SlingShot Thought

Ramping Up

2008-05-15T11:20:00.005-04:00

This could very well be my first real nerd post.

At work recently I learned that I will be doing more broad level project management tasks. Apparently I am pretty good at keeping shit organized, having people to not only do a job but understand why they do it and how it works into the whole project and do it pretty efficiently.

Then the news has come in that the company will be getting in a lump of work from a few companies with multiple sites and I'll be coordinating and keeping track of pieces for 4-5 sites.

Yesterday, after weeks of 'window' shopping I finally said "Eff-it, im getting it now."

HP iPaq 210. It should be here by the end of next week. Hopefully earlier.

Then today I look at my igoogle horoscope:

I do want to feel stylish.
I do want to feel good.
It does feel like a superficial indulgence.
I am the man.
I want it.
It will be mine.

It's fate.

What does it do? One may ask. pretty much anything I could want in a laptop. Windows Mobile 6.0, wifi, bluetooth, web, email, word, excel, links with outlook. It's a mega organizer. File transporter. Mobile mini-office. I will be hyperconnected.

But for now, its back to work.

Spec Sheet: Here (opens to pdf.)

A New College Graduate

2008-05-13T08:35:00.005-04:00

This was a big weekend. My mom graduated from U. Maine Augusta with a B.S. in Library Science. The graduation was held at the Augusta Civic Center on Saturday and while the ceremony it self was pretty lame, it was awesome to see my mom walk in during the procession with her cap and gown and gold honors cord and then get to walk across the stage to get her diploma.

Now she just has to get a job to pay back her student loans. :)

Congratulations Mah, We're very proud of you.

Meme buck stops here.

2008-05-08T20:35:00.004-04:00

The good dude over at LostGeologist has tagged me for a meme. Yep. The Six Word MeMe.

1. Write your own six word memoir. Okay. Six words only.

2. Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.Done. Visuals? Nope.

3. Link to the person that tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere. Silver Fox. Don't know the starting point.

Participating in memes can be cool and fun to interact with the community. It's the tagging X amount of people that I don't care for. I guess it's the feeling of asking someone to do somthing they may not want to do...the obligation of it all. Anyway, Here is my six word memoir:

Ride, Live, Think, Act, Work, Be

I tag no one. :p

GeologyJoe: Bird Savior

2008-05-08T09:20:00.005-04:00

The weather was beautiful yesterday morning. We even had a door open to enjoy it. Then a small bird decided to fly into the office.

"Joe! Joe! A bird, a bird flew in the office." I hear from my desk while I am preparing my daily ToDo list.
We find which office our little visitor made it in to and I quickly shut that door to keep him contained.
What to do? What to do?
Knowing they will fly towards the light I shut off the lights, drew the shades and opened a window. The plan was to get the bird to fly around and hopefully find the window in the darkened room. I approached the little bird but he was not about to budge from his perch on top of the window shade.
Quickly reformulating the plan I grabbed a towel from my desk. The little bird actually let me pick him up.
I started to carry him out and he wiggled free, fluttered about and landed on my co-workers shoulder and back.
She squealed.
"Don't move! Don't move!" I say laughing.
I quickly got the bird back into hand and brought him out side. I figured that once we were out and I let go, he would just fly away.
Nope. He just hung out in my hand. I eventually was able to get him to jump into a nearby tree. The little bird, while probably dazed from smacking into a couple of windows, eventually flew away.

Can anyone ID the bird for me? I wish the picture were better but I couldn't seem to get the camera to focus on the foreground. Oh well.

And the Universe Smiled...

2008-05-06T12:52:00.001-04:00

Today at lunch time I took a walk as I usual. Within a couple of minutes of walking up the street, there it was, a nice little folded up 1 dollar bill. SCORE! I pocketed it glee and with a huge shit-eatin' on my face I carried on.

This must be karma paying me back for yesterdays' good deed. Then brief thoughts of that t.v. show My Name is Earl pops into my head.

Yesterday as I was returning from lunch I walked past a woman in an electric wheelchair fighting with a non-automatic door. I stopped and open the door for her. Simple. She said "Thank You" I said "Your Welcome" Total interaction 21 seconds.

