VAC, The Final Chapter
(Links to Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 3.) When I first called ComEd’s customer service center to complain about the electricity in my house, I wasn’t even sure that 135 volts AC was out of the accepted range for electric service. While several consumer web sites have information about electricity costs and rules for… Read more
Slashdotted
Wow! The things that happen when you’re away from the blog for a day… I just got a link from Slashdot, via an earlier Addict3d.org link. That sent me over nine thousand visits on Tuesday. Uh…Hi there everybody! I think I’ve got to find out what 2MHost does if I hit my bandwidth limit. Do… Read more
Freedom Isn’t Free
As part of my new-found photography hobby, I was exploring the Riverwalk in Naperville, Illinois. It’s a nice little park with lots of interesting walkways, bridges, and gazebos. It would make a great background for some outdoor portraits. Just before I left, I spotted, across the river, what looked like a whole wall with faces… Read more
Richard Sherman
Eric Zorn has an article about Richard Sherman who was almost hired to teach science in High School District 211 in Palatine. Last Monday, however, the officials at the District changed their minds and decided that they weren’t going to hire Sherman to teach there after all. Eric Zorn: It couldn’t be–could it?–that officials at… Read more
VAC, Part 3
I did some more exploration of the local electrical power situation I outlined in my previous two postings. (Part 1 and Part 2.) I drove to another block fed by a different phase of the same three-phase distribution lines that feed my building. After a couple of times around the block, I spotted an apartment… Read more
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