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About James Arendt
I was raised in the Hegewisch neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, served in the USAF from 1970 to 1974, honorably discharged and became a full-time evangelist for Christ living 40 years in Japan, 3.5 years in Russia, and a few months in other countries such as Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, South Korea, Taiwan and mainland China where I also served the King of Kings, Jesus, as an Ambassador for His Kingdom. My full bio.
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Price of gold from 1900 to 2012 with gold’s purchasing power of bread comparison
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Gold is a good investment against inflation. One ounce of gold can buy the same amount of food today as it did a thousand years ago. Think about that.
Continue reading →BTRFS Blues and Backup Basics
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Reading Time: 2 minutes This post is aimed at Linux users, and especially at techies. When Fedora 16 went gold on Nov. 8, 2011, I immediately installed it and used the new BTRFS for my /home partition. I read that BTRFS may become the default file system in Fedora and was under the assumption that BTRFS now had a good file system tool to fix errors. It turned out that I created an accident … Continue reading →
Technology Used to Deceive the World: Project Blue Beam
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Watch even half of this 10 minute clip and you may avoid being deceived by the fantastic light show soon to appear in the sky over YOU!
Continue reading →First hitchhike adventure of 2012 – Kobe and back via Tokyo
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Reading Time: < 1 minute From January 4 to January 8, I traveled to Osaka, Kobe, Hamamatsu (Shizuoka Prefecture), Tokyo, and back home to Niigata in 10 cars. The actual distance hitchhiked was 1386 kilometers. It was a snowy day when I began my journey at 8AM. My destination was Osaka, some 580 kilometers from my home in Niigata city. I had some serious doubts I would make it. Over half of my route would … Continue reading →
How to secure Grub 2 in Fedora Linux
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Reading Time: 2 minutes This is an technical article that only Linux users would understand and appreciate. I like to secure the Grub boot loader to make it harder for anybody but me to get root access to my PC by either a cold startup, or rebooting the system. Grub version 1 had a password option. It was easily implemented by editing the grub.conf configuration file and adding the password option data. But in … Continue reading →
Continents of the world form the islands of Japan
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Just take a very close look at the figure and describe what you see! Click it to see an enlargement. Clicking the enlargement will make it yet larger to see more detail. The figure is courtesy of Dr. Nakasato from Nagoya. I was introduced to him through my friend, Yoko Ishikawa of Tokyo. As you can see, major features of Japan are relatively close in position to those features of … Continue reading →
End of year 2011 hitchhike analysis
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The graph shows the distances I traveled over the past 7 years in Japan by hitchhiking. Since I’ve been keeping records from August 2003, the grand total of distance traveled is 124,321 kilometers in 2338 vehicles. As you can see, I traveled a bit further this year than last. But the prognosis for 2012 will probably be less traveling. I have more work locally.
Continue reading →Final hitchhike adventure of 2011
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Reading Time: 2 minutes December 22, 2011: I was invited to attend a meeting in Tokyo of the NPO Leap High, 300 kilometes from home. It had been raining all day yesterday and today the weather forcast predicted the same, but by 10AM it stopped raining to the point I ventured outside and walked to the highway. Within 10 minutes I caught a ride from a man going all the way to Nagaoka city! … Continue reading →
Nietzsche’s views on Darwinism
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Reading Time: < 1 minute To all my friends who hold both humanism and evolution as truth: Check out what one of your mentors has to say! “What surprises me most when I survey the broad destinies of man is that I always see before me the opposite of that which Darwin and his school see or want to see today: selection in favor of the stronger, better-constituted, and the progress of the species. Precisely … Continue reading →
Mass Media Mind Manipulation
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I found some great quotes exposing how the media is covertly molding the opinions of those who have not yet been enlightened to the tactics of the ruling Elite of this world. This is taken from an article by Randy Lavello, June 2, 2003, called “Mass Media Mind Manipulation and the World of Illusion.” Unfortunately, the website has gone offline. The main concept of mind control, in the book Nineteen … Continue reading →
Fun translating text from Japanese to English
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Reading Time: 3 minutes One of my jobs is doing text translations on PC from Japanese to English. I use Google translate in the process, but only as a double check to make sure I didn’t miss any phrases or words. I found Google does a fairly decent job translating Indo-European languages. I studied Russian and discovered that Google is OK to translate texts such as emails in Russian. An example from Bible text … Continue reading →
New law passed by U.S. Senate: The military to detain anti-government protesters in American cities
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Young people demonstrating against Wall Street On December 4, 2011, a friend sent me a shocking article: http://www.naturalnews.com/034291_SB_1867_war_on_terror.html “That U.S. Senators would knowingly and willfully attempt to pass a bill that legalizes the indefinite detainment, torture and killing of American citizens with no due process whatsoever — and on American soil! — is nothing less than a traitorous betrayal of the once-free American people. These are, our founding fathers would … Continue reading →
The real reason for the Japanese seclusion policy: Fear of colonization by Rome
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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Japanese government was afraid of the Jesuits and the foreign overthrow of Japan which is why they didn’t allow any visitors to their country for 200 yearss.
Continue reading →Using mencoder to convert a .VOB file to a .flv file
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Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve been working for a Japanese NPO, Leap High 28. Today I was asked by the NPO Chairperson, Yoko Ishikawa to upload a DVD file to Help Japan 2011, a website we made together to raise support for the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsumami victims. This is the code I used to convert the file to .flv on a laptop with the Ubuntu 11.10 Linux. Note the you need … Continue reading →
Fedora 16 review
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Reading Time: 2 minutes November 9: After getting sick of Gnome 3 on Fedora 15, I tried Linux Mint Debian for a while because it has the Gnome 2 desktop environment, my favourite to date. Linux Mint Debian ran very well but because there were certain tweaks to the system I wanted to implement but could not (but can in Fedora), I decided to go back to Fedora 14, the last Fedora with Gnome … Continue reading →