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Finished cleaning and rearranging the garage. Time for afternoon espresso.
Just took some time to actually look at the flowers and plants in the backyard. It’s pretty amazing.
Randy’s Sanitation does Organics
We got an announcement in the mail a while ago from Randy’s Sanitation. We have been Waste Management customers since we moved to our current house, and know Randy’s Sanitation as a locally owned company that probably services 10% (my guess from the Tuesday trash can displays) of …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Randy's Sanitation does OrganicsSolatube Installed
A few weeks ago I was flipping through a recent issue of Home Power magazine and I stumbled upon an article abut solar tubes. (Sorry, I would provide a link to the article but they don’t make it available online.) Solar tubes are not new technology, but there has been some pretty …
Keep reading · 4 minutes: Solatube InstalledJust scheduled installation of a SolarTube for our house.
Apple TV in the house
Yesterday I got one of the first shipment of Apple TV units to arrive at the local Apple Store. The simplest way to think of the Apple TV is to think of it like an iPod for your living room. It lives seamlessly in the iTunes universe, has a 40G local hard drive and interfaces …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Apple TV in the houseIntroducing my Robot
A couple of months ago I heard about Twitter for the first time. I logged onto it, created an account, and pretty much instantly decided that it served no purpose. Honestly, I just didn’t get it at all. A friend of mine, mostly on a lark, decided that he was not going to let …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Introducing my RobotOf course my UPnP media server failed right before leaving. Fixing it so there is music in the house before leaving. Reboot and pray!
The Water Tastes Different
My wife thinks I’m loosing my mind. We recently ordered new drinking glasses for home. The ones we had before were fine, but we had broken a handful of them leaving only a few left with the resulting problem of running out of glasses too quickly. The glasses we had were clear …
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