| February 5th, 2010 4:42 pm | Unite for human rights in Iran on February 11th | Here's a link to Amnesty International's action campaign for Iran on Feb 11th. There is some terrible stuff going on there, and your voice can help change that situation. If you really want to make... | Iran, World Peace |
| February 1st, 2010 12:58 pm | Forever Plastic | My friend Cheryl passed me a link to a documentary about Plastic. Of all the 'recycling' and 'save the planet' tyoe movements, I think this is the MOST IMPORTANT. Plastic pollution will... | Plastic, Recycling, Save the Planet |
| January 25th, 2010 6:24 pm | The Impossible Hamster | This is so good I have to share this with you. I don't subscribe to an economist view of the world. After all, I am a humanist which makes me by nature NOT an economist. That is I see... | World Population Balance |
| January 24th, 2010 4:27 pm | Bling Trees | Made it out in the woods today, up in Plymouth doing some geocaching in Fazendin Park. The folks up there are a little 'different'. Here's the view from the bike path! [inline:10-01-24-... | Geocaching, Random Photos |
| January 15th, 2010 9:06 pm | War Hawks: Franken and Obama | Double depressing news from two 'progressive' leaders today. It seems our freshmen President and Minnesota Senator have been washington-ized into the operations of the corporate war machine. I... | End the War in Iraq |
| January 11th, 2010 6:50 pm | Gitmo Again? | Remember last year when President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay within one year? Today (January 11th) is the annivarsary of the opening of Gitmo - 8 years ago. The one year... | End the War in Iraq |
| January 8th, 2010 5:18 pm | New Stuff Under the Hood | Today I finally got around to installing a new version of Drupal here on wilbur.us. This new version is a build of Drupal 6.15 from the Advantage Labs Drupal Repository. This is an... | Drupal |
| October 12th, 2009 8:41 pm | Hiren's BootCD | Last week my friend Pwajdeur was over, and I gave him my copy of Hiren's BootCD. I did not realize how useful that CD is, so tonight I had to go back online and get the newest version and burn... | Software |
| July 5th, 2009 8:40 pm | 705 IPA | Spend the day at home, making a batch of American IPA. I have been obsessed with American Pale Ales made with Chinook, Cascade and Centennial hops. The Chinook goes in as the... | Beer Brewing |
| June 30th, 2009 4:54 pm | Coleman Concedes! | It took 8 months, but we have a result. Hooray for Minnesota! minnesotaindependent.com/38181/coleman-concedes-us-senate-contest Even better news, Gov Pawlenty agrees! minnesotaindependent.com/... | |
| June 29th, 2009 7:11 pm | Birthday Bars | Friday night was a big hit! We broke 4 beer glasses - at least, and finished off one 5 gallon keg of Brownie Brown Ale. There are just a few glasses of the Spring Pale Ale, and about a... | |
| June 5th, 2009 7:21 pm | 605 IPA | This is the third beer in the Summer of the Single American 1056 yeast pack. I racked this beer over the yeast cake from the Spring APA. There are some obvious advantages to this -... | Beer Brewing |
| June 3rd, 2009 3:03 pm | Summer Snow | Yesterday night I got down to the Mississippi river gorge in Minneapolis on an evening geocahing mission. It was like winter in June with 70 degrees! The big river cottonwoods were... | Geocaching, Random Photos |
| June 3rd, 2009 2:13 pm | Yeah - 5000! | Hey everyone, BIG news today! Sources are confirming the 5,000th death in the Wars of Iraq and Afganistan! We have quite a ways to go before this is really serious, but we are surely on... | End the War in Iraq |
| June 1st, 2009 6:19 pm | Garden View | [inline:090601-garden.jpg] Here's the garden update for today. Dry Dry Dry. Seems that the eggplant were just too small to take the transplant. Since we have not gotten any rainfall... | The Garden |
| June 1st, 2009 5:57 pm | Bike Sales Overtake Car Sales | Just a quick note about an article on Bike and Car sales in the US. While both are suffering compared to 2008, bike sales outnumber car sales in the first quarter of 2009. Don't get me... | Bikes |
| May 31st, 2009 11:00 am | New National Bike Trails | In the last week I have found out about two new national bike trails in the US. This is big news for us, and these kind of endeavors span multiple states and require a lot of collaboration.... | Bikes |
| May 29th, 2009 7:25 pm | Brownie Brown Ale | This is batch 2 in the Summer of the Single American 1056 Yeast Packet. I bought all the ingredients for a brown ale with the intention of using the sap from my tapped maple as a replacement... | Beer Brewing |
| May 26th, 2009 10:00 pm | Industrial Minneapolis | [inline:090526-river-night-pix_003.jpg] [inline:090526-river-night-pix_010.jpg] Another midnight caching run and a few more photos of the river at night. | Geocaching, Random Photos |
| May 24th, 2009 12:55 pm | Retro | [inline:090524-miigolf-ride_024.jpg] | Bikes, Random Photos |
| May 22nd, 2009 6:52 pm | Spring APA | Welcome to the Summer of the Single American 1056 Yeast Packet! My intention is to use a single yeast packet for almost of my beer brewing this summer. How? Easy, just reuse the... | Beer Brewing |
| May 20th, 2009 7:30 pm | The Shadow Knows | [inline:090520-protest-ride_025.jpg] Old school baskets on Stevo's Raliegh 3-speed. | Bikes, Random Photos |
| May 20th, 2009 6:00 pm | 2009 Ride of Silence | Organizers of this year's Ride of Silence here in Minneapolis got a BIG jolt as yet another rider was killed the morning of the ride. Dennis Dumm died after being run over by a semi-truck.... | Bikes |
| May 19th, 2009 5:02 pm | We have Lift-Off! | I just finished installing the new Drupal 6 powered website here at Wilbur.US. It has been running on my local machine for the last two weeks, and today was the big push to get it installed.... | Drupal 6 |
| May 18th, 2009 7:00 pm | Never Too Old for Prom | [inline:090516-prom_009.jpg] 18 months and 5 days together. | Random Photos |
