Author Archives: frank


Paint recycling

2008-05-31 – 14:22

Apparently the best we can hope for paint recycling in Columbia County is the once a year recycling event. When we moved here in 2001, the county commission had commissioned a study about building a recycling center. Where’s my recycling center?? argh.

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Happy New Year!

2008-01-01 – 16:28

We celebrated New Years last night on Rio de Janeiro time so everyone could go to bed as early as they wanted or needed. My mom (Grandi Mac to the girls) isn’t a napper, but she managed a five hour nap yesterday afternoon, and still was able to sleep a full night starting at 10 […]

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Initial comments on lined aluminum water bottles for active or sports use

2007-12-31 – 06:24

Andrea got me an aluminum water bottle for my birthday. I drink a lot of water from bottles, while bicycling, hiking, or just tooling around with the family. She’s read lately about how plastic vessels can leach harmful compounds in to the liquid, and it gets worse if the liquid in question is more […]

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Hunting SMS

2007-12-16 – 13:48

At 7:36 A.M., a little over an hour after my uncle David dropped me off at the deer stand, my pocket vibrated, the short notification of an incoming text message: “Will pick you up closer to 9, unless I hear you shoot, then I’ll be by at 8:30. Please acknowledge.”
I felt ridiculous sending my reply […]

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Prototyping

2007-12-01 – 08:27

Via Steve Northover’s Inside SWT:
The week was an almost perfect example of prototyping. The code we have is utter crap and we have cut every corner, however, we have learned the technology and explored the area. Prototyping is about reducing risk using a short term, high energy, low quality approach to prove that a solution […]

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