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Installing a snow grate on the front door, Vermont-style

October 23, 2011

  After seeing many a house with a nice metal boot-scraping grate inserted into the deck, we decided it was time to pull the trigger. I called Fred Spencer of the Mountview Inn and asked him the various questions about grates, installation, steel vs. aluminum, etc. I measured out possibilities in front of our door and [...]

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New Hawaii Five-O Theme song ringtone for your iPhone/other

October 23, 2010

Apparently, the producers of the new Hawaii Five-O got as many of the original musicians from the 1968-1980 TV series with Jack Lord – and re-recorded the theme song for CBS’s new series. I searched all over online for the Hawaii Five-O theme song and found nothing – so i tried to make it myself. [...]

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AT&T 3G service in Vermont’s Green Mountains!

August 9, 2010

Welcome to the new world. This weekend I purchased AT&T’s 3G MicroCell. It’s actually a Cisco femotocell tower (Model# DPH151-AT) branded for AT&T. The simple idea behind this product is to give you cell phone service where NONE exists via your existing broadband Internet. This is not a signal booster, it is an actual mini [...]

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What will you do for Earth Day?

April 22, 2010

Remove a weekly fossil fuel burner from your life? After looking high and low (and even demoing a friends DR Neuton), i finally took the plung and bought an electric walk-behind (push) mower.i had $51 worth of credit at Home Depot, so i strolled in last night and found a nice Ryobi RY14110 Self-Propelled 48V [...]

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Apple iPad – yep, i’m an early adopter

March 12, 2010

Well, this morning I did the nearly unthinkable. I spent 45 minutes clicking my browser’s refresh button every 30 seconds or so as Apple updated their storefront to pre-sell the iPad. While often an early adopter of technology over the last 3 decades (Commodore 128, Apple Mac SE, Cisco 17xx series routers, Satellite pager, original [...]

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VT Compound un-gridlocked

December 16, 2009

Brian from B&H Electric spent the day yesterday cleaning up electrical work and connecting our home to the barn’s Kohler 12K backup power generator. We are now connected with Automatic Transfer Switches in both buildings and nearly ready for anything the weather (or power grid) can throw at us. Finally!    

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Re-launch of SmartBeetle

December 14, 2009

In preparation for the 10yr anniversary of the SmartBeetle trip around the fringe of America, I’ve just started the re-launch of the SmartBeetle.com site! While there are only 8 days of travels up so far, I hope to get at least a page or two of the journey a day uploaded over the next 2 [...]

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R.I.P. Rico

November 6, 2009

Rico – you will be missed – especially by Sadie, your girlfriend from up north.

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Fall foliage westie

September 26, 2009

Sadie relaxes in the sun with a cool autumnal breeze blowing

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Morning gigantic luna moths

June 22, 2009

This morning I woke up to take out the dog and on the wall and the grill were two 4" long green moths (not to mention the other 25 smaller variety swarming my head). Bright green with purple highlights, yellow antennae and white bellies and very long delicate tails, they didn't seem to mind me [...]

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