Progressive Odyssey

The Occupy protests sparked my curiosity yesterday with their "99%" slogan.  Specifically, it got me thinking about tax burden in ...

The temperature measurement system I installed in late June has been running for several months now with only minor problems and with the h...

For the past few weeks I've been "in-progess" on installing a tubular skylight for the stairwell leading to our basement. The...

Shown below is one of many large displays on campus used for things like campus announcements, latest headlines from the news, and weather f...

Last night we had a severe thunderstorm roll through the area, causing damage throughout the city. Winds were up to 70 mph, 2.25 inches of...

As I mentioned previously , I spend the first half of last week in Detroit at a conference for those of us in the power and energy part of e...

The front half of this past week I spent in Detroit at a conference, the General Meeting for the IEEE Power and Engineering Society . The m...

A friend of mine pointed me towards this video on Youtube of an impressionist doing a speech from Shakespeare in a variety of characters. T...

A frog happened to wander its way into our backyard. Our dogs found it. The poor frog will remember this day for a while (assuming he makes ...

My previously mentioned tutor and nerd mentor who enabled me to get started on this project took one look at my code and found the mistake t...

A year or so ago we installed an Airscape whole-house fan. The fan is supposed to provide cooling to the house in two ways: Pulling coo...

I spent most of Saturday crawling around the attic and drilling small holes in the ceiling to complete a project I've been batting aro...

After about 24-hours of peace and quiet away from Anise, our little guys seemed to be doing fine (psychological damage aside) and so we deci...

For several days now whenever we have let Anise outside to run around and get out some of the crazies she has been trying to get under our d...

We've got two outdoor-oriented trips in the near future that our dogs will be joining us on and to cut down on the amount of bramble tha...

Check out this little article I stumbled upon in my blogger reading today: Just the Simple Truth . For those of you who are a little bit mor...

I just turned off the gas to our furnace and turned on our the fan to cool the house off this morning. I think its officially the start of ...

I'm officially in my first semester of my PhD at Wichita State studying power systems and am taking a class this semester on renewable ...

Here's a great visual depiction of the budget President Obama has proposed, put together by the NY Times. Items of notes: According ...

Below is a fantastic little short movie that I'm watching on a regular basis now because it reminds me so much of where I grew up and wh...