Paul Boutin wrote a nice article for the New York Times last month entitled Low-Tech Fixes for Hi-Tech Problems. The article begins with a plastic bag solution to unreadable credit cards and goes on to detail low tech solutions to other hi-tech problems. Here is an excerpt: …it’s one of many low-tech fixes for high-tech [...]
My good friend Mike R. is a Civil War buff. He loaned me a book entitled Ranger Mosby by Virgil Carrington Jones. I finished the book this past weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ranger Mosby tells the story of John S. Mosby beginning with his life at the University of Virginia before the Civil War [...]
Spring is here, bringing flowers, green grass, and (unfortunately) ticks. Ticks, particularly the tiny deer tick, can spread diseases. This past Friday, I spent some time clearing brush on our property. I subsequently discovered a tick on my arm. This is the second tick I’ve found on myself already this year. This particular tick broke [...]
After reading some material from the Piedmont Environmental Council on compact fluorescent light bulbs, my wife and I started replacing our incandescent lightbulbs with CFLs as the old bulbs burned out. The claims about the CFLs sound good: Because CFLs are so much more efficient than incandescent bulbs, a family can expect to save $30-60 [...]
Marketing author Seth Godin recently asked: What do you do when you read Kevin Kelly? If you haven’t read his book turned into a blog, time to catch up. I admit I was not already familiar with Kevin Kelly’s writing so I checked it out. Ten years ago, he wrote a book about the future [...]