Category Archives: How we live

🧰 Top Free Disk Management & Cleanup Tools

Posted on 2025 October 25 by Danny Choriki

Here’s a breakdown of the best free tools for managing disk drives and cleaning up storage on Windows 11.
Spoiler Alert. Its in the OS. Continue reading →

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How to Save Tomato Seeds

Posted on 2025 October 25 by Danny Choriki

 How to Save Tomato Seeds 1. Choose the Right Tomatoes • Select fully ripe, healthy fruits from open-pollinated or heirloom varieties (not hybrids). • Avoid diseased or damaged tomatoes. 2. Scoop and Ferment • Cut the tomato and scoop … Continue reading →

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Electronic Vehicle Battery as Home/Grid Power Backup

Posted on 2023 February 7 by Danny Choriki

Washington Post Climate Advice Columnist, Michael J. Coren, talks about how the battery in your car can become a part of the larger power grid solving short term and medium time frame problems. Technology already exists to connect your car … Continue reading →

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Anomie and the threat to American Democracy

Posted on 2022 December 27 by Danny Choriki

Anomie is the breakdown of social norms resulting in an increase in “deviant” behavior. As the concept has evolved over time, the role of economic immobility has become a key area of research interest as a primary driver of abnormal social behavior. Continue reading →

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Living is exhausting

Posted on 2015 March 5 by Danny Choriki

MSU Billings students doing a self created and produced skit called Under the Blankets. Its about teen suicide. Part of a larger project started in Miles City where students use the dramatic arts to talk about the social and personal … Continue reading →

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Whom do humanists thank on Thanksgiving?

Posted on 2013 November 21 by Danny Choriki

Whom do humanists thank on Thanksgiving? Humans of course! I always thank those who made the feast possible. Article written for Billings Humanists at http://ow.ly/r3wKr.  There are two related questions over on Quora on this topic, the one is more about … Continue reading →

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Why isn’t gambling considered capital gains? Deconstructing the conversation about capital formation and taxation

Posted on 2012 February 28 by Danny Choriki

The conversation about capital gains taxes, a higher income tax for higher incomes and capital formation needs to be broken down. First, not all forms of investment are equal. Some are about growing the economy by growing a business and … Continue reading →

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Music and the net: an unfulfilled promise

Posted on 2011 April 29 by Danny Choriki

The early proponents of the net promised many things. One of them was that talent would find audience without the “middleman”. It was the to be the end of the recording industry. Power to the recording artist. Record executives, up … Continue reading →

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The City Care Forgot – Spring 2011

Posted on 2011 April 27 by Danny Choriki

This is our sixth Jazz Fest since that the confluence of human and natural events we now call Katrina. I recall the first year we were here and the relief that so much of what made New Orleans special was … Continue reading →

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Recommendation for “Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action” by Simon Sinek

Posted on 2010 April 13 by Danny Choriki

Just spent an interesting hour listening to Simon Sinek about “why” matters. (He blogs at http://www.startwithwhy.com/.) It was a combination of existentialism and self-actualization. The basic concept is that most of us operate in the world of “what” or “how”, … Continue reading →

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