Solar Paint Update
It turns out I’m not the only one to think of solar paint. There’s actual a local startup trying to make cheap “printed” sheets of solar cells. Check out Nanosolar. Pretty cool stuff.
Archive of entries posted by Jeff Boulter
Information Anxiety in Maui
On my second day in Maui, I got a serious case of Information Anxiety. I wonder how much email I got? Is there anything important happening in the news? What’s YHOO at? Since we apparently have the only cable system on the planet that doesn’t have the weather channel, what’s the weather going to be …
GPS Drawing
Yet another way to waste time with GPS. Drive hundreds of miles just to create some really big line drawings using your track log. GPS Drawing Project
Don’t read this blog
As if blogging about blogging isn’t ridiculous enough, I’ve recently discovered something very distubing about the words I put here – people are reading them. It’s not just a few friends and family either. People at work read it. Some are people I don’t know. Others are people I know somewhat. More are people that …
27 more Yahoo! News RSS feeds
We made a bunch more RSS feeds available from Yahoo! News today. All the popular indexes by category are now out there. Check ’em out here: Most Emailed Most Viewed Highest Rated Enjoy.
Beef Bowl Lingo
The next time you find yourself in line at a Beef Bowl (aka Yoshinoya), please make sure you’ve read and understand this terminology first: Combo: A rice meal with shredded beef, chicken and vegetables Value Meal: Any number of options that include a main serving with a drink and side option (like strawberry shortcake or …
Raise your flags, gentlemen!
Yes, Reagan is dead. He’ll be that way for some time into the future. But it’s been a month now and it’s time to raise those flags all the way back up. Every time I drive by a flag at half mast, I freak out thinking someone died or some major tragedy I didn’t know …
Kitten Update
We’ve had the new cat for a month now and I thought I’d give an update. – We’ve settled on the name Signal. It just seemed like the cutest name. – He got pretty sick about a week after he came home. Apparently he caught a very common upper respitory infection at the shelter. He …
Santa Teresa County Park kicked my butt
With Anne out of town, I decided to get some Geocaching done. From Friday night to Sunday afternoon I did 50. I really need to get a life. I went down to clean out South San Jose on Sunday, an area that Anne has no interest in. She likes places with water and there’s no …
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Sounds that should never be played on the radio
1. Cars Honking 2. Sirens (Police, Fire, Ambulance) 3. Cars crashing I’m listening to NPR on the way to work and they’re doing this story on catching tropical fish. For some reason they’re playing background sounds of cars honking. I’m looking around trying to figure out who keeps honking at me. These sounds are often …
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