Nick Zentner, pandemic, tsunami, Whidbey Island
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Silly Sea Salt
It is hard to get much more basic than salt. It’s cheap, but it’s vital. And I’m curious. Of all the DIY projects and frugal endeavours, making my own salt seems silly. Why make something that is so cheap some … Continue reading
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Tagged disaster preparedness, earthquake, frugal, frugality, preppers, Simple Living, tsunami, volcano, Whidbey
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Adapting To Singularities
Singularities don’t have to happen alone. One singularity is enough to make the world seem senseless. Old rules don’t apply. Old causes create new effects. It is easy to get confused. Triple that, at least. We may be experiencing three … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Brexit, climate change, digital singularity, disruptive technology, earthquake, environment, frugal, frugality, health care, housing, investing, Lottery, New Zealand, personal finance, politics, sea ice, Simple Living, singularity, stocks, technology, tsunami
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Weirdnesses Approaching
As if the world wasn’t weird enough, it’s getting weirder. Sometimes that’s a good thing. Luckily, humans evolved to be adaptable, and that adaptability is being tested. The following is a Friday night random list of shifts, changes, and trends … Continue reading
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Tagged Airplane design, artifical intelligence, Atomic Age, auto autos, automation, autonomous, aviation, bitcoin, blockchain, Cascades, coal, commodities, decentralized, driveless cars, driverless vehicles, earthquakes, fossil fuels, frugal, frugality, gas, graphene, high frequency trading, housing, inflation, infrastructure, investing, invisibility, minimalism, oil, personal finance, power, renewable energy, renewables, Simple Living, solar, Tiny Houses, trends, tsunami, wind
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My Incomplete Emergency Kit
Chile was hit by an 8.3 earthquake, and then a 15 foot tsunami. They killed 12 people. The news is already fading, possibly because the death toll wasn’t higher. The one million Chileans who had to evacuate, undoubtedly are very … Continue reading
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Tagged disaster, earthquake, frugal, frugality, preparedness, tsunami, volcano, Whidbey
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Small Powerful Things
A cough and a sneeze collided, got lost, and now I have the hiccups. This is so distracting. It’s a little thing, but somewhere in my body is a bubble or a tiny twitching muscle that is making itself noisily … Continue reading
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Tagged boating, disaster, earthquake, frugal, frugality, hiking, tsunami, volcano, Whidbey
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Slow Disaster Preparedness
Who came up with the word, “preparedness”? Preparations should be good enough. Regardless, one of the signs of adult responsibility is being prepared for disasters. FEMA and the Red Cross suggest each of us having days of supplies and a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dream. Invest. Live., earthquake, estate planning, FEMA, frugal, frugality, health care, housing, investing, jobs, mortgage, personal finance, Red Cross, resourcefulness, Simple Living, stocks, storms, survivalist, tsunami, unemployment, volcano, volcanoes, Whidbey
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Renaissance Rebirth
Something’s up and I don’t know what, but it may be an epochal change in civilization. Such a change makes me question my assumptions, including those behind my book, Dream. Invest. Live., that is the basis for this blog. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, Dream. Invest. Live., earthquake, Facebook, first world, HCLE, investing, Khan Academy, Medici, occupy, personal finance, rebirth, renaissance, Simple Living, Solomon Islands, teaching, third world, transformation, travel, tsunami, water, wealth, wikipedia, YouTube
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Recycling Perspective
Look at the bags of recycling gathering in my kitchen. Look at the photos of Sendai’s tsunami, Haiti’s earthquake, Hurricane Katrina‘s impact on New Orleans. I’ve got bags in my kitchen filled with waste paper, empty bottles and cans. Disaster … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Jordan, earthquake, Haiti, hurricane, Katrina, Midway, Midway Journey, Pacific Gyre, Pacific Plastic Patch, recycling, Sendai, tsunami
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Time Saving Tips
The first was inspired by the Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami. I realized that such an overlooked notion like being prepared was actually a time saver. Then I realized it was just one of a similar set of simple acts, and … Continue reading
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