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Physicists freeze light, propose optical CPUs | The Register
By Dave, April 13, 2005 8:34 am
Physicists freeze light, propose optical CPUs | The Register
This is strange…
NewsForge | Making a plastic texture with The GIMP
By Dave, April 13, 2005 8:33 am
Want to get your boss to buy you an iPod?
By Dave, April 13, 2005 8:31 am
we make money not art: Sensitive vehicles to help drivers
By Dave, April 12, 2005 9:35 am
we make money not art: Sensitive vehicles to help drivers
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/3637
Cool!
Update
By Dave, April 12, 2005 9:29 am
Still alive. Been feeling real bad the past few days. Guess it has just been another flair up. Seems to have eased this evening quite a bit. Last night was particularly bad. Thought several times about going to the ER but managed to meditate my way through it once again.
But the weird thing is at times I can work as hard as ever and then it’s like someone flipped a switch and cut my power off. Hit me this morning at the table between one spoon of cereal and the next. One minute I am fine, tired but okay, and then next I can hardly move the spoon from the bowl to my mouth. Could still talk with no trouble and thought was seemed to be unimpaired but the energy seemed to be drained from all the voluntary muscles in my body. I sat there for about 20 minutes I guess and it came back and I went and started doing stuff again.
Spent most of the day today at the creek working on the new bridge. Started it last week after stepping through yet another rotten board on one of the pallets that floored the old foot bridge across the creek. I have been thinking about what to do in rebuilding this for some time (years) now and at that point decided to fix it. So later that day I look at a Marvin’s flyer and see that they have a sale on landscape timbers. So make a run and get 30 figuring that would be enough for a 20 foot long foot bridge. Well it was till Bill says something about would be nice to put benches in the middle. And a roof on it.
And so it grew. At present we have made 3 trips. 30. 28. 30. The last trip was supposed to also get the ones for the front porch here at the trailer too but looks like they will be used on the bridge. It’s overall 4 feet wide for about 6 feet on each end and 8 feet for about 8 feet in the middle. There is a 2 foot + wide bench on one side and another with half the frame built on the other side now. One of the end arbor tops is framed in on 2 sides, another cut but not in place and 2 uprights need another setback cut into them at the top, and then the wire for the vines to run in. Got a bunch of native muscatine vines that are right beside the bridge that I am going to try to train to the arbors. Hand rails on the end sides at 3 feet with cross bracing of saplings below.
The benches are over the creek. Supported by pilings that I pounded into the ground, on each side of the water, till they hit limestone. This is one of those projects that just keep growing. And growing. Got a bunch of pictures of it as I have been working on it. So will try to get the pictures together and make a page for them.
I haven’t put anything on paper other than one set of measurements that I made after building the first bench seat end. It’s all come out of my head as I have built it. Cut to fit for the most part. Benches are 2 feet by 8 feet. Big enough for me to take a nap on. Backs are 30+ inches high boards spaced an inch or so apart. 3 inch lean from bottom to top.
Roof is gonna be about 9 by 10 with each side being 9 by 5. Got the idea in my head now to get it into wood. Entire roof should take 9 timbers if my figuring is correct. 5 of those will be 9 feet long and be made of an 8 foot timber and a 1 1/2 foot piece with a 6 inch lap joint. The other 4 are 2 8 foot pieces cut at an angle in the center, one side reversed to form the peak, 2 points cut out to fit the post corners about 2 feet from each end and nailed into place on top of the seat front supports. Then the 5 will be affixed across the rafters and the roofing put on. Should be interesting…
Guess I have rambled enough for now. Hands and arms are about done in. 3 pound hammer that it takes to pound in the 6 inch spiral cut nails has taken its tole.
Boing Boing: Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:37 am
Boing Boing: Humanist transhumanism: Citizen Cyborg
Looks to be an interesting read.
Wired News: EPA Cancels Pesticide Study
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:28 am
Wired News: EPA Cancels Pesticide Study
So should we be all stand and clap and be happy they decided to cancel this study or pissed as hell that they had the unmitigated gall to attempt this bullshit in the first place?
Harry Winston Rare Timepieces Discussion Forum
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:25 am
iPod shuffle Database Builder
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:23 am
THE WORLD’S UGLIEST CAR IS RESTORED BY MECHANIC ANDY SAUNDERS, DORSET, BRITAIN – MAR 2005
By Dave, April 12, 2005 8:19 am
THE WORLD’S UGLIEST CAR IS RESTORED BY MECHANIC ANDY SAUNDERS, DORSET, BRITAIN – MAR 2005
That guy who has been in college forever
By Dave, April 10, 2005 7:45 am
That guy who has been in college forever
Thanks for the link Steve. Don’t really know what to say about this one. Course Cat was at JSU for 17 years but didn’t take near the load this guy does and part of that was taking masters courses.
Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering
By Dave, April 9, 2005 12:32 am
Lab Notes: Research from the Berkeley College of Engineering
Interesting stuff in this issue.
Magnetic heat exchanger will cool down your CPU
By Dave, April 9, 2005 12:30 am
Magnetic heat exchanger will cool down your CPU
Interesting concept. Had an idea about magnetic fluid the other day that I am still thinking on. Not related to heat. Dealing with using the magnetic fluid as a liquid “rotor” in generating electricity. I like the idea of using a magnet to “pump” the coolant.
ABC News: Smoking Outlawed in ‘Marlboro Country’
By Dave, April 9, 2005 12:06 am
ABC News: Smoking Outlawed in ‘Marlboro Country’
Line up here for the showers folks. Not that I am necessarily for smoking, but I AM against the government taking more and more of our supposed freedom away in the name of what’s “best” for us.
Using Viktor Schauberger’s thoeries on vortex movement in ‘living water’to provide electrical power generation from flowing water
By Dave, April 8, 2005 9:39 pm
Tired
By Dave, April 8, 2005 12:30 am
Not doing much today. Overdid it the past few days I think. That and the pollen have made it hard to do anything today. I suspect the pollen is the reason I haven’t been able to think lately. No thinkie no writie. or something like that. Have been able to do physical things somewhat just not thinking things.
Got the walking bridge started. Using landscape timbers. Took the old pallets off and cut 4 foot sections and spaced them about an inch apart. Moved one of the power poles over about 10 inches to better fit the 4 foot decking. putting 8 foot sections along each side and will attach the hand rails to uprights braced on 8 foot cross pieces located at each end and at about 7 feet apart. Total of 4 sets. Putting a pair of benches out over the creek, one along each side of the walkway and about 8 feet long and 2 feet wide. Hard to explain. And to build. Still working it out in my head so I don’t have to back up and punt too many times.
Got the bush hog blades sharpened and the gearbox filled. Cut below the dam, most of the roads, the east side of the hill powerline clearing and about half of the west side. Then the rain started again. Spent a couple of days cutting. Still got more to do but tis far too wet to try any more today. Plus the rain that keeps hitting today isn’t making it any easier to get anything outside done.
Think I am going to walk a bit before the next bout of rain hits.
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