What Was I Thinking - Think Twice Who You Talk To

I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year and as is typical with the New Year, we seem to want to have some sort of resolution to go along with the beginning of a new part of our life. There is nothing wrong with wanting to do this, but there is often a lot of pressure we put on ourselves by doing this. Especially if we ultimately end up failing in it...

This year my New Year Resolution is not even health and fitness related for myself. To be honest I am happy with my overall health and fitness goals and how I achieve them year to year. My health and fitness at this point in time for me is kind of on auto pilot. Can I do better? Sure. The bigger question is do I need or want to do better in this area? I am good right now...

For me there are other non health and fitness goals I probably need to work on more, at least at this point in time and for me I have decided to look at how I spend my time and energy when having conversations with people. The reality when we talk with another person, is we are giving a piece of ourselves to them. We are offering information and experiences we have collected over our life time, usually freely and hopefully without strings, with perhaps the only expatiation to be heard and understood. Unfortunately I often find myself inverting my ideas and opinions with people that at the end of the day do not appreciate it or even want it.

My goal for this year is to really think about who I am going to invest my time and energy in when it comes to having conversations and sharing information and ideas. That is going to be a challenge for me as I can be a bit of an open book, so I need to keep my book closed more often and let people come to me if they want me to open it or not.

What Was I Thinking - Dangers of AI Not What You Think

If you are a Terminator fan, then you may believe that someday AI may overtake humanity, and we all may find ourselves in a post apocalyptic war with AI robots. That may happen one day, but I think the biggest problem with AI, at least right now is that we just don't know what is real anymore and I am not as concerned that we are being fooled into believing an AI created video, but rather that we now disbelieve the actual truth right before us. This is very dangerous as even with actual proof in the from of a video, a person can now say it is AI and not real. What do you think is the most dangerous part of AI?

SLY-08 Electric Mountainboard Major Upgrades

I made a quick video a bit ago about my SLY-08 Electric Mountainboard I bought used to add to my fleet of PEV (Personal Electric Vehicles). I have had Electric skateboards in the past and really enjoyed them but when I bought my EUC and OneWheel I felt like the eSkateboard was a bit redundant and so I sold it.

The I went for a vacation to Oceanside California and bought an eSkateboard to get around on and remembered how fun they where. So when I got back I headed over to Facebook Marketplace and found a god deal on an Electric Mountainboard which is basically an eSkateboard Longboard but with bigger tires and wider trucks to handle more road conditions.

As is usually the case, I was not 100% satisfied with the overall power and speed so I installed a higher power battery which kind of worked but the motor control unit (ESC) was not able to utilize all the power and so the battery would only work when partially charged. OK, so more upgrades where needed to get all the juice out of the new battery! That meant a new motor controller and remote which unfortunately my first unit I bought was defective, unit number two was not defective but as is often the case the firmware did not match my remote firmware so this has complicated things as the new firmware download for my new motor controller was not downloading. I am still waiting for this firmware download from the company but I have managed to get the board working for the most part using a computer to program the old firmware.

I also got new tires and grip tape for the board along with the addition of lighting all around. It is not 100% complete but I am getting pretty close now!

What Was I Thinking? Scientific Consensus

This is the beginning of a new Series of Videos I will be making, they will all end up in their own Playlist over on YouTube called "What Was I thinking?"

I am making this new video series as I feel there is a lot going on in this cranium of mine that I can not always share with the people around me, it can be a lot to take in at times and it can get a bit dark, even for me. Over the last couple of years life for me has changed, I have become more and more aware of what is really going on in this crazy world we live in. Life for most people is mostly one distraction after another, with the intention of keeping most people doing what it is we are supposed to be doing. For everyone this can be a bit different, but in general we eat, we sleep, we work, we have friends and family we socialize with, and we go through life just repeating this every day until we die.

We are not supposed to look into things too deeply, for if we do, we may realize thoughts and beliefs that do not go along with the path we are supposed to take in society.

In this video I share my thoughts about what I call "Scientific Consensus" or simply just "Consensus". "Scientific Consensus" is simply put another way of  saying "Truth you are supposed to believe". If you decide not to believe or buy into the "Scientific Consensus", then you may become a problem for the organizations that benefit from the Truth they want you to believe. And you are labeled a person that is disruptive to society and is promoting misinformation, a person that needs to be discredited or removed from any position of notoriety.

DJI NEO Flight Fort Langley December 1st 2024

I love bringing my little DJI Neo along with me when I am out and about going for a dog walk or some sort of other adventure. I can throw it along with my DJI Goggles and FPV RC Controller in a really small backpack and don't even notice it. I may or may not use it but I have the option to...

So today I took it for a quick flight during our Dog Walk as it was a really nice day and I had not flown in a bit. Fort Langley has it all, a beautiful river, mountain views and great walking trails! Enjoy the view from up above, it's even better :)