The middle path
An interesting
discussion of the two aspects of the middle path in Buddhism.
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Two more books
Two books that I saw in the Carleton book store:
Beautiful Tabletop Gardens
Creative
Tabletop Fountains
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Canadian Cook Books
I recently went to an exhibit on Canadian cook books at the national
library. It was a great exhibit. I wrote down some of the cookbooks that
looked interesting:
Canadian Cuisine: Natural foods and some mouth-waterings ways to prepare them. Ottawa: Canadian Government Travel Bureau 1966
Iroquois Foods and Food Preparation. Ottawa: Government 1916
The Culinary Historians of Ontario
Food Plants of Costal First Peoples. Nancy J. Turner.
Gathering What the Great Nature Provided: Food traditions of the Gitksan. By the people of ‘Ksan.
Foods of Spry’s Field. Urban Farm Museum Society. (See also here).
Also- a cookbook Colin liked: De la cremaillere a la table. Utensils de
cuisine et d’atre, trois siecles d’artisanat. Catherine Armington 1986.
Musee Stewart au fort de l’ile St. Helene.
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Job Search
The time has rolled around once again for the job search. This time I’m
going to look into a job in the technical writing field and see how that
goes. The government job
search site should prove helpful. As will the Charity Village website.
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Why Nerds Are Unpopular: Some Additional Points
Here the author of
the “Why Nerds are Unpopular” essay addresses some of the issues that
people reading his essay have raised. I think that the “Nerds deserve it”
section is relevant, because I agree with his statment that “The essay
wasn’t about whether or not nerds deserve to be unpopular, just why they
are. Certainly, some of the social skills that nerds avoid learning are
genuinely desirable ones.”
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Why Nerds are Unpopular
I think
this guy hits
it dead on.
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SQL naming conventions
Programmers tend to have their favoured naming conventions, which they
happily expound upon and advocate if encouraged. In the past I have been
somewhat oblivious to these conventions. This, time though, I’m taking
notice. Thus the
article on SQL naming
conventions.
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Perl DBi Examples
I need to put the large amounts of data generated by my model into a
database.
This page has
some helpful examples of how to use the perl DBI package. I’m using it to
help me decipher the example code that Colin sent me.
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Heat Transfer Calculator
Here’s a useful heat transfer calculator. Based on this calculator, a
10 x 20 foot
wall made of wood one foot thick with an inside temperature of 20 degrees
and an outside temperature of -30 will loose 416.63 BTUs of heat each
hour. If we imagine a room with four wall of this size and two walls that
are 10 x 10, the total heat loss per hour would be (416.63*4 + 208.31*2)
= 2083.15 BTU/hour
Wood stoves generally put out about 20 000 - 40 000 BTUs/hour, which means
they are more than sufficient to maintain the temperature of the room,
once it has been heated to 20 degrees.
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R-value and U-value
When reading about insulation, everyone mentions the R-value of the
insulation. But what is R-value?
This e-mail explains it. It says that the R-value is the inverse of
something called the U-value. The U-value is the ”
British thermal units of energy (Btu) that will flow through one
square foot of a material at whatever thickness it is, during one hour of
one degree Farenheit temperature difference between the air temperatures
at
the two sides of the material.”
To convert Btu (imperical unit) to Watts (meteric) use: Watts = Btu/hour x
0.293
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Straw-bale facts
I’ve returned to my straw bale housing research because I’m writing an
article on sustainable housing for my cold weather permaculture website.
This
site provides some interesting facts about straw bale houses,
including some information on heat loss and flamability.
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Driving to the market
This page makes the claim that you can reduce your CO2 emissions more
by driving to the local market and buying local food, than by
walking to the grocery but buying food that isn’t local. Or something like
that. The quote is a bit vague. Interesting idea- but I’m looking
for a more solid reference. I’d like to find the original study where this
fact came from.
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Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices
I know as well as anyone that sometimes it can be very hard to know what
sort of actions to take environmentally. We only have so much time, and
so many resources. We can’t do it all.
This
webpage is refreshing in that respect. It rates different
‘environmental options’ and says “If you can only choose one or a few
things to do,
these are the ones you should choose to have the most effect.”
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Rooftop Gardens
Can you guess what is motivating this entry? Shhhh… don’t tell Colin…
According to this
site, “Switzerland has just passed a bylaw which state that new
buildings must be designed to relocate the green space covered by the
building’s footprint to their roofs…”. How cool is that! The site also
says “Theoretically any roof surface can be greened- even sloped or curved
roofs can support a layer of sod or wildflowers”. Hehehehe.
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