Author: Thomas

  • My E-Waste Adventure in Being Defrauded

    This post is for those wanting to know how I ended up being defrauded of $300 in electronic scrap circuit boards. I met Michael McLean of St Catherines, Ontario on Facebook. He claimed to be a buyer of E-waste. I started messaging him about making a delivery of e-waste on my next trip to Ontario.…

  • Biographical Works I am reading

    One of the best biographies I’ve read.  Extremely entertaining. Here is the link to open library https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15179984W/I_Am_Ozzy?edition=key%3A/books/OL24311856M

  • I Read My Christmas Gift

    I got a book from my daughter and dove into it in January.   I liked it.  I recommend it.  https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20055689W/The_stranger_in_the_woods?edition=key%3A/books/OL27352507M

  • Reading Stuff Written 100 Years Ago

    The First World War. A little book, first published in 1924, about a farm in France during the Trench warfare of WW 1. The story follows the farmer’s daughter, her life and struggle for 4 years with the story ending in 1918. The author made another 2 instalment in the story forming it into a…

  • Happy Halloween 2024

    Happy Halloween 2024

    Last year I posted about how I tried out the visual AI to make something scary and it was a big fail here: https://www.thomashepburn.ca/2023/10/halloween-2023/ This year I’m going to give you my best pick for AI in both music and images/video. Keep in mind that these videos and music take a lot of guidance from…

  • Solar Power Growth

    This little chart I stole from a recent edition of “The Economist”   I’ll paste the article  below Or listen here:  https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/economist-podcasts/4046013 via @PodcastAddict THE SUN MACHINES NAIVE EXTRAPOLATION HAS TROUNCED SOBER FORECASTING AGAIN AND AGAIN The Economist (North America) APHOTOVOLTAIC CELL is a very simple thing: a square piece of silicon typically 182 millimetres on…