Forty SunPower panels sitting in my driveway… woot! Installation starts today!
Year: 2011
The Internet is Coming! The Internet is Coming!
No, it’s true! I can see it!
Okay, so in reality they’re working well away from the house down the utility pole line. But they’re on their third day now. It’s coming! It’s coming!
See, it’s like this. The previous owners built this house on a little hill and both power and phone lines were run up a series of utility poles the long way around, despite there being houses just below in another direction. With power. And phone lines.
Anyway… so they didn’t want to pay the significant cost for Comcast to run up the long way along these utility lines and just made do with DSL for internet access. But at just 1.5 Mbps, that’s not really cutting it for everything that’s possible via the net today. So I had to pony up a third of Comcast’s cost to get them to run their cable up here… again, the looong way round. But here it comes!
Tesla Factory Tour Event
As a Model S reservation holder, I was invited to Tesla’s factory tour event which included a short ride in a beta version of the upcoming Tesla Model S. Here are pictures and a short video from the event.
Live Raptor Presentation
Halloween at the Wellers
Boggs Mountain Biking
Pictures and video from a fantastic weekend of mountain biking at Boggs Mountain with the Bay Area Outdoor Adventure Club:
Pirates of Cache Creek 2011
Finished putting together the pictures plus a little video for the “Pirates of Cache Creek” rafting weekend with the Outdoor Adventure Club.
EV Car Hater’s Guide
Plugincars.com recently put out a couple of “guides” that make fun of all the anti-EV arguments — they’re up to two chapters now. Kinda fun:
http://www.plugincars.com/ev-haters-guide-chapter-2-107607.html
http://www.plugincars.com/ev-haters-guide-hating-electric-cars-107560.html
I definitely encounter these folk now and again — one today at a biking group lunch of eight or so who were otherwise enthusiastic.