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 The Dead Sea Blogs (DSB) is one of my oldest projects for the domain here, thehomeland.org.  The Dead Sea Blogs (DSB) is one of my oldest projects for the domain here, thehomeland.org. 
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 I am considering the idea of making a separate Dead Sea Blogs wiki installation, just by itself, so that this wiki here is not quite as public-facing, but I will likely still reference this one on occasion. This will give me a chance to decorate or otherwise visually customize specifically the DSB section without forcing those UI/design changes on the rest of the wiki.  I am considering the idea of making a separate Dead Sea Blogs wiki installation, just by itself, so that this wiki here is not quite as public-facing, but I will likely still reference this one on occasion. This will give me a chance to decorate or otherwise visually customize specifically the DSB section without forcing those UI/design changes on the rest of the wiki. 
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 +==== Thursday, August 20, 2026 ====
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 +Had a lightning-bolt thought on the [[wordlegrids|Wordle Grids]] concept, now that I know how to do a carriage return within a table cell, so I experimented a bit a redesigned it. I was reluctant to just delete the entire grid system I had from the old way, so I preserved it on a new article [[wordlegridold|Wordle Grids of Old]] to be automatically shuffled into the won't-update category. I am slowly converting all of my old results and many more I have stowed.
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 +I still pay most of my bills by check and snail mail, and I often buy the little $1 sheet of stickers you might see on a retail sidecap somewhere, to add a pinch of flair to the return address portion of the envelope. I also ran out of the freebie address labels companies used to send to you for being a customer, so I've decided I would buy packs of tiny blank stickers (such as the colored dots used in garage sales) and hand-write my return addr including a [[https://what3words.com/clip.apples.leap|what3words]] phrase that is absolutely perfect for me and happens to land on my property, as an extra dose of silliness.  It's a bummer I can't share the phrase without doxing myself =)
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 +==== Sunday, August 16, 2026 ====
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 +I feel like I have added a few more wiki entries without mentioning them, but what I can remember is today, I updated the [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=gpt_converters_tools|GPT Coverters/Tools]] page with a highly obscure method of [[https://thehomeland.org/gentools/GPT-primes-5to3.htm|altering]] a cut-pasted list of prime numbers to a differently-sorted list, and a [[https://thehomeland.org/gentools/GPT-QABscrub.htm|way to scrub links]] of all characters inclusive-and-after the first question mark, to ensure associated ?ref= type info doesn't get included when sharing links to videos like tiktok or instagram. 
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 +According to my [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=mostrecent|Recent Entries]] list, I also made a page that helped me to [[https://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=membib|memorize]] the non-Catholic order of the 66 books of the judeochristian bible. I wanted to do so in order to join a certain church bragging-rights mini-"club" of being able to recite them. Using the listed mnemonics, I was indeed able to do so. 
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 +==== Wednesday, July 29, 2026 ====
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 +Made another wiki article, [[physmedsauce|Physical Media Sources]] about my books/dvd/vhs/etc titles, sources, and costs starting that day. I may have actually //completed// an article, and it is odd to say that it is complete: [[techdiffprizes|Technical Difficulties Prizes]] had naturally a finite number of episodes, and I got thru every one I could find, and documented the prizes thereof (does anyone ever use 'hereof' I wonder), and weirdly, ran out of things to update there unless they resume announcing additional silly prizes. 
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 +I'm thinking about starting either an IG or FB page, which updates when churches in my city change their outside lettering marquees with whatever it newly states each time. There are at least 2 in town that have typically-entertaining quips on them, periodically with some kind of pun line of a religious nature. I went thru today looking around google maps for churches and made a list, then dragged the little man icon to each one's roads to see if they even have such a marquee, and have a decent list. It would make for a fun drive around town to capture updated pics each weeked to find out if any have changed, as a neat low-stakes project to maintain.
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 +There's a neat [[https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1v9aoog/spanish_aerial_firefighters_from_the_43rd_air/|reddit video]] called "Spanish aerial firefighters from the 43rd Air Force Group resupply their Canadair with water in the Port of Malaga" that I hope isn't AI, because it sure is neat. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-415|This]] is what a Canadair looks like, which has water scoops, and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_M%C3%A1laga|this]] is the Port of Malaga wikipedia. 
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 +==== Tuesday, July 21, 2026 ====
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 +I made another wiki, to track the [[quarterstats|decades]] stats for each roll of "dingy" quarters I get from the bank; A year+ ago I began collecting the W-mint-mark quarters, but soon thereafter also began to collect quarters from the last 4 decades of the 1900s, and I find it interesting to note how many of each decade I get from each roll.  I try to ask for "dingy" rolls of quarters, as they tend to vary the most in 1900s potential, as rolls which have shiny quarters on the ends tend to be all the same year and therefore useless to my collection. I am known at my bank as the guy who asks for the "dingy" quarters if any are available, and sometimes the teller will try to hunt down others rather than the ones they've been allotted. 
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 +I am grappling with the possibility of having Celiac disease, and have tried my hand at making a gluten-free cookie, although so far it has been more like nugget than cookie. I have decided to call them Cocoato (portmanteau of coconut, oatmeal, and potato) because of the ingredients: coconut oil, potato starch, and oatmeal. 
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 +=== Cocoato Recipe ===
 +Ingredients:
 +  * 2 tbsp potato starch, w/ 4 tbsp water
 +  * 2 tbsp coconut oil (warmed only until clear)
 +  * 1 cup rolled oats
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 +1/ Mix potato starch and water and stir until milky-colored. Microwave 15s, remove from microwave and stir, then microwave 10s. Mix should now be a translucent gel-paste. Microwave times may vary. 
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 +2/ Put starch gel into mixing bowl, and spoon in the coconut oil atop, and mix lightly.
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 +3/ Dump rolled oats on top, and hand-knead together. Be careful, as the gel may be pretty warm, but will cool down slowly enough to handle when the oats mix in. Knead it like a snowball, then flatten it out into a bowl shape in the pit of one hand, and hand-scoop any oats left into the bowl into the bowl-shape, and close over and knead it into a snowball again.
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 +4/ Repeat the bowl-shape/ scoop/ dump, knead process again until as many oats are stuck inside the ball. 
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 +5/ On a cookie sheet with parchment paper, flatten ball like you might a pizza crust, and then cut with a butter knife into nugget sizes. 
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 +6/ Refrigerate 1hr. 
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 +This is my current recipe; I will update it and possibly make its own wiki later. 
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 ==== Tuesday, July 7, 2026 ==== ==== Tuesday, July 7, 2026 ====

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