If you loved part 1 of my incinerating toilet story, you might not hate part 2. Part 1 provided a “quick overview of the Incinolet brand incinerator toilet and the fine people that bring this advanced technology to a grateful world.” Part 2 follows up with an in depth look at the actual incinerating toilet… Read More »
After a long work from home day, which included 5 conference calls spanning most of 8 am to 6:30 pm, I decided to head out for a high speed hill climb on my bicycle. As I was rolling my bike out of the garage at about 6:40 pm, I heard a series of loud thumping noises that seemed to emanate from the living room, …
The 2003 Statewide Special Election Candidiate Status Report is now available. I signed for Garrett Gruener, who is a close friend of one of my neighbors, but is probably better known as the founder of AskJeeves.
My wife surprised me with a Canon S400 digital camera a few months ago. Overall, I’m very satisfied with it. The picture quality is great and the camera is tiny. One of the features I hadn’t tried out yet was the ability to record movies. This amazing camera can record 15 frames/second video at either… Read More »
Sometime in the last year I had a birthday, and my dear wife purchased the exact digital camera that I wanted, a Canon PowerShot S400 Digital Elph. It’s a sweet, sweet camera. She is a genius type mindreader for buying it, given they I honestly gave her no hints beyond “I would like a digital… Read More »
If you’re traveling to Seattle, I highly recommend staying at the Mayflower Park hotel. They provide free wireless access to the Internet. We picked up a really strong signal in our room, even on Sandra’s Powerbook with the Apple Airport card. Also, the hotel is in an extremely convenient location in downtown Seattle, the staff… Read More »
As Bolivian Miners Die, Boys Are Left to Toil This sad story in the New York Times is a very accurate account of the life of the young Bolivian miners working Cerro Rico in Potosí. There are virtually no old miners, as almost all of them die of silicosis before reaching the age of 45.… Read More »
Bush and Blair lip sync in harmony. You have to see it to enjoy it. Via This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow: March 16, 2003 – March 22, 2003 Archives
BBspot – Which OS are you? Yet another “Which __ are you?” style quiz. I added it to my short list of similar quizzes that I found to be somewhat less than a complete waste of time. I am Slackware Linux.
I’m now the proud owner of the top link on Google for the search terms incinerator toilet. I thank each and every one of you who has searched on that phrase (or “incinerating toilet” or “Incinolet” or “toilet that incinerates”) and then clicked through to read my story about the incinerating toilet at our cabin.… Read More »