Archive for August, 2006

DC Power Supplies

Thursday, August 31st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Circuit Specialists Inc. - PowerSupply1 Single Output Switching Power Supplies Read more..

Best source of bones

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Remember, if you need bones in bulk. Anatomical Chart Read more..

New Halloween finds

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

i-Zombie.com • Welcome! — high power color organs — 1200 watts!!! this is tremendous. Unit 70 — great skeletons thanks to kurt for the tips. Read more..

The Value of College Athletes

Monday, August 28th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

Excellent analysis of the fair value of a college atthlete — The Sports Economist, the Merc. Basically, a bunch of adults and other ... Read more..

audacity

Monday, August 28th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder — recommended by an online halloween buddy for sound editting. i’m currently using sony’s acidpro because i’m doing some mixing and surround panning ... Read more..

Exploring 5.1 surround tools

Sunday, August 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m working on creating some surround sound effects for my halloween setup this year. I’ve been looking for software to do this cheaply but no such luck so far. I ... Read more..

lynxmotion for hobby electronics

Sunday, August 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I exhausted myself driving around yesterday looking for connectors and other electronics parts for some halloween projects. Vetco, radio Shack, frys were all strike outs as were the local ... Read more..

FCG Resources

Thursday, August 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Kurt mentioned to me what a draw his Flying Crank Ghost was. Motivated me to look more deeply into. Here are the key resources ... Read more..

New Methodz of Madness forum

Thursday, August 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

MethodzofMadness.org :: Index Read more..

Drug Interaction Tool

Thursday, August 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I have no idea how good the database is behind this tool — Check Interactions - DrugDigest — but a nice idea. Read more..

Turning on pop access to gmail

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Spent time today helping a friend do this…the google site is pretty good, but doesn’t really give guidance on what to do if your pop client keeps getting rejected. ... Read more..

Wholesale Electronics

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Another great halloween supplier — Wholesale Electronics — I ordered a bunch of random relays and had them delivered in 48 hours. Read more..

SoundDogs

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’ve been working on my halloween soundtracks and I needed some new thunder sounds. I’ve been using some thunder tracks off of old sfx cds but they have a ... Read more..

EFX-TEK

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

One vendor kurt reminded me of was EFX-TEK . I ordered some stuff last night and these guys have killer customer service. Fast email response, they seem ... Read more..

MT Tags, Keywords, Categories

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Prior to MT3.3, I was using a plugin to automagically convert keywords into categories, and basically using keywords as tags. now I am trying to switch to the mt3.3 ... Read more..

Grim Visions

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Met Kurt today — Grimvisions.com — another Seattle Halloween enthusiast. Some great stuff up here and some stuff I should have thought of — bending PVC with a ... Read more..

Another halloween song

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

la la - View Album — Psoriatic by Scott Walker. Probably needs voice to be ,uddied. Read more..

MT upgrade

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Upgraded to 3.31. Also migrating all my keywords to tags. Probably some funkiness until I figure out all the tagging stuff. Read more..

Personal document management

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

Our new copier in the office has this killer scanner. Great sheet feeder, and willl email yoru scanned docs as a pdf to you. Given that I have scads of ... Read more..

Minnesota rentals

Sunday, August 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Early look at some stuff for next summer — Minnesota Vacation Rentals - VRBO? is Vacation Rentals by Owner Minnesota - Minnesota Hotels, Minnesota Lodging, Minnesota Travel and Tourism — ... Read more..

Fluke LVD1 Volt Light

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

A minor little tool — LVD1 Volt Light — and not unique to Fluke at all, but super handy. Works great for detecting live outlets, works thru drywall to ... Read more..

Recent books — and stuff I should read

Monday, August 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Beyond Oil by Deffeyes. Excellent, breezy book looking at the production and supply issues behind oil and all other energy sources, by a very smart scientist. An ... Read more..

Some more great halloween music

Monday, August 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

False Positive by Childman — best if you use a voice filter to distort the voice into near-recognizability. Bach — Toccata in D Minor, Fugue in C Minor, Passacaglia in C ... Read more..

LogMeIn, Hamachi

Friday, August 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

jkOnTheRun: LogMeIn buys Hamachi — a while back I was all excited about remote pc access software, and i still occasionally use it. But increasingly I store all my ... Read more..

CF Stats

Friday, August 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Crazy depth stats on college football games at CFBStats , via EDSBS ? Archive ? STATISTICS. WOW. Read more..