Category: environment
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A Few Power Supply Wattage Calculators
When building your computer from components, these can help you size the power supply for the machine. This is especially useful if you want to build a solar powered computer. ASUSTeK Computer Inc. -Support- Recommended Power Supply Wattage Calculator PSU Wattage Calculator Newegg Power Supply Calculator
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New X Prize Quest: Sensors To Probe Oceanic Acid Levels – Slashdot
New X Prize Quest: Sensors To Probe Oceanic Acid Levels – Slashdot. Oceanic acidity not only affects oxygen/carbon levels, it determines whether regions of the ocean can be carbon-sinks and bind carbon into calcite structures such as coral. When we see anoxic regions of the ocean like off the coast of Oregon, that spells big…
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Evidence of 100,000-Year-Old Life Found In Antarctic Subglacial Lake – Slashdot
Evidence of 100,000-Year-Old Life Found In Antarctic Subglacial Lake – Slashdot. As the son of a paleontologist, I relate to this on many levels. I’m most excited by the fact that we can still discover ancient–living–life on our planet.
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2013-09-01 Padilla Bay Oxbow
2013-09-01 Padilla Bay Oxbow This was a bit of a challenge to cook up. I ended up with four layers in Gimp: a desaturated bw as a hard-light layer, a ND layer over the sky, and a color-enhanced layer to bring the sky color into the foreground ponding. This was surprising done on my lappie,…
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DIY Travel Mug Lid
I lose lids off of travel mugs frequently. The great shame of travel mugs is the cheap caps that just fly off, into traffic, when biking. For a while I had been using lids from other disposable coffee cups. But then I found a lid to an empty peanut butter jar. So, pop quiz: how…
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Eagles at Deception Pass 2013-05-26
Here are a pair of eagles that roost at Deception Pass. I had a 1950’s 200mm F4 lens on my K10D, and my 2yo daughter riding on my shoulders when I took these. Of course, I would have liked to have my 300 and a tripod.
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Astoria Bridge, 2011 [wallpaper]
This is not altered with a smartphone goody like iPhoto or instagram, this was modified with the GIMP, of course.
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Upcoming: New Standing Workstation
I’ve posted about how my previous endeavors to work at a standing workspace, at work, and at home. It has not gone sour on me yet. Presently at Candelatech I’ve been sitting on an exercise ball with three landscape monitors. It’s a lot of screen realestate! I love not needing to maximize and minimize windows…
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Bellingham Air Museum
I like the phrase “starter crank.” I loved planes as a boy, but now I’m bitter about the symbolism. Is this an attempt to poke at jingoism? I love the tone of the shiny metal, truly. HIgher res available.
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