Thanks to the efforts of my wife, father-in-law, wife’s uncle, wife’s cousin, and our checkbook, we now have a new gas stove, and gas furnace tapped into our existing hot water radiator system. Thanks to all for the extra, and continuing efforts.
I’m glad to see that even in our age of techo-savvy kids, some things are still left to the imagination. Case in point is this post on Makezine.com. This, IMHO is the best sort of recycling around.
I really want one of these in my backyard…
Just a thanks to my brother for giving me one of his Shamwow chamois! I should get couple free ones for the blogging publicity I’m giving them!
I like my G4 Powerbook. It’s kinda old, and still running OSX Panther, but it’s not my main system so I didn’t want to pay to upgrade the OS, which seem silly to me as I can get Ubuntu for free. ..but I digress.
My system seemed to be getting slower and slower, and I thought it was perhaps due to the old OS despite running all the *nix cleanup utilities. I thought I was going to have to upgrade. But… it seemed that just the browsers were real slow.
On a whim I switched from the RoadRunner DSN to OpenDNS, and *poof* a magical speed improvement! Not just a little mind you faster, but REALLY faster. So, if you too are on OSX and think your net connection is slowing things down, switch your DNS to see if that is the problem.
Goodbye to the college professor that made everyone rethink their priorities, Randy Pausch.
A calculator spawned from the keyboard | Crave, the gadget blog - CNET
This is a cool calc, but the price is more than I’m willing to pay…
Also, it’s ridiculously expensive at about $88 from Design Museum Shop
It’s not so much the product that is annoying as it is the advertising and web site. Almost as annoying as “Billy Mays”, the spokesman for the deaf who attempts to make more people deaf by yelling his pitches at them.
These towels are pretty cool, at least from the ad they appear cool. From a marketing perspective, I laugh at the pitch guys they have. He sounds like they pulled him from a 3-card Monty game in a NYC alley. I love the line, and I’m paraphrasing, “they’re made in Germany. You know, the Germans make good stuff.” I’m sure they do, and I’m extra sure they’re glad you mentioned their country in the pitch.
The web site has an autorun Flash movie that has no controls to stop it. Nice. Check it out at shamwow.com.
I was watching a show tonight during a rare quiet evening about the Apollo moon missions. One part of the show talked about the code written by a team from MIT specifically for the landing sequence of the Lunar Lander. One of the team members interviewed said something to the effect of ‘there is some of my code on the moon. It’s just sitting up there with parts of the lander.’
Made me wonder: where will my code end up? If I’d thought like this before, I probably would have written better code…