'The universe is smiling today' I think as a walk toward my typical sitting spot 'and it just paid me a dollar to get the door for that woman yesterday'.
How will I spend my dollar? Shortly after that thought I pass by Violin Man, in His usual spot along the side of the Nickelodeon movie house. Everyone in town knows who this is, I walk past him ALL THE TIME. That's him in the photo above.

So, I flip him the buck I just found.

"Hey how a bout a nice polka?" He coherently mumbles.

And after years of walking past him, today he played my that polka.

"It's usually an according song, but I can do it with this.."

A few more final bits of small talk of the weather and I was back on my way.

The Universe is Smiling today and Karma has once again proven itslef.

A psot wtih beers in me.

2008-05-04T16:31:00.005-04:00

Yeah it's a Sunday, a rainy one at that, and after walking the dogs with wife through the woods for an hour-20 in the rain and then transfering books for the baby transistion I had a few cold budweisers. And a few more after thqat. My feet are warm, my teeth ready for a filling and it seems the perfect time to write a good ol' blog post. Why the fuck not?

So, what the frig is it with having to 'sign in' with some sites to leave a friggin comment? Fuck that's annoying. Dude, I just wnat to add my two cents. Your not doing anyone any good. Just pushin' me away.

Did-ja' hear about that horse they had to put down right at the track? fuckin' tragic man. Horse racin' is for rich people. Should'nt/ Would'nt that moeny be better spent on...fuck, anything else. Liek food for humans. I heard that those thoroubread horses get like 125,000$ just to mate. EACH TIME! For a HORSE! WTF!

Obama kicked some HUGE ass today on Meet the Press today. Unfortunatley there are no clips avalialbe. yet.

I'm considering picking up a new piece of equipementt. Never know man.

Supprisinly, mini-golf has a professional assosication: here.

Why is it that I cant seem to find a decent PDA at Best Buy or Cricuut City or even Staples? You go to the web site and of course what you want is there. Go to the sotre and .... 'oop. sorry thise is all we have,'

FUCK YOU!

On Friday I got a new credit card statment. CC's all suck. Mine decided to bill me a 1.50 in finaince charges because i miised one payment or somthing. So I called to find out what the BFD was. After an extended period of waiting, totaly designed to make you hang up I finally talked to some CSR and I said, "yea i'd like to cancel my card because of this charge." Done. 1.50 gone and Im back on track with teh cock knockers.

Anyway, since I figure I only have your attention for 60 seconds and so that i dont get TLDR, Im out.

Peace friends. Come back agina.

Blog Genesis - My Daily Journal (1)

2008-05-03T10:15:00.004-04:00

I started this blog some time in 2004. The original idea of doing this came to me after my mom gave me a journal that my grandfather wrote in 1971. He wrote his as part of an assignment upon returning to school at age 40. It is the only real insight I have of him and is a good look into that time. With all that in mind back in 2004, I decided to make my own modern version.

Recently, I have been reading through it again, and it strikes me that his writings would make good posts.

Tuesday: September 14, 1971

Imagine after twenty-five years, to be back in school.

All those wasted years working as a common laborer. First, as a warehouse worker, then as a baker, and finaly as a clicker die worker. If it wasn't for the repeated operations, on my left elbow, I would still be there, in the world of drudgery, and what have I got to show for my toils? A limited vocabulary but with a mind that can be healed through hard work and study.

I am grateful to be able to have an oppourtunity for a new and exciting career. Optomistic but never pessimistic. As the saying goes, "The finer things in life are never easy to achieve".

Ridin' the MeMe Train

2008-04-29T20:36:00.006-04:00

Yeah, memes can be fun. I found this one a good exercise in thinking through some of my favorites. I was tagged by Parenthesis who writes Random Blurbings.

The list...name my Ultimate Five:

Book: Fahrenheit 451. Helped teach me to read, read, read and build a large book collection.

Painting: The Giant - N.C. Wyeth. I saw this at an Art Gallery...the size floored me.

Place: Italian Alps.

Relaxiation CD: I was going to say Highway to Hell from AC/DC but how relaxing could that really be? So, Ill go with Johannes Brahms.

Dinner Guests: Socrates. George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, Lance Armstrong, Homer.

So there you have it. The train has pulled into the station.

I am electing to not contiune the meme from here. But if a reader feels so compeled, Bring it!

