Over did it the last few days and am paying today. May post a bit but for the most part am going to try to recoop(?).
Guess it was all the drill use. Don’t have quite this much problem with hands and arms when I use the modified remote battery drill vs the heavy as hell 18 volt sucker.
Downtime is partually due to the last two days spent with the heavy as hell unit in hand putting gutters on one side of the 12×60 and getting metal canopys put up over the doors on the other side before the rain hit.
Trying to cut down on the amount of water that runs down the walls, behind the scrap I have against the sides at the bottom to keep the cats out, under the length of the trailer and then under the end wall of the unfinished rear addition to the q-hut and into the floor.
The flood inside wasn’t quite as bad this time. Of course I ended up putting the last piece of metal up in pouring rain. Put the drill in a large baggie with the bit sticking out one corner and finished up or we would have had a lot more inside. I think this one was a 12 towel leak.
Got a new one at the other end in the bedroom floor. Or that’s where it ends up. Ceiling center 3 feed from the end. Course that is the first seam in the ceilotex so could be from the end to 6 feed or so from it. We were up there a couple of months ago with roof coating so may have caused one then. Tis always something new.
I hope to get metal cut to underpen the trailer and stop the water from getting under in the first place. But I also need to finish with gutters or extended metal water sheads/eaves or something to keep it from getting on what walls are left.  Plan to redo the walls with some cans/bottles/rocks/concrete combo and be done with it fer-ever. One of these days…
Hands are giving out so will close till later…
MIT proton treatment could replace x-ray use in radiation therapy – MIT News Office
Scientists at MIT, collaborating with an industrial team, are creating a proton-shooting system that could revolutionize radiation therapy for cancer. The goal is to get the system installed at major hospitals to supplement, or even replace, the conventional radiation therapy now based on x-rays.
The fundamental idea is to harness the cell-killing power of protons — the naked nuclei of hydrogen atoms — to knock off cancer cells before the cells kill the patient. Worldwide, the use of radiation treatment now depends mostly on beams of x-rays, which do kill cancer cells but can also harm many normal cells that are in the way.
What the researchers envision — and what they’re now creating — is a room-size atomic accelerator costing far less than the existing proton-beam accelerators that shoot subatomic particles into tumors, while minimizing damage to surrounding normal tissues. They expect to have their first hospital system up and running in late 2007.
Room-size atomic accelerator. Now there is a downsized item for you. And gonna have it in the same room as the patient being treated. I hope they make it work. From a couple of things I have read the proton systems do a lot less damage to the surrounding tissue than the x-ray systems now in use.
First penis transplant patient hated it
You got to wonder:
Was it too big.
Was it too small.
Was it the wrong color.
How he lost his in the first place.
And why after getting another one he had it cut off… 🙁
Deep-sea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines – MIT News Office
Interesting concept. Though I wonder if tidal or wave energy wouldn’t be better use than wind. Though as the article states the wind that far off shore (100 miles) will be much more constant.
Treehugger: Escopetarras: Riffs not Rifles, Ballads not Bullets
Interesting looking things. Whatever you want to call them.
Update: Steve notes in the comments that this is a “Life Rifle”! Thanks Steve!
Fish is used to detect terror attacks – Yahoo! News
Bluegill, canary of the water system. Interesting use of fish. And reasonable. But wait till PETA gets involved…
Engine on a chip promises to best the battery – MIT News Office
Looks like MIT is close to getting the micro turbine functional. Article states that they hope to have it operational by the end of the year. 20,000 rpm revolutions per second (thanks for the correction Steve). Sucker is booking!
3D rock carvings recorded with simple equipment – tech – 18 September 2006 – New Scientist Tech
Sounds like a step in the right direction. Wonder if using a solidstate laser with a refraction grid would give any better resolution? Since the article is so sparse info wise there isn’t really much to speculate with though…
Update: Guess I should have looked harder for a link. There actually is one! Company is SINTEF and there is quite a bit more than in the article including a downloadable PDF with some stuff that isn’t on the page. Says that the resolution is 1/10,000 of the object scanned. Not shabby at all!
Is Ubuntu Linux a Sensible Alternative for Mac Users?
I do and don’t agree with his reasoning. While it is true that Ubuntu and other linux variants that will work on the mac may not do things better or even easier than OS X, my biggest complaint is the DRM that is now entwined throughout Apples wonder os.
