Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27th, 2007
We had a gorgeous white Christmas here in Lyons with Patty, Dave, & Marjie here with us.
We went up to Rocky Mountain National Park today…
…and stopped on the way back to take pictures in Meadow Park on the edge of Lyons.
There are a slew of pictures posted to the Picasa site (click the photo link [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 31st, 2007
A quick plug for a friend and ex-roommate. Jason Zanon is quite likely the smartest person I’ve ever known and, in defiance of stereotype, still surprisingly eloquent.
Check out Executed Today, his new blog on executions around the world and through time. The first installment brings a theme appropriate to Halloween: accusations of werewolf murders [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2007
I am simply in awe of Songbird. I’ve never seen anything that so seamlessly and efficiently blends the web and music together. It’s just astonishing. My sincere thanks to the Birdnest.
Songbird is an opensource, cross-platform product built on top of the Mozilla core technology. It thus is a media player (music and video, static to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2007
You may have noticed that posts to have been few and far between of late. I thought I’d fill you in on what we’ve been up to and why posts are likely to remain few for the next few months.
Back in January, Julie and I decided to build a house in Lyons, CO. In February, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 14th, 2007
Wired has a really interesting article on a 3-D “digital Rome”, circa 320AD. At that time, effectively the peak of Roman civilization, Rome had over 1 million inhabitants.
The model is built based on high definition laser scans of a scale model of the city. Hopes are that it will get augmented by digital [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2007
No, not Lilian - we know that one already.
Turn out it could be genetic. A recent study showed that the body clock is regulated (at least in part) by a gene known as PER3. That gene comes in two forms, each of which produce a slightly different protein - one short and one long. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 29th, 2007
An a former economist, I get interested in the battles between value to the individual and value to society. To oversimplify, traditional economics assumes that individuals will always maximize for their own well-being which should (based on all sorts of assumptions like perfect access to information) result in the best outcome for society as [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2007
One of the strange changes that has overcome my life since having kids is that I no longer read one thing at a time. At present, I think I’m part way through at least 3 books (6 if you include audiobooks and ebooks) and at least 4 magazines. The other strange thing is that I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 11th, 2007
Drive (Subaru’s magazine for owners) turned me on to a cool Denver company called Better Wall. Better Wall collects museum and art gallery banners from around the world (the ones that typically hang on light posts and in front of the museums) and “recycles” them, selling them to consumers. The recovery process isn’t easy - [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2007
LiveGreen has an interesting tour/interview article about New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins.
Certainly among my favorite beers on flavor, and even harder to pass up when you take into account their environmental credentials. It’s worth a quick read.
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