tingilinde

a 19 yr old visits a strange place

Eric Schmidt's (Google) daughter Sophie blogs about her recent trip to North Korea with her dad and Governer Bill Richardson.

recommended reading

 

possible storm outage

We're getting ready for the multi-storm event with Hurricane Sandy as the star performer.  This area of NJ is notorious for storm related electric power issues and our utility has issued a warning that we should prepare to be without power for at least one to two weeks.  If we lose power I won't be blogging, so in case you see the posts stop...

At about 6:30AM the local weather station a few miles from here is showing winds at 28 mph gusting to 44.  

(image from the NASA Suomi NPP saatellite at 02:42 EDT Sunday morning.  You can clearly make out sities in the Southeast and the cloudtops are nicely illuminated by an almost full moon)

spam and policy on posting comments

I get a lot of comments that are obviously spam. While comments are ver welcome, if they are spamish and have questionable links, they will be deleted. URL links will only be included if relevant.

The spammers can be awful...

tingilinde turns 10,000!

 

 

10,000 posts

 

yikes - tingilinde has been around since 2002.   I've spent about $1,000 on it over the years along with a few hours.  Thanks to all who have commented and suggested links and topics!

I'll have some ice cream in celebration - it is a lame excuse, but if you are looking for one ...

on the chinese calendar

Nancy recently pointed to a blog with quite a bit of remarkable content.  I waited until the weekend before having a look ..

 

here is an entry on the legend of the eastern calendar with lovely artwork

 

Cat people may enjoy the link on hero cats

a recommended blog

Ned points to Tom Murphy's Do the Math blog - a nice catch aimed at folks interested in physics and energy, but one that does not assume a deep background.  

You should also check out Ned's excellent Starchamber blog too.

do you need a blog?

Typepad - the folks that host tingilinde - have offered a one year free blog subscription that I can give away.  If you want it, send me a note telling me why you want to blog and I'll send it to whoever makes a compelling case.  

Send your note by October 1 - use the email me link on the upper right side of the page.

blog tagging

Some time ago I found myself part of a game where you would find a sentence in a physically close book and post it (encouraging others to join)... the results were approximately random, but fun..

Now a variation of tag ... and I'm "it"

hmmm ... five things people don't know about me...

• I like the smell of skunks

• I like brussels sproups, but only if they have been frozen on the vine (it makes them sugar)

• When I walk I often entertain myself by visualizing points in front of me and "slaloming" around them following bezier curves. This is particularly fun in NYC.

• The best time of the week is 7:40 pm on Friday.

• I sing poorly, but like to stand in front of powerful singers and let them guide me.

and one more for good measure

• There aren't many vegetarians from Montana -- I'm one of them.

OK ... now I tap Fernando Pereira, Steve Cisler, Hanna Wallach, Greg Blonder, and Lynn Cherny.

how completely juvenile of me

learn a language with your ipod

Slate ran a piece looking at podcast language courses.

The verdict is that Chinesepod rules.

r.i.p. crandall surf report 2.0

About a year ago I stopped posting to my old blog, the Crandall Surf Report 2.0, and setup shop at tingilinde. Today is the last day of my old account and the CSR fades away.

The unusual "blog" was the original Crandall Surf Report. I started moving from shortwave radio dx'ing to recreational surfing in late 1993 and sent out email reports of my findings. The structure of the emails was very bloggish. It slowly grew from five to about three thousand readers and management of the listserv required as much time as surfing and writing.

The old CSR ran for about five years until the ISP arm of my former employer told me the content was theirs (I wrote it on my time using my computer, network connection and listserv ... ). A legal type suggested I stop and I did. The CSR 2.0 started shortly after I left that company and was in the form of a formal blog to reduce the workload and be part of the 21^st century.