Faith in Science

2008-04-29T09:38:00.004-04:00

All through the night and this morning...and even now as I write it has been raining pretty hard. Flood warnings are in effect...my little rain swale and road side ditch are flowing like mad and at about 6:30 am water starting dripping though the celling near the wood stove pipe.

"Oh Fuck!" Were the only two words I got out before I leaped into action. Knocking over chairs to get to the stove, grab a bucket and get it catching I realized that I would be spending some QT this morning with my attic.

I pull the car out of the garage, get the ladder out of the shed and get my self into the attic space to check out the situation. Unexpectedly, the rain was not coming from the stove pipe hole. I traced the water over to a roof truss. It was seeping in, probably through a nail hole or crack in the asphalt shingles. After moving the insulation I could see it was running down the truss onto and across the sheet rock celling to the stove pipe.

How the fuck am I going to stop this? Its not like an actual hole that could be plugged. Then in a BRILLIANT flash of ingenuity some help from physics, hydrology and an old episode of Mr. Wizards World I did this:

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Wet string is tied around the wood and runs down into a bucket. The surface water tension will now divert the water from the wood to the string and capture it in the bucket. I tied two for redundancy. I watched it for a little while and it seems to be working. It only needs to be temporary because the rain should be stopping later tonight. I can probably fix the shingles this weekend.

Faith in science comes in, in that I had to still get to work and leave the apparatus unattended. If the laws of physics don't change between now and 6pm I should be all set.

Isn't Science Great?

Sex Day

2008-04-26T20:02:00.004-04:00

Friday was sex day. No, not some day inventented on the internet where because some something like to save energey you should stay home and have sex in the dark or anything like that. Nope, it's the day of the sonagram that we could find out the sex of our baby.

I have been working like crazy to get an image from the DVD of the kid into blogger. I just cant see to get an image that will work. So, hopefully on Monday Ill get to scan the printed out copies and have that up.

But to let the cat out of the bag, we are having a BOY.

We are both very excited and were hoping it would go this way.

So in the side bar I have created a poll: Name my Baby. Please vote.

Thank you all.

***UPDATE***
I finally got the images scanned. Here is the money shot:

Earth Day

2008-04-23T08:25:00.004-04:00

Yesterday was earth day. I didn't have any post in mind so I didn't really do anything topical about it. Then I remembered that while attending art school SteveDean had done a drawing/ political cartoon for the school news paper for earth day. Here it is:

Sadly, the message is more true than ever.

Riding past Road Kill

2008-04-22T08:42:00.004-04:00

The weather is finally decent enough that a bike rides are more frequent and more enjoyable. Riding at 25 deg F can be adventurous but lets be real, at 65 deg F it's much better. This past Saturday I took out my recumbent for a little casual spin around the backroads.

One thing I have noticed recently is that in the early days of Spring riding I come across lots of animal carcasses. Critters that were road kill a month or two prior, were frozen into a snowback, but are only now visible, rotting and smelling 'oh so nice'.

Back to Saturday, about halfway through I rode past this fine looking critter. My best guess is that is/was a fox. The teeth were in surprisingly good condition. So, being an occasional mildly-twisted individual and recognizing a blog post when I see one...I snapped the pic. for the world to see.

I then sped home with excitement to get a better view of the image. Unfortunately, I dumped the 'bent as I turned into my gravel driveway too quickly. Oh well. Nothing broke, my scrapes will heal and the camera is unscathed.

Low-flow Sampling

2008-04-17T09:44:00.002-04:00

At work collecting groundwater samples

Drilling Day

2008-04-15T08:54:00.002-04:00

So today I posted this pic. from my job site. I was the geologist on site supervising the installation of replacement monitoring wells. Here is the field pic sent from my cell phone:

If you read this post before 18:30 EST then all you saw was the image. It's way to tough to add text. So here I am now in the comfort of my bedroom office typing away.

Back to the drilling. As far as drilling goes it does not get easier. The weather was bright sun 53 deg. F. 6 wells. No soil sampling. Drilling in sand. 30 feet deep. Done. The other big factor is that these two guys are the best and fastest drillers around. They start early, work through lunch and get the job done.

All I had to do today was ID the well location and check it with the construction manager with the utility plans and say "drill there, 30 feet, 15 feet of screen. flush road box".

It was a good day to be a geologist.

