Dan Pancamo

Spring Break 2008

2008-03-28T20:44:00.005-05:00

Spring Break 2008 was great! We spent the weekend with Mom and a day with David in S. Padre and then the rest of the week in Big Bend.

Here are the photos

Brothers and Sisters

2008-01-20T21:49:00.000-06:00

Family Renunion September 2004.

Robby, Ruth and Alfie Thompson

Brothers and Sisters are among the closest bonds we have in life.

Robby, Alfie we will miss you.

Brandon Boyee

2007-11-28T00:29:00.000-06:00

It's not east to get a pic of the boyee (now 14). But here is a one that I took at his brothers 7th birthday ast August. Girls Girls girls.... it all about girls and cell phones these days for him.

Kyle is 7

2007-11-10T11:51:00.000-06:00

Kyle turned 7 on August 14th. The boyee continues to grow every day. He and his brother Brandon are the best sons every.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON!

AUGUST PHOTOS

AVA's 9!

2007-11-10T11:12:00.000-06:00

My precious turned 9 on Nov 8th. Last year she wanted and horse and George was her man. We gave away george last month to a young fellow that could spend more time working with him. He said we could ride and visit george anytime we like.

This year the daughter wanted a cell phone (and glasses) for her 9th birthday and now I can call her anytime on new new t-mobile. She sure is growing up!

NOVEMBER PHOTOS

OCTOBER PHOTOS

SEPTERMBER PHOTOS

Maggie

2007-08-28T01:32:00.001-05:00

It's been almost 3 months now since Maggie joined our family. She and Storm are now best friends and spend the day chasing each other and sleeping on top of each other.

Maggie is a registered Yorkie and she is a great addtion to the family.

She about 80% house broken, as she somtimes forgets where the pee

pads are located. Well Maggie, hopefully next year you'll be a mom and help pay for $1000 petagree papers

GrandCentral Phone Service

2007-08-28T01:08:00.000-05:00

After 42 years and many phone number changes, I finally have one number for life.

Leave it to Google to find yet a new webvention. Grandcentral!

Google Grandcentral gives away a free phone number for life. When a caller calls my GC number, it rings on my work, home, work cell and person cell phone if I had one. If I don't answer, I have a central place to hunt down my voicemail. Wow. I can even listen in on the caller while they leave voicemail plus I can pickup if i like what they are saying! Wow Wow

And tot top it off, if you click on the image above, and enter your phone number, Grandcentral will call connect! Call block, ring toes, plus a bunch of other features...

Now, I they could find a way to update all my friends, family and coworkers address book with my new number, i'de be set... give them time, and I'm sure google will find a way.

Logitech VX Nano

2007-08-14T23:25:00.000-05:00

It's Kyle's #7 birthday today! His birthday present was a $1200 HP Core2Duo Laptop, a 22" Samsung flatscreen, and several games. He also snagged a Firefly hellocopter that lasted 20 flights.

Wow, my first computer capable of running BF2!!

Wow, 7 years ago I was stilling in the hospitol working on a puzzle waiting for the little tike to pop.

I also purchased a nice Logitech wireless mouse intending to use the new mouse with my laptop and give the boyee the older Logitech. That's lasted 10 minutes. He somehow broke my older mouse, so currently I'm stuck using the touchpad. and once again looking for a new mouse.

A mouse is a computer man's righthand best friend. I've gone through probably 100 mice over the years and I always go back to my first love, Logitech. Back in the late 80's, Logitech mouse came with a editor called Point. After using mainframe type editors during my college years, logitech CutnPaste feature revolutionized coding.

Well I just ordered the latest logitech vx nano. And THANK you Logitech for making the dongle small enough to leave in my laptop! Now why can't laptop makers just build in the receiver.

I tried a bluetooth mouse, but it got tired and wouldn't wake up most of the time. It also lost it's configuration. I'm guessing that since logitech continues to make dongle mice, bluetooth must have some design flaw

So next week, I can't wait to cop a feel and do some flicking

Marvin Zindler

2007-07-30T18:26:00.000-05:00

Sometime around 1977, and the height of my JR High basketball career, my dad took me to a Rockets charity basketball game. I will never forget this old glowing white ghost of a man with the skinniest chicken legs playing Bball with other players.

"That man is none other than Marvin Zindler", I remember my dad telling me.

Marvin, you were truly were a Houston Icon like no other!

