9.29.08 | With all the minerals in this state, ya'd think there'd be some kind of decent stone to use for vanity countertops, shower walls and floors. Alas, stone is not one of the Arizona 5 C's (cattle, citrus, climate, copper and cotton). A friend is a project manager for a stone fabricator and she assures me there is stone in Arizona, only it is either completely inappropriate for bathroom use (soft sandstone) or so outrageously beautiful and expensive that the likes of me should never even dream of acquiring it (onyx).

9.22.08 | After packing up its impressive assortment of Angle Walls, modular kitchen/java center components, interactive 3-D software displays, and other product innovations that it will show in Toronto this week at IIDEX/NeoCon Canada, DIRTT Environmental Solutions Ltd.staffers will return home to Calgary with no time to rest. The company is planning a decidedly different event for the following week a major gala fundraiser on Thursday, Oct. 2, for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS).

9.15.08 | Electricity is our most widely used form of energy. It touches every aspect of our lives. Yet, despite the importance of electricity to us, few people understand the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity.

9.15.08 | So this is where old concrete comes to die. It's just after dawn and I am standing near a gargantuan pile of broken concrete. Jim corrects me: used to come to die; now it comes here to be reincarnated. Wow, Hindu concrete; that's cosmic, Man.