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<p>I&#39;ve written about electrical safety since the late 1980s: articles, columns, newsletters, books, slide decks. I&#39;m updating Old Electrical Wiring, my first book, and seeking a new publisher. I&#39;m also working on, and pitching, a broader lessons-learned, provisionally Safer Home Repair: do it yourself without killing yourself. My third book, Behind the Code: NEC History, I decided to stop adding to at ~450pp. It talks about the reasons behind U.S. wiring rules, and that&#39;s plenty.</p>

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  • Post #1220704

    @deliaturner I wonder why people take the class of someone with so poor an attitude. I&amp;#39;m wonderfully fortunate to be taking a class from a 26 yo MFA sme, an encouraging enthusiast. While I&amp;#39;m the only geezer in the class, we&amp;#39;re learning together and from each other. This poetry class is one of the most positive experiences I&amp;#39;m having currently. Last semester, I took two classes: one in the history dept, one in the dance dept. Again a kind enthusiast, a grad dance...

  • Post #926087

    #Uber workings: Do you understand their scheduling? I need to get gimpily downtown (for an appointment to have my operated-upon foot put back in use) Wednesday, and don&amp;#39;t have a ride. I&amp;#39;ve a few questions. 1. Uber, unlike Lyft, seems wiling to pre-schedule a pickup, online, without needing to go cell phone. However, the software says &amp;quot;5 minutes from your location.&amp;quot; Does this mean I have to locomote five minutes to get to them, or just that the driver would be s...

  • Post #926086

    #linux #tyro #troubeshooting Here&amp;#39;s an amazing find/ discovery: My keyboard&amp;#39;s gotten so unreliable, and my mouse input as well, that I&amp;#39;ve been using an external keyboard for some time. I finally went back and disabled the stylus input--on this machine xinput disable 20--and damned if the wonky keys seem to have unwonkified. The next step will be to see whether crontab -e @reboot xinput disable 20 worked, as i&amp;#39;ve never pulled a crontab before. No idea what I&amp;...

  • Post #926085

    #poetry Do the lines of the final couplet of a sonnet have to be ~even?

  • Post #926084

    #poetry #limericks A llimerick takes the form AA BB A, okay. Do the BB shots need to be shotter, or rather shorter? Do they oughter?

  • Post #926083

    #spam At one point, months ago, I ordered wholesale dentifrice from an outfit called US Dental *. They sent me many emails inviting me to reorder. Earlier today i asked them to take me off their email blasts. This evening i received two emails from them, selling autoclaves, or purporting to do so. This time I decided I had to set up a filter to block them. It took a little doing: I discovered that these last two messages were disguised as coming from my edress. What a nasty business.

  • Post #926082

    @deliaturner soem clothes get stiff if not agitated whilst dryiing. If you dry those indoors, what do you use? A portable fan?

  • Post #204214

    #University #Libraries I&#39;m psyched about access to the local university library. UMaryland-College Park has greatly reduced costs for geezers who apply to fill unclaimed seats. Today I was able to find and legally download the full text of the 2009 English translation of Dialogues of Love, written by Abravanel, a.k.a. Leone Ebreo, in 1535. Here&#39;s Renaissance discourse,, admixed with a Sephardic perspective. Imagine meeting such a mind. Later, I was able to determine that the answers...

  • Post #204117

    #HealthyBaking #Improv #DiabetesFriendly Monkfruit #non-pet chia These worked fine. WW flour, greek yoghurt, some fresh lemon zest and ginger, bicarb, baking powder, egg, peanut butter, chia seed, monkfruit extract, and just a little butternut squash. Light, tasty, and given the baker, of course freeform rather than constrained by muffin tins. I punted an overstressed friend&#39;s call while I popped them in the oven cleaned my hands, and emptied my bladder. Then I called her back to reassure...