Our friend Amy, who’s the heart and soul of our Camp Fire chapter, solicited ideas for an Arbor Day project. Someone suggested building bat houses. After some investigation, this seemed relatively straightforward project for the kids to undertake. (I think this model was similar in scope.) Some materials were purchased. Meanwhile, she called the local […]
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During my brief “down time,” I attended to a pent up home improvement chore – cleaning the downstairs carpets. Ever since the kids became mobile, prolific artists, the carpets have been subjected to unspeakable abuse. Milk has been spilt, soil has been grounded in, and dry erase marker has embellished. I’m not a neat freak,
Hey cyclists, I would like to get some get some usability feedback on the event finder and its rating system. There’s no money involved, but it’s been rumored that the karma boost from helping will result in 20% fewer flats and better climbing in 2005. The event finder is here There are a lot of
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One of the smaller efforts of last year’s cleaning was to ditch my ten year stash of Consumer Reports’ magazines in favor of their online version. The logic: online = available from work + less space + more updates. While that’s largely true, one hyper annoyance has been the lack of updates for model numbers
I saw the buzz (and the ludicrous conspiracy theory) about Amazon’s investment into 43 Things. Amazon’s interest makes sense given many of the principals were previously involved with Amazon’s rocking p13n team. They make features like this that sucker you into spending more time and money on Amazon’s site and enjoying it. I don’t mean
Last December I was lamenting the industry analyst forecasts were all over the map. One particular analyst, Analyst Bravo, had unbelievabily optimistic numbers. Here’s a better chart depicting the market predictions of four analysts for hard-boiled eggs (HBE), soft-boiled eggs (SBE) and Jewel-encrusted eggs. Everyone acknowledges the hard- and soft-boiled eggs market is declining while
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Director Mitch had an interesting take on his personal consumption of technology. We have similar degrees and tenures in high tech and a similar adoption rate of technology. I’m usually in the Late Majority or Laggard cycle:
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I’m on a “non-fiction writer’s” list where the participants help each other critique WIPs and share experiences in the business. It’s a working list, and to stay on, one has to do a combination of five submissions and critiques a month. I’ve mostly been on the critiquing side because I’m not quite ready to start
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