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Malvina Reynolds – God Bless the Grass

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Seems like an appropriate song for 4/20.

God bless the grass that grows thru the crack.
They roll the concrete over it to try and keep it back.
The concrete gets tired of what it has to do,
It breaks and it buckles and the grass grows thru,
And God bless the grass.

Self-Isolating done right! at the Cabin!

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Welcome back to the cabin. Pull a seat, forget your troubles, and enjoy the sound of a crackling outdoor fire and the sound of a steak sizzling on the grill. This is the way to self isolate! and let's have a friendly chat around the fire. Ahhh, this is the way life should be.

The Byrds – Have You Seen Her Face?

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Sometimes music is just timeless. The Byrds, with their interesting mix of electric-folk-rock and strident melodies are a great way to kick start a Monday morning.

Technology Connections – Chest Freezers; What they tell us about designing for X

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This video is super cool. We're talking about refrigeration, and how the design of a refrigerator affects its energy consumption. Freezers are the perfect place to see this in action, so let's take a look!

Chest freezers are remarkably clever for a variety of reasons -- and quite energy efficient for what they do. Yet, they're not as popular as you might think, especially for primary storage of food, probably because it's a lot more rummaging through to find things. There really good to have if you have and harvest animals for meat.

Computers were faster when they were slower!

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Luke makes some good points about computers getting faster -- they generally aren't for users -- because coders are getting sloppier and we are demanding more out of them all of the time. I know Luke, and so do I reject the fancy window managers that are popular, but still even if you don't use the resource intensive window managers, software in general from the web browsers to video players, are becoming more and more data intensive. Solid state drives are a bright spot in speed, but still technology just gets heavier and heavier, even as the raw speed gets faster.