Author: jedreynolds
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Photo: Squalicum Beach Piling
Been a while since I uploaded a photo. As always, happy to help you get a print.
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Bicycle Cargo Racks
I was thinking about bicycle racks recently, and I’ve noted some items that I think are worthy of mention. Of course, you can find cheap bike racks on Amazon, but we’d rather support local business, no? Don’t forget you can also get cheap Bell brand bicycle computers at Fred Meyers ~$12. I think the most…
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Consider: Organic, the World Over?
This is a great little article about how organic farming should be able to scale globally. I’ve heard many interviews on various science podcasts where guests (and their sponsoring corporations) are convinced that existing agriculture techniques are incapable of feeding the whole world…thus the “obvious need” for GMO crops. Let’s presume that’s false for a…
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Ursula: Only in Dark the Light
Ursula K. Le Guin, a remarkable author. I just finished reading A Wizard of Earthsea to Liam. Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawks flight on the empty sky. How many science fiction and fantasy stories echo this intrinsic theme of mortality, simplicity and humility…
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Translating Filenames — Bash Voodoo Style #linux
This is an example of using Bash to convert a crazy apache log and translating the filename into an IIS log pattern: d=`date +%Y%m%d` find k -type f \ | while read filename do nextfile=”${filename/k\/done?0.www\./k2/www-Server_T${d}_}.log” echo “$nextfile” cat $filename | $translate > “$nextfile” done I love how I can refer to a shell variable ($d)…
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Ever heard of Bio-char?
I don’t recall where I’ve heard of pyrolyzation before, but it’s the partial burning of biomass…creating charcoal. This post discusses an article and how biochar fixes carbon dioxide into the ground in the form of charcoal. I don’t necessarily believe the numbers. Also, if a leading source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is actually…
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Imagine Bank Subsidy for Community Solar
I stumbled up this news release about a bank in Uttar Pradesh, India, that is providing loans to help install solar panels. I’m going to alter a section and make it more American just for the sake of illustration–to help you image the number of people this press release is talking about: For providing the solar…
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Gout and Soda?
When people think of gout, the first foods they think of are shell fish, turkey, and beans. Here’s an article showing a correlation between soda, fructose and gout. No witty comment at this time, sorry. Possibly the notion of using soda as a de-greaser is an urban legend…has anyone proved that yet?
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