I’ve been doing a lot of kayaking since age ten, just over two decades now. I’ve tried a lot of different gear and here’s my current setup based on all my lessons learned. (I’m in the back) The kayak is my absolute favorite kayak. The Intex Challenger K1 (Second-Generation). These kayaks are really great for… Continue reading My Kayaking Setup
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The Gilded Age and Amerika’s Self-Deception
Watching documentaries about the Columbian Exposition for an Urban Studies Class reminded me so much of Mark Twain’s The Gilded Age. Twain argued that America was not in a golden age, but rather a gilded age. That the success and growth and wealth were fake and designed to conceal the rotten core of a country… Continue reading The Gilded Age and Amerika’s Self-Deception
Public Health Officials Say That Camping Is One Of The Safest Things To Do During Covid
Here is a list of guidance from departments of health in every part of the country arguing that camping is perhaps the safest thing that anyone can be doing right now. This is particularly true if you live with people who are leaving home to go to work and potentially exposing you to their elevated… Continue reading Public Health Officials Say That Camping Is One Of The Safest Things To Do During Covid
Simple Solar Setup
I built a moving cabin to travel to all the national parks in 2021. One of the advantages I brought to this project is years of volunteer work building and maintaining the power grid at Comfort & Joy at Burning Man. Since I started the moving cabin project, many of my close friends and family… Continue reading Simple Solar Setup
Wrangling Metaphenomena
This semester, a professor in one of my classes made the claim that almost no person or organization is aware or its core principles. Maybe they have some vague nonsense mission statement or political identity that could be used to argue literally anything, and that’s basically the point. They don’t have a set of claims… Continue reading Wrangling Metaphenomena
Variations in Sexuality
CJ Trowbridge 2020-12-06 SOC 400 – Term Paper I have struggled since my first degrees in Sociology and LGBT Studies and throughout this class to find a concise and plausible scientific explanation accounting for the development of diverse sexual orientations in humans. I think I’ve finally identified one that works. The ideas of sex, gender,… Continue reading Variations in Sexuality
DIY Quasar Interferometry
CJ Trowbridge 2020-12-02 ASTR 11 Lab N13 Report I’m writing about Radio Interferometry. This is a topic that I am very interested in. As a licensed amateur radio technician, I have tried for several semesters to do an honors project on this topic but haven’t yet found a professor who was as interested as I… Continue reading DIY Quasar Interferometry
Data: Antivaxxer Prevalence Correlates With Covid Incidence
CJ Trowbridge USP 493 Data Analysis 2020-12-01 SPSS Final Project Outline Introduction – what hypothesis you will test and why you expect your independent variable or variables will affect your dependent variable In the recent past, it was legal for California parents to refuse to vaccinate their children in on the basis of various superstitions.… Continue reading Data: Antivaxxer Prevalence Correlates With Covid Incidence
Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
Prompt: Why are we so afraid of reproductive technologies?” Who is “we?” Intro Systems of oppression exist on three levels. First, the pervasive and ubiquitous sociocultural level which encompasses all the ideas (or discourses) in our society’s collective culture. Second, the institutional level, where people enact the sociocultural discourses as policy in order to make… Continue reading Misogynoir and Reproductive Conversations
My Covid Stack
I have for years taken several supplements daily. I recently made some changes based on evidence that these tweaks could support a robust covid response and even reduce the risk of infection. Zyrtec $0.05/day on Amazon I have experimented with many options for allergy medicines. This is important as someone with asthma because allergies can… Continue reading My Covid Stack