Forty SunPower panels sitting in my driveway… woot! Installation starts today!
Woot!
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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!
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.
Pan at Ease
Life-Size Angry Birds
A T-Mobile promo featuring a life-size game of Angry Birds played using a smartphone. Cool.
Cat in a Box
New Shiny!!
Look at my new shiny! An all electric Nissan LEAF. Yay!
After a test drive of the LEAF at the SF Auto Show in November last year and discovering what a fun, surprisingly-roomy little vehicle it was, I knew I wanted to drive electric, even if it meant giving up my Audi A3.
Unfortunately, I also discovered that the waiting list was already closed, so I immediately jumped on the reservation list for the still-under-development Tesla Model S instead. But this week I found out that I could take home an “orphaned” LEAF immediately despite the waiting list (though, for a premium). This is a vehicle that somebody ordered but then decided to back out of – the dealers are selling them to other buyers willing to pay a little extra. So I get to enjoy it while still waiting to see what comes of the Tesla Model S.
Awesome! Driving electric now!
Attack of the Giant Cat
Oh noes!
And more giant cat pictures:
