Parts Drive

In an effort to bootstrap the daylights out of my ideas, I'm asking my readers for a little help. Below is a list of things that I'd like you to look for. If you can help me, great! I appreciate it. If not, that's fine too. If you do help me look for things, and want to know where to send things, leave me a comment or write me at sab1842@gmail.com with the title of this post as the subject. Thanks!

Disposable flash cameras - Ask at your local Walgreens or drugstore that does photo developing what they do with the camera bodies after taking the film out. If they just toss them, ask if you can leave a box for them to put them in and tell them you'll come back for it after a number of days (a week is good).

Old VHS tapes - Full-length movies are better than short-length, but at this point I'll take just about anything. I'm not interested in the tape itself, so water-damaged cassettes or crappy titles are okay.

Old computer hard-disk drives - Dead, non-working, or no longer big enough to hold all your stuff drives are fine. The parts in these can go for three projects alone and probably more if I put my mind to it.

Empty candy tins - Altoids, York Chocolate-covered Peppermints, or Life*Savers Fruit Tarts tins.

As I think of other things, I'll add them in another post. Thanks for your help!

In the Dark

We participated in the Earth hour this evening, shutting off all the lights in the house for a little over 60 minutes. Ariana lit candles while TJ and I tried to make homemade glow stick-stuff from Mountain Dew, baking soda, and hydrogen peroxide. Our little experiment didn't work, even though I watched the YouTube video again just before shutting off my computer. Ariana, being her usual helpful self, offered suggestions and even tried to make some in a cup. Nothing we tried worked. So, I'm going to look up some other ideas on how to make luminescence and we'll try those. TJ was a great sport about the whole thing and worried that I might be feeling bad because it hadn't worked.
After a bit of family chatting and very bad jokes, I decided to try a little isometric-like wrestling with him. Both Ariana and I gave him pointers on how to stand and brace against me, then we shoved at each other. For a pre-teen, the kid is strong! After he about strained my upper arm, I showed him how to do hand pushes, which is an isometric exercise. All three of us did some until TJ complained that his arms hurt. I told him we'll do more each day, which will be good for all of us. I want to build my arms and hands back up so I can give Ariana more and better massages. It's part of my over-all improvement program.

HealthTech

I've been thinking about ways to try to fund my research and development of the magnet and energy device I've come up with, as well as the improved pulse magnet designs, and a new idea for a vibration/frequency generator that can be used a number of ways to help people feel better.
One of the ways I've thought of was to put this whole thing up on IdeaBlob, which is a site of a monthly contest where readers of the site choose the best idea by voting for it. The winner of the contest gets $10,000 to put towards their idea. However, after checking the site to make the link for this post, I find that the "contest" end at the end of this month. Nuts.
Well, the other way I thought of was to enter this collection of ideas into a local funding "enterprise" called the Civic Innovation Lab. This is part of what they say in their About Us - "The Civic Innovation Lab fuels innovation by providing mentoring and funding of up to $30,000 for ideas that can improve the Greater Cleveland economy."
While the devices themselves are excellent ideas, I need to figure out how to "package" the whole thing so that it would become attractive to those who decide what would benefit Cleveland's economy.
Any thoughts from my readers would be welcome. You can leave a comment below, or contact me via the Email link in my blog profile.

Rife Link

This is, so far, the best place to learn more about Rife technology. Pay particular attention to the FDA papers at the bottom of the page.

I'll upload other articles I've found to the folder on MediaFire in the coming days, in case others wish to wander through the information that is currently driving me.

Dictionary of a twisted mind 2

cirquefiable: Nuts about CIRQUE DU SOLEIL.

Pinta: 'Cause Columbus couldn't find a Quarta.

Dictionary of a twisted mind

furple: What you call a grape Tootsie pop after the dog gets a hold of it.

gahk!: While to Klingons this is a wonderful dish served at a meal, to humans it's the noise one makes the first time their grandbaby spits up on them.

fadelist: Someone who uses too much bleach in the laundry.

Mesopotamia: What they called it because they didn't have sanitation services.

denounce: How Jimmy measures sausage.

Oh the many thinks I think!

