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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
World’s Largest Wind Farm Planned In Oregon
The Portland Business Journal reports that Oregon has just been given the go-ahead by The Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council to build a 909 MW wind farm in the north-central part of the state. That's enough energy to power 200,000 homes.
Read all about it.
Read all about it.
Monday, July 28, 2008
So Much for Our Evening Bike Ride
Wait a minute - is field burn smoke supposed to be BLACK!?
Sunday, July 27, 2008
The First 100 Domain Names
Apple.com was the 64th domain name ever, registered on February 19, 1987. Missing from this list: Microsoft.com
Read all about it.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Local Cachers in the News
Don and Judy Bacher and granddaughters Jessica and Stephanie Dilbone, all of Albany, explain the basics about the popular hobby in our "Fun 101" recreation series.
Watch the Video
Watch the Video
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Rush Plays Rock Band Backstage at Colbert
The rock band Rush played "Tom Sawyer" on the video game Rock Band. I like them on real instruments better.
Turn your speakers up, and watch the video here.
Turn your speakers up, and watch the video here.
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Shifting Boulders & Shivering Shoulders
Here is my DNF log for Every Time You Come Around Monkey, a micro hidden in a huge stack of boulders:
"Pablo Mac flopped (and almost worse) on this one. I had just arrived and got 2/3 of the way up, and when I unwedged a hand-sized rock, five or six huge rocks above me dislodged and moved a couple of inches down toward me, causing me severe gastrointestinal challenges. I dove the eight feet or so down to the ground and skeedaddled outta there as fast as my geotruck would launch me! The memory of the sound and vibration of those shifting boulders cause me...well, this is a family-oriented site, right?"
"Pablo Mac flopped (and almost worse) on this one. I had just arrived and got 2/3 of the way up, and when I unwedged a hand-sized rock, five or six huge rocks above me dislodged and moved a couple of inches down toward me, causing me severe gastrointestinal challenges. I dove the eight feet or so down to the ground and skeedaddled outta there as fast as my geotruck would launch me! The memory of the sound and vibration of those shifting boulders cause me...well, this is a family-oriented site, right?"
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
The New Way to Demolish Buildings
How do they do it ?
First, they replace the support pillars at ground level with computer-controlled metal columns. Then, a crew carefully demolishes the entire floor by hand, leaving the structure resting on the mechanical pillars, which then go down slowly until the next floor is at ground level. They replace the support pillars again with the mechanical ones, destroy that floor, and repeat the operation until they get rid of all the floors.
This makes it look as if the building is shrinking in front of you, or being swallowed by the street. According to the company, this method greatly reduces the environmental impact of the demolition, as well as the time. Kajima says that it speeds up the task by 20%, while making it easier to separate materials for recycling, as well as reducing the amount of products released into the air.
Friday, July 18, 2008
If Your Travel Bug Goes Missing
From the weekly Groundspeak LoBot Mailer:
1. Send a polite email to the geocacher who last grabbed your Travel Bug and remind them of its goal. Please allow adequate time before sending this message; remember that this geocacher may be on vacation or have other extenuating circumstances for which they cannot go geocaching.
2. If you have not received a response and you feel your Travel Bug is lost forever, mark the Travel Bug as "missing" so that another geocacher does not expect to find it in a cache.
3. To prevent your Travel Bug from being lost or mistaken as a signature item, place it a zip-loc bag with a printed mission. The more obvious you make it, the less likely it will be kept as a trading item.
My only comment on these items involves the Ziploc® bag recommendation: How many Travel Bugs (and, for that matter, caches) have you seen in flimsy, hole-ridden Ziploc bags? Water always seems to get in anyway, so why bother? Unless you're using one of the heavy-duty freezer bags (and those will eventually leak, also), just work to make your Travel Bug itself resistant to the elements.
Other ideas or comments?
Read more about trackable items.
1. Send a polite email to the geocacher who last grabbed your Travel Bug and remind them of its goal. Please allow adequate time before sending this message; remember that this geocacher may be on vacation or have other extenuating circumstances for which they cannot go geocaching.
2. If you have not received a response and you feel your Travel Bug is lost forever, mark the Travel Bug as "missing" so that another geocacher does not expect to find it in a cache.
3. To prevent your Travel Bug from being lost or mistaken as a signature item, place it a zip-loc bag with a printed mission. The more obvious you make it, the less likely it will be kept as a trading item.
My only comment on these items involves the Ziploc® bag recommendation: How many Travel Bugs (and, for that matter, caches) have you seen in flimsy, hole-ridden Ziploc bags? Water always seems to get in anyway, so why bother? Unless you're using one of the heavy-duty freezer bags (and those will eventually leak, also), just work to make your Travel Bug itself resistant to the elements.
Other ideas or comments?
Read more about trackable items.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
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