Opossum Lake Trail
A map of the “Angler’s Trail” around Opossum Lake, built by the Friends of Opossum Lake Conservancy. View Larger Map
Flickr Photo Set to KML
One of the things I (and others) have found lacking when working with geotagged images on Flickr, is the inability to retrieve a “photo set” (Flickr’s take on a slideshow) as a KML document that can then be displayed in GoogleEarth, GoogleMaps, or other geo-browsers. Flickr provides some KML links…
Introducing Zoe
Though she has been with us for three weeks at the time of this writing, I would like to formally introduce the newest member of our family, Zoe. Zoe is a deep black kitten with green eyes and a little white patch on her throat. We adopted her from the…
Confessions of an Economic Hitman
From Dave on Fire‘s new blog of videos, Throw Away Your Telescreen, I came across this great address John Perkins gave to the Veterans for Peace convention. Perkins is a self-described “Economic Hitman”, an ‘independent’ consultant recruited by the NSA who’s job for three decades was to provide the ‘carrot’…
Our Health Care Crisis
If you are an American and haven’t seen Sicko yet, it is something that you absolutely must do. You have no idea how royally you are being screwed. In case you need a little extra prodding, if you see Sicko and aren’t moved to tears and anger, I promise to…
Toilet Seat Position
I recently came across a paper by economist Hammad Siddiqi, The Social Norm of Leaving the Toilet Seat Down that uses game theory to describe the efficiency of the toilet seat position strategies normally preferred by men or women. Men in their own habitat will usually prefer to leave the…
Money As Debt
On his great geopolitical blog, Complex System of Pipes, “Dave on Fire” points out the great animated video [watch below] by Paul Grignon that describes how our monetary system works and where our money comes from — hint, its not the mint or even government fiat. The video is 47…
Blogspot/Blogger RSS generator
Quite a few of my friends and relatives make use of Blogger/Blogspot for their weblogs. While Blogger seems to be a great service and very easy to use, what annoys me is that RSS feeds are often disabled on Blogger weblogs. Maybe people are setting this on purpose, maybe they…
May showers bring May flowers
A few roving thunderstorms last night gave new plants a much needed drink. The flowers below are “Bleeding Hearts”, a beautiful surprise to find in the beds our first spring in this house.
Press * to skip Verizon voicemail message
A few months ago I was listening to an NPR story that was bemoaning the inability to skip past the Verizon woman’s voice after listening to someone’s own recorded message: “At the tone please record your message, when you finish recording you may hang up, or press one for more…
