Family-Friendly Old School Tech

| October 12, 2016
Pyrolyzer In Action

Pyrolyzer (Wood Gasifier) In Action

At the start of 2016, we launched a family-friendly blog, OldSchoolTech.info. Since then, we have been caught up with the local crime and corruption drama, so we haven’t put in much effort over there since then.

Old School Tech is a home for family-friendly guides about how to do and build interesting things. While Starving The Monkeys will always have a bit of an edge to it and tackle controversial topics from time to time (as in usually), Old School Tech is much more wholesome, like a 1950s science class film series. STM will link to OST, but not the other way around, keeping that site kid-friendly. We’ll also avoid using OST pingbacks to sites like STM, so if you find one we let through, let us know and we’ll drop it.

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Repost: Defamating the Government

| October 12, 2016

This was originally posted as a static page. Reposted into the blog format.

Barney steps on his fife.

Barney steps on his fife.

A couple of years ago, I moved into a little town called Manassas, Georgia. I initially thought it was Mayberry, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Much more on that later, including widespread burglaries, drug traffic, prison contraband smuggling, public corruption, false official statements, and one recent murder in a local nightclub. Essentially, many public officials in this area appear to routinely ignore state and federal law, and even the fundamental principles of civilization, at a genetic level.

Fast forward to January, 2016. Audrey had just gotten herself elected to the city council, and was sworn in on the 4th of that month. Within a hour, the newly-elected mayor (the previously long-serving city clerk) convened a clandestine meeting of the city council in her office. Although Georgia law mandates closed meetings (known as executive sessions) in specific circumstances, this session did not meet those criteria, nor was the session convened in accordance with those requirements. Further, Georgia law requires that votes be taken in public, even on issues conducted in executive session, and in this case, two specific votes were taken in the clandestine meeting.

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Welcome to Our New Starving the Monkeys Blog

| October 11, 2016

After years of coaxing by many friends, I have finally decided to blog for real. For a long time, I resisted blogging. Mainly, I thought it would take up too much of my time, especially when dealing with all the trolls that blogging inevitably attracts. The static page format worked great for me, and I’ll still use the static page format for some content where it makes sense.

But now, especially with some of the things that I have been involved with in the past couple of years, it makes more sense for me to start blogging. I have a lot of content bubbling around, and I need a better vehicle to post that information. I also need a way to post micro-content, where just a few paragraphs or a short video or two is all that is needed. I also want to leverage some of the social media and subscription services that come with blogging.
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