Paulitics of Moral Celery

Moral Celery is ending. Please see the combined blog of Paul and Katharyn here.

This is relatively big, encouraging news for us. pH Raising Test Results After finding out how much of a roughly 10% Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) solution is necessary to add to our water to raise the pH to 11.0 – a 250:1 proportion was about right – we ran it through the RO system. It took [...]

Part of the reason I am putting this is up is that it is interesting. The other reason is that there may be people out there with a similar problem (boron) that search the internet (like me) for solutions. I could find basically nothing that a small homeowner (or really, any person in a residential [...]

This is part of a series on what we’ve been doing and learning with our house. We’ve had a number of interesting experiences, and a lot of learning around water treatment specifically. Warning: this particular post may be a bit unsettling to your stomach. We have a 5000 gallon water tank for a buffer for [...]

It is interesting that tax rates tend to go up in wars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#1930_-_1980 Taxes pay for things. The “we will not consider anything that would potentially raise the tax rate for any group at all” position does not seem to be a very rational/thought-out idea. Figuring out what we actually want to pay for is [...]

Two topics in one post! Wheee. Politics Three particular points regarding politics. Firstly, we cannot judge a Christian based on their political affiliation. Ok, maybe certain ones are more obvious; say, some sort of white supremacy Aryan group. That’s pretty blatantly antithetical to Christ. But let’s take the big ones: Democrat, Republican, Libertarian. There are [...]

Like all self-respecting blog posts, I will start with a non-backed-up pithy quote. The church (i.e., believers) was not called to change or create a culture; it was called to change people and make disciples. I was thinking about this and started wondering (dangerous!) – it seems like my focus should not be on what [...]

I don’t get the sudden influx of race-related news. So I’m white. You’re black. So-and-so is “yellow” or “brown.” Someone might be feeling green at the moment. If post-racial means you can’t ever even REFER to race, we have problems… because that’s just trying to ignore something that is real. I have white skin, and [...]

I am just trying out Igelle, a fairly new Linux distribution (it is only at version 1.0).  It seems to have a very clean interface that is custom (i.e., it’s not KDE, Gnome, IceWM, XFCE, etc).  It is also fairly lightweight and you can use it as a live CD.  I don’t know how robust [...]

So, I’m trying to find a decent OS for an old Dell Inspiron 1200 laptop.  It’s got 256mb RAM, and an old 801.11b PCMCIA wireless card (Cabletron RoamAbout I believe)… and normal stuff like audio, probably onboard video of some sort, internal ethernet, etc.  I know PuppyLinux works (and various Pups), but it’s not the [...]