If you don’t like supporting a company that is doing its damnedist to take away your right to do what you like with files on your own machine, then YES make the move away from anything Apple as fast as you can.
I am still hanging on mainly because the airport software in Ubuntu wasn’t (5 days ago when I tried the latest release) (though to be honest I tried the latest Kubuntu so I guess I need to try Ubuntu now) able to connect at the distance that the native Mac OS X software would.
Actions > Mouth… I have just started downloading the latest Ubuntu to try. As soon as I can get the wifi thing working even close to what I am used to then bye-bye OS X and restrictive DRM!
Scientists study ways to safeguard water
Really bad example of a reporter or editor rewriting what was said. Scientest says to reduce waters loses to evaporation store water underground, headline says scientest calls for letting water run into the ground. Maybe I am just having a bad day but this is just stupid reporting…
The Top 10 Foods to Eat Organically
This is a real good news/bad news thing. The most used foods have the highest pestiside levels. These are some of them and a selection of foods to replace them.
Evangelists oppose Leaky’s fossil exhibition | The Register
Talk about narrow minded, pinheaded idiots… But then again maybe all that evidence doesn’t mean a damn thing. No, the folks who can’t see the evidence of the fossils for the blinders imposed by their faith need to be kept out of polite society and in a small locked closet somewhere…
Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone
This cook an egg with 2 cell phones came up a while back and was shown up as a hoax but not this particular case. These folks used over an hours worth of phone operation between the two phones and had a tape recorder running with voices on it playing close by so they would both be transmitting for the whole time. Makes me wonder what the real story is…
The BraBall
I have no idea why, it just shows up and so I post… 😉
Elderly Instruments – Dopyera Collection – Introduction
The John and Rudy Dopyera Collection
We are very proud to offer for sale the combined collection of John and Rudy Dopyera. Few instrument makers represent the American Dream quite as completely as these two inventors, innovators, marketers, and all-around creative force behind both the National and Dobro companies.
The Dopyera brothers were born in what is now Slovakia, and came to the U.S. with the wave of Eastern European immigrants around the beginning of the 20th century. (In fact, the word “Dobro†is both a contraction of “DOpyera BROthers†and the word for “good†in their native tongue.) Engineers, tinkerers, businessmen, and accomplished musicians (their family had a history of violin making going back centuries, and Rudy was by many accounts an exceptionally talented and soulful Gypsy-style violinist), the two Dopyera brothers combined their Old World skills and traditions with the booming technology and futuristic tastes in art of pre-WWII America. Who else thought that spun aluminum might be a good material for sound projection? Who else engraved beautiful Art Deco designs on the bodies of their guitars? Only the Dopyeras.
The unusual, experimental, and mostly one-of-a-kind instruments in this collection – John’s unusual (and spectacular sounding!) resophonic violin, Rudy’s balalaika-inspired Lullabyka, the Art Deco-influenced steel body uke and tenor guitar, even the actual workbench on which John perfected the fabled tri-cone resonator system – are uniquely American (and uniquely Dopyera) innovations.
There’s no doubt that many of the great blues and slide guitar players owe their careers to these radical innovations of the Dopyeras; and there’s no question that both country and bluegrass music developed a whole new voice after the introduction of the Dobro. Because of the Dopyera brothers, American instruments – and American music – have never been the same.
Some seriously cool instruments!  Interesting guitar vise and workbench too. Wonderful stuff!
Volkswagen Beetle art car on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Dave Winer’s new header graphic at Scripting News is a howl! It’s a picture he took at the “How Berkeley Can You Be parade” today. Wonderful stuff! Note the tag on the left – GLASQLT, Glass Quilt maybe? Would fit the car. 😉 Lots of other pictures of interesting stuff there too. Thanks for sharing Dave!
Just received this from my brother, Mark, and though I have seen it before it is still SO true. Not to mention that the new WordPress makes it so easy to add pictures so I just gotta post it… 😉
Quite often we ask ourselves hard to answer questions, like,”What is a sonofabitch?” The only true thing is that a picture is worth a thousand words.
In this photo, the guy on the right is a member of a bomb squad in midst of a deactivation. The guy behind him, well, he’s a sonofabitch.
Any questions? 😉
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