Deep thoughts from Alan Watts and the Southpark guys. Also this (here) if you want some soothing voice telling you to enjoy life, man.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
An array of 'tubes
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Look ma, no hands!
From the "wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it" dept!! Kevin stumbled on to this on Joe Sorren's Blog and thought that Loe would like to see it.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Kevin and Jessica travel to Nepal!
Kevin and Jessica are departing for an adventure to Nepal for a couple of months, they depart in about 30 minutes! They have a blog, follow their adventures.
Going and living in another country is all the rage this summer. Deeanne and Garret skipped town a few weeks ago and have headed south - they also have a blog filled with (epic and well documented!) adventures.
Going and living in another country is all the rage this summer. Deeanne and Garret skipped town a few weeks ago and have headed south - they also have a blog filled with (epic and well documented!) adventures.
Comment Feeds!
I have a comments feed!
http://thisisnotkendall.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
When Jason started his weblog he shared a link for his comments feed as well. I found this to be awesome. I tried typing "comments" where "posts" goes in the link for the blogger feeds and what do you know - a comments feed was lurking all along! Loe and Kevin I'm now feeding your comments as well - the word has officially been gotten out.
http://thisisnotkendall.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default
When Jason started his weblog he shared a link for his comments feed as well. I found this to be awesome. I tried typing "comments" where "posts" goes in the link for the blogger feeds and what do you know - a comments feed was lurking all along! Loe and Kevin I'm now feeding your comments as well - the word has officially been gotten out.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Links
Links that got saved over the last few weeks. Variable quality.
Giganto ipod touch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCo6-KhZT4
Cats cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qHVVbYG8Y
Sorry I'm Late (Little Big Love in the same link possibly better)
http://vimeo.com/4862670
Birth of Nukes
http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery/Slouching-towards-Bethlehem-___/56780
Chernobyl in decay
http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/
Girl at the video game store
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VaDyN-5Ko&feature=popular
HDR-wesome
http://abduzeedo.com/incredible-new-portfolio-dave-hill
High altitude balloon photography
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201090/Everest-revealed-British-balloonists-breathtaking-panoramic-shot-worlds-highest-peaks.html
Code Monkey song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_wd9Qf0IE
My best score was 2100 something
http://games.adultswim.com/spell-my-finger-twitchy-online-game.html
Giganto ipod touch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCo6-KhZT4
Cats cartoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1qHVVbYG8Y
Sorry I'm Late (Little Big Love in the same link possibly better)
http://vimeo.com/4862670
Birth of Nukes
http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery/Slouching-towards-Bethlehem-___/56780
Chernobyl in decay
http://villageofjoy.com/chernobyl-today-a-creepy-story-told-in-pictures/
Girl at the video game store
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VaDyN-5Ko&feature=popular
HDR-wesome
http://abduzeedo.com/incredible-new-portfolio-dave-hill
High altitude balloon photography
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1201090/Everest-revealed-British-balloonists-breathtaking-panoramic-shot-worlds-highest-peaks.html
Code Monkey song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W_wd9Qf0IE
My best score was 2100 something
http://games.adultswim.com/spell-my-finger-twitchy-online-game.html
Thursday, August 13, 2009
The OS browser OS
The below is probably of limited interest to people who spend less than 8 hours a day in front of a computer.
When I read in the summary that this IEEE article (here) discussed "The projects—ServiceOS and the Gazelle Web browser—make the browser act more like an operating system." My first thought was "This article is likely going to make Jason's head asplode." However it didn't end up being all that inflammatory or terribly interesting, even for people who really believe that the current trend of using the web browser for everything is rather misguided. The upshot is that Microsoft has a project going that has end goals similar to the Chrome OS from Google.
When I read in the summary that this IEEE article (here) discussed "The projects—ServiceOS and the Gazelle Web browser—make the browser act more like an operating system." My first thought was "This article is likely going to make Jason's head asplode." However it didn't end up being all that inflammatory or terribly interesting, even for people who really believe that the current trend of using the web browser for everything is rather misguided. The upshot is that Microsoft has a project going that has end goals similar to the Chrome OS from Google.
Damping
Wikipedia just can't compete this time.
Generally, damped harmonic oscillators satisfy the second-order differential equ...
*yawn*
oh look! animated breast simulator that advertises mega-bras!
Today's suggested experiment, confirm that even an 'under-damped mass-spring system' (*cough*) acts as a low pass filter.
Generally, damped harmonic oscillators satisfy the second-order differential equ...
*yawn*
oh look! animated breast simulator that advertises mega-bras!
Today's suggested experiment, confirm that even an 'under-damped mass-spring system' (*cough*) acts as a low pass filter.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Plug-In 2009
Must look at tracker of the electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles in development now: here. Lots of cool cars in the pipeline!
