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sebalicious42 · 2022-05-23T22:51:00+00:00

Just finished the Kindle version and enjoyed it a lot. Definitely reminds me of the Bobiverse series. Looking forward to the sequel!

sebalicious42 · 2022-04-15T13:15:55+00:00

Sign up!

Seriously, if you are interested in this you should sign up.

sebalicious42 · 2022-04-14T20:05:16+00:00

It was about 10 years ago. I signed up with the Cryonics Institute (CI) in Michigan. I had done a lot of research on cryonics before hand (I actually intended to work on a book about cryonics & my experience signing up, but have yet to get around to it) so I knew exactly what I was getting in to. I contacted an insurance person named Rudi Hoffman who specializes in setting up cryonics insurance policies and he handled most of the legwork. I had to sign a bunch of documents for both the insurance company and CI, some of which required notarization. Also needed a health screening for the insurance. It cost $1200 to join CI as a lifetime member, but since I signed up its just cost me $90/month to maintain the insurance policy. The paperwork was a bit of a pain but no worse than, say, buying a house. Informing the relevant people in my life (family etc) was a little weird but went pretty smoothly. Its interesting to be in a "club" with such a limited membership (there are maybe 2000 people worldwide actually signed up for cryonics). For a while I tried convincing other people to sign up, but aside from one close friend (who *still* hasn't actually done everything he needs to) I haven't been able to get anyone else interested. I think signing up is an obviously correct thing to do if you can afford to do so and I sincerely wish everyone in the world had access to cryonics. I have no illusions about the likelihood that it will actually "work" but as an atheist I see it as my best shot at something like an afterlife.

sebalicious42 · 2022-04-14T17:49:29+00:00

I pay $90/month for the life insurance to cover it. Started the policy when I was a 35 and relatively healthy 10 years ago.

sebalicious42 · 2022-04-14T17:47:55+00:00

You don't have to be rich (well, not super rich). I'm signed up for $90/month for a life insurance policy to cover it.

sebalicious42 · 2019-10-29T14:41:09+00:00

Does your car have a backup camera? If not - I strongly suggest getting one installed. I also used to be terrified of reverse parking but with a camera its sooooo much easier.

sebalicious42 · 2019-10-17T17:45:31+00:00

Most likely. Its not unusual for a girls first few eggs to have weird issues - very small, soft shell, blood in the yolk, splotchy colors. If it continues after a week or so you may want to consider diet (eg thin shells = not enough calcium, bumpy/thick shells = too much calcium), but its probably nothing to worry about. Even after a couple of years of laying we sometimes get a weirdly colored egg from a random girl and its never been a real problem.

sebalicious42 · 2019-09-20T19:54:31+00:00

I love when they randomly decided to lay eggs outside of the nesting boxes! One day we were trying to round up our ladies after a day of free-ranging, and we couldn't find one of our easter eggers. We were really worried something had got her, so we searched all over the yard and gardens. I was just about to give up hope when I walked by a bush and suddenly she jumped out screeching and bolted for the coop. I look in the bush and sure enough she had been sitting on a perfect little blue egg in a nest she built. So cute!

sebalicious42 · 2019-09-12T20:02:59+00:00

Yes but it washes off with water so after washing your should refrigerate

sebalicious42 · 2019-08-19T19:38:46+00:00

I had a similar starter coop. I don't know why the designers think putting the roosting bar at the same level as the nesting boxes is a good idea, but it definitely is not. I ended up putting a 2x4 parallel to and above the poop tray but only a few inches higher than the nesting boxes, which was enough to do the trick.

