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We are all pigeons
Feb. 5th, 2006 08:03 pmFrom New Scientist, 4 February:
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urbpan, are you paying attention?
While I am asking questions,fadethecat, did the afghan, scarves and wrist-warmers ever arrive? Just checking, before I send anything more.
We bought two more light fixtures today, one for the bathroom and one for the downstairs bedroom; the electricians are coming Tuesday morning. Finally, we will have something more than one-bulb flush-to-ceiling light fixtures with frosted shades in the kitchen and dining room, and the same thing only with a missing shade in the guest bedroom. And outlets in the bathroom! Currently the only outlet in there is the 50's/60's era (original to the house) fixture that is medicine cabinet, light fixture, and single outlet all in one, and that outlet in the top of the medicine cabinet near the lights. This is not terribly convenient for people with an electric razor, a hair dryer, a space heater, and the occasional vacuum cleaner. Not to mention, the bathroom light is also rather inadequate for the amount of reading we do in there. The new fixture will accomodate four large flourescent spiral bulbs. May even improve our hair neatness if we can see what we're brushing!
And now to start in on the sock I need for Friday evening's alternate-heel-method class.
Pigeons to set up smog blog
Got your own blog yet? If not you'd better hurry up if you don't want to be beaten to it by a flock of pigeons. Later this year 20 of the birds will take to the skies above San Jose, California, each carrying a GPS receiver, air pollution sensors, and a basic cellphone. They will measure levels of pollution they encounter, and beam back their findings as text to a blog in real time. ...
The pigeon bloggers are due to be released at the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts' annual symposium in San Hose on 5 August. The data they send back will be displayed on the blog in an interactive map. ... [Eventually] the pigeons will also carry cameras around their necks and post aerial photos to the blog.
urbpan, are you paying attention? While I am asking questions,
fadethecat, did the afghan, scarves and wrist-warmers ever arrive? Just checking, before I send anything more.We bought two more light fixtures today, one for the bathroom and one for the downstairs bedroom; the electricians are coming Tuesday morning. Finally, we will have something more than one-bulb flush-to-ceiling light fixtures with frosted shades in the kitchen and dining room, and the same thing only with a missing shade in the guest bedroom. And outlets in the bathroom! Currently the only outlet in there is the 50's/60's era (original to the house) fixture that is medicine cabinet, light fixture, and single outlet all in one, and that outlet in the top of the medicine cabinet near the lights. This is not terribly convenient for people with an electric razor, a hair dryer, a space heater, and the occasional vacuum cleaner. Not to mention, the bathroom light is also rather inadequate for the amount of reading we do in there. The new fixture will accomodate four large flourescent spiral bulbs. May even improve our hair neatness if we can see what we're brushing!
And now to start in on the sock I need for Friday evening's alternate-heel-method class.
