Yeah, the album’s been out for over a year now, but I keep getting requests to make A Cautionary Tail shorter. Well, that finally happened. I cut it down from 13 minutes to a more manageable length and you can now hear it on the latest episode of Accident Hash with C.C. Chapman. Check it out!
Also, if you’d like to play it on your podcast, it’s now available at matthewebel.com/podsafe
The electric bike has become a regular part of life for me now… but repetitive jolts to the hindquarters don’t have to be.
The Myxercycle was made possible by the folks over at Myxer. Go with it!
If you want to try one of these bike kits, check ‘em out over at electricrider.com
The first live recording has just hit Matthew Ebel dot net- an intimate house concert at C.C. Chapman‘s place in metro west-west-waaaaaay-west Boston.
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Any time you’re riding a vehicle of any kind, safety should come first. There’s no point to saving the planet if you’re not going to be around to enjoy it.
The Myxercycle was made possible by the folks over at Myxer. Go with it!
If you want to try one of these bike kits, check ‘em out over at electricrider.com
For the record: I wasn’t there, I’m running on the video footage.
Have you ever heard of Richard Cheese? He’s the guy who takes hard rock tunes like “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “Down With The Sickness” and turns them into cheesy lounge numbers. It’s his shtick, and he’s made a career out of it. Sort of like Weird Al with no creativity.
It’s like he adds a touch of class to dirty, grungy rock music.
Apparently Cheese proved how completely devoid of class he is at the recent New Media Expo in Vegas. To quote some attendees:
When Richard Cheese started his performance he started complaining about the Audio levels, and from what I heard later he had demanded from the organizer that all other prior performers audio levels be at a lower level then his.
Todd Cochrane, Geek News Central
[Video from the event can be found at this link, assuming Cheese hasn't sued him yet.]
[Too late... you'll have to find video on your own, it seems.]
Everywhere I go I get funny looks. People also seem to be interested in the bike, too.
The Myxercycle was made possible by the folks over at Myxer. Go with it!
If you want to try one of these bike kits, check ‘em out over at electricrider.com
So now I have a pile of high-tech parts. How easy will it be to turn a street bicycle into an electric vehicle?
The Myxercycle was made possible by the folks over at Myxer. Go with it!
I mention Sheldon Brown in this video as well. Sheldon is the quintessential bike nerd with all kinds of helpful articles on bike maintenance. If it can be done, he’s got a procedure for you to read through. Believe me, it’s a lot easier than working on your car.
If you want to try one of these bike kits, check ‘em out over at electricrider.com
The beginning of this whole experiment starts with the parts. Here’s what it takes to create a gas-free ride. Or, at least, here are all the bits and pieces I’ll need to put together on the island.
The Myxercycle was made possible by the folks over at Myxer. Go with it!
If you want to try one of these bike kits, check ‘em out over at electricrider.com
If you’ve caught some of my previous posts on Environmental Issues, you’re probably aware that I’m keenly interested in protecting the environment. I’m also keenly interested in not being a pain in the ass about it- I’m not going to tell you to move into a house made of cow dung and become a vegan because it’s the only way to live correctly.
I’m a geek, for heron’s sake, I prefer the high-tech methods of saving the world. And I don’t want my house to smell like poo.
So on the less-extreme side of environmentalism, I recently partnered with an awesome company named Myxer
to bring you a whole series of videos and posts about some alternative transportation. It’s graceful, it’s technological, and it’s a lot cheaper than a Prius (a hell of a lot cheaper than a Tesla).
Keep your eyes here for more of what I’m calling The Myxercycle. I’ll be posting some videos soon!
Yes yes, I know, recycling. It’s been around since the 1970′s as a movement. I have 5 garbage cans in my kitchen because of recycling, isn’t that enough?
Well, there’s a lot more to recycling than just paper, plastic, glass, and cans. A friend recently pointed me to an article called 21 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Recycle Some of the items, like batteries or motor oil, I already knew about, but some were a bit of a surprise:
1. Appliances: Goodwill accepts working appliances, www.goodwill.org, or you can contact the Steel Recycling Institute to recycle them. 800/YES-1-CAN, www.recycle-steel.org.
6. Compact fluorescent bulbs: Take them to your local IKEA store for recycling: www.ikea.com. [Ikea? I had no idea. This is great, considering fluorecents contain mercury, which really shouldn't ever be thrown out.]
20. Tyvek envelopes: Quantities less than 25: Send to Shirley Cimburke, Tyvek Recycling Specialist, 5401 Jefferson Davis Hwy., Spot 197, Room 231, Richmond, VA 23234. Quantities larger than 25, call 866/33-TYVEK.
21 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Recycle
www.enn.com/ecosystems/article/28729
That’s just a few from the list, obviously there’s more. So if you’re lucky enough to live in a town with curbside recycling*, you’ve got most of your work taken care of. I plan to at least save my CFL’s and old computer parts from the trash, now that I know where to send them!
* Right now I live in an upscale Boston suburb… that doesn’t even have regular trash collection, let alone curbside recycling. So if you have it, consider yourself very lucky, and make good use of it!
[tags]Matthew Ebel, piano rock, environment, recycling[/tags]
