Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something
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I miss British advertising copy …
This charming bit of rubbish on a bottle of Innocent orange juice scored in Eyemouth:
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UncleWiki
For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on UncleWiki, a wiki about the Uncle books, by J. P. Martin. It’s a very rough framework right now, but I’m adding content as I go. Please join in!
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It was just in the freezer for a little while … honest
So I popped my Sigg bottle in the freezer to chill it before a bike ride … about two months ago. Guess I forgot about it. Oops. -
appropriate names for a kitten (male)
- Gremlin
- Spod
- Mephibosheth
- Stinky
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali (boubou for short)
- Grunt
- Peeble
- Numpty
- F’tang
- Sir Percival de Vere-ffoulkes Gerbil d’Eath
- Hok
- Globbit
- Allergen
- Dog
- Microlion
- Spoon Wrassler
- Jerzy
- Nuance
- Puck
- Eraser
- Floss
- Voon
- Kimchi
- 12AX7
- Hungry
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doubletree weather
Something’s very wrong with DoubleTree‘s weather widget for Chicago on this July 4th …
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Someone is *really* opposed to typography …
As seen on Renfrew St, Glasgow in February 2000. -
(no subject required)
Initial concept: Jeff Norman.
Photo credit: “Marwell. Baby tapir. Taken by Sarah C, 13/09/2010.” from World Tapir Day’s Miscellaneous tapirs Facebook album. -
more balti
Only Catherine might find this amusing 
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Open Season on Open Letters
Open Letter to People who write Open Letters
Stop it. No-one reads them, and it’s annoying.
Oh wait …
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Back in Baltimore
I’m back in Charm City (which I don’t think anyone actually calls the place) for a solar conference. Catherine lived here for a couple of years, volunteering at the Learning Bank (possibly defunct) and at Mercy Corps. I used to visit here a lot, but it’s changed. The walk from Inner Harbor to Fells Point is unrecognizably gentrified. At least The Sound Garden and Brick Oven Pizza are still there.
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Tallgrass Pixels
Tallgrass Pixels | photography by Don Palmer is rather good. Don (W0PSK) lives near the Flint Hills in Kansas.
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who loves the sun?
After my solar course, I’ve been messing about with the UO SRML: Sun chart program. It shows sun angles and day lengths throughout the year.
Toronto: where I live 
Glasgow: where I'm from. Not much sun there, but looong summer days 
Phoenix, AZ is pretty sunny 
I think I'd freak out if I lived at the equator: every day is nearly the same length! 
Mombasa, Kenya: point your modules north! 
Not much sun in far north Alert; sometimes, the sun doesn't set — sometimes it doesn't rise 
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accidental solar panda butt kaleidoscope
is what you get when you look down a Schletter PV Maxâ„¢ triangular aluminium solar panel support
at this image of pandas:
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Mario, the solar photographer
I’m taking a Canadian Solar Institute course at Earth Rangers. Mario, the instructor, has quite a nifty photoblog: Mario Borsato – Nature Photo Blog. Here’s a close encounter with a timber wolf he had:
Mario’s company is Soleil Power Canada, if you’re needing solar installation or training.
(image copyright 2010, Mario Borsato.)
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don’t overcomplicate your sloth party …
David Barnes’s new book What’s Weird? arrived today. It’s lovely.David has an — unsurprisingly — unusual youtube channel and an etsy store. One of his prints hovers above my desk, and an original runs on my work desk.
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I ♥ D19
We go to Phở Vietnam a lot. Catherine probably tires of my attempts to sneak a durian shake onto the order list instead of her usual choice, but really, what can be wrong with a drink that’s made of everyone’s favourite cow-poop-smelling spiny fruit?
So tonight, I thought I’d order it for real. I was very pleasantly surprised. Instead of a beverage with a barnyard reek, it had a delicate flavour, with sweet high notes like a citrusy cantaloupe. I’ll definitely order it again; it’s not one side short of a D20.