On Tuesday evening I attended the "Plug-In 2009" electric vehicles (EV) conference public night at the Long Beach Convention Center. Carrie met me there (hooray for an interested friend!) and we got to the exposition floor with about 30 minutes until the discussion started. It ended up being busier and a bit larger than I had expected. AV had a large booth set up showcasing charging stations and a hybrid drive test system. I ended up chatting with the AV sales rep for awhile and didn't leave much time to check out the cars on display. So in the last few minutes I just quickly snapped pictures of anything that was shiny. (slide show at the bottom)
The discussion was interesting and exceeded my (kinda low) expectations as far as being engaging. The panelists were: Chris Paine the documentary director of "Who killed the electric car" Chelsea Sexton an EV activist ever since the EV-1, and of course Bill Nye is "The Science Guy" who has one of the Mini-Es. The first question was very technical, about the P1772 connector. But the panel wasn't really there to debate engineering specifics so the discussion mercifully was directed back towards broader themes. There were some colorful characters and Bill Nye raised the ire of the dirty hippies (unbathed) in the room when he suggested that dirty hippies have unrealistic goals about what the environmentalism movement should try and achieve. Bill Nye comes off as genuine and likable as you'd expect. He appears to possibly have a bit of a love/hate relationship with his self proclaimed D list celebrity status. My arm chair psychoanalysis is that while he loves his career of promoting all things science he may feel a bit like a fraud, constantly being portrayed as an expert on subjects when really while he is a remarkable jack of all trades, he's not really an expert or accomplished 'scientist' in any given field. (perhapds accomplished engineer but not 'scientist') Anyhow, he's still out making science fun and easy for people to understand, and he was on TV when I was 13 and that's awesome.
Something else that I found kind of interesting about the EVs on display is that their installs were a little bit ... kludgey. As in not very different at all from what I helped wire up at Anuvu Inc. in 2003. The installs are just square boxes packed full of electronics wedged in where a gas engine used to be. The built from the ground up plug-in and 100% electric vehicles will hopefully have much more elegant integrations of the drive systems. (After a short search I found the obituary for Anuvu. I'm glad I went to work for Cliff instead of taking the job there full time after the internship! Interesting comments)
The Tesla Model S - WANT!
Hydrogen is really on the back burner these days. (gotta love how you can find a headline that matches any point you're trying to make) With nearly all research money going into plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell cars will not arrive any time "in the next 10 years" that they were talking about 10 years ago. The point was made that this doesn't have to be an either-or proposition however. And that people adopting electric cars in large numbers would only help the hydrogen technology when it comes finally becomes available.
On Tuesday evening I attended the "Plug-In 2009" electric vehicles (EV) conference public night at the Long Beach Convention Center. Carrie met me there (hooray for an interested friend!) and we got to the exposition floor with about 30 minutes until the discussion started. It ended up being busier and a bit larger than I had expected. AV had a large booth set up showcasing charging stations and a hybrid drive test system. I ended up chatting with the AV sales rep for awhile and didn't leave much time to check out the cars on display. So in the last few minutes I just quickly snapped pictures of anything that was shiny. (slide show at the bottom)
The discussion was interesting and exceeded my (kinda low) expectations as far as being engaging. The panelists were: Chris Paine the documentary director of "Who killed the electric car" Chelsea Sexton an EV activist ever since the EV-1, and of course Bill Nye is "The Science Guy" who has one of the Mini-Es. The first question was very technical, about the P1772 connector. But the panel wasn't really there to debate engineering specifics so the discussion mercifully was directed back towards broader themes. There were some colorful characters and Bill Nye raised the ire of the dirty hippies (unbathed) in the room when he suggested that dirty hippies have unrealistic goals about what the environmentalism movement should try and achieve. Bill Nye comes off as genuine and likable as you'd expect. He appears to possibly have a bit of a love/hate relationship with his self proclaimed D list celebrity status. My arm chair psychoanalysis is that while he loves his career of promoting all things science he may feel a bit like a fraud, constantly being portrayed as an expert on subjects when really while he is a remarkable jack of all trades, he's not really an expert or accomplished 'scientist' in any given field. (perhapds accomplished engineer but not 'scientist') Anyhow, he's still out making science fun and easy for people to understand, and he was on TV when I was 13 and that's awesome.
Something else that I found kind of interesting about the EVs on display is that their installs were a little bit ... kludgey. As in not very different at all from what I helped wire up at Anuvu Inc. in 2003. The installs are just square boxes packed full of electronics wedged in where a gas engine used to be. The built from the ground up plug-in and 100% electric vehicles will hopefully have much more elegant integrations of the drive systems. (After a short search I found the obituary for Anuvu. I'm glad I went to work for Cliff instead of taking the job there full time after the internship! Interesting comments)
The Tesla Model S - WANT!
Hydrogen is really on the back burner these days. (gotta love how you can find a headline that matches any point you're trying to make) With nearly all research money going into plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell cars will not arrive any time "in the next 10 years" that they were talking about 10 years ago. The point was made that this doesn't have to be an either-or proposition however. And that people adopting electric cars in large numbers would only help the hydrogen technology when it comes finally becomes available.
Ripening
The tomatoes are coming around. The plants are actually a bit disappointing. They look sort of spindly and they don't have many leaves on them. But they are starting to crank out the fruit as you can see below. Red tomatoes!
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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