Archive for August, 2006

Biodiesel subculture sprouting…

Friday, August 25th, 2006

Sounds like a good thing to me. The story is humorous, interesting, and worth a listen…

NPR: Deep-Fried Fuel: A Biodiesel Kitchen Vision

I want a front porch

Monday, August 7th, 2006

We live in a residential “PUD” (”Planned Unit Development”) where the houses are, as I term them, “detached townhouses”, on relatively small lots. I.e. backyards are tiny. Since we have little traffic, kids go out and play in the front yards and the streets (think: basketball, kickball, bikes, etc). And thus we actually get to […]

Ever wondered about “hurricane hunter” flights?

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

If so, check out this recounting of a particularly nasty flight in 1989:

Hunting Hugo

Beat.net — Electronica to move you

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

Geoff Goodfellow (Geoff’s blog), an Internet pioneer, having returned from his Praha (Prague) sojourn a year or so ago, is now KZSU’s “rpm/electronica department director”, and produces his show in the guise of his beat.net persona. Check it out!

Where’d July go?!*@%!#

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

I was in RWC for only six nights out of 31 here in July. Lessee, beginning on 1-Jul — Duluth & Cook, Minnesota (visiting relatives & friends); Montreal, Quebec, Canada (IETF-66); Minneapolis, Minnesota (visiting friends); home for a night; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Liberty Alliance Sponsors’ meeting & Identity Open Space - Vancouver (IOSVan) […]