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Legoland – which part don’t you understand?
Read more: Legoland – which part don’t you understand?When I grew up in Germany during the 1960s and early 70s there was hardly any programming on TV. Computers? Internet? Yeah, right! But there were LEGOs. Practically every kid I knew had a box full. I had a big box. And every day after coming home from school and finishing my homework I just […]
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UFOs have landed – and they are….WTF?
Read more: UFOs have landed – and they are….WTF?After listening to the 11/23/2008 episode of Tim Harold’s Paranormal Podcast featuring an interview with Stanton T. Friedman I had some more thoughts about the relationship of the UFO phenomenon with Science. I want to say upfront that while I more often than not highly disagree with Tim Harold’s guests he is an excellent interviewer […]
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An un-american speed limit?
Read more: An un-american speed limit?Recently, as I was pedaling to town on my bike I had an interesting thought. Having just passed a ‘Speed Limit 40 mph’ sign I quietly chuckled thinking to myself that at that moment I would not have to pay attention to any speed limits because, unless I strapped a rocket to my back, I would […]
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Call the Police video contest
Read more: Call the Police video contestOk. After building a greenscreen in my basement, enlisting my kids as actors, digging deeper into Final Cut Express, Toon Boom Studio and a few other applications I noticed that I still would need some “authentic” footage to put together a video about UFOs. Luckily there is youtube which is full of obscure (and not […]
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Improvising with LEGOs
Read more: Improvising with LEGOsMy wife actually got me a set of LEGO Mindstorms for my birthday. I am done buying guitars. For those who don’t know what Mindstorms are: These are LEGO Technic (not the blocks but the parts that let you build all sorts of vehicles, airplanes, cranes, robots – probably guitars if you push it). The […]
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Solar Power bucket of salt (part 7)
Read more: Solar Power bucket of salt (part 7)(continued from part 6) After all the good vibes coming out of our solar installation I really need to reinforce something I knew long before I decided to spend almost $15,000. You can’t really predict the weather so we can only estimate our yearly average power production. Right now, in mid-February, on a cloudless day […]
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Solar Power (part 6)
Read more: Solar Power (part 6)(continued from part 5) We’re still waiting for some insurance details to be cleared up. But at least finally the people from SCI-REMC, our electric utility, were here to do an inspection and a test run of the system. A nice, warm day (for January) enabled Alex and me to swing the mount to its […]
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Solar Power (part 5)
Read more: Solar Power (part 5)(continued from part 4) Alright, so I’ve been a bit busy. Two weeks ago Alex came over with his friend Ken to put up the mounting brackets for the PV panels. For that they set up the scaffolding. Here the panels are neatly laid out in our front yard. $1200 a piece! I sure hope […]
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Solar Power (part 4)
Read more: Solar Power (part 4)(continued from part 3) As a we are waiting to go operational I have some time to ponder the pros and cons of my $15,000 investment, alternative energies in general and solar in particular. Despite my feeling of doing something good for the environment and (maybe) for our bottom line I know that this technology […]
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