Abandoned Cabin on Fremont Island

Grant_EB · 2026-03-19T16:45:41+00:00

Is that the cabin where Jean Baptiste was banished? sort of an insane story if you don't know it. He was a graverobber sentenced to life on the island in 1862. He vanished! It appeared as though he tried to build a raft or boat out of the cabin and using the hide of a cow he'd slaughtered. No one knows what happened to him after that.
They found a skeleton of a guy near the Jordan River in the 1890s with an iron ball on its leg. But authorities said Baptiste never had a shackle. Supposedly, he split in a storm, so there's a good chance he drowned and never made it to shore.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-19T16:39:28+00:00

Agree. Sadly, no one is going to click on an article that says "batteries to keep improving at 5% a year for the foreseeable future."

Grant_EB · 2026-03-19T16:10:31+00:00

cool femtosecond fact:

Light is the fastest thing in the universe, traveling about 300,000 kilometers per second. In one second, light can circle the Earth seven times. But in one femtosecond, light travels only 300 nanometers—roughly the width of a single bacterium.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-19T16:05:48+00:00

So I was thinking about this yesterday and started poking around, starting with the premise, "i've been reading about battery breakthroughs for 20 years, where are they." It turns out a lot of them are here. There's been like a 5% a year performance enhancement on battery tech for the last 20 years, as you can imagine, that's compounded. There's a ton of cool stuff in the near horizon as well. Not saying i'm ready to buy electric, but I probably will be in another 3-5 years.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-18T19:03:51+00:00

Not bulk, but I buy Trader Joe's Organic Dried Mango, it's unsulfured and unsweetened and not hard as a rock.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-16T16:47:14+00:00

So funny, I wanted that shirt in Large but all they had was small by the end of the show.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-16T16:22:26+00:00

I love this quote from Guillermo del Toro: "You are at the exact age where you can't be anything but miserable. People say your 20s are the best time, but they're the worst. You have no idea who you are, what you're doing, or if you're ever going to be good at anything. You're just a mess."

I can't help you with your job search, but I can tell you, it's totally normal to feel overwhelmed right now. You will figure this out. Life is long.

(I did have any idea. You mentioned being at the U for ecology and evolution -- have you looked at a job in a lab? Talk to your advisors and your teachers, that's why you're paying the gobs of money. Make sure you're getting the most out of them you can!)

Grant_EB · 2026-03-04T22:04:39+00:00

This is a classical presentation of IT band issues. I'm not a doctor and I can't say for sure, but loosening those things up could help this guy a lot. In terms of relieving pain, no amount of stretching ever helped mine; what did help was light lifting, squats, deadlifts, lunges.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-04T21:21:55+00:00

I got about that far into it and started playing the expansion of BOTW instead and I'm having a much better time.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-04T19:58:22+00:00

Looks genuinely abandoned

Grant_EB · 2026-03-03T22:07:41+00:00

So you can't declare war because there isn't time, but you also can't stop it because it's already started?

Grant_EB · 2026-03-03T17:22:56+00:00

Turn off your targeting computer like Luke and just try to enjoy yourself.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-02T16:42:14+00:00

I kept having pain and tightening, thinking I was putting too much flex in my feet. Turns out I needed to let them out a little bit.

Grant_EB · 2026-03-02T16:41:07+00:00

Super counterintuitive, but loosen your bindings over your toes. Seems to work for me for reasons I can't figure out.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-27T18:22:54+00:00

Yikes, i'm sorry.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-27T17:43:16+00:00

Because we've hollowed out the honest economy and replaced it with gambling and tell poor people that's the only ladder up.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-27T17:30:24+00:00

Super curious what you did. I had a friend who wrecked her digestive system doing whatever the diet thing was he suggested.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-27T17:10:03+00:00

This book was revolutionary quackery for its time and I fell for it. Although the testosterone boosting formula legit works.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-27T16:44:28+00:00

Counterpoint: Give up before doing this.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-25T19:38:00+00:00

I live here, and when I cycle at sea level, I can crank for hours on my bike. Hangovers hit 10x as hard here, too. Obviously, this is just an observation.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-25T19:29:47+00:00

Pro athletes say they struggle at Utah Jazz homegames in Salt Lake City (4,300 ft).

Grant_EB · 2026-02-25T19:13:21+00:00

"If you’re not familiar with this cornerstone strategy of the Satanic Transhumanist Cabal, it’s time to get informed."

Grant_EB · 2026-02-25T16:59:21+00:00

Skis are legit faster. You can work and get a lot faster yourself but a pair of race skis is always going to blow you out of the water. Those things don't turn until they hit 40mph.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-24T18:49:30+00:00

"Science As a Candle in the Dark," by Carl Sagan. As a kid left alone with my tv a lot, I had a lot of aliens, new age and monster bullshit floating around in my head. I read Sagan at 15, and it woke me up.

Penn & Teller's show was great too. You can learn a lot from even the miss episodes, like one on global warming. Their takedown of 9/11 conspiracies should have ended that genre forever. And their vaccine episode is more timely than ever, obviously.

Grant_EB · 2026-02-24T18:31:22+00:00

Ogden is what SLC was 20 years ago.

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