Becky and I have always been big fans of the various Farmers’ Markets around Omaha; I’m not a huge veggie person, but actual fresh produce definitely tastes better than the stuff trucked in from wherever that they sell in the grocery store. This year, Becky decided to join the Tomāto Tomäto CSA (Community Supported Agriculture group). [...]
You’ve got to hand it to IBM’s engineers. They drag themselves into work after their company’s 100th birthday party, pop a few Alka-Seltzers and then promptly announce yet another seismic invention. This time it’s a new kind of phase change memory (…
Here’s the schedule. Follow it.
There’s your in box. Empty it.
When something is imminent, speed up. When you’re off the deadline machine, take a breath and poke around a bit, explore, relax.
Nonsense.
The goal isn’t to do work and hand it in just …
For a few years now, my friend Ron has hosted a summer water slide party at his house. Initially, it was a plastic tarp and a garden hose, and has sort of evolved from there. This year, the plan is to run a 6-8′ wide billboard tarp as a slide-way, with a plywood-reinforced splashdown pool, and [...]
Shown uppermost is the first prototype of a handheld artillery spotting device developed as a student capstone project at West Point. The blue board to upper left is pretty clearly an Arduino Mega. You can see, in the near upper corner of that boa…
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