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8.6 Kilowatts, Baby!
We’ve gone solar. The system covers 100% of our usage on average year-round. We’re leasing it from Sunrun, which services 10 states. It was installed by REC Solar, whom I’d highly recommend. Excited to get off the coal train. Read more ⇢
In Climate -
Tweaking the UI
Who wrote this? … with enough money … I’ll tell you what I would do. In the first place, I would change the general appearance of the site and make seven wide columns where we now have nine narrow ones. Then I would have the font spaced more, and these two changes would give the… Read more ⇢
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Bring back the Muppet Show!
Watching The Muppets with my family last weekend made me nostalgic for that Saturday afternoon ritual from my childhood, dubbed in German of course. It’s still funny: Read more ⇢
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Got Telescope? Binoculars?
Last night I noticed some bright planet-like things in the western sky, so I dragged the old Dobsonian telescope out of the basement for the first time in years. The objects turned out to be Jupiter and Venus. I’m clueless at taking photos through my telescope, but I found some examples by the talented jpstanley to… Read more ⇢
In Outdoors -
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys (and their fabulous keepers — trust me, I know them, they’re amazing) prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,600 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about… Read more ⇢
