I’m Reading…I love the Leonid Meteor shower.
Every year, at this time, if you are willing to stay up late and drive to an area that is relatively dark, you are rewarded with a great show. It’s always exciting to see a shooting star – it’s even better to see dozens of them in one [...]
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I have now received the first empirical evidence that replacing your old windows & doors can have an impact on your utility bill.
Our house is one of the standard, ranch-style houses that were popular in the SF Bay Area in the late 1960s. It had the original, single-pane aluminum windows, and hollow-core doors.
We replaced [...]
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A lot of pop-culture posts today, but time for just one more.
I’ve been a big fan of the new Battlestar Galactica series since it first launched a few years ago. It’s one of the television highlights for me these days for a lot of reasons, some of which have to do with the quality [...]
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With many thanks to Chad Alderson for finding this episode online.
This was the South Park episode from last week. Cartman is so obsessed with getting a Nintendo Wii, he can’t wait the two weeks, and has himself frozen. He accidentally ends up 500 years in the future, and, well, typical South Park things [...]
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So, before I get cynical, let me be perfectly clear:
If you want to buy me a great holiday present, buy me a Nintendo Wii. I want it, I love it, I need it. Get it for me.
Now, as the buzz builds, and I see machines priced at $300 over retail due to the [...]
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Adam Nash Sunnyvale, CA |
