Seek!

horseshoe crabs!

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:35:25 +0000

Someone posted video of active horseshoe crabs in an aquarium. They look like living fossils.

phone

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:12:20 +0000

We got new phones. I went with the Samsung Epic and Jenny went with the Samsung Intercept. It’s definitely an adjustment and I’m kinda missing my iPhone.

Let it go

admin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:53:14 +0000

The band called Great Big Sea sings Let It Go

Hey man, you don’t know what you’re missing
You count your curses and forget about the blessings
Don’t you think you should learn a little lesson
What are you waiting for?

…

[Chorus]
Let it Go Let it Go
This is smaller than you know
No bigger than a pebble lying on a gravel road
Let it Go Let it Go
Got to leave it all behind you
Give the sun a chance to find you
Let it Go

3D

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:24:49 +0000

If you take a bunch of LED bulbs and stick them on something, make them blink and move the something, your eyes will give a lasting image. This persistence of vision (POV) effect is the basis for television. Some enterprising geeks have made 3D displays by putting LEDs on an arc and spinning it.

Now my questions are:
1) How do you film and process content for this display?
2) What content would be useful or interesting?

Jenny mentions knitting instructions. Martial arts demos come to mind. Design prototypes from CAD would be fairly easy because you don’t have to film them.

Hmmm, thinking about it, the display still needs a way to show things within the sphere.

RSS

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:58:15 +0000

I might have mentioned this before but, in case you forgot or weren’t in the mood, I’ll do I again. There is a technology called Really Simple Syndication (RSS). It let’s people pull a very simple version of many different blogs into on software tool and look at them together in one place.

I use google Reader but there are plenty of others. What Is RSS has a decent write up and a link to some RSS readers or news aggregators.

Most sites with regular updates offer RSS feeds. It’s especially useful for catching content from sites that don’t update every day.

“safe” kids

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:35:03 +0000

Here’s a great article writen by a columnist who got her 15 minute of fame for discussing it with her husband, using their judgement and letting their son ride the NYC subway alone at 9 years old. She covers a lot of the point that I tend to harp on (today included). My phrasing is “The world is Not more dangerous.” and “Scary news is ‘news’ because it is rare.”

Her blog is called Free Range Kids

Identity And Work

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:01:08 +0000

My world view is heavily affected by the huge amount of my life that I spend at work.

Yesterday was a disaster with a constant stream of new work landing on my desk and nothing completed. I hated the world and the unknown people in it. I was assuminb that all the worst possible things would happen.

Today, I cleared all of yesterday’s work off my desk and the world seems full of possibilities.

Internet dating

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:55:24 +0000

People who have Internet access at home are more likely to be in a relationship. All the more so if you’re in a minority popuation like LGBT.

Hiroshima

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:40:17 +0000

65 years ago today, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Today, there is a memorial park dedicated to world peace in that place. Yahoo has a good collection of pictures of the cermonies already begun.

happy sigh

admin — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:11:09 +0000

“Driven on without a moment to spend,
To pass an evening with a drink an a friend.”
-Rush (lyrics + video)

My stress level is much mended tonight after skipping a too long SAR course in order to see my friends again.