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Category Archive: General
Nov
04
New kind of flying machine
The Japanese Ministry of Defense has come up with an amazingly cool looking flying machine. Story available on diginfo.tv. It’s basically a hovering, flying sphere. Wild. Courtesy of YouTube
Feb
20
Wiggly things and strong things.
The girls and I worked through a Guided Participatory Lesson for Children around building strong shapes. We built tetrahedrons, wiggly cubes and solid trusses, culminating in the awkward to assemble but rewarding icosahedron. Later they asked me to come back and help them “stabilize” their creation — it’s too wiggly Unkie. #win.
Jan
20
Very cute inspirational Lego short.
For my two blog readers that do not also read Gizmodo, this little short is truly wonderful: Lego Short Film Makes Me Want to Play With Legos Immediately [Lego]: “ CL!CK is a short film made by Lego about how Legos can inspire you to come up with great ideas. It’s a fancy ad, to …
Nov
17
Web developers outsmarting users (or not). Design assumptions that hurt.
Website #FAILs. Lately I’ve noticed a lot of websites make crazy assumptions about my location. I was thinking it was geolocation gone wrong, but it appears that in general they are doing something completely illogical: they are using my language preference list to guess where I am. This amounts to assuming that all French speaking …
Feb
22
WordPress Upgrade
Wow. With much gnashing of teeth, I’ve upgraded to 2.7.1. I have not managed to upgrade my themes, but one step at a time. I had my shared hosting vendor upgrade the platform a while back and oddly enough this disabled my administrative access and I’ve been largely unable to write new content for almost …
Oct
19
PoTW: They’re Back!
The girls are back in town for an extended visit. We found ourselves in Felton, CA today and took advantage of the local park.
Sep
02
Ham Licenses. Who has one?
KC and I have been considering getting a ‘real’ bike-to-bike communication system and with that comes the discovery that almost all GMRS / business radios need to be licensed. With a Technician Ham ticket being a mere weekend course and with that opening the possibility of ‘real radios’, I’m interested in hearing from any of …
Aug
01
Britannica, britannica. C. 1910
From Project Gutenberg [Which is, of course just a copy of the 11th Ed. of Encyclopaedia Britannica] CALGARY, the oldest city in the province of Alberta. Pop. (1901) 4091; (1907) 21,112. It is situated in 114 deg. 15′ W., and 51 deg. 41/2′ N., on the Bow river, which flows with its crystal waters from …
Jul
31
Commuter Fun
commute |kəˈmyoōt| verb 1 [ intrans. ] travel some distance between one’s home and place of work on a regular basis : she commuted from Westport in to Grand Central Station. Well tonight tops my commuter fun-list. I know that things can get crazy, and I’ve had one day prior to today where CA-17 was …