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NASA’s summer blockbuster
Somebody at NASA is freaking awesome. They’ve made up these authentic NASA mission posters for various missions. Some are pretty average but others look like they belong as movie posters for a...
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HDTVs should autocrop. [Rant]
How come HDTVs aren’t smart enough to auto crop themselves to the right size? Nearly every TV I see has problems with adjusting to the correct screen resolution to fit the current program or...
View ArticleTribute to the Boosh [Timekill]
Bored at work. Late shift sucks. Just finished all The Mighty Boosh episodes. It’s a surreal British comedy skit show for US readers who are unfamiliar. I need a Tony Harrison sound bite to play with I...
View ArticleThe future of Magazines
I’m interested to see “what the future holds for publishing”, as tech commentators would say. I’m horribly afraid Mosspuppet will be right. @victorchamp According to publishers, the iPad will...
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What the Frak!
I’m famous!!! I was looking up the Street Dogs entry in last.fm and keyed the entry into Bing. Front page bottom of the page links to my Last.fm tag directory (which happens to contain Street Dogs)....
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Urban garden in 8sq feet.
I just started throwing together this year’s hydroponic garden. Last year was a test to see if I could even do it. It was so successful that this year I’m going all out, fully documenting it and...
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The Daily What
The Daily What. This trumps my “Geeks attend electronics conventions, Nerds attend Star Trek conventions.” definition of geek and nerd.
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Making a garden that can fit on a small apartment balcony.
The basic idea of using hydroponics instead of a pot of soil you can maximize the growing potential of a small space. It’s a myth that growing with hydroponics is better than soil; it’s more accurate...
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Funny of the day. iPad comes out in 4 or 5 days.
You can tell from the title I’m not getting one and don’t really care when it comes out. Still a funny flowchart for it. The Next Web
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I respect Woz but I don’t think he get’s it sometimes.
Wozniak in a recent interview: Woz: By the way, I solved the problem of battery life and [the lack of] multitasking on the iPhone. Lyons: Really? Woz: Yeah. I just have two iPhones, so if the battery...
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Cilp-On Shed for an urban garden.
Where have I heard that idea before… Treehugger has a cool concept from a green design challenge. It’s a clip on shed for apartments; although I prefer the term one of the comments used, “Parasitic...
View ArticleUS gets iPad after the rest of the world?!
I thought the iPad was officially going on sale on Saturday April 3rd (unless you’re a big enough news outlet to get a preview model the day before yesterday. So how come Stephen Fry already got one?...
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Making a garden that can fit on a small apartment balcony.
Continued. I didn’t like the drains on the end caps. It worked great at first but it was too easy to bump the drain hose and dislodge the end cap; then they leaked. So I went back to the original...
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Being outsourced: Saving money, at the cost of service.
see more Political Pictures I recently lost my job; it’s no big deal, I was already looking for a new one because I felt underutilized and under recognized but having the NEED to go find a new job is...
View ArticleBlog power low…
Sorry I’ve been so quiet. I’ve started my new job and all my attention has been directed at learning new equipment and how to do a job without making mistakes that crashing internet for thousands of...
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How to make the most of a DIY coin-op carwash.
One tradition most all of us have on the first nice days of spring is to take the car to the carwash and spray off winter’s accumulation of road salts and other muck from the last 3 months. For car...
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Wally loses Dilbert’s 4G phone at the bar.
Dilbert is great. But unfortunately news moves too fast for the comics to be too topical. So these comics will never see the light of day. I’m sure coming up with hilarious comics every day is pretty...
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It’s Pac-Man’s 30th birthday!
Google of course is recognizing the day with a custom header on www.google.com. The trick is that the google title is playable; open up google and hover over the title. It’s worth it for the nostalgia...
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Last launch of the Shuttle Atlantis.
Excellent video of the space shuttle Atlantis making it’s last jump into space. One slow day at work we watched a NASA feed of a shuttle launch from T-5mins to fuel tank separation (~+8min). One...
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