Meat run

2008-04-12T14:29:00.003-04:00

Our trip to The Little Alaska Farm.

So I just figured out that I can post a pic from my cell phone directly to my blog. Its actually very simple in blogger; just send the picture as an email to the addy in the preferences section. *Poof* post.

WooHoo Cool! The image above is from a trip Wife and I took over to Wales to get some meat. Not just any meat mind you, but grass fed, localy raised, and butchered. The LAF had everything we could ever possibly need in the meat department. It was a great experience...we now have a meat guy. We left with about $140 in stew beef, t-bones, tenderloin, chicken, sausage and others. As we were driving away wife and I say

"Fuck Hannafords with there steriod jacked up cows and chickens."

I definately suggest everyone switch, it's better for you health, better for the environment, the local econonomy, better for everything.

This was just a trial run for us. Once we get it all sorted out we'll be splitting a half-cow with our parents...all meat cut to order and packaged in vacuum sealed bags ready for the freezer. I can't wait.

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American Airlines Scam

2008-04-10T15:52:00.005-04:00

An anonymous caller working in the airline industry called into the Bubba the Love Sponge Show today at 3:45pm with some serious inside information about the American Airlines (AA) flight grounding cluster fuck. And while the source could easily be discounted...i listened to it..it could be very legit.

To summarize:

The caller has said that the fiasco with the electrical harnesses is a total rouse. and that the electrical harnesses are perfectly fine. The scheme is that since AA is grounding planes for 'safety violations' they will then need a government cash bailout in order to get everything back up and running to 100%.

So apparently the flight grounding is all a scam to get cash. From us the American tax payer.

Pay attention everyone. The next news story will be that American is applying for government bail out. If that happens I would demand a congressional investigation.

Here are some story links:

1, 2, 3,

Carbon Trapping

2008-04-09T09:08:00.006-04:00

Last week I attended a lecture on trapping CO2 emissions before it is expelled into the atmosphere. Called CARBON SEQUESTRATION, the idea is basically to include a processing facility on the tail pipe of coal fired power plants and pump the CO2 into deep geological formations. Deep like 8 kilometers.

The lecture was at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and titled: Geologic Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option. by Michael Celia

I tried to keep some notes: Currently CO2 in the atmosphere is about 385 parts per million (ppm) As measured by ice core data. That concentration is higher than any time in the past 500,000 years. CO2 is projected to double in 50 years. 50 years!

If CO2 were to level off today...in 2060 global temps are projected to rise by 3 deg. C. As reference, when we talk about the Greenland ice sheet melting only 1-2 deg. C is usually the number thrown around as sufficient; add in the projected increases and CO2 really takes control.

So the lecture was about how to 'trap' CO2 under ground. There are a few methods and places to put it: Old oil and gas reservoirs, coal beds and deep saline water formation. The DOE web site describes these.

Dr. Celia is a computer modeler and apparently a very good one. There are so many aspects to this issue I would get a honorary PhD if i blogged it all. But anyway it seems that Dr. Celia really has looked at all the issues in making this viable; from how the concrete will act in the deep wells to the number of wells making holes in the ground, leakage, storage volumes and everything else imaginable.

But without getting into the nasty and boring details I figure it is the thoughts I walked out of the lecture with that blog readers would really like to know. After all just Google 'carbon sequester' and you will be bombarded with information.

Carbon Capture and Storage SlingShot Thoughts:

We have to try. This echos' my thoughts on geoengineering in general (1,2,3,4).
We have less than 50 years to turn this Carbon ship around. More like 1 year.
It is VERY unlikely that the coal fired plants will be retrofitted with CS facilities within 50 years.
The human effect on the atmosphere in undeniable.
The Earth has great natural carbon sinks.
Humans are overwhelming the system.
Carbon sequestration can work but it is only a small part of the solution.
Humans suck and there is nothing you can do about it.

TreeHugger also wrote up a piece on this issue. Some points were ok, others not so good. They mostly pulled quotes from a book. and those quotes are contrary to Dr Celias' studies. It is another perspective and that is always good. Plus the image I used is from their article and I didn't want to steal it outright ;)

Art Monday - A Show

2008-04-07T08:27:00.005-04:00

Everybody loves Art Monday. This week it is even better because I can announce that at Conundrum Wine Bistro in Freeport, Maine has Steve Dean Art hanging and on sale.

