I've wanted a Soda Stream for ever. Unfortunately, they're insanely monopolistic -- the only reason you can't fill their gas canisters at any welding supply store is that they put boobie trapped valves on them -- and their plants are in settlements in the West Bank. So I decided to make my own.
Yak shaving, but who doesn't love that? Note: I realize this is possibly the worst organized collection of posts you've ever found. I often think I should straighten up around here, but I haven't done it yet. So do accept my apologies and think of this place as a junk ...
Had a gin and basil cocktail the other night. I believe "aspirational" was the word kthread chose. Eventually, there will be asparagus. In California, there's been asparagus for a month already. 8 oz. Asparagus, washed, trimmed and cut into 1 1⁄2 inch lengths 4 lg eggs 1/4 cup milk (or whipping cream, if ...
Part of me wants to ditch this particular project. Part of me wants to push myself to write more. About slow gardening (get to know the dirt) and open newsrooms and (lately, again) games. But ... Tumblr. @embell said Tumblr is for people who don't like to write -- I'm ...
I got a new ogg player for Christmas. (That's how it works: I get Christmas presents, Noah gets Hannukah presents) and on the first go round I managed to completely bork the thing. Broke it so's I had to send it back to SanDisk. Got it back, plugged it in ...
Skipped out on Hacks and Hackers tonight in favor of my quiet couch. The twitters say these are worth looking at: https://github.com/albertsun/gmap-features http://projects.propublica.org/redistricting-maps/protect-your-vote http://censusmapmaker.com/ Next item: I need to understand analytics much more deeply again.
Arif asked a pretty good question about water pressure and rain barrels. I know the practical answer: you need the barrel to be higher than the hoses; the higher it is, the more pressure you've got; soaker hoses don't need much pressure. If you don't want to build something get ...
We're using a wholly unwholesome new database system to manage our CSA membership. (I didn't pick it.) And one thing it doesn't do is generate invoices? Confused? I sure am. Without getting too deep into the puzzle of how you build software to manage CSA shares that can't generate an ...
Plenty of people are asking good questions about whether social media matters. So I'm putting a couple of studies on my reading list. Soupsoup (via Kenyatta/Elspethjane/Tumblr in general, speaking of social.) Two interesting reports out today. One from Aol/Nielsen shows that 66% of content is ...
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