December, 2015

The installers were correct, our solar panels do tend to clear themselves of snow. Ferrous was not amused by the occasional WHUMP today as each panel’s worth of snow fell from 2 stories up.

Making turkey & sage pie for dinner this week, and putting the dough in my Pi plate, I thought, “This needs to be geekier. How can I make this geekier?”

In recent years, this Christmas cactus has been a Thanksgiving cactus, a President’s Day cactus, or an Easter cactus. But it rarely blooms on Christmas Day.

These guys were jogging past the front of my office building and singing (yelling) Christmas carols military-fashion (ala Stripes).

I should not be able to harvest parsley from the garden on the last day of autumn.

The camcorder on the left is from 2000; the one on the right is brand new. The old one weighs 2.5 pounds, has a 25x optical zoom, and records an hour of digital old-style video onto a 1.5 ounce tape.  The new one weighs 10 ounces, has a 40x optical zoom, and records 2.5 hours of high-definition video onto a 1.5 gram memory card.  And is waterproof to 16 feet.

We had our “tenant appreciation breakfast” this morning at work. We had a new caterer, and everything was very pretty, but the glitter was a bit much. As one of my coworkers said, it looked like a unicorn had been using our elevator.

Boston Organics sure delivers a lot of citrus this time of year.

This scene greeted me as I walked from the garage this evening.