Category Archives: WTF

Hanlon’s Razor and Online Comments

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Eric Sandeen

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. – Hanlon’s Razor   Boy, but sometimes it is hard.  There was a recent article in the local paper about a solar manufacturing plant going up on Minnesota’s Iron … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Renewable, WTF | 6 Comments

Google PowerMeter flatlines

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Eric Sandeen

Well, they did it.  Google killed PowerMeter. This is lame.  I mean – really, really lame.  After signing up hardware partners and gathering a good number of users, google.org, “the philanthropical wing of Google” has killed PowerMeter, because, well, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Monitoring, WTF | 9 Comments

New look

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Eric Sandeen

I didn’t intentionally change the layout… EPEL sprung a WordPress 3.1 upgrade on me, and it seems the old theme is gone (in addition  to needing a database upgrade before anything would even display, bleah!)  So you’ll have to stare … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Linux, WTF | 4 Comments

Hate CFLS?

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Eric Sandeen

The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, signed into law by Pres. Bush, set efficiency standards for lighting.  Yes, this is the “incandescent ban” you may have heard about.  It doesn’t actually do that, it just sets efficiency standards … Continue reading →

Posted in Conservation, Energy, WTF | 28 Comments

#smartgridfail

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Eric Sandeen

Ok, ok, so Saint Paul doesn’t have a buzzword-compliant “smart grid” but I did at least have digital meters which the utility could read via some proprietary RF signal. So why, now that I have solar panels, a production meter, … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, WTF | 5 Comments

Cycling towards Socialism!

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Eric Sandeen

Aw, nice bike!  Looks innocuous, right?  NO!  That red bike is the friendly looking twin of the black helicopter!

Posted in Conservation, Energy, WTF | 5 Comments

Pseudo-righteousness

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Eric Sandeen

Wow. So Stephen Colbert interviewed Mary Matalin the other day.  He heads right in, spots the cross she’s wearing, and says, riffing on Glen Beck: Colbert: “Now why are you wearing a cross … you know Jesus preached Social Justice … Continue reading →

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craigslist nanny-state

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Eric Sandeen

So I posted this on craigslist: New, unopened 2nd-gen 8G iPod Touch – $190 This is a brand-new, unopened 2nd generation 8G iPod Touch; I got it with a new laptop, but have no need for it. On Edit: Need … Continue reading →

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What is this scam?

Posted on September 7, 2009 by Eric Sandeen

So I post an iPod for sale on craigslist, and I’m getting these: I’m just interested in the iPod ,just wanted to get your attention. I’d love to buy the iPod as a perfect gift for my fiancee.he just got … Continue reading →

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Coming clean on O_PONIES

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Eric Sandeen

The O_PONIES thing came up in the context of how ext3 behaves, how app writers wish that every filesystem behaved like ext3 (in the good ways , of course, not in the bad ways, oh no!) and how generally they’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Linux, Uncategorized, WTF | 3 Comments