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11 February 2006
Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:02:32 GMT A Prairie Home Companionvia Kjell Olsen2292 days agoGarrison Keillor brought his show to my school tonight. I’d been once before, a few years back friends of my family were performing on the show and we got tickets. My family came up to see it. Good times were had by all. Great show.
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24 September 2005
Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:50:00 GMT Quit School and Set Things on Firevia Kjell Olsen2432 days agoIn the name of making our lives simpler, and more convenient, and safer, we’ve forgotten to include anything that we care about. Anything that stirs our souls.
Thoughts like this have been bouncing around in my head ever since getting to college – I thought maybe it would be a little different from the life I knew as a kid in elementary school, or a slightly bigger kid in high school. But it isn’t. And I bet that getting out into the world won’t be all that different from anything I’ve done to date, either.
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28 June 2005
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:44:00 GMT rss_live_archive :: regular :: wilshire|oneKjell Olsen2520 days agoNice archive plugin that fetches articles by date with ajax for textpattern. Ajax ajax ajax… (and it won’t work for me)
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18 June 2005
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:02:41 GMT GRYNX > Laptop on the wall - WallTopvia Kjell Olsen2531 days agoHow to build a live picture frame out of an old laptop. I have an old laptop, and this would sure be a cool project for it.
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08 June 2005
Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:58:39 GMT live recent changes feedvia Kjell Olsen2540 days agoA live change feed for wikipedia. Lots of stuff happening!
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31 May 2005
Tue, 31 May 2005 12:55:59 GMTBogtrotter
Richard A. Coffey
A couple’s memoir from the first year they lived in a cabin in rural central Minnesota. The two lived in Minneapolis and pulled up their roots to move up to their weekend cabin. I was reading this looking for some insight in to how I might be able to pull the same thing off, and didn’t find much. Interesting read though – I couldn’t have finished it if it wasn’t.
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22 May 2005
Sun, 22 May 2005 20:58:00 GMT Apartment Therapy - Smallest Coolest Apartmentsvia Kjell Olsen2557 days agoA collection of beautiful and functional small spaces, really cool stuff. The last one (Luke’s?) has the sweetest sleeping loft I’ve ever seen, and I have a fairly sweet one myself. How can anyone not sleep up in a loft?
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20 April 2005
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:07:08 GMT EVDO StompBox Projectvia Kjell Olsen2589 days agoImpressive linux box running broadcasting a wireless signal with a verizon cell data card to give an always connected link, even in the middle of nowhere.
The weekend of April 15 two of us took the system along during an 800mi drive through the high deserts of Southern California (Mojave and areas near). I’m quite surprised how far 1xRTT covers! We had continuous data for >90% of the trip. If the connection was re-established within 2 minutes (not hard when driving highway speeds) established TCP sessions resumed without worry. The only time we had extended data losses were when we stopped behind blocking geologic features (hills, ridges, etc) that kept us from seeing the nearest cel tower.
Also with gps and an ultra cool web app to google map the car’s exact location at any time… sweet. Also a camera to show where you are.
This should be good for security situations. If you point a camera inside at the driver’s position (from, say, the headliner or dashboard) you can make the video router start recording upon motion-sense. It would constantly upload the results to an offsite server along with timestamp and GPS coordinates. Even if the thief ripped the system out it would get a few good frames of him/her and store them offsite. If the equipment is hidden correctly it’ll give live GPS tracking and video to help with retrieval of the car.
Man, this stuff is cool.
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15 April 2005
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:04:36 GMT Workers of the world... relax! | MetaFiltervia Kjell Olsen2594 days agoMetafilter post with some nice links. Why do people have jobs anyway?
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08 April 2005
Fri, 08 Apr 2005 08:24:15 GMT Land Living: Modern Lifestyle Designvia Kjell Olsen2602 days agoPaolo Soleri is an Italian architect who was an apprentice of Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1940’s. Soleri later developed the concept of Arcology, the fusion of architecture and ecology, an alternative urban development form. In 1970 construction began on Arcosanti, a prototype town for 5,000 people (there are currently about 60 residents).
Looks cool.
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20 March 2005
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:13:59 GMT Living on the Cheap | Ask MetaFiltervia Kjell Olsen2620 days agoSuggestions as to how to obtain food on a budget: cook for yourself with fruits, beans and vegetables – a little meat mixed in.
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24 November 2004
Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:40:00 GMT Metroactive Dining | Figsvia Kjell Olsen2736 days agoA man sets out on a velo sojourn around california with almost nothing.
My gear was spare and simple, and with two bungee cords, I had no trouble getting it all secured to my bike. I packed a sleeping bag, a plastic tarp, some bike tools, my wallet, a book of maps, Thoreau’s Walden and, to keep myself presentable, a razor and toothbrush.
Fruit abounded in Napa and Sonoma counties. I passed scores of fig trees, and thousands of pounds of fruit lay rotting on the roadsides. I salvaged all that I could. I strung figs out on fishing lines in camp to dry, flavored my wine with them and feasted on them every night.
Hundreds of cars screamed by at 80 mph. There were human beings, like me, inside them all, but they seemed of a different world—a world fast, mean and powerful. Many people honked or gave me the finger as they roared past.
I had been gone almost two months, had traveled 2,500 miles, but as it always is after a long trip, it felt like I’d never even been away.
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