Almost daily, my wife asks me "What are you thinking about?" It's like she likes torturing herself, because some of the time, I start talking about what is on my mind, her eyes start to glaze over with a haze of incomprehension.
Recently, I decided to focus my creative and mental capacities upon one problem - the design and building of a device to combine pulsed magnetic and Rife technologies. I've got part of it figured out and am working on acquiring a basic knowledge of the skills needed to do it myself.
While pondering this device, my mind has wondered off to create other things while I'm not looking. For instance, Saturday, on the ride down to Dover, Ohio, I came up with a robotic wire laying device to be used to lay guide and power wires for future forms of transportation, without the need to rip up whole highways and re-lay them.
Today, after reading the barest minimum of an Instructable, my mind started working on a process to recycle plastic grocery bags, pop bottles, milk jugs, and laundry detergent bottles into usable plastic for many needs. For this process, I've already come up with a couple machines that can be built by the DIYer to facilitate the process. I'm sure I'll have the whole thing thought out in a couple days. The process reminds me of the early days of bio-diesel, when people were encouraged to re-create that process in their homes. I'll be using it to make the parts I cannot find elsewhere for my devices and ideas.
Along with these weightier thoughts, I'm also trying to figure out ways to fund my research; plan the days ahead in preparation for our move (we want to be out of here by the end of March); find the time to continue my meditations with BrainAmp and the Solfeggio videos; turn the Solfeggio videos into MP3s; try not to worry about my mother's health...you get the idea.

BrainAmp

BrainAmp is "mental muscle training music". I don't remember how I found this, but I first downloaded a 30-minute sample (around the end of February) which greatly helped improve my mood at the time while listening. After signing up for the trial membership, I got the 45-minute CD in about a week. I've been listening to it regularly (generally an hour or so a night). I've noticed an increase and improvement in memory function as well as increased thought processes. This is coming in very handy as I focus my brain power on creating an energy device to help my family and friends with the various ailments from which they suffer.
If you are interested in learning more about BrainAmp and it's abilities, go here. Scroll down to near the bottom of the page and read through the "Features".
After you've read the Features of BrainAmp, if you'd like to experience it for yourself, you can go here and download the same file I listen to each night. Please contact me if you do download this, as I'd like to know how much you enjoy the file and your experiences with it.

Five Hours

You know those five-hour energy shots? They really do work. I used to drink Monster energy drinks, which are mostly hopped-up Mountain Dew and the like. Now, I drag through the day until about noon or so, then open up one of these little beauties and feel much better for the rest of the day. Even after the five hours is past, I'm still doing pretty good. It's great for keeping back the depressive swings.
I've tried the six-hour extreme shots too. I don't care for those. They don't work half as well. The first one lasted about three hours, then dropped me much more quickly than the five-hour shots do. Since I'd gotten two two-packs for $5 at Walgreens, I couldn't see wasting them, so did one each the next three days just to see if the first one was a fluke. It wasn't. Turns out the other three days lasted shorter and shorter, until the last bottle did almost nothing for me. So, I'm back to my five-hour bottles, and my BrainAmp music, and my Solfeggio tones. All in all, I'm feeling great.

Complimentary Therapies

One thing I feel I need to stress is that any therapies I may espouse are complimentary to anything a medical doctor may prescribe. I got a lesson in that just before Valentine's Day this year.

I was using my emergency inhaler (Primatine mist) way too often, even to my mind (4 to 5 times a day) for about a week before February 10th. TJ had to go to the hospital for a problem with his ear that day, and Ariana thought I should go and see if there was a problem with me, too, because of the inhaler. Well, I got yelled at by the ER intake nurses for two reasons. First, because I didn't have a primary care physician at the time, and second, because Primatine is almost pure adrenaline. Heck, I'd been using the stuff all my life for my asthma.
Anyway, I told them about tightness in my chest, and the overuse, and the doctors immediately thought "heart" when I knew damn well it was my lungs. But, who am I to argue with doctors. So, TJ gets checked out and done in an hour, and Dad (me) is lying on a gurney getting blood drawn, and x-rays taken, and Albuteral treatments and eventually told that he's going to be staying awhile.
Three IVs, two days, and a blown vein later I find out it's a lung infection. A Z-pack and Prednizone cleared it right up.

So, yes, the magnet helped, but I should have gone to a doctor too.

New Practices

Since about the first of February, I've been working to improve my health, both physical and mental. I used a pulsed magnet (Theramagnetic Pulser - scroll down the page 'til you find it) to get rid of a cold in four days, and have used it on myself and my family in other ways for various ills and aches. A good book to start with for those wishing to explore this therapy is Magnetic Healing (see link below) by Buryl Payne.

In addition to pulsed magnetics, I'm exploring the works of Royal R. Rife, Solfeggio tones, activating DNA, BrainAmp, and various other things that I'll post about in the days to come. I'm willing to share the various files and MP3s that I find and use, as well as reviews of products that I try in the progress of this growing and improvement.
For instance, since the beginning of February, I've been taking Omega-3 chews from GNC. These are supposed to "Supply DHA which is required for optimal eye and brain function". Indeed it does! These chews, in conjunction with other things I'm doing, are all working together to improve my brain/mind and mood. My memory is improving to the point where names and other data comes much easier than it used to.

So, you can look forward to more posts here in the future as I tell you what I'm doing and how well (or not) it's working.