Radio Shack Blog Post: Amy and Lauren Recap Maker Faire
I really enjoyed meeting the Radio Shack folks at Maker Faire Bay Area. They seemed genuinely interested in understanding the needs of makers and trying to stock the types of products that we mi…

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Jason sent me this article in Mens Journal a while back; While it doesn’t get into all the same specifics as Tim Ferriss’ 4 Hour Body, it certainly has the same flavor.  The author again proposes that most of modern fitness is designed to “sell” something, rather than to make actual results. It’s a pretty [...]

For a while now, Becky’s been looking for a new blender.  Our el-cheapo Target model (I think it’s a Sunbeam or a Hamilton Beach) has about given up the ghost.  Becky’s been making lots of smoothies recently, which involve lots of ice crushing and very full pitchers (relative to the old blender, anyhow).  She’d really [...]

A few weeks back, Becky and I took Molly to the Nebraska Humane Society‘s bi-annual Dining with Dogs benefit event. The event itself was a good time overall, but some of the dog-related things were a bit out of control, not least of which was Molly.  She alternated between cowering under Becky’s chair and barking [...]

I’ve started to accumulate quite a heap of old smartphones, and would really like them to either get useful or get gone. It was my initial intent to “simply” hook one up as a networked webcam, and have it serve images via HTTP, not unlike the units sold by everyone from Axis to Panasonic.  Sadly, [...]

On my way home last night, I saw a house that was seemingly on fire.  One set of firetrucks were already on the scene (From the nearby  fire station, just south of  144th and Maple) , and I met a team from Elkhorn Fire on my way out of the neighborhood.  Shortly thereafter, while standing [...]

In a previous post, I’d discussed the Energizer batteries and charger I’d purchased, only to be disapointed by the chargers’ lack of 220v capability.  At Patrick from OMG’s recommendation, I ordered a set of NiZn AAs from PowerGenix, and am pretty pleased overall. In addition to better flash-charging performance (Which is amazingly hard to quantify, so you’ll [...]

This very entertaining take on the classic most useless machine gag is not quite so patient as its ancestors. Oh sure, it does what they all do: When you turn it on, it turns itself off. And it’ll do that over and over again. But, much like my c…