Joke of the day…

A cop pulls a car over, and after looking at the driver’s license says “I noticed you were driving erratically. Do you mind if I search your car?” The driver gives him permission. After searching, he comes back to the driver’s window. “Dr. Schrodinger, are you aware that there’s a dead cat in your [...]

‘Jack’-O-Lantern & Zero too

Halloween Pumpkins – Jack & his dog Zero.

Locative Art… Kind of…

In William Gibson’s book ‘Spook Country’ he uses locative art as a minor plot device. Locative art in the simplest terms being the melding of GPS & virtual reality technology to make tie virtual artworks to specific geographic locations.

While an interesting idea, it’s impact in terms of art is questionable in my mind [...]

Upgraded to MovableType 4

Having some issues, hope to have them resolved soon…

An underwater year…

A lot of interesting investing opportunties this year are underwater. And I’m not just talking about the recent minor correction in the markets. Already this year I’ve looked at a company that aims to make money by converting wave energy into electricity and an underwater logging company. This week in the spotlight is [...]

A spider silk coat?

No, not a Spyder coat. A recent article in wired magazine about pharming in Wired magazine brought to mind a topic that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. Spider silk, as an advanced textile. Spider silk it turns out is ounce per ounce one of the strongest natural materials in the [...]

What are you doing for fun this weekend?

Making the new old again

What is it about living in the future that makes people want to live in the past? There is an awful lot of nostalgia present in design today – from cars (like the Chrysler 300 and PT Cruiser) to clothes to now, ironically, computers. The very symbols of the modern age, dressed up to [...]

How do you get a drummer off your doorstep?

Pay him for the pizza. Saw the Yamato Drummers this past weekend. Great show. I expecting something a little one dimensional, and while the show doesn’t have the wild variety of ‘Stomp’, it was still highly entertaining with a lot more humor and audience interaction than I expected. Random picture – graffiti near the [...]

Simple Living & Tiny Houses

Small, uncluttered, basic living. This is a concept that I’ve begun to get more and more interested in.
During the 1999 – 2004 period I moved a total of 5 times. And with each move I seemed to acquire more stuff to move. The first couple of moves required a pickup truck, a day or two packing and just a few hours. By the last move it required weeks of packing, professional movers and a good hunk of a semi-truck.
Frustrated and exasperated with all the time and effort put into the moves I came up with the ’500 Living Concept’. The goal of this was that my life footprint would be 500 -

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