If you’re reading this then I’ve emerged from the other side of the tunnel - I transferred the blog from Blogger to my own WordPress site. At times hammering away at the the transfer I felt like John Henry but alas it looks like I’ll survive this one.
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Gratuitous Use of Packaging
I know I haven’t written an entry in a while, and this short one really doesn’t satisfy, but here goes.
This is a picture of 3 packages that arrived at our house last week. Each contained exactly one small item (the light green packages). All are from the same company and yet each uses a different [...]
an uncomfortable truth about air power
In my last post, I wrote about a mythical approach to transportation - one that relies on charged air. I still very much like this idea, but there are two big problems with it to be frank:
1) Pressured air (pneumatics) is much more dangerous than pressured liquid (hydraulics) – i.e. [...]
Air Power
Rarely do internet searches disappoint. But yesterday, I was disappointed twice by two related searches. I overheard two colleagues of mine talking about a vehicle, car if you will, that can transverse the continental US on a single tank of compressed air. This turned up nothing. Perhaps they were sharing a joke and I was [...]
singing in my sleep
If you pin the label songwriter to your list of interests/avocations, you may have been blessed or plagued by a similar phenomenon. It usually only happens to me when I’m low stress, getting a lot of exercise and thus sleeping alot. Now that summer’s on the way, my job is a little lower stress and [...]
Bicycle Evolution
Yesterday, I spent about 90 minutes in a local bike shop testing some new road bikes. My first reaction was how astonishing bikes have evolved in the last six years since I last bought one. But now in retrospect, I’ve changed that view. Lookit, no machine requires as much physical human energy and makes such [...]
Magic Number 3
On this day 5/9/06, I want to discuss the most underrated number, the number 3. Perhaps our nature is to think of the world as in base-10 and base-2 for some strange psychological or biological reasons (10 fingers, and the bi-symmetry of ourselves, left-vs.-right). But through a series of posts I want to talk about [...]
Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics - Review
I was excited to buy the latest Flaming Lipsmusic (I’m almost exclusively buying my music online these days - my favorite site is Musicmatch - both for its prices and its diversity). Something about the previous release, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, really grabbed me and I wanted more. Given the reviews of War with [...]
design: part art, part art, part science
I was working with a student today who was writing a paper on whetherdesign (specifically engineering design) is part art or part science. Ina way, this phrase we use to describe something as an art more than ascience is really simply a colloquialism - and perhaps shouldn’t be thebasis for a rigorous study. But, the [...]
Trolley Volley
About 2 years ago, Gabrielle and I were camping up in the Pacific Northwest, and were about to head back to Seattle. I was thinking I should get a souvenir but nothing really reflected my experience there. So, when we realized we had to hurry to make the next ferry I grabbed a package of [...]
