Author Archives: Mark@IdeaJones
Now Appearing
There’s a neat fine arts center tucked away in a decommissioned school in Carmichael, CA. The Sacramento Fine Arts Center has lessons in various crafts that can be used as take-off points for artistic endeavor, and also has exhibits, shows … Continue reading
Control Yourself
I saw a recent cartoon where the character was searching all over, lamenting the fact that it now took three different remote controls to be able to watch TV, when in the “good old days,” it took only one. Yep. … Continue reading
More Art!
Coming soon to a Building Resources outlet near you (assuming you’re in San Francisco), these little molded paper figures will be mounted on a polymer backing with a loop for attachment to a chain or pin. (This one colored by … Continue reading
Perversity
Perversely, our solar electric generation system quit on the longest, sunniest day of the year. Some rooms at our office are kept too cool – but only in the summer. (In the winter, those same rooms are too warm.) We … Continue reading
Radiation
Radiate simply means to spread out from. Spokes radiate out from the hub. Light radiates from the bulb. But “radiation,” that word comes with extra baggage these days. It got me thinking about health, and all our various artificial radiations. … Continue reading