Interesting things for interesting people
6 Jun 2026 3 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Have you noticed that insects are getting bigger? I have noticed this for over 30 years of observing them passively in Midwestern USA. Believe it or not, an ant queen can live for multiple decades, which means that there could be an ant somewhere tha...
24 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Designing a train is not actually that difficult... Says someone that doesn't ever design trains. Given the rate at which we can learn in these times, it seems like removing at least two of the vertices in the figure above should be common sense. Bu...
15 Dec 2025 2 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Slip-a-Swole is back in event mode and you know what that means... Or do you not? It means you can score lots of banano for playing an awesome browser game, that's what! The jungle may be blanketed in snow, but the cold can't stop these fiery Swole...
26 Jul 2025 4 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Seemed appropriate to start out with a song also entitled Toxicity...To be honest, though, I think System of a Down could have done the word "Toxicity" more justice. Seeds aren't that toxic, unless we're talking like a few hundred grams of raw apric...
2 May 2025 8 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Isoprene is by far the most abundant biological volatile organic compound (VOC) in the atmosphere; it accounts for about half of all biological VOCs and is heavily implicated in our understanding of atmospheric science.[i] This makes sens...
1 Mar 2025 3 minute read 1 comment cMasta
A long, long time ago – long before humans had supermarkets or pharmaceuticals – we lived on the Earth and it gave us everything we needed. Our houses were made of it, our clothes were made of it, we bathed in it, we consumed it for energ...
25 May 2024 11 minute read 0 comments cMasta
Either Ultra Instinct is actually better than Super Saiyan, or Toriyama-san ran out of colors for the next Super Saiyan's hair. Intro (there is decent crypto stuff here too) I haven't written a post in a while because I've only used cannabis alone o...
21 Mar 2024 1 minute read 0 comments cMasta
So I was thinking about buying some land for a house and, at the suggestion of my father (whom I was surprised opened up to this idea at all), I decided to look up the zoning laws in my jurisdiction. The zoning laws turn out to be very vague and extr...
16 Jun 2023 10 minute read 1 comment cMasta
Last Autumn, my wife was surprised when a grasshopper found its way into our apartment and jumped up onto her foot. I picked it up and, after orienting itself, it began to gnaw at my right hand. The insect could leap and glide, so I covered it with m...
9 Oct 2021 3 minute read 2 comments cMasta
At least a drug addict has a reason to ask you for some of your money; the drug addict needs their drugs to function normally. Something like 80% of senior citizens need their drugs to function normally, too. Don't quote me on that number; I'm living...
