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Interstices by Mark Moulton

Excellent Leader is really pleased to announce the publication of  Interstices, the collected poems of Mark Moulton.  Mark’s really an amazing guy – a talented artist and poet, an expert in the growth, management and financing of non-profit organizations, an expert in sustainable development, a successful contractor and manager (he built up Habitat for [...]

Caltrain Ballast Dump Cars

Caltrain has been running ballast trains again to their terminal at Chilco street again, and this morning i went outside and saw this cut of cars newly arrived on our neighborhood siding. These cars are incredibly covered in grafitti.   Many of them are very old. Check out this one:

Built in 1957, this one is [...]

SmartAC – smart enough?

In my ongoing quest for more electricity savings, I signed up for SmartAC with PG&E. On the whole this is a great deal. You call up PG&E and they come in and replace your dumb old analog thermostat with a fancy new digital one and then send you a rebate check for your trouble. The [...]

Home Energy Management Technology – Rich Green @ Xerox

Every thursday Xerox Parc has these great lectures on scientific topics. Today Rich Green from Rich Green, Ink spoke on current developments in home energy technology. Rich is a long time custom audio/video installer, and big honcho in Cedia, the professional installers’ association. The installers have branched out over time from just setting up stereos [...]

New CSN Setlist pages

With Crosby Stills and Nash on tour, it’s high time to update my list of every concert and setlist CSN has played, over at http://hempelpai.com/Music/csnylists.  In spite of the internet it’s actually harder to update this list today than ten years ago; sadly I think CSN has lost relevance to the hard core concert junkies [...]

google chrome os

Google’s chrome os is an interesting development, both logical and interesting from a historical perspective. It is logical — the world is rapidly moving into a web based cloud space.  Other than big companies with the resources to run large environments of their own, for individuals and small organizations, it’s just so easy and logical [...]