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Comment on My Commute by jeffabe

jeffabe — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:05:20 +0000

Well, the reason they did the two lanes outbound (eastbound) was not because of traffic. The MLK is appearently part of the federally mandated evacuation plan for Downtown Saint Louis. As part of that, if we had gotten rid of the two outbound lanes, it would have been a federal issue…and so we went with the easy way, not neccessarily the right way, which probably would have been a reversible lane setup.

Comment on Two to go…wacko by Josh

Josh — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:58:32 +0000

So I finally found a CD player to give to my uncle for his birthday. Yeah, a week or so past due. I am actually a little surprised at how long it took me to find a portable CD player. I guess people just don’t buy them anymore. In case anyone needs one, I found them in that isle at target that has the kids phones and the walkie-talkies (you know, the crap electronics isle of stuff no one buys).

Comment on Portland Day 3 by Adventures in Portland at Chris Koerner

Adventures in Portland at Chris Koerner — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:32:35 +0000

[...] I’d talk more but I’m tired and need to get caught up. Â The rest of my photos areÂ embeddedÂ below and can be found on my flickr set. Â Josh has some photos up on his flickr as well.Â His take on our adventure can be found on his blog (Parts 1,2,3,4,5) [...]

Comment on Portland Day 2 by Adventures in Portland at Chris Koerner

Adventures in Portland at Chris Koerner — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:31:32 +0000

Comment on Portland Day 1 by Adventures in Portland at Chris Koerner

Adventures in Portland at Chris Koerner — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:31:09 +0000

Comment on Mailto Updater by Josh

Josh — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:56:06 +0000

Posted the code today woo! Feel free to leave me some comments.

Comment on Rain Barrels? by Rainy Review of Rain Barrels at Jackie Koerner

Rainy Review of Rain Barrels at Jackie Koerner — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:59:11 +0000

[...] of my “tree hugger” friends posted to his blog, exclaiming that rain barrels are bunk.Â Above I have listed some wonderful uses for the water [...]

Comment on Rain Barrels? by Josh

Josh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:31:19 +0000

I’m not trying to take away any business from anyone selling these things, but I don’t see this as a realistic solution. Lets look at this from a purely mathematical standpoint. Assume we have an area that is one square mile (approx 640 acres) and we say its all homes and that all the homes are on a quarter acre of land. So we have 640 x 4 homes (lets ignore roads and everything else that would also block rain water from seeping into the ground. So that’s 2560 homes. If it rains one inch that is the same as (according to the US geological survey) 17,378,560 gallons of water. Lets say that half of that water seeps into the ground, giving us an excess of 8,689,280 gallons of water that would need to be stored. If we divide that amount of water by the number of homes in our 1 square mile, each household would need to store 3394 gallons of water. That is a retarded amount of water.

So now lets change this up a little, lets say at 90% of our one inch of water seeps into the ground in our 1sq mile area. Now we only have to deal with 10% of our one inch of rain, which is 1,737,856 gallons of water. Divide this by the number of homes and you get 678.85 gallons each household would have to store.

Lets go farther, lets say that 99% of the 1 inch of rain seeps into the ground leaving only 173,785.6 gallons of water we need to deal with. Each homeowner would need to store 67.885 gallons of water. What does it cost to store this much water? Almost $300. But keep in mind we have excluded roads, parking lots, and business, which would cut down on the overall number of homes in this area.

Comment on Rain Barrels? by Aquabarrel

Aquabarrel — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:38:17 +0000

Josh:
There is a very important aspect to rain water retention that you have overlooked. The term is storm surg – IF everyone were to retain a bit of water from an impervious surface and then release it on a dry day (when the water table can absorb it) then you will reduce the impact on the environment and on the water treatment plants. It has been proven that if more folks did this then there would be a dramatic reduction in flooding.

Comment on The sweet smell of failure by Jackie K.

Jackie K. — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:47:48 +0000

Yes, Lowes is a pain to shop, especially if you know what you are looking for. Everything comes in a kit in this place! I don’t want the 9 pipes in this kit, just the one. And, 50% of the store is curtains, appliances and displays. I cannot recall a time where I shopped for less than 1 hour – by the time supplies are purchased, it’s time to call it a day. I miss True Value and other real hardware stores.

Comment on Mushy Wisdom by Josh

Josh — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:21:47 +0000

Wednesday’s oatmeal was good.

Comment on Zenworks Training by ckoerner

ckoerner — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:38:30 +0000

DUDE! We’ll be fine. Trust in the force Luke.
(OMG I’m such a nerd)

Comment on Under Construction by josh

josh — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:57:15 +0000

I think I have most of the comments restored. Some of them might show up down the road…I’m sure there were some problems on my SQL syntax.

Real Posts Coming Soon.

-J

Comment on Under Construction by josh

josh — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 21:03:02 +0000

I’ve restored all of my posts all the way back through when I first setup this webpage. I am working now on trying to restore all of the comments left by you.

Comment on FC4 + Yum by Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I use apt and its associated GUI Synaptic with FC3 and seem to get very good results, is YUM just another sort of package format? (Apt is a port of the Debian idea of the same name)