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Too much time on my hands?
Posted by Tim at 8/27/2008 6:12:47 PM
I don't know if it makes sense, but here is a bumper sticker I designed.
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Wind Turbine Syndrome?
Posted by Tim at 8/14/2008 9:40:09 AM
Just what we need... another syndrome!
I'm pretty sure living next to a wind turbine would drive me nuts to the point of moving and selling my house at a huge discount because most people won't choose to live in the shadows of a noisy, shadowy, wind turbine... unless of course the wind turbine is theirs and it's pumping free electricity into their house and the rest is being sold for profit to an electric company. For some reason I don't think the people that own wind turbines are the ones living next to them. What do you think?
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Are you against wind turbines being put out in lake michigan? like 5 miles out where no one on shore would even see them?
Posted by Matt on 8/27/2008 5:17:47 PM
I'm not opposed to wind turbines being put in lakes or oceans for any reason EXCEPT that it’s a dumb thing to do as a replacement to tried and true alternatives like new coal or nuclear plants. From my somewhat limited knowledge on the issue, I don't think wind or solar currently has the potential to fulfill our growing energy needs. At the same time these alternative methods carry some really negative downsides such as cost effectiveness, and noise and clutter pollution. I personally think we shouldn't stick wind turbines and solar panels here there and everywhere IF we don't have to….and I don't think we currently do! So it's dumb, in my humble opinion, to put wind turbines in any lake or any field until wind turbines are more effective than, out of sight, out of mind, power plants. That’s just me, but I don’t have a hypocritical conscience about global warming. If your someone who believes in fairytales, then the huge downsides to replacing power plants with alternative methods that won’t meet demand while cluttering the atmosphere, which will drive energy prices through the roof and make the environment a worse place for us and animals to live….. THEN I think we might disagree on the issue. Not you Matt, I’m pretty sure that is not where you are coming from. From a standpoint of just being interested in alternative energies and believing in its future, I’m not opposed.
Posted by Tim on 8/27/2008 6:08:50 PM
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A great week of vacation.
Posted by Tim at 8/12/2008 10:37:18 PM
Last week was one of my first Mid-West vacations in many years, but it was one of my best vacations in a very long time.

We started off Friday night by grilling out with some new friends from Laurie's mommy group and their husbands and babies Audries age.

Saturday we took the SS Badger across the Michigan to spend some time with Dan & Cathy in Pentwater. The Badger ride took about six hours but was a lot of fun. We had a small state room that we used to give Audrey a nap. The rest of the boat had some food and entertainment to make the time go by fast. We really enjoyed the ride. Pentwater was as great as we remembered and we had a blast! It was also nice to meed Dan's family who we have heard so much about. Thanks again Dan & Cathy!


Tues night we took the badger back to Wisconsin from 7PM to Midnight. We ended up getting home around 2AM. We would have made it home sooner except they loaded a huge tank on a trailer onto the boat which took an extra hour to load in Michigan and an extra hour to unload off the boat in Wisconsin.

Wednesday and Thursday were spent enjoying the east side of Milwaukee around home.

Wednesday we had a sitter in the morning and at night which was real nice. In the morning I finally got to sit down by Altera at the Lake and have lunch. I say I because Laurie has gotten to do it periodically. Afterwards Laurie and I went sailing for the longest and farthest we have ever gone together on an Ideal18 sailboat. We had great wind! At night we walked down to Brady and ate at our favorite American Mexican restaurant. It was a great day.

Thursday we had Audrey all day which was a lot of fun. We started out by biking to altera for lunch... again! Afterwards we biked around for a while. Later during Audreys nap we finally spent some time in our nice backyard and patio. That night we walked down to bradford beach where Laurie played volleyball with Janet & Pierre while I played with Audrey on a blanket in the sand. Perfect!

Friday through Sunday was spent at Green Lake with my parents, grandma, Luke, Christopher & Shawna, and their friend Kristin. We had great weather and it was a great end to a great week of vacation!
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Sounds like you had a great week! A well deserved break!
Posted by Anne on 8/13/2008 3:25:43 PM
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Posted by Tim at 7/30/2008 10:31:26 AM
I'm tired of seeing SPAM comments and just want it to end. So if you want to comment you will have to add up 2 + 2 and enter the answer above the comment box. This is my quick fix before figuring out something better. I figure if I'm not going to use my website much, I shouldn't be letting spammers use it either.)
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If the answer is always 4 they will figure it out pretty quick...
Posted by Brian on 7/30/2008 2:41:55 PM
Are you saying they actually program their bots to answer questions, even on little websites like mine? I'm assuming some bot found my site and could easily post comments. My thinking now is that in order for me to get spammed, someone would have to manually see that my little site needs 4 put in a certain textbox and then program their spambot to add it automatically.

If that's what is happening, someone has too much time on their hands to worry about this site.

If the bots are trained to try and try until it posts and then remember the combination of entered text to figure out a 4 must be entered in a particular box, then I'm probably in trouble. If that is what they have trained their bots to do, then what if I were to add a second answer box?

Anyway, we will see. I'll probably use this until I start getting spammed. If I do get spammed right away then I need to give the spam bot programmers credit.

No phoney spam comments please:)
Posted by Tim on 7/30/2008 2:58:56 PM
I tried a deterrent similar to this. It took them not long at all to notice and add the answer to their script. I think it was a few weeks I was ok. CAPTCHA's suck but at least I don't get spam on my site anymore. If you want the code to what I used I can email it to you...
Posted by Brian on 7/31/2008 4:25:06 PM
OK thanks. I'll let you know if I end up needing it... or you will see that I do.ha
Posted by Tim on 8/1/2008 10:11:46 AM
I dunno, can computers even do math?
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The Dark Knight George W Bush
Posted by Tim at 7/25/2008 4:42:03 PM
Good Article
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