Paul Hansel

Category: impulse

  • Four positives of California

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    If the images don’t display properly, try turning up your screen brightness.

  • Beating the heat with an electric heart

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    Back in the days before computerization, cars used to use thermal oscillators to make their lights flash. This Ideal Heavy Duty Flasher 537 (12V) is one such oscillator. Although it might be called a flasher relay, it differs from its cousin, the electromagnetic relay. They come in a metal can and hardly weigh anything –…

  • You need to be albedomaxxing.

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    You need to be spending all your time blotting out the sun for the greater good. You need to be casting the largest possible shadow. You need to reflect so much light back into space that a new Ice Age begins. You need to shine so brightly you slice holes in clouds. You need to…

  • Why create a blog?

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    Internet Protocol space is a curious place. There are millions of websites hosted on the internet. Perplexingly, only a vanishingly small percentage of the cumulative time that humans spend on their electronic devices is spent on the open web (off-platform). Why? Individual, independent content has lost its shine. If you can’t serve your content to…