The answer? 20 years after Ronald Reagan famously removed Jimmy Carter’s solar hot water panels, George W. Bush installed the largest solar array on the Whitehouse out of anyone, believe it or not… Since September 2002, a grid of 167 solar panels on the roof of a maintenance shed has been delivering electricity to the White [...]
It’s official, I’m an internet nerd: “LMAO” stands for laughing my ass off.. The Noz, this guy is off the hook… I found this google searching for a blog post that’s about to appear here about Jimmy Carter’s solar panels… http://thenoz.wordpress.com/ Trav the Butcher. This is a guy right here in Utah who is actually [...]
My buddies the Williams brothers (two awesome, super down to earth white guys from Utah, who own about a dozen Hammond organs, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzers, Clavinets etc – even though they both play different instruments) turned me on to these guys. The Breakestra – who are one of my favorite bands, even though I’ve never [...]
Here is a bizarre twist of two of my interests meeting each other - social media, at the Sundance Film Festival. From The Festival Awards Page about it: “For the Documentary Competition top honor, the jury selected Ondi Timoner’s We Live in Public from the 16 films in the U.S. Documentary category. Timoner’s second Grand Jury Prize [...]
It’s about 3/4 through the festival and here’s an update on what we’ve seen and what’s been good… Rudo y Cursi – 6 or 7 out of 10. This is a pretty good movie about two brothers in rural Mexican who make it big for about a year in the Mexican Futbol (soccer) leagues. It’s produced [...]
Not a lot of people know about water issues in the west. The combination of population growth and some environmental issues, and then human practices like agriculture and drinking water tactics is restricting water flow to rivers and replenishment to important lakes and drinking water sources, and even places like The Great Salt Lake. Take [...]
Slumdog Millionaire has already won a lot of big awards this year. You may have seen an earlier post giving it the official endorsement, because it’s a great. But a lot of people think that movies like this are ‘rare.’ We’re lucky in that Carrie and I live right here in Park City, home of [...]
I personally see little potential in twitter, or so called “microblogging” as a social media marketing tool, as I consider it a communications tool. It’s sort of like marketing via the telephone. We all know how this this ended as a result of marketing initiatives: we have a federal do not call registry. Meanwhile, it [...]
Here is an interesting read from the NY Times today about Obama’s proposed stimulous plan… http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/us/politics/11radio.html Some quotes from it: President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday again raised the estimate of how many jobs would result from his economic recovery plan, now saying it would create or save three million to four million, nearly 90 percent [...]
For my friends in the Wasatch Cruisers I thought I’d put up a post about the bass player Charles Mingus. Listen to that bari saxophone starting it all off… This song, Moanin’, I call “Out of Cloud Chaos Comes Structure.” It gets pretty crazy there, lots of voices, and out of the chaos comes structure [...]
