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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Pontiac

In an unsurprising move, GM announced that they are killing Pontiac. I think it is amazing that Pontiac has survived this long. They produced very few good cars since the end of the muscle car era. For the past several decades, they have been known for poor designs that are ugly and hard to work [...]

Pinhole day

Yesterday was Worldwide Pinhole Photography day. I submitted a picture this picture from a local nature preserve. I also shot with my medium format camera. Close-ups with a TLR are hard to frame, I hope I got some good shots.

Movie menus

I just watched a couple episodes of Season Three of Rocky and Bullwinkle on DVD. This is a great show, but the DVD collection is an example of something that has been bugging me for years.
I’m sick of the silly animated menus on movies. They were moderately interesting the first four times ten years ago. [...]

Population growth and resource usage

One important issue not receiving enough attention is efficiency increases forced by population growth. The Earth is a finite system: resources do not grow as population does. This means that to maintain the same results (standard of living, &c.) as population grows, efficiency must increase. This is important for issues such as land use, food [...]

Koehlinger Cycling

Koehlinger Cycling and Fitness is now out of business. Koehlinger’s was where I bought my first `real’ (from a bike store, not a department store) bike, a steel Giant mountain bike. My sister still rides that bike. Koehlinger’s was the best place to find small parts for repairing older bikes, but I was more likely [...]

Constitution?

Must watch! This is scary. We had come to expect stuff like this from G. W. Bush, but not Obama. He did vote for the renewal of the KGB act, so we can’t expect too much.

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