Archive for the 'Environs' Category

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

Of the ‘Millennium Simulation’…

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

…i.e. “Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution”

Yeah, yeah, this is so “old slashdot”, but I recently re-viewed the videos on that site and am reminded at how it helps me visualize how small a piece of the universe our galaxy is, and how big and uniform said universe is. The […]

Get a cabin, then find site….

Thursday, August 25th, 2005

Various family friends have (or had) cabins sequestered out in various rural portions of the state. Has always seemed like a good idea to me. Maybe someday. Running across this company..

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company

..helps sustain this idea (for me) in that it helps enable an option of finding an empty site and relatively easily adding […]