Benches
matt | May 1, 2010
So, I finally got my benches built. There’s a workbench in the garage, an a reloading bench in the reloading room.
The Caffeinated Penguin
musings of a crackpot hacker
Updated Fishies
matt | April 28, 2010
More pics.
Woz now has live plants
Heater cables are now routed so the case fits correctly.
Fishies
matt | April 20, 2010
So, the iMacQuarium is done, and now has an inhabitant – Woz the fish.
We’ve since added a heater and a bit of terrain. I’ll take pictures once we route the wires correctly for it. However, in order to do so, we need to empty out most of the water, and we don’t want to disturb [...]
Photoblog: Outside pics
matt | October 22, 2009
This post is less gallery, more linear.
I’m also putting in a cut to not make this too absurdly long.
Lizzy paints the garage, outside of the house with all the flowers in bloom (this is from about a month ago), and some other bits..
Photoblog: House walkthrough
matt | October 22, 2009
So, at this point, the main floor is basically done. We did the bedroom when we moved in, and over the past couple of years have hit the rest of the rooms on this floor, excepting the master bathroom (which is a gut to the studs and redo job) and the conservatory (which, aside from [...]
Photoblog update – dining room
matt | October 22, 2009
So, I think Lizzy is finally satisfied with the dining room – floor, crown molding, chair rail, molding frames, the shelf to hold Liz’s seasonal displays, new light fixtures, all that.
Goings on
matt | August 1, 2009
I realize entries have been sparse, but that’s because I’m trying to get a pile of things done before the oppressive summer heat settles in, which it kind of started to do last weekend, but I’ve been dealing. On thing that helps is these hydro neckbands. They seem silly, but are a definite improvement on [...]
Update
matt | July 6, 2009
Been busy, but still here.
I’ve updated the blog to WP 3.8.
I also had a bit of an overloaded meltdown a couple of weeks ago. Basically, the working theory was that we weren’t going to work on the house or do anything until after the potatoes went in (which happens about the second week of July). [...]
The problem with alternative energy
matt | May 29, 2009
So, let’s say that our monthly electric bill is 1000 kwh, and for this we pay something like $2k/year. There are 600 hours in a month.
Solar
Panels seems to be something like $1000 per 100w panel. 17 panels will give you 1kw, so you’ll get 600kwh for $17k… in Arizona. On the other hand, in NY, [...]
Weekend events
matt | May 11, 2009
Liz and I cooked up a storm and had a nice mothers’ day brunch with my folks and my in-laws. My father was apparently bored, however, and didn’t want to leave the new chandelier in the box:
So, we dragged out the scaffolding and the ladder and hung it up:
It’s much easier with three people, and [...]
