Poacher and especially Fudge have changed a bit since I last saw them.
Author: scruss
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slim pickens
Transmission Holding Back Not Only Pickens’ Plans But All US Wind – Renewable Energy World
This week, T. Boone Pickens announced that his plans to build the US $10 billion, 4,000-megawatt, Pampa Wind project are on hold. He cited lack of available transmission and funding concerns as the reason for the scale back.Wait, hang on here … I thought that the Pickens Plan was all about the having the guts and the go (and the $$) to build transmission to make it work. Guess it was just a gas play after all.
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neater meter
My folks got this quite nifty meter free from their utility:
It’s also fun to be back, and be able to see Whitelee wind farm from all around.Update: seems like it’s the Classic meter from Current Cost.
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Wind Knitting Factory
This is quite nifty, in a not-tremendously useful way: SHOW RCA Wind Knitting Factory. But then, it’s an art installation. It’s not meant to be useful.
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it somehow makes me happy
to know that there is something in the world called a Pleasing Fungus Beetle.
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For All Your Pipeline Condition Assessment and Leak Detection Needs
I’m sure that if I had muncipal water assets to manage, I’d use the Pressure Pipe Inspection Company (PPIC) | Pipeline Condition Assessment and Leak Detection to detect money-wasting leaks …
(So, Norvin, was that enough of an incoming link for you? You said you were desparate …) -
I’m all about the Black Sesame Soy Drink
Seriously, Sahmyook Black Sesame Soy Drink is amazing. A really rich, nutty, smoky flavour. It’s quite hard to come by – I bough a case of the tiny cartons today for $25 in P.A.T. Market East.I think it would be a hit if marketed to non-Korean folks. Sahmyook have an office in Thornhill, so the revolution starts there.
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Global Wind Day
Today is Global Wind Day. See if there are any events near you.
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spiders have flown
The garden spiders have flown the coop, and set up all round the garden. I don’t know how many of their little webs I had to scoop out of the deck before I started staining it.
(incidentally, if you like spider pics, Opo Terser makes wonderful ones. My desktop now features this little cutie [caution: will squick out arachnophobes])
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how stained am i?
Before I stained the deck today.
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531 would never do this …
Busted Carbon shows some fancy broken bikes. Never ride anything that doesn’t have metal to metal contact.
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Billy Faier – The Five String Banjo
Long-neck banjo genius Billy Faier has put all of his albums on his website for free download. These are amazing works. Donations (details on his site) are welcome.
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q happiness
I have found Toronto BBQ happiness at Highway 61.
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spiders on their birthday
We found thousands of these yellow and black spider hatchlings in the garden this morning. Happy birthday, little spiders!They are apparently (European) Garden Spiders, Araneus diadematus.
(I over colour-corrected the original photo; it’s here if you preferred it.)
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a very old place
I just found a very old version of my website from around 2002: Stewart C. Russell.
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the automatic podcast, by sheevaplug
I’ve now got the automatic podcast running on the sheevaplug. Because I can’t so easily re-encode mp3s, I’ve had to come up with a different way to make the podcast. The file is much larger, but the sound quality should be better.
It might be a few days before it runs from the sheevaplug every day.
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the nearest, uh, wind things to my house
Are on and by the garguntuan new Zellers:
I hesitate to call them wind turbines, as they are pretty dismally sited. Doubt they’ll generate much. There’s also a wee solar array next to them.
