I’ve never seen a rattlesnake in the wild, but living in California it’s probably inevitable that I will someday. Here’s some good information on rattlesnakes and what to do if you get bit. http://www.calpoison.org/public/rattler.html My favorite advice: Don’t keep rattlesnakes as pets. Many bites occur when people, usually intoxicated males in your 20’s, tease their …
Got a bunch of old computers lying around the house? I sure do. My closet looks like a frickin’ vintage Mac museum. I always think that I’ll find some use for them someday, but I never do. The problem is that it’s illegal to just throw them away in the regular trash (all that mercury …
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.
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 …
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
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …