Saving my planted too early plants with an improvised cold frame

As a person who actually calculated the last frost dates (90 percentile) for Wilmington from the available data you would think I would know better. The above graph is the temperatures near my house for the past several days. Blue is below freezing, the dips to 25F were especially concerning to me and my poor plants. I knew ahead of time that temperatures would dip below freezing, but I now had lettuce, Brussels sprouts and strawberries newly...

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The Honest Hypocrite in Lego Spaceship Letters

Andertoons has completed his quest to make a LEGO spaceship for every letter of the alphabet. I have taken advatange of his typography to put "The Honest Hypocrite" in LEGO spaceship type. (click the picture for larger)I have combined two of my favorite things, LEGO and this blog. Enj...

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March Madness Simulations

My March Madness NCAA basketball playoff simulation this year followed the schema of the Playoff Fantasy Football simulations.I used the Sagarin ratings to get information on the teams' expected performance.The difference between the ratings for two teams is the expected spread and I used the normal distribution with a standard deviation of 8.83 points to get the probability of a team beating another team.I then simulate the whole tournament as many...

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M - O - O - N that spells Moon

M - O - O - N that spells Moon license plate in Delaware.Two points for the movie or book referen...

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Captains of the Axiom from WALL-E

Captain Reardon 2105-2248 143 yearsCaptain Fee 2248-2379 131 yearsCaptain Thompson 2380-2520 140 yearsCaptain Brace 2521-2645 125 yearsCaptain O'Brien 2646-2774 128 yearsCaptain B. McCrea 2775-The events of WALL-E occur 700 years after the Axiom leaves Earth in 2105. The captains are very long lived, perhaps due to the microgravity, which appears to have offset any decrease in longevity due to obesity.If these are the beginning...

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Hard drive prices from $1million/GB to pennies/GB in 30 years

The ever increasing pace of progress has made once incredibly expensive things available to the masses for pennies. No where has this been more evident than in the computing industry where each year more computing power becomes available for the same price as the year before. Computing equipment is one product in a deflationary spiral, and that's good.One example of this decrease in price is in the price per GB of hard drive storage. Some have...

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VANGOH license plate in Delaware

Van driver and art afficianado.  The owner of this VANGOH license plate has it a...

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Grammar mechanic at work.

This sign at Branmar plaza needed some fixing.I had some black electrical tape in the car so I fixed it.There I fixed that for y...

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I don't know his name but his face sure rings a bell...face blindness tests

A tweet or two and the requisite post on BoingBoing about Oliver Sax and his prosopagnosia—or "face blindness" pointed me to the faceblind.org testing site to see if I was good at recognizing faces or not. I think I am pretty good at recognizing people, it is the names that I have a hard time with.The test confirmed by suspicion. I am pretty good at recognizing faces. For the unfamiliar faces test the results are below:With a 93% vs. an average...

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