If you haven't noticed, I'm on Facebook now. I always assumed old people were not allowed to join until I saw an article in goldenmoonbear's paper about the company. They seem like good Palo Alto corporate citizens; they situated their business downtown next to the train station and they encourage their employees to live nearby. Good enough for me. It struck me ( Read more... )

You've heard a lot of talk about peak oil in this journal over the past 4 years. Now a town in Wales is actually doing something. Why is this doubly exciting to me? Because my wife is a virtual grad student in that very same town.

This is awesome.

I suppose if I have to choose sides in the A's - Tigers match up I'm rooting for the A's even though I don't think they'll win a single game.

chuck_con_pollo is coming to California tonight. Avast ye mighty and despair!

I usually love "house" shows but I haven't really been watching Texas Ranch House because it seems like an obvious attempt by PBS to suck up to the Kenneth Tomlinson types. What's next, Slavery House? Sweatshop House? Slaughterhouse House? OK, so I've watched it a little, but I'm not going to be obsessed with it like I am with most house shows ( Read more... )

Oh, David Byrne, will you ever stop stealing my journal and doing a better job of it than I could ever hope to do? Dawkins? The oil crash? That used to be MY act ( Read more... )

Good news for stacyinthecity, kind of.

At long last I have found a video of George Formby in action. Now that's good uking.

So I've got the drying rack, the bike, and the acoustic guitar. When the oil peak comes, the hard thing is not going to be living without a car, it's going to be living without food and electricity. Remember that "30 Days" episode where they took two ignorant city folk and made them live off the grid? They didn't discuss computers much, but I think ( Read more... )

Pardon me, just a few links of interest:

1. I've been staring at this Peregrine Falcon nest on top of the PG&E building in San Francisco all day. There are tiny little white, fuzzy, falcon chicks that are visible when the mother bird leaves, which only happens about once every hour. Don't touch that dial ( Read more... )