Category: Articles
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Un-Bowl Your Betta for Less than $60!
So maybe you got snookered by a Walmart employee. Or you saw a vase with a plant and a betta in it at the craft store and were thrilled that you could get a fish that only needed as much care as a plant. But that was then. Now, somebody took you aside and quietly…
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Basic Wavelength and Frequency in Ham Radio
I’ve recently started studying Ham Radio, and I found it hard to visualize wavelength. Since I had to puzzle out how to visualize wavelength, I thought I would post my own guide with pictures.
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Off the Wall Food Storage Rotation (For the Rest of Us)
I don’t know about you, but “eat what you store and store what you eat” sounds kind of… well, impractical. Here’s the problem: there are always thing I will prefer to eat fresh if I have the choice. Like milk, for instance. No way am I going to switch to dried milk in the interests…
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Drop Dead Easy Sight Reading (Especially for Piano)
I played piano for endless years as a child (or so it seemed). I actually got fairly decent: played some Beethoven, gave a few recitals — the usual. However, I had a secret flaw. An awful flaw, even a fatal flaw.
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Very Small Aquarium Challenges: Lighting and Plants
There are several considerations for lighting a 3-5 gallon aquarium. (If you don’t have live plants, though, you can ignore this section and do whatever you like.) I run my tank light plugged into a digital timer. For the sake of my plants, it’s on from 9 in the morning to 10 at night, since…
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