Author: Zane Selvans

A former space explorer, now marooned on a beautiful, dying world.

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Tweets for the week of 2011-01-30

  • Great reason #628 to ride a bike: no license plate for the mall rent-a-cops to OCR: http://lat.ms/exZnFX #
  • Yikes! @NREL has an evil twin @fossilenergygov “Ensuring the US can continue to rely on clean, affordable energy from domestic fossil fuels” #
  • As if Massey and Exxon needed any help with that task. #
  • A look at the economics of fixing our solar-thermal hot water vs. a higher efficiency boiler or hot water heater http://bit.ly/fgZobb #
  • Having trouble psyching myself up to go to the CU job fair. Bleah. #
  • At least based on job fair mix, the forces of evil definitely pay better. #
  • Bike ride wins out over 2nd round of job fair. #
  • Joe Biden: “Mubarak is an ally, not a dictator”. Sadly those aren’t mutually exclusive. I’m embarrassed by my government. #
  • It’s warm enough that I’ve opened all the windows to air out the house. Hooray for Colorado winter! #
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Tweets for the week of 2011-01-23

  • I should take advantage of this incredible January weather and go for a lunch ride since MySQL doesn't care about the weather or the time. #
  • "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." (MLK, 1963) #
  • Going to bed with "Sustainable Energy" from MIT Press and a glass of the only beer that's got a public carbon footprint http://bit.ly/ffUQRg #
  • I am Jack's persistent raging insomnia. Come on brain, why can't we go to sleep now? #
  • Still can't sleep. Finished Bill McKibben's Eaarth. Mostly good, except for some latent anti-urban sentiment. #
  • No amount of editing can make my resume look like it matches the jobs I'm applying for. Cover letters FTW! http://bit.ly/hnkdJc #
  • Bike touring is almost a Buddhist activity. Getting too attached to any particular plan will usually lead to some kind of suffering. #
  • In Serbian, the letter R is a vowel. And the acronym for USA is SAD. No kidding 🙁 #
  • Heading up Flagstaff in the winter sun, and then
 a nap! #
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Tweets for the week of 2011-01-16

  • Outside: 263°K. Front room: 285°K. Tea kettle, computer, lights and me in the bedroom yields 291°K. I call it my PassivRaum. #
  • Uh oh. Snow on the outside, and no coffee on the inside! I guess this is why we have tea. #
  • Yowza, I clearly need some new gloves or I'm going to end up with frostbite here before too long. #
  • Applied for Argosy Fellowship @RockyMtnInst doing deep energy efficiency retrofits (saving >50% energy, net $ positive) http://bit.ly/gGrsN3 #
  • OH: "Unless we're having sex, maybe one of us should keep our pants on." #
  • Scoring Bicycle Friendly Businesses for @bouldergobldr and @CommunityCycles We got 43 completed surveys in just 1 week! #
  • Early indications are it's going to be more difficult to return to Earth than I had hoped. #
  • Just filled out the @bouldercounty Transportation Master Plan survey: http://bit.ly/f93bwD #
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Tweets for the week of 2011-01-09

  • Is it just me, or are Boulder's new building energy efficiency standards a little bit passive aggressive? http://bit.ly/euJjOl #
  • I love that Boulder has a Winter Bike to Work Day in January. Hopefully I'll have some awesome Winter Work to Bike to! http://bit.ly/eixB2Y #
  • Got a big pot of mean green Thai curry on the stove. Now if only there was someone to share it with. #
  • Yowza… 32 hours awake + mug of mulled cider + monolake/gobi the desert == sleeepytime. #
  • Listening to a librarian trying to explain eBook DRM arcana to a senior citizen with an eReader. Talk about torture. #
  • Thoughts on "Toward a Zero Energy Home" which I just read. Probably overly critical. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood: http://bit.ly/en0Obm #
  • Holy crap. Is this for real? Did we seriously just have a political assassination in Arizona? @Rep_Giffords #
  • Thank you to @amac for resisting subpoenas of Twitter user data as permitted by law. Now if only telcos would do the same. #cablegate #
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journal

What I’m reading at the begining of 2011

Zane's reading at the end of 2010

Generally a cities and sustainability theme:

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tweets

Tweets for the week of 2011-01-02

  • Found a good source for Sichuan ingredients! However, it's 50 km ride round trip. #
  • Headed out to ride around a bit on the second to last warm sunny day of the year, and find me an LED light bulb. #
  • Hopefully one can attend Green Drinks without actually getting any drinks… Guess we'll see. #
  • Social meetups in locations where the walls are lined with televisions… maybe not so good. #
  • Made a new rĂ©sumĂ©. Comments? Feedback? http://zaneselvans.org/resume/ #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-12-26

  • Slowly returning to the land of the living. Just in time for the darkest day of the year. #
  • Having failed to get any sleep whatsoever, I will now attempt to schmooze at #BOCC And I hate schmoozing. Even when well slept. #
  • #BOCC was good fun, even underslept. Informal, chit-chatty. All the suits relegated to a lonely corner. Will definitely go again. #
  • I sure hope when Boulder @bcycle gets started next year it stays open after 11pm. And, um, after November would be nice too! #
  • Headed up to Brainard to snowshoe in the full moon light. #
  • Snowshoeing was clear, windless, but forgot my poles in the parking lot. So warm today, almost biked up to look for them, rode east instead. #
  • Ideotrope photo archives now available, with full embedded metadata. Contact me for details. Merry Christmas! #
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linkstream

Yahoo! is De-rezzing

Where does the data go when the host dies? Yahoo is coming apart at the seams, and they’re taking the social bookmarking site Delicious with them.  I use this service to generate the linkstream in my sidebar here.  Thankfully, I’ve had WordPress importing all that content weekly for a long time, so I’m not in danger of losing any information.  I just have to deal with the pain in the ass of figuring out a new way to implement this functionality.  If you care about information you must be constantly vigilant against entropy.  Ideotrope photo archives with full metadata are now available by the way…

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Tweets for the week of 2010-12-12

  • If Antarctic Yeti seeking an ice-free homeland were responsible for climate change, what would we do? http://bit.ly/fA6e9W #
  • Want the Guardian to search for stuff in the full #cablegate archive? Tweet search terms to @GdnCables #wikileaks #
  • Oh LaTeX, how I've missed you. Not. #
  • Headed off to do the Winterbike Workshop @CommunityCycles Thankfully we were able to get winter postponed until next week. #
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Tweets for the week of 2010-12-05

  • Drove for the 1st time since @BurningMan today. Borrowed @SomeR_andom truck to pick up 50 bikes from the Boulder police for @CommunityCycles #
  • I used to feel silly for thinking of coal fired power plants as terraforming stations, but not any more: http://bit.ly/hOKMM3 #
  • Listening to Geir Jenssen and writing about ice. #
  • Taking a break from the YHP to go to the Boulder Tool Library opening. #