Month: January 2007

Who can forget the cartoon scene shown above where Wile E. Coyote has a little trouble controlling some tornados he seeds in yet another futile attempt to capture the elusive…

There’s an article in The Oil Drum that focuses on electricity production; or rather how or what we will need to do to keep pace with people’s demands while balancing…

From the "almost a Darwin Award winner" department and from WISN-TV in Milwaukee…TV News Truck Breaks Through Ice: Even though the temperatures have fallen, the ice on many bodies of…

You may have heard or seen that I donated the equipment and continue to provide the high bandwidth server to carry the City Council Meetings, School Board, Planning Commission and…

It’s not often that I get to have a glass of wine at a restaurant in Chico and have WiFi Connectivity at the same time. Having both of these at…

You know the old saying that “no two snowflakes are alike“? Well it may be possible for two snowflakes to be alike after all. There’s a fascinating article in LiveScience…

Anyone who knows much about me knows that I’ve been a strong advocate for alternate energy, and that I’ve put my money where my mouth is by putting solar power…

City Councilor Ann Schwab proposed a “Gold Line” to protect the foothills from development as a complement to the Green Line which protects rich agricultural farmland to the west of…

When I first saw this I thought for sure it was fellow blogger Lon Glazners basement, since he finds ways to work Star Trek into many things he writes about.…

The titles says it all. These are the least thought out, dumbest, just plain old ridiculous domain names registered to very serious websites and businesses… enjoy! 1. A site called…

I found this to be the perfect way to kill time. Click at your own risk, betcha can’t click just once.

This still image above from my Bidwell Ranch weather station at 10:30 this morning. The cold air mass that originated in Siberian Polar regions made its way into Northern California…

My lovely wife Stacey, our two children, and myself braved the cold and gusty winds to get this photo of Comet McNaught over the coastal mountain range tonight. Stacey took…

There’s a photo op tonight just after sunset. Sunset is at 5:03 PM PST. Comet McNaught is the brightest comet in 30 years and is visible to the west, just…

I was is COSTCO Saturday and something odd caught my eye. Something I never saw before and was totally unexpected. There on an endcap, was a pallette of 5 gallon…

Let’s all hope this isn’t just another excercise in “Cold Fusion breaktrough”. It may mean that you’ll be able to take an injection or pill(s) to cure cancer in the…

Last week I mentioned that Ford was introducing a new alternate fuel sports car that runs on E85 ethanol. This week, GM announced the new Chevy “Volt” Sunday at the…

Ok, this is a ‘tongue in cheek entry’, but it does have value for those who might be reading. While we all see from reading the nutty ‘Tell It to…

Ok this is probably going to make some truck owners mad, but its the truth as I see it. The other day I was driving on 99 south and watched…