If you know where the Big Fucking Indian is in Freeport, you know where Conumdrum is located.

Here is one example of a piece hanging:

2 Nose Man
Ink on paper.

Stop by today, buy something and support art. Or got to the web site and send Steve an email. He is also now doing people and pet portraits. Capture your memories with art today.

The Flying Scotsman -movie review

2008-03-31T20:10:00.007-04:00

On a whim and seeing a cool cycling themed cover picture I rented The Flying Scotsman.

It stars Jonny Lee Miller as Graeme Obree, and tells the story of Obree, his depression and quest to set the world 1-hour distance record. The plot written up at wikipedia is better than I could ever do. Read it here.

But to frame my basis and opinion for you; the other 'cycling' movies I have seen are:

If you are a cyclist/ bike rider you will definitely like this movie. If you are not the story and drama still makes for a solid flick.

RENT IT TODAY.

And while you are at it watch Breaking Away again... I love that movie.

of Podcasts

2008-03-27T14:25:00.003-04:00

Last summer while out cycling my wife found this mp3 player.
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It's an innovage with 256k memory. as far as mp3 players goes it is LOW end and the reviews for it are suck city. but free is free and the 60$ or so it cost didn't come out of my wallet so that's good. I do feel a little sorry for the parents of the kid who lost it. I'm sure they paid for it. Just not enough to hunt down an owner.

So for the past year I have been using it to listen mostly to my own music. Stuff i ripped from CDs. Yeah, i still buy cds.
But recently I have started to put podcasts on it. I have been using the Digital Podcast web site to find things that may interest and entertain me during my lunch time walks.
I gotta say. Podcasts are pretty cool. I can see how city people and sub-way riders really benefit the most of these things. I find my self lost in the both the music and show I listen to, Occasionally talking out loud to myself in response to the show.
I find it is also good at helping you ignore bums asking you for spare change. Just keep on walking.......
For the time being this is my newest electronic device. and like I said, it only has like 256k of memory but for now I find it covers the bases. Perhaps one day I will crank up my inner nerd and go for the actual iPod.
But at the rate I usually do things I'm more likely to find another one.

Free Tibet - Fuck China

2008-03-25T10:01:00.007-04:00

If you read watch or see the news the China crackdown in the leadup to the Olympics is quite a hot topic. And its starting to piss me off. A lot.

**warning I am about to start verbal bashing which definitely includes foul language and maybe racism**

The fuckin' china-bastard-commie-government is not only rounding up and euthanazing (sp?) stray cats and dogs, the are going through some serious effort to cover up all the bullshit that makes up that fucked up country. I wont even mention:

The straw that broke my back was this story I read today. HERE.

Paramilitary police opened fire on hundreds of monks, nuns and Tibetans who tried to march on a local government office in western China yesterday to demand the return of the Dalai Lama.

China says it has acted with restraint in response to the unrest.

Apparentlyin China, OPENING FIRE is showing RESTRAINT?!! What the fuck is wrong with these people?

Foreign journalists have been barred from approaching any Tibetan areas where unrest has been reported and the numbers are extremely difficult to verify.

For the recored the 'numbers' to verify are death toll numbers. The Chinese government is claiming 19. The Dali Lama is claiming 130.

I gotta believe the peaceful monk is more truthful. Don't you?

The official Olympic web site.
Sure. the United States has is problems but it's still better than fucking China.

U!S!A! U!S!A!

Art Monday

2008-03-24T10:57:00.005-04:00

Ahh, art days. the easiest blogs to post when you really don't have much to say. Todays art was spawned from too many years of telephone customer service.

How many CSRs can relate to this?

Please leave a comment if you are so inclined.

STEVE DEAN ART

GeoEngineering: Soultion or Risk? 4

2008-03-20T19:13:00.007-04:00

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GeoEngineering is without a doubt a very complex venture. I completely read each story, report or whathave you that I posted links to in the earlier posts. I have had time to think about them. In the end I think that it is like a game of billards. Imagine scientists represent the cue ball and geoengineering the 9 ball.

Here are some ideas and lines that stick in my head as I walk out of this cloud (pun intended) of a subject and on to a decision:

That, If we only combat global climate change by lowering atmospheric emissions we doomed to fail.

