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Reblogging from the point origin.

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The picture shows two glass recycle bins in Salt Lake City, Utah framed by Mt Olympus.

I decided to start publishing a photo a day on Blurt. Blurt is a platform built on an independent blockchain that rewards users with cryptocurrency. IT is a hardfork of the SteemIt platform.

I tried posting the images on SteemIt but never got any upvotes. To use Blurt one has to pay to drop a post. One then gets a reward for upvotes. It will be interesting to see if I can make more than the listing fees.

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This picture shows a sandbox in Davis Park on Foothill Drive in Salt LAke City.

I am using this picture in a discussion about stock photography.

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The UV-B rays from the sun turns 7-dehydrocholesterol in our skin into Vitamin D. Vitamin D regulates several vital functions including blood clotting, the absorbtion of calcium by our bones and our immune systems. There appears to be a direct relation between vitamin d levels and the severity of COVID19. This is not surprising as vitamin D appears to regulate the inflammation, cytokine storms and the production of antibodies. Vitamin D and Vitamin K play a role in regulating blood clots. There is probably a relation between low vitamin D and the people with COVID19 who have strokes. UV-B rays from the sun also cause skin cancer. So, you want to avoid long exposure to the sun. I think that the best way to get vitamin D is to expose as much skin to the noon sun as possible. So, I've been thinking about this problem. What is the maximum about of skin that a person could expose to the sun for a short period. I know what you are thinking ... but that is illegal. A person who does that could get arrested and have their name put in a registry that will destroy their careers. So, I decided to go outside with my feet exposed to the sun and took a picture of my poor stubby toes which are confined inside shoes all day long.

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SteemIt

For this past year I have been using SteemIt as my primary blogging platform. Here is the account on they busy platform.

I understand that many people on Tumblr are upset with Tumblr's purging and censoring NSFW accounts; So, I decided to write up an Into to SteemIt for Tumblrs on my personal home page. I am updating the article as I speak; so you might refresh the page when you reach the end to see new stuff.

SteemIt is a great place for learning about crypto-currency, although it suffers challenges of its own. It is not a good place for sharing photos; however,it is a good place to build traffic to a photo album.

Have a fun Christmas. I probably won't log into Tumblr again for a bit.

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The latest posts from yintercept. Follow me at @yintercept. I own a collection of community sites under the brand Community Color. I blog about classical liberal ideas on yintercept.com.

I decided to open a steemit account. I like that they are building a social media platform around a compensation model; However, many of the accounts I've examined seem spammy.

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About Me

I believe that every web site should have an about page. This is my attempt to create an about me page. This turned out to be a really hard episode to record because I don

My second podcast is the about me page. Living in Utah gets depression when one has an idea to express. People are not allowed to have ideas. Only the leaders of the state church are allowed to have ideas.

The next episodes will be interesting. I will explore the origins of conservatism and progressivism and show that the left/right split itself was created by the ruling elite to swamp the people in culture war while the leaders make off with the loot.

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I decided to use this picture for the cover art for my new podcast at yintercept.podbean.com. The podcast will be about classical liberal economics.

The first podcasts will be titled "The Two Sides of the Coin." The metaphor notes that the two sides of a coin are made of the same metal.

The left/right split was created as a mechanism to keep the keep the people divided while the ruling class makes off with the spoils.

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The y-intercept podcast

I decided to start a podcast. I will be using podbean.com. The URL for the podcast is yintercept.podbean.com. The first podcast is an equipment test. I would love to hear comments about the set up.

The first real posts will be about partisan history and how the party system divides and disenfranchises the people. It shows how the roots of both the conservative and progressive movements are corrupt. We should be really upset with both parties.

Here is the podbean widget. My first test video is the only thing up right now.:

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We caught this house mouse with a Havahart trap. That night a storm dropped 17 inches of snow and was freezing cold; so we kept it for a week before releasing it. I am giving the mouse one final pecan before leaving it at its new home at Pete's Rock on Mount Olympus.

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A crew is replacing corroded currogated pipes in Salt Lake County. Iron does not hold up well in places that de-ice with salt. I suspect that there are thousands of miles of such filed pipes in US communities.

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Achilles Culvert

The bottom of the 50 year-old culvert for Neff Creek under Achilles Drive in Salt Lake had eroded away. So, the county placed this new composite line in the tube. The liner should have less friction than the old corrugated steel and should have a higher through put.

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They are installing a huge artificial tree at the school. They even put a bright yellow christmas gift at its base.

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Construction in Sugar House

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Verizon Tower Base

Verizon is constructing a cellphone tower at the local junior high. This will be the base of the tower. Salt Lake's Mount Olympus is in the background. I understand that the tower will be camouflaged to look like a pine tree ... so expect a picture of a fake pine tree in the not too distant future.

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the solar eclipse was Rad

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Painted Candle

My parents received this candle on their 50th Wedding Anniversary. We decided to light it as a year memorial after my father's passing. Digital cameras do a great job picking up dim light I decided to try photographing the candle. It would be fun to make candles specifically for photographs.