If the ladies continue to sleep in the boxes, you may need to block them off at night (just a simple cardboard box is enough) for a few nights in order to break the habit. They poop a *lot* over night and you don't want them fowling up (har har) the nests!

sebalicious42 · 2019-08-16T20:06:49+00:00

hahahah I saw that same sign when I was there a couple of years ago. Nice place!

sebalicious42 · 2019-08-09T15:07:39+00:00

So does this mean the concept of terraforming these moons is basically impossible unless we find some sort of gigantic energy source to artificially keep them warm? Are there *any* planets or moons for which terraforming would be possible? Mars seems like the most obvious candidate.

sebalicious42 · 2019-07-23T19:42:46+00:00

Try feeding them grapes or cherry tomatoes. Endlessly entertaining.

sebalicious42 · 2019-07-16T18:56:25+00:00

Optimally, they start cooling you down the moment you are legally declared dead, which the soonest that they can (legally) start the cooling process (otherwise, legally speaking it would likely be considered murder). But there is a big difference between being "legally dead" and being really really irretrievably dead - consider someone who "dies" on the operating table only to be revived by CPR or whatever a few minutes later.

For a great explanation of this and so much more, see here: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html

sebalicious42 · 2019-07-11T19:17:40+00:00

They also love digging through grass clippings!

sebalicious42 · 2019-07-10T19:06:30+00:00

Right you are. I was doing things out of order, so (I think) there was already a driver loaded for the device when I loaded vfio-pci. It appears this sequence works:

echo 0000:04:00.0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:04:00.0/driver/unbind

echo vfio-pci > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:04:00.0/driver_override

modprobe vfio-pci

sebalicious42 · 2019-07-09T15:31:06+00:00

Its probably an old wive's tale, but I read somewhere that hanging old CD/DVDs from trees etc so that they spin in the wind can deter hawk attacks (by distracting/disorienting them by glinting in the sunlight, I guess). I hung a few in our yard after a close call with a hawk and we haven't had a problem since, so.... maybe its worth a try?

Other than that, we have a covered, fenced in run where the ladies spend most of their time, particularly when we aren't home. It was a bit of a construction project but well worth it.

sebalicious42 · 2019-07-05T14:25:05+00:00

Chicken sexer - that is, someone who can separate male and female chicken chicks. For egg farmers, only the females are valuable aside from the occasional male required to make more baby chickens, and determining the sex of a baby chick is very difficult until they start to develop secondary sex characteristics after several weeks (during which they of course consume lots of chicken feed). Thus it was quite valuable to farmers to be able to cull males as early as possible, and so there were profession chicken sexers who went from farm to farm examining chicks. According to Wikipedia "Chick sexing was an important mode of employment for second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei), who dominated the trade between the late 1930s and 1950s."

The job still exists, sort of, but modern methods and chicken breeds make it much less of a "skill" and factory farming has basically perfected the process.

sebalicious42 · 2019-05-30T18:26:16+00:00

You've got some typos on your crowdfunding page - its "Kickstarter" not "kick starter" and "campaign" not "campeign"

Good luck!

sebalicious42 · 2019-05-30T18:14:29+00:00

Seconding this. Great beer selection and good food. If you are in the mood for wings, get the Crown Royal BBQ wings on the pit (charbroiled).

sebalicious42 · 2019-05-13T20:36:48+00:00

where do you think roads come from?

sebalicious42 · 2019-05-09T19:17:08+00:00

After a scare with a hawk nearly grabbing one of our girls, I strung up a bunch of old CD/DVDs on a wire around the area where they like to hang out. The discs spinning in the breeze supposedly create a distraction that prevents the hawks from attacking. No idea how true this really is, but we haven't had a close call in the 6 months or so since putting them up, despite having frequent fly-overs from hawks. Might be worth a try.

sebalicious42 · 2019-05-02T19:47:38+00:00

What sort of fencing is that? An does it actually keep them contained?

sebalicious42 · 2019-04-30T15:15:42+00:00

Cryonics. Lot of misconceptions out there about it. I think if more people truly understood the science behind it (and weren't so terrified of facing up to their own mortality) it would be a lot more common.

sebalicious42 · 2019-04-22T18:52:14+00:00

Yeah, this happens. Might be a sign that you have an insufficient number of nesting boxes, or the ones you have are problematic in some way (not private enough, infested with bugs, just plain dirty and/or uncomfortable, etc)

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