Evaluating home grow-lights
How can we compare grow-lights when they don’t have consistent performance measurements advertised? Might electricity draw be sufficient?
Category: Life and Everything Else Life, hobbies, and everything other then tech stuff and work.
Street orientations in Vermont
By now many folks have seen Geoff Boeing’s really neat charts of street orientation that highlight how “gridded” (or not) the layout of city streets are: US Cities World Cities Since Geoff was kind enough to provide a full open-source tool-chain, I decided to tweak it to chart the orientations…
Further north and farther east — an exploration of Nova Scotia
This entry was original published as a Ride Report on the Adventure Rider (ADVrider) forums. The only changes are reformatting to flow as a single article. Prologue Day 1: Down the Green Mountains Day 2: Across New England Day 3: Acadian Entry Day 4: Fundy Crossing Day 5: On the…
The Middlebury Town Plan
Today I found unexpectedly good reading in Middlebury’s new 2012 Town Plan. The document is really well done and its quality highlights the vigorous engagement between the town, its citizenry, and businesses that makes this a fabulous place to live. While all 226 pages are worthwhile, I found Section 2.13 …
Vermont to Michigan on a motorcycle
In 2005 I took a 3-week trip around Turkey with my parents and brother. Mid-way through this fabulous trip we met the affable Roland Pfitzenmaier, a German man touring the middle east on a Triumph motorcycle. While I am someone who usually travels with a full load of gear —…
Black Bean Crostini
One of the joys of participating in a CSA is exploring new vegetables and foods that I otherwise wouldn’t have known about or thought to eat. Last year we received husk cherries, red carrots, bok choy, several types of kale, purple potatoes, and at least 4 varieties of beets in…
Mission-Style Bookshelf
My current woodworking project is a Mission-style bookshelf that I designed to match the sofa table that I built last year. The bookshelf will sit below a window to the kitchen, so it is low and extra wide to fit that space. To support the weight of the books without…
Bittersweet Falls
A hundred yards from the aptly-named Bittersweet Falls Road, the Beaver Brook cascades over a formation of marble and dolomite to create a beautiful 18 foot cascade. Above Bittersweet Falls, the Beaver Brook cuts a deep ravine through layers of black slate. The gorge can be difficult to traverse without…
Sofa Table Complete
Over the course of the past year I built this cherry sofa table based on a design by Scott Gibson in Fine Woodworking’s “Furniture” book. All frame joinery is mortise and tenon, while the drawers use doweled rabbit joints. The finish is boiled linseed oil topped with 3 coats of…
Project 365
Sarah announced today that she was going to do a “365 project” this year: taking a photo every day of the year, both as a journal and to force one’s self to get out and take some pictures. This sounded like a fun idea and one that would be easier…
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Life, hobbies, and everything other then tech stuff and work.
Street orientations in Vermont
By now many folks have seen Geoff Boeing’s really neat charts of street orientation that highlight how “gridded” (or not) the layout of city streets are: US Cities World Cities Since Geoff was kind enough to provide a full open-source tool-chain, I decided to tweak it to chart the orientations…
Further north and farther east — an exploration of Nova Scotia
This entry was original published as a Ride Report on the Adventure Rider (ADVrider) forums. The only changes are reformatting to flow as a single article. Prologue Day 1: Down the Green Mountains Day 2: Across New England Day 3: Acadian Entry Day 4: Fundy Crossing Day 5: On the…
The Middlebury Town Plan
Today I found unexpectedly good reading in Middlebury’s new 2012 Town Plan. The document is really well done and its quality highlights the vigorous engagement between the town, its citizenry, and businesses that makes this a fabulous place to live. While all 226 pages are worthwhile, I found Section 2.13 …
Vermont to Michigan on a motorcycle
In 2005 I took a 3-week trip around Turkey with my parents and brother. Mid-way through this fabulous trip we met the affable Roland Pfitzenmaier, a German man touring the middle east on a Triumph motorcycle. While I am someone who usually travels with a full load of gear —…
Black Bean Crostini
One of the joys of participating in a CSA is exploring new vegetables and foods that I otherwise wouldn’t have known about or thought to eat. Last year we received husk cherries, red carrots, bok choy, several types of kale, purple potatoes, and at least 4 varieties of beets in…
Mission-Style Bookshelf
My current woodworking project is a Mission-style bookshelf that I designed to match the sofa table that I built last year. The bookshelf will sit below a window to the kitchen, so it is low and extra wide to fit that space. To support the weight of the books without…
Bittersweet Falls
A hundred yards from the aptly-named Bittersweet Falls Road, the Beaver Brook cascades over a formation of marble and dolomite to create a beautiful 18 foot cascade. Above Bittersweet Falls, the Beaver Brook cuts a deep ravine through layers of black slate. The gorge can be difficult to traverse without…
Sofa Table Complete
Over the course of the past year I built this cherry sofa table based on a design by Scott Gibson in Fine Woodworking’s “Furniture” book. All frame joinery is mortise and tenon, while the drawers use doweled rabbit joints. The finish is boiled linseed oil topped with 3 coats of…
Project 365
Sarah announced today that she was going to do a “365 project” this year: taking a photo every day of the year, both as a journal and to force one’s self to get out and take some pictures. This sounded like a fun idea and one that would be easier…