We’ve begun the kitchen remodel.
These are a couple of photos stitched together of the west side, which is the smallest side. The lower right-hand corner is really a distortion created when i uploaded the file to flickr.
We’ll be replacing these 1970’s reject cabinets with something a little more modern. We’ll also be eliminating the soffit so that we can put ceiling-height (39″) cabinets in.
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My dad always tells me about a place in Florida called the Bottlecap Inn. It was covered floor to ceiling in bottlecaps done up in intricate designs.
It sounds like a bit of Americana that’s bound to be long gone, but, perhaps a modern day version, like this desk with every surface covered with floppies might catch on…
Space Imaging => Ancient Observatories
Google Earth can be a lot of fun. I’ve tried tracking down Easter Island, the Great Pyramids, Machu Picchu and others just to see what they look like from space, but, Google Earth doesn’t always have high resolution pictures of the interesting places (mostly because they’re in the middle of nowhere – Easter Island barely looks like a land mass.)
Spaceimaging.com has posted this series of photos of some of the more interesting ruins around the world.
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TheStar.com => Hoodwinking the censors
China has the most sophisticated and effective Internet censorship regime in the world, employing North American technology from Cisco Systems Inc. and Canada’s Nortel Networks Corp., among others, to filter out banned material.
“Banned Material” being subversive stuff like letting their people discover Taiwan isn’t part of China.
Hopefully, this merry band of freedom fighters can make a difference…
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How come everytime I go to Taiwan, I never see the fun stuff like this?
BBC NEWS => Proposals to Recreate Stonehenge
I’m sure this proposal to recreate Stonehenge as it existed in its heyday is all about the science and not about the not inconsiderable tourism dollars it could generate.
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The lonelocust.com blog just hit its 300th post. Pity it was about McDonald’s, but that’s the breaks.
This is the 301st post.
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BusinessWeek=> McDonald’s wants a digital-age makeover
Staring last year, all the McDonalds’ in Phoenix started getting a major makeover. As far as I can tell, most of them are done. They’ve changed the color schemes, the seats, added wi-fi and televisions displaying news… but none of them seem to have gone as far as this article suggests. (Pity the wi-fi isn’t free, but then, I’d never take my iBook close to a table with hamburgers with special sauce on them!)
I wonder if the Phoenix franchisee is one of those who did the small makeover and is now being asked to do it again?
I can’t imagine the McDonalds’ in Taiwan making these changes – the kids already spend hours there. They buy one cup of tea and sit there studying and socializing all day.
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So here’s a question:
When I left for work Wednesday morning, my PowerMac was working normally, as was my PC laptop/docking station.
During the day, a tech from the cable company re-wired the cable modem lines coming into the house. When I returned home that night, my computers were still running, but the integrated Nic on my PowerMac was dead and the charging unit on the docking station was fried.
Only the PowerMac is wired into the network, and it has 2, count them 2 hubs between it and the cable modem. The docking station isn’t even attached by cable to the network, I use the wireless card in the laptop. Both are connected to the same surge suppressor and UPS, but there’s no evidence that there was any power fluctuation of any kind. The UPS passes all diagnostics and show no log of a problem.
How the heck did this happen?
Little Storping-in-the-Swuff => Eccleston vs. Tennant
I ran across this blog while scanning for Doctor Who information the other day, and I gotta say, anybody who doesn’t think much of the Slytheen is OK in my book.
This particular entry is a summary comparison, episode by episode between Christopher Eccleston and David Tennat’s Doctors so far. Can’t say I disagree with anything he’s said much, although, I think I’d put “The End of the World” and “New Earth” is a dead heat.
(And, for the Avengers fans out there, I love the reference to Little Storping-in-the-Swuff.)
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