Historical Histrionics

September 14th, 2007

My friend Lance, here in Asheville, hacks for Electric Sheep Company during the day, and by night is actor extraordinaire.

Starting next week, the immediate theatre project will be presenting Copenhagen, with Lance playing the physicist Werner Heisenberg. The play centers around a meeting (in Copenhagen) that occurred between the seemingly at-odds scientists during the [...]

Government Handouts

August 21st, 2007

If you Google around enough, with diligence and creativity in your search terms, plus a dash of willingness to check out page 12 of the results, you just might find some value provided by your government.
For example, I’ve been trying to spruce up the overgrown, dreary and downright treacherous shrubs, bushes and vines littering my [...]

Free Energy

August 3rd, 2007

While doing some work around my house, I found our old coal chute, which had been boarded over and backfilled with coal.
I now have a barrow full of coal.
How does one dispose of a barrow full of coal? Google only leads me to methods and facilities for recycling coal ash. Converting coal into [...]

Old and New

July 17th, 2007

My friends Trish and Pete have been thinking about home-ownership lately.
This made me ponder my own abode, and went surfing around. My little village here has nicely digitized quite a bit of their real-estate records, and made them easily searchable. I was able to come up with the original plat describing my street [...]