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• Cool Technology, Old Things

  The John Deere B, aka Johnny Popper

  11.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  The kids & I passed a really lazy Sunday afternoon yesterday watching one of my favorite movies, Cars. One thing that struck me while watching it is that they could have cast the herd of tractors a little better; in the movie the likeness of an old Farmall tractor was used to portray the cow-like […]

• Cool Technology, Geek

  Wordpress Has Spoiled Me

  10.15.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I did some old-fashioned html work this weekend, and discovered anew how much easier things are using a tool like Wordpress instead of doing it by hand. I don’t do coding regularly enough to know the stuff by heart, but holy cow! what a lot of the futzing I had to do to get things […]

• Bikes, Cool Technology, Fun!

  The VogaBike

  07.31.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A couple of weekends ago I bumped into something online that made me dig up some sketches I’d made years ago (1985 or ‘86 I think). Back then I was wanting to build a record-breaking human-powered speed machine. I reasoned that the pedaling action on standard bikes was less than efficient, but the rowing action […]

• Cool Technology, Links

  This Message Will Self-Destruct In 10 Seconds

  07.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here’s a service I’ve wished for on a number of occasions; WillSelfDestruct.com, where you can send an anonymous email that can only be viewed a specified number of times or for a specified amount of time. You just enter the recipient’s email address, a subject, your message, and how you’d like to have it viewed. […]

• Cars!, Cool Technology

  The RoadBoat

  07.25.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Here’s an interesting human-powered vehicle. Christened the RoadBoat — a cute play on names, since it’s powered by four “rowers”, but travels on the road — it was designed and built to set a record for a trans-Canada ride back in 2001.

  We intend to establish a Guinness World Record for traveling from Halifax to Vancouver […]

• Cool Technology

  The Digital Movie Experience

  07.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A couple of weeks ago Caleb and I went to see Ratatouille (great, great movie, by the way), and much to my surprise the theater (the Carmike 7)had installed Christie digital projectors. Wow! What a difference that made! The colors so bright, the details so crisp… Everything was just so… clear. Add to that the […]

• Cool Technology, Fun!

  Cluster Ballooning

  06.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  When I first saw a post about this over at Neatorama, my first thought was a scene in the ancient movie “The Red Balloon”, where the kid floats away at the end hanging from a bunch of balloons. I may have only seen it once in primary school, but because the images from the movie […]

• Cool Technology, Fun!

  The Go-Hub

  02.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I love bikes, and love to ride them. But the trouble with bicycling as a means of everyday transportation is that it takes serious work to get somewhere in a decent amount of time. That serious work makes one sweat, and while I don’t have a problem with sweating per se, there are times when […]

• Computers, Cool Technology

  The Apple PowerCD

  11.27.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  
  

• Cool Technology

  The Aqueon Fireplace

  08.07.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  This is pretty incredible; the Aqueon fireplace provides a homey flame using nothing but electricity and water. That’s right, water. No magic involved; the unit uses an electrolysis process to pull hydrogen out of the water, and burns the hydrogen.
  I wrote a post on Gadgetopia about this, not knowing a lot about the electrolysis process, […]

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