When Ali and I moved we decided not to get cable, it is just too much of a time sink. Whenever I’ve had cable I’ve found myself planted in front of the TV instead of doing more interesting things. And while I am completely and unwaveringly happy with our decision to go sans cable, I just stumbled across a new show on VH1 called In Tune. The idea is to take an up and coming artist and a well established one and put them together to perform each others music. It appears the upcoming show is featuring Paul Simon and John Mayer. I absolutely love both of these guys. If someone has a way to record this on VHS or burn a DVD for me please do. If you need my address to … Read More »

We’ve been in our house now for a couple of weeks and one thing we are noticing is that the heating system is woefully inadequate. First off, the furnace is a combination gas, wood burner. Combo units are typically very inefficient. Secondly, it turns out despite the fact that there were registers in the floor there is only one real vent on the second floor. It is in what will become the master bedroom once we gut it and redo it. But this winter we are going to be sleeping in the other bedroom and it has no register, and what I think is worse the bathroom doesn’t have one either. Thirdly, the third floor (read finished attic) doesn’t have any heat at all, and this is where I decided to put my office. … Read More »

Well it’s that time of year again; ski season is just around the corner. Last night my father in-law suggested we would be skiing in as little as four weeks. This reminded me that the new Warren Miller film should be out soon. Thus I went and checked the website and sure enough the trailer is available. This is his 55th annual film and it is currently making its way across the country. I highly recommend seeing it, or any Warren Miller film for that matter, if you have an opportunity — be warned, it will change your life.

I noticed this growing out of our basement wall a couple of days ago …

Somehow I missed it; I stumble across it a couple of days later. I knew the deadline was drawing near and that there would be a mad rush of teams trying to claim the prize. As it turned out SpaceShipOne claimed the price on October 4th (this is the team funded by Paul Allen of Microsoft fame). You can read more at CNN or Slashdot.

It also appers Virgin’s Richard Branson is getting in on the action. He has founded Virgin Galactic, and plans to license SpaceShipOne’s technology for its fleet.