Solar World

2007-07-27T01:25:00.000-05:00

I've been researching solar panels for the house over the past few weeks and from all I've been reading, a solar array to power the whole house would cost about $100K to install and 22 years to break even.

The currrent cost of solar arrays are about $9/watt.

Then I started to ponder...

What's going to happen when the price drops to $1/watt, and the cost to install a solar system falls under $5K and every house is powered 120% by solar? Will we still power plants? Will all the power companies disappear? Will the extra power generated from solar homes replace nuclear plants, and other power generating systems? Will cars will be powered by the extra energy generated by your home. No oil, no power companies???

Now if we can find a way to generate food, i can live free...

powerFULL!

www.pandora.com

2007-07-27T00:50:00.001-05:00

While I do like to listen to music, I get quickly bored with the same song. That's one of the reasons that I've never jumped into the Ipod scene. The idea of loading known music into an Ipod then hearing it over and over again... boring...

Well, I've opened Pandora's box. Perfect and FREE!

With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings - new and old, well known and completely obscure - to find songs with interesting musical similarities to your choice. Then sit back and enjoy as it creates a listening experience full of current and soon-to-be favorite songs for you.

Iphone + Pandora = I'll buy!

Storm

2007-07-25T23:37:00.001-05:00

I picked up Storm today. She was found in the storm drain during the rains last month. Thanks to craigslist, I was able to find a kitty that was located just a few miles from the house.

ETXASTRO Forum

2007-07-25T00:01:00.000-05:00

I founded ETXASTRO forum in 2001 after purchasing my first Meade telescope. Today the group has over 2000 members from across the globe.

Mike Weasner's Mighty ETX Site is the official homepage for the group. Mike has been discussing the ETX for more than 10 years now!

SES Solar Dish Stirling System

2007-07-24T23:31:00.000-05:00

The SES Solar Dish Stirling System is programmed to always face the sun and focus that energy on a collector in much the same way that a satellite dish focuses radio waves on a tuner. This collector is connected to a Stirling engine which uses the thermal power generated by the focused solar energy to heat liquid hydrogen in a closed-loop system.

One dish on an annual basis can produce 55,000-60,000 kWh of electricity or about 4 houses in my neighborhood.

Aerodynamic Air Turbine Engine

2007-07-24T18:05:00.000-05:00

Well if this is not a hoax, then these guys may be the next Henery Ford!

According the designers, the AATE requires no air tank, only a small co2 bottle to start the engine, like an ignition switch on a car. After the engine is started it will run only on ambient air at 30,000 to over 100,000 rpm, tested and proven"

"Rockwell Scientific Research, L.L.C., claims The “Crystal Ion” will provide energy to power automobile engines, aircraft, homes, power plants, and much more. The immediate goal is to develop several sizes, including smaller units to retrofit current automobile, truck, home generator engines, and a larger unit to retrofit power plants. Rockwell Scientific Research, L.L.C., has every intention of working together with federal, state, and local governments to achieve energy solutions for our over-taxed natural resources. The possibility of alternative power sources for electricity infrastructure alone is astounding."

Digital Home Energy Monitor

2007-07-22T14:13:00.000-05:00

It’s been a year now since Reliant Energy installed my Energy Monitor for free and I love it. My June electricity bill went from $800 last year to $250.

Here’s what I learned:

My air conditioner cost $.80/hr to run and was 70% of my electric bill in the summer
Reliant Energy was raping me with .17/kwh I now pay a flat rate 12.5/kwh via (http://www.sparkenergy.com/spark/)
Each PC cost $10/month to run
I make sure that the Meter is under $.10/hr before leaving the house
I replaced all light bulbs with the 15w fluorescent bulbs (($1.25 from walmart)
If you have high electricity bill, your Air conditioner is probably broke (mine had a Freon leak)
I added a 12Kbtu window unit in the master bedroom. $140

Here’s an Energy Meter that only cost $140. It’s looks better than the one I have. You can install it yourself if you know how to open your breaker box, otherwise you may have to pay $50 to an electrician for this 5 minute job.

http://www.theenergydetective.com/store/teds/ted1000.html

Welcome

2005-07-22T10:00:00.000-05:00

Welcome to my Blog. If your here, you must know me... Drop me an email or IM me!
Dan

I'm not a writer or pretent to be one that has a grasp on the english language. (see my point yet?) But I do have ideas and i hope someone someday might find them here.