Miscellaneous Writing

This section of my site is for random writings that don't have their own headings. Many are also on my blog.

Book Reviews and Notes

Renewable Energy for Your Home by Bryan and Belli
Changing Planet, Changing Health by Paul Epstein and Dan Ferber
Winning Our Energy Independence by S. David Freeman
Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
Proficient Motorcycling by David L Hough
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- one page summary (PDF)
Craft Cider Making by Andrew Lea
Making Craft Cider by Simon McKie
Cool It by Bjorn Lomborg
The Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbluth
The Merchants’ War by Frederik Pohl
Real Cidermaking on a Small Scale by Michael Pooley and John Lomax
Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider by Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols
The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer
- timeline of important people and works
The Compleat Meadmaker by Ken Schramm
Cider, hard and sweet by Ben Watson
Reading the Landscape of America by May Theilgaard Watts

See also: related blog posts and typeset public domain writing.

Computers

How to Evaluate a Techie: how to tell if a tech knows what they are talking about.

Energy

“Drill, baby, drill!”: thoughts on the silly calls for domestic oil drilling.
CO₂ emissions and the new CAFE standard: how the 2010 update to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards will change the total amount of CO₂ emitted by cars and trucks in the USA.
The myth of American gasoline: debunking one version of a common statement.
The Bakken Formation Oil email: Correcting one of the many “Drill here to solve all our problems” emails.

See also: related blog posts.

Government

Term Limits: Why I am now skeptical of the benefits of term limits.

Photography

Chromatic aberrations (PDF of presentation slides)

See also: related blog posts.

Statistics

Gas prices and world car and bicycle production: A look at using graphs to interpret data.
Car lifetime and miles driven: How long do cars last, and how far are they driven?