As Oso mentioned in a comment bellow, Kamp Kanuckistan (representing the “stateless state” of the Free United Cartel of Kanuckistan) will be at 5:20 on Fetish at Burning Man this year, and will feature the second annual road hockey tournament – The “Xeni Cup”. Pete and I were there last year, and had a lot …
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Gallery update
Better extremely late than never, right? I finally finished adding comments to all of my photos from three weeks in Peru last December. I also put up some random photos of last Sunday. Update: I haven’t been happy with the RSS album feeds from Gallery, and Oso’s question sent me digging for info. You have …
Baja Wine
(All photos for this entry are posted here) My newest sister, Kim, has been taking wine classes at MiraCosta College. Wines of the world, California wines, you name it wines. Each semester they have a field trip to some wineries. Temecula, central coast, etc. This time it was Baja, and she asked Anna and I …
Misc links
Some interesting news: World’s largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology. 20-year purchase agreement between Southern California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. will result in 20,000+ dish array, covering 4,500 acres, and capable of generating 500 MW — more electricity than all other present U.S. solar projects combined. News.com also profiled the company …
Science links
I saw some of these in Peru, interesting that they are just now starting to figure them out – Cryptic string-based communication system used by ancient Incan administrators may at last be unravelling, thanks to computer analysis of hundreds of different knotted bundles. The permafrost of the world’s largest peat bog (size of France and …