Month: June 2009

"As my 77-year old father (who also drove the car) said: "This is the car of the future!"" so jealous.

groundbreaking for this project is on Saturday! (selfishly, I hope the construction work won't disrupt riding to my doc's.)

::sigh::

for garden walk wrap-up post. recommended by Tim.

C found this. don't care too much abt the payment part, but the water usage & trash days parts might be cool.

"Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics have now carefully analysed which organic gases are emitted from plants. They made the surprising discovery that plants release methane, a greenhouse gas – and this goes against all previous assumptions." trippy! (from C, by way of a discussion last nite abt whether cows or termites produce more methane. cows "win."

very cool-looking. will have to do something similar for the gang.

came in handy today.

some research to do. (honestly, I hate washing the car, although I like how it looks when I'm done.)

lovely.

"Smart social media empowers conversations beyond the message. It embraces human nature and the strange mesh-like conversations that occur between us and our collective interests."

"Its hardware design is completely open — everything from schematics to Gerber files will be available on a marvell's website — and ARM ports of several popular Linux distributions are already running, and included." I think C showed me this a bit ago as well, this link via Simon St Laurent.

we are, but I suck at it. (shd probly recruit someone else to help.)

some interesting notes here, including medicinal uses!

already a few good things to track down!

the linked "Confessions of an Introverted Traveler" essay is delightful, too.