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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]