Archive for June, 2008

Olivet frogs

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

I think I’m supposed to be blogging about more Midwest Banjo Camp related things - but J.R. Jenks is doing this fine. Here’s a recording of some of the tree frogs in Olivet: olivet_mi-frogs-20080606.

yeah, us long neck banjo players are a bad lot …

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008


Still from 1964 NFB docudrama Nobody Waved Goodbye, as mentioned in a nostalgia piece in Spacing.

operating (nearly)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

We were testing wind turbines yesterday.

Not the best picture, but it is a running Vestas V82.

perhaps the most sugar-coated admission of peak North Sea oil

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

The North Sea has almost as much oil left as has already been extracted, a BBC Scotland investigation has been told.

— BBC News, Oil reserves ‘will last decades’.

I don’t know what it did, but I wish it hadn’t done it

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Outlook has now decided that I need all my e-mail text in huge. I have no idea why.

rsync to an NSLU2

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

My only real complaint with my Linksys NSLU2 is that it doesn’t have a very accurate clock. Tools like rsync expect identical timestamps, or flag source and destination files as different. This causes most of your files to be rewritten, even though the source and destination are in fact the same.
This fixes it:

rsync --size-only -av src dest

random photos

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

i suspect prankage at Langstaff station

the owl of minerva: catherine liked this