Slightly Off KIlter

Normal is overrated

  • Personal Weather Stations

    I'm not a weather geek like some people, but I do like to know what's going on. We get a lot of wind in our neighborhood, and we've had a wireless thermometer / anemometer running for quite a few years now. But I wanted more. Netatmo So, two years ago, when I read about the… Continue reading

  • Solar Home

    We have been thinking about adding solar collectors for a long time, dithering over technologies, worrying about installation and maintenance, etc. When the public school in our neighborhood put in an 8190 sq. ft. array (6 rows of 91 3'x5' panels), we knew we should try to get on board. However, it's always been too… Continue reading

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  • Tea on Ice

    A story about cold tea, brought on by a memory triggered by my mug of tea going cool. Continue reading

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  • My Labels, My Choice

    I just ran across this question in a LinkedIn group: Do Typology Instruments Box People Into a Category Using Labeling? My understanding is that Jung did not mean for his theories to be used as "labels." He meant them to help people grow and develop beyond a way of being. I have often heard people… Continue reading

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  • My Labels, My Choice

    I just ran across this question in a LinkedIn group: Do Typology Instruments Box People Into a Category Using Labeling? The poster wrote: My understanding is that Jung did not mean for his theories to be used as “labels.” He meant them to help people grow and develop beyond a way of being. I have… Continue reading

  • Lifetime Achievements

    I was born in January of 1960, in central Pennsylvania. I grew up in State College, a University town dubbed a "statistical metropolis". It was (and still is) a pleasant and progressive place to grow up. A lot has happened in the past 50+ years, not just for me but for the world. Continue reading

  • Hard As Rock!

    Rich is out in the Back Forty (that's yards, not acres), working on a project. The Idea (in theory): to attach some 4×4 boards perpendicular to the slope back there to make it possible to walk along the edge of the hill horizontally. In practice? Our house is on a hill made of decomposed granite.… Continue reading

  • OMG! Save Teh Waterz!

    Yesterday via @ThinkProgress: Skip Showers For Beef, a new grassroots project born of the California drought, acknowledges that giving up beef – a product that uses huge amounts of water – is hard. So the campaign's creators have come up with a creative way for Californians to keep eating meat while reducing their water use:… Continue reading

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  • Sour Grapes and the MBTI

    The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is a self-assessment and self-discovery instrument for Psychological Type. It was developed in the late 1940s and has been in use since the 1960s. To date, millions of people have taken the MBTI. Notwithstanding its popularity (or perhaps because of it), there are detractors. How much of this is due… Continue reading

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  • Sour Grapes and The MBTI

    The MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) is a self-assessment and self-discovery instrument for Psychological Type. It was developed in the late 1940s and has been in use since the 1960s. To date, millions of people have taken the MBTI. The questions have been reconsidered and rewritten multiple times, based on how well they sort people into… Continue reading