Food Eating Crickets One of my goals for this year was to try eating crickets (I've mentioned in a previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/mushrooms-and-mosses/] how it could be an emerging trend). On a recent trip to the US, I got a chance to do it. I bought a couple
Professional Hanging out my shingle I recently became registered as a professional engineer with APEGNB [http://www.apegnb.com/en/home/default.aspx] so it seemed like a good time to write a post describing what I do in my job, which is in the field of industrial wastewater treatment [https://ricochet.com/what-your-wastewater-treatment-specialist-wants-you-to-know/] . The
Book Mushrooms and Mosses This is sort of two posts in one—reviews of a couple of books I got when I was in the Pacific Northwest [https://danbscott.ghost.io/seattle-trip-2015/] last fall. They are Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms by Eugenia Bone, and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural
3D Printing Fixing my 3d Printer As I mentioned in an earlier post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/diy-telescope-project/], my 3D printer needed a new hot end. It took longer than I was expecting, but I finally got it installed. I got a Hexagon [http://www.reprapdiscount.com/hotends/67-hexagon-hotend-set.html] hot-end, which is different from the
Movies & TV Watch The Expanse I've previously written [https://danbscott.ghost.io/the-expanse-and-the-human/] about a book series I like. Now it's been made into a TV show. The Expanse [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4] is a new show based on the books by James S.
New Brunswick NB Budget 2016: In Context Well, the NB provincial budget was released today [http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/finance/budget/2016-2017/budget.html] . As I did last year [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-budget-2015-by-the-numbers/], I wanted to show the actual numbers in a way that makes sense, with minimal commentary. Sources * This CTV
Computer Ampersands It's a light post this week, but something that may be helpful to anyone writing a LaTeX document who wants to get the most out of fonts. Ampersands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand] are actually a ligature for the letters E and T. The & character looks
Science @ Home DIY Telescope Project This post is about a project I have planned for the next several months (or longer), to try to build my own telescope. I'll try to write a follow-up post to share how it turns out. My goal is not to build a high-quality telescope, but rather one
Book The Sky's Not Falling As a break from all the negative [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/bahrain-cuts-ties-with-tehran-as-crisis-widens-in-saudi-iran-split/2016/01/04/145c8824-b271-11e5-8abc-d09392edc612_story.html] news [http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/overnight+stock+market+plunge+marks+gloomy+start+first+trading+2016/11629362/story.html] in the world today, I thought I'd start 2016 with
2015 Year in Review As I did last year [https://danbscott.ghost.io/2014-year-in-review/], I wanted to finish this year with a retrospective post. This year, I'm most proud of posts where I did some original analysis or promoted some local places/ideas: * Looking at changes in water quality along the Rio
General Influence of Water Quality on Nitrifier Regrowth... As 2015 draws to a close, I wanted to share a recent accomplishment of mine: getting a paper published from my masters [https://danbscott.ghost.io/my-masters-thesis/] research. Here are the details: Title: Influence of Water Quality on Nitrifier Regrowth in Two Full-scale Drinking Water Distribution Systems By: Daniel B.
Water The Waves Shape the Shore, and the Shore Shapes the Waves I'm continuing to work my way through books [https://danbscott.ghost.io/a-winter-in-arabia/] that I picked up on vacation [https://danbscott.ghost.io/oregon-trail/]. This post is a review of Waves and Beaches: the dynamics of the ocean surface by Willard Bascom. (I've been really busy
Economics Economic Dashboard I was pretty tired this weekend, and away the weekend before that, but now I'm back with a post that I hope was worth the wait. The Alberta provincial government has a very useful online portal called the Alberta Economic Dashboard [http://economicdashboard.albertacanada.com/]. (It's
Book "A Winter in Arabia" This post is a review of the book A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen by Dame Freya Stark [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freya_Stark]. It was published in 1940 and describes a months-long visit she made to the Hadhramaut [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadhramaut] region of
Math A tiling primer This post is a brief introduction to the mathematics of tiling, which I find quite fascinating. Tiles [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile] are a long-standing architectural feature. They have been used in cultures all over the world, but the math underlying how they can cover a space [https://en.
Water Downstream from Eden, by David Knight This post is a review of a book by one of the pastors at the church [http://www.lincolnroadchapel.ca/home.html] I attended while I was doing my master's degree at the University of Waterloo. Downstream from Eden: The Amazing Gift of Water for a Thirsty World
Footbridges and Boardwalks of NB The weather is turning colder and the season for non-winter outdoor activities like hiking and kayaking is coming to an end. This post on the best bridges and boardwalks on New Brunswick trails is one I've been saving for a while (most of the photos below have been
Map Mapping Hyla Park Hyla Park [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Hyla+Park+Nature+Preserve/@45.9498813,-66.609771,17z/data=!4m6!1m3!3m2!1s0x0:0xbabc09a76601ce20!2sHyla+Park+Nature+Preserve!3m1!1s0x0:0xbabc09a76601ce20] is a little-known park in Fredericton. I had the idea that more people might use it if there was a
Professional WEFTEC 2015 Following close on the heels of my vacation [https://danbscott.ghost.io/oregon-trail/] to the Pacific [https://danbscott.ghost.io/the-rains-of-quinault/] Northwest [https://danbscott.ghost.io/seattle-trip-2015/], I went on a business trip that included attending the WEFTEC [http://www.weftec.org/] wastewater treatment conference in Chicago (I also attended
R The Rains of Quinault One of the highlights of my trip to the West Coast [https://danbscott.ghost.io/seattle-trip-2015/] was spending a long weekend in Olympic National Park with a couple of friends. This enormous park (bigger than the state of Rhode Island, apparently) has everything from mountains, to temperate rainforests, to coastline.
Travel Seattle Trip, 2015 As promised in my previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/oregon-trail/], here is a run-down of my recent trip to Seattle. I was in Washington state from Sept. 2 – 8 (and for a final day before flying out of SeaTac after visiting Portland); this included three days on the Olympic
Links Oregon Trail I recently returned from a trip to the US Pacific Northwest. It was a great time. This post is about my time in Portland, Oregon; expect other posts on Seattle and Olympic National Park later. This is Pioneer Square in downtown Portland. With the prevalence of red brick, along with
Movies & TV The Operative from Serenity I'm busy this week, so I decided to share a .gif I made and some quotes I like from the movie Serenity [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/?ref_=nv_sr_1]—it's hard to believe that it came out 10 years ago. Here is the
New Brunswick Southwest Miramichi Last weekend, I went up to Doaktown and Boistown for part of a day, to see some things along the Southwest Miramichi River [https://danbscott.ghost.io/map-of-new-brunswick-watersheds/]. The places I went were: 1. Doaktown old train bridge 2. Priceville suspension bridge 3. Atlantic Salmon Museum 4. Central NB Woodsmen&
3D Printing 3D Printing as a Service I've been waiting to receive a parcel so I could write this post, and I just got it today. In a previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/3d-printed-cactus-pot-2/], I mentioned that I wanted to try an online 3D-Printing service. The part that I wanted to print was relatively