That, in 300-to 1000 years (+/- 300 years) Greenland will melt. Take a good look at that again...some time between NOW and .....whatever, the time scale dosen't matter after NOW.
The ocean level will rise between 35-45 feet. Think of how much real estate that is. Imagine NYC like Venice. And Venice it self will be gone.
New ecosystems will develop as water level rises.

That, scientists are claiming(my words) to have nearly 100% certainty of the result of each geoengineering method.
GeoEngineeing is really really cheap. For instance the Department of Defense budget for 2007 was $439.3 billion. Geo Engineering = between 0.30 -to- 1 billion. That is like less than 1/400th the cost.
Mt. Pinatubo eruption of sulfur dioxide gas gave us excellent data.
A tread lightly but continuously is the best method.
That there are a lot of balls on the table.
A Butterfly Effect is the biggest global risk.
The population in 2050 will be 9 Billion. It is about 6 billion now, another 33% to add.
People maybe getting ill from experimentation fallout. (lo street cred.)
Experiments will need to monitor and minimize human health exposures but that some exposure maybe inevitable in order to be effective at such a huge scale.
Ultimately, We are damned if we do
and damned if we don't.

Nature will take care of it self but that natural processes might not be best in consideration of the human factor. ...I feel like I have talked my self in a circle like a philosophical argument. Perhaps that is why they have PhDs....doctor of philosophy.

But I digress, as humans who want human life to continue on earth we have no choice...

WE MUST TRY.

GeoEngineering: Soultion or Risk? 3

2008-03-18T20:01:00.007-04:00

I really feel energized with this subject. I hope it's being read.

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In the Time Magazine cover article this week ("10 Ideas that are changing the world" -3-24-08) GeoEngineering was idea#6. In the hardcopy version they also present a time line:

1969 - Soviet Science. Russian Mikhail Budyko shows that the ice-albedo effect cools the earth.
1991- Natural Engineering. Mount Pinatubo erupts, releasing sulfur, which lowers world temps.
1997 Teller's Bombshell. Atomic scientist Edward Teller writes an editorial hyping geoengineering
2006- Nobel name-check. Paul Crutzen's paper pushes geoengineering into the mainstream.
2008- Funding the future. The geoengineering start-up Climos secures $3.5-million in initial funding.
2008- GeologyJoe is hired by the EPA to monitor the situation from his blog._O.K....so that one's a wish. I'm just seeing if you were paying attention.

In my previous post, I received a comment signed by David Schnare, PhD. So obviously I check him in Google...woah. Look here. I can't believe that I was able to catch his attention and elicit a comment. After further websearch I found a copy of his testimony on Climate Change that he gave to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and public works. I read the whole thing. Copy Here.
I next want to take a peak at RISK of geoengineeing projects. There seem to be quite a few but I will keep this discussion to the barium oxide (BaO) and aluminum mentioned in the videos posted earlier. They were mentioned as contaminants from suspected geoengineering experimentation. In a television news report they got a doctor to say the symptoms were: eye irritation, upper respiratory problems and nose bleeds.

What are the health effects of barium oxide exposure? (from a MSDS I found here.)

Inhalation:
Causes irritation to the respiratory tract. Symptoms may include coughing, shortness of breath. May be absorbed into the bloodstream with symptoms similar to ingestion.
Eye Contact:
Causes irritation, redness, pain, and burns.
Chronic Exposure:
Chronic exposure may cause respiratory system effects.

What are the health effects of aluminum? source.

- Damage to the central nervous system
- Dementia
- Loss of memory
- Listlessness
- Severe trembling

In my NIOSH pocket guide to chemical hazards aluminum exposure symptoms are eye irritation, skin and respiratory symptoms.

So by my count that a possible yes to barium oxide exposure and a possible YES to aluminum exposure. Though aluminum could take long term exposure before health effects show and the BaO could also be from severe allergies.
We also do not know the degree of barium oxide and aluminum concentrations addressed in the video. An important piece of information.

**divergence**I am reminded of a Star Trek quote; something about the good of a few versus the good of many.

I will post my conclusions of my open-blog-thought process on geoengineering next.

14 down-->~26 and life to go

2008-03-17T11:05:00.004-04:00

Here (s)he is making a debut to the world on this St. Patrick's Day:

What else could I possibly say?

**SlingShot Thought**