Pick up a Book

Books will change your life forever. The ideas you absorb while focusing on reading will make differences. I’d like to share my experiences on what it takes to get in the groove of reading. First, pick a reading medium that most aligns with your day-to-day E-Book, Paperback, and Hardcover

Open Source Brain Wave Monitoring

The OpenBCI board is a really interesting board that can be used for mind control. People are already controlling things with their brain waves. EEG Hacker Blog http://eeghacker.blogspot.com OpenBCI Community http://openbci.com/community/ This will be the next interface after touchscreens. You’ll be controlling anything

The Situation with Food

You hear of GMO seeds, fertilizers and all other types of discussions about industrial agriculture I’m sure. Here are what I think the main issues are with both plant and animal food production. Plants * Monoculture planting of 1,000’s of acres * Importing new GMO seed from foreign source

Open Source Online Communities

Open source means everyone has access to the workings of the thing at hand. I’ve learned from some of the best open source software communities with a little bit of politics sprinkled in. Some of the ways I was able to participate was through IRC, online forums, Wikis, and

Bottled Water vs Filtered Water

I’ve recently been very interested in water and have been paying more attention to how I feel on different water sources. Hopefully I can share my experience to help others maintain a torrential supply of living drinking water. Bottled Water Bottled water is most often sourced from ‘purified’ spring

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Keynesian Business Cycle Bust in Progress

We will have massive repricing of assets as the bubble has been pricked in the dollar bubble and by coronavirus. The problem now exists when 'authorities' with access to legal tender get to reprice those assets by buying select assets with their trading teams. The Federal Reserve has

South Florida Cryptocurrency Payments Processing

I am going to start a business to set up Point of sale in South Florida. The cool software I'm using is BTCPay server. I will be setting up point of sale in Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, and surrounding regions. You will be

New @asususa Vivobook 15 i7

First jQuery App

I coded a calculator for my Dad when he is piloting. https://johnnysgardens.com/calc.html

Super

Super First go at writing “Get another log for this fire John!”, Michael yelled across the clearing. Michael Hansen is a friend of John Lambrechts, they go to the same high school. Behind a town elementary school lies a forest which has a clearing in the middle where they are

JohnnysGardens.com

I am going to pursue my business of setting up raised or unraised garden beds in South Florida. For those that want it, Raspberry pi connected gardens. Raised beds make the most since because they drain well. In Florida there are wet and dry seasons, but you can always get

Reaction to World Markets (Coronavirus/Bubble)

The reaction of the world markets after this virus and a record high American stock index is hilarious. Stimulus is the last thing you need. Lower prices benefit savers. Deflation is good, especially in this digitally connected world where cost changes down supply chain are instant. Deflation means a decrease

Catching up DeFi Blockchain Advancements

I have been interested in Bitcoin since 2011 and I have decided to learn about other blockchain applications. The coolest theme I discovered is completely decentralized banking. Compound.finance and Argent both provide supply APY and borrowing abilities. Some of the cool apps * Start Earning 6% In Just 3 Taps

Ron Paul - Revival of the Liberty Movement

Ron Paul was inspirational when I started to learn about the Federal Reserve and what American money really was. It was a shocking educational journey which started when an applicable video of Ron Paul questioning Ben Bernanke in the Congress was posted on Digg.com, the precursor to Reddit. After

T.J. Edwards - Philadelplhia Eagles

My cousin worked hard on the Wisconsin Badgers and made it into the NFL. He’s on the Eagles, #57 Linebacker. He’s one of the last born Herb and Catherine Lambrechts’ grandchildren. The son of my Dad’s sister Cathy and her husband Vince Edwards. T.J. is great,

Itron, Inc. and Smart Infrastructure

The company which manages ComEd smart meters and Chicago Street Lights is called Itron. They have infrastructure to manage meters and ensure uptime to ensure there is no waste in infrastructure systems. Itron has been making strides in transforming city and utility company infrastructure to become smart and adaptable. They

Austrian Economics and the Business Cycle

The business cycle is something we are taught in school. We are told that it is a certainty in economics. Austrian Economists have proved that the business cycle has a cause. The cause of the business cycle is coercive control of the money supply and market intervention. Murray Rothbard is

Unbxd JSON Feed to CSV Python Script

import json, os, csv def create_list_from_json(jsonfile): with open(jsonfile) as f: data = json.load(f) data_list = [] ​ for item in data['feed']['catalog']['add']['items']: data_list.append(item) ​ return data_list ​ def write_csv(): ​ item_list = create_

Full Moon Ocean Ridge, Florida

A Short Story

“Hey Allie!” “What’s up Bill, I haven’t seen you around” Allie Barnes lived in an underground garden apartment in Chicago’s Near South side Douglas neighborhood. Only the top windows had a glimpse of sunlight. These living areas sprung up in Chicago around the time the city raised

Tiling Window Managers

Tiling window managers are almost a necessity if you log in to many applications throughout the day. When so many different apps come together on limited real estate, having them tile in different ways makes my job easier. It makes sense to do things other than just floating windows on

Music Player Daemon

I started listening to music on the radio. Now I run my own radio for personal use. It’s run on MPD and it broadcasts at 320kbps over HTTP. Internet radio is now known as streaming, like Spotify and Pandora. MPD is a server daemon which loads your music folder

How to get into Reading

The thing you need most for reading is the ability to read. To read and enjoy it. To read and understand all he nuances of books is like learning a new hobby. There is always another thing to discover. Books open up a whole new medium of communication and can

Lambrechts, Reilly, Austrheim, Howard Family Tree

I completed a large portion of my family tree. The tools I found on Ancestry that helped the most were the European Records which I paid for. The Europeans kept very detailed records of emigration during the immigrant rush during the first 100 years of America’s founding. My O’

Tracking Finances in GnuCash

Information on how to download PNC and Capital One transactions. I’ve started tracking my finances in Gnucash. It builds great reports. I exported data from 90days – 1 year and categorized every transaction on 3 accounts that I use for daily spending. It was hard to find the button on