We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles. — Thomas Edison
I recall going to a science centre as a child and seeing a stationary bike hooked up to a generator and lightbulb. Museum patrons could do a bit of cycling and watch as the light burned brightly. Nowadays, cycling powers …
Continue reading Life on a shoestring: Part II — Pedal for your Power
After much rain, it’s supposed to be nice out today! Time for a picnic in a park?
Cherry blossoms in High Park. Colours edited and image was cropped.
Taken in High Park. Contrast was adjusted.
Yes, it’s that crazy week again. Pi Day, Dead Caesar Day, and St. Patrick’s Day. But that’s not why this week’s blog post is so short… I’m trying to cook up a storm (having likely discovered one unrelated HTML5 bug in each of Safari and Firefox), so we’ll see what happens next week. Hopefully there …
Continue reading Jam-packed week
It’s been a year since Jorge managed to convince me to start blogging. Things have mostly been downhill since the 15K+ views for my iPad environmental impact analysis, but that was mostly to be expected, given the media coverage around iPad at the time. Besides, many of the views are just from spammers. However, truth …
Continue reading Debeakered: One year and 49 posts later