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Weekly Wrapup: My Posts And Links For Weeks Of January 28 through February 11, 2013

February 17, 2013 — Leave a comment

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Image below of Romeo chewing on a deer skull.  He dragged it out of the bushes a month ago and now chews on it for a few minutes each day along our walk.

From 2013_Misc

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Weekly Wrapup: My posts, links and more for weeks of July 30 and August 6, 2012

August 12, 2012 — Leave a comment

Posts

Links

Christ

  • Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Startups

Consumer Products

  • RT @thomvest: @Dropbox was spending $233-$388 to acquire customers on #Adwords for a $99 product understand your channels. #LTV
  • RT @SimonUwins: Is physical retail really dying…? ow.ly/cR2wE <– No.. Brick & mortar has many advantages but biz model changing
  • Nice witeup on Uniqlo, an innovative apparel manufacturer and retailer ow.ly/cR8iW

Outdoors

Other

Product Page Updates

Other

Images from our recent visit to the South Platte River; about 30 minutes from our house.

 

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Review: my posts, links and more for week of June 24, 2012

July 1, 2012 — Leave a comment

Posts

Links

Consumer Products

  • Shorter Commercials Are More Effective [STUDY] ow.ly/bV7uq
  • The Power of Low & Consistent Mass Media Spending ow.ly/bV24G Great article for anyone doing mass advertising
  • #mobilestores-not mobile as in phone, but as in trucks: ow.ly/bSp0M I love this new form of retail-cheaper way to start a business
  • Study says Social Responsibility Not Worth Paying for in Today’s Economy ow.ly/bQI3N
  • RT @KeithScovell: Amazon’s Billion Dollar Secret Weapon wp.me/p2kxgE-5E
  • Inspiration: Coffee Giant Tea Shops – Starbucks Tazo Store in Seattle Will Be a Tea Drinker’s Pa…bit.ly/LVFbRQ #Retail #Trends

Miscellaneous

  • Interesting chart showing the water quantity in the snow over the last 4 seasons and why it’s so dry this year. ow.ly/bTLTv
  • B2B vs B2C. I think Gary is right. I like B2C (and B2B2C). That’s all I’ve ever done and probably will ever do. ow.ly/bTBdZ
  • I’ve been hearing & seeing C-130′s fly over the house all day to/from the #WaldoCanyonFire
  • RT @dhgisme: “Superweeds: A Long-Predicted Problem for GM Crops Has Arrived” by @marionnestle bit.ly/MLRnkv #foodchat ht @timoreilly

Quora/LinkedIn

  • What are typical response rates for#directresponse #radio #advertising? ow.ly/bV11q I posted a response to this on #quora
  • What products make for great #directresponse ow.ly/bUPEz #quora question. I posted a response to this on #quora
  • What are the top challenges that the #food industry is facing? goo.gl/km9sU I posted a response to this on #linkedin

Kickstarter

I enjoy seeing technology products on Kickstarter.  Here’s a few interesting hardware prospects:

Odds & Ends

Here’s an image from our south meadow facing south with smoke from the #WaldoCanyonFire in Colorado Springs, 40 miles south of us. I caught this image at sunset. You can see how dry our field is from the lack of rain.

From 2012_06_Misc

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Activity Summary for Week of January 30, 2012

February 6, 2012 — Leave a comment

Posts

Links

Retail/CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods)

Training (run, ride, hike, alpine-telemark-XC ski, shooting, weightlifting, rock climb)/Outdoors/Health/Food/Weather/GPS

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Annual Precipitation Results

October 24, 2011 — Leave a comment

I always record the precipitation we receive at the house and recently did some annual totals to see where we ended up relative to average.  I look at annual precipitation from October to October, because that month is usually when we get our first snow of the season. Since we received our first snow of the season On October 4 of this year, I went back a year to the October 4 2010 as my starting point.  In order to convert snow to water equivalent, I use 8% multiplied by the snow received.  Its not exact, but probably good enough to get a ballpark figure.

Here’s the results:

  • Rain:  9.41 inches
  • Snow:  47.75 inches
  • Total precipitation/water equivalent:  13.3 inches
  • Average for Sedalia, CO:  18.25

We were only at around 72% of average, which actually is better than I thought because it seemed like it was a dryer year.  If you go 30 miles west of us, the mountains received record precipitation for the year due to the La Nina event.  And, if you go 50 miles north of us, they too, received above average precipitation.  We seemed to be just south of the dividing line for that above average moisture.

With La Nina returning this year, although not as strong as last year, according to early forecasts, we might have another dry year, but you never know.

Below are data graphs I’ve included.

 

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Travel to California

January 10, 2010

Our road trip over Christmas included a 1 day 17 hour drive to California to the parents house – 4 days there – and a 3 day return trip through the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley and Arches National Park. Photos and a Google KML map below.

Colorado to California

California

Grand Canyon

Monument Valley

Arches National Park

Click to download a Google Earth KML file of our route.

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October Snowstorm

November 2, 2009

Video of me plowing the driveway.

2009_10_29_October_Snowstorm from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.

Video of the dogs playing.

2009_10_29_October_Snowstorm_Dogs_Playing from Ed Soehnel on Vimeo.

Pictures below.

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