Small boat on a tropical beach
I’ve been playing with a big site redesign - I’m thinking about switching to the “Options” theme and using Gallery2 for my photos, since google can index it and I can still set up print ordering. Anyway, just testing some things out. I feel like I’m staring up a very [...]
Good mead at the Solstice fest
We had a great anniversary day yesterday - spent it out at a middle ages festival that was like a mini RenFest but with more alcohol and more children with weapons. We got some very fine mead in a stoneware bottle, reuasable as an oil lamp with the appropriate wick, [...]
It’s the shortest night of the year. I’d much rather be out at a bonfire than here at the digital hearth, but at least Tony and I went out to the Friedricshain Folkpark and climbed the big hill out there. We had some good bread with local goat cheese on top, and split a bottle [...]
Had a friend from the States visiting this weekend, and got out to a couple of museums for the free Thursday museum nights. The Pergamon museum showcases architectural antiquities - here’s Dawn sitting on the steps of the enormous Altar of Zeus, which is not exactly the sort of thing you expect to find in [...]
Just got some older photos uploaded. They’re from the trip I took to the Seychelles Islands in early 2006 - midwinter holiday from work in Moscow to go meet up with family there. My dad was working on developing a marine protected area and it was a great excuse to Moscow’s January bleakness. At any [...]
Good mead at the Solstice fest
We had a great anniversary day yesterday - spent it out at a middle ages festival that was like a mini RenFest but with more alcohol and more children with weapons. We got some very fine mead in a stoneware bottle, reuasable as an oil lamp with the appropriate wick, [...]
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Photos from my trip to Tunisa a year ago. Ancient Carthage, famous enemy of the Roman Republic, is now part of a suburb of Tunis. The ruins are quite well preserved, and exploring them and the museum was a treat.
I’ve just been reading up on mycoremediation, or cleaning soil with beneficial fungi, at Fungi Perfecti.
Here’s an exerpt:
What can you do? Delineate your garbage into categories. Not only compost all organic debris, but segregate the refuse into piles appropriate for a variety of desired mushroom species. Inoculate cardboard and paper products, coffee grounds, and wood [...]
“Terra Preta”, or “dark earth”, is an Amazonian Indian technology which can vastly improve soil fertility and pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, potentially keeping it out for thousands of years. Biomass - plant and animal waste such as manure, waste wood, and crop leftovers - can be turned into charcoal (or “biochar”) and then buried in agricultural soil, making rich black earth that plants grow very, very well in. Charcoal is extremely porous, and provides a perfect environment for beneficial soil microorganisms that help plants grow. It also holds water, and can greatly help crops to survive drought conditions.
Small boat on a tropical beach
I’ve been playing with a big site redesign - I’m thinking about switching to the “Options” theme and using Gallery2 for my photos, since google can index it and I can still set up print ordering. Anyway, just testing some things out. I feel like I’m staring up a very [...]
The Viking Threat
I’ve been pretty busy this week trying to get some web software working - back in April when this blog crashed so did 4 other bits of online software I was running, and I’m finally getting them back up to speed. Anyway, I’ve been working with some models this week, including Tony who [...]
Small boat on a tropical beach
I’ve been playing with a big site redesign - I’m thinking about switching to the “Options” theme and using Gallery2 for my photos, since google can index it and I can still set up print ordering. Anyway, just testing some things out. I feel like I’m staring up a very [...]
So I couldn’t figure out how to get that backup to work, but luckily I’d been crossposting just about everything from this blog to LJ and was able to manually copy and paste most of my posts back in. I skipped some that were just links to galleries without text; I figure it would be [...]
Just got some older photos uploaded. They’re from the trip I took to the Seychelles Islands in early 2006 - midwinter holiday from work in Moscow to go meet up with family there. My dad was working on developing a marine protected area and it was a great excuse to Moscow’s January bleakness. At any [...]
Sorry about the lack of posts recently; I just made a major international move from Moscow to Berlin with about 2 week’s notice. My husband and are getting settled in fairly well now and I should be posting again regularly! The trip was… an adventure, in the way that badly planned things often are, but [...]
It’s the shortest night of the year. I’d much rather be out at a bonfire than here at the digital hearth, but at least Tony and I went out to the Friedricshain Folkpark and climbed the big hill out there. We had some good bread with local goat cheese on top, and split a bottle [...]
Went down to the Belarussian consulate to get our transit visas started today, but the line was too long and they said they wouldn’t get through what was there now before closing for their 2 hour lunch break… Now I have to go back again tomorrow but even earlier. Ugh. I hate mornings.
Today was just… [...]
