Archive for June, 2008

Graduate Materials Science programs — distance learning

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I started taking graduate matsci courses several years ago at the UW via the Edge program, and also took some on campus. I have found it hard to continue ... Read more..

Lojack for Laptops

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Considering buying Lojack for a new laptop — wonder if it is worth it. Read more..

OSU’s Jim Tressel crushing U-M’s Rich Rodriguez

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Recruiting: OSU’s Jim Tressel crushing U-M’s Rich Rodriguez | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press — a nice early summer pick-me-up courtesy of the Detroit Free Press. Read more..

Mac utilities — Witch, itunes scripts

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Many Tricks · Witch — super useful task switcher, let’s you see all windows within an app doug’s applescripts for itunes — a ton of scripts for manipulating your song library Geektool ... Read more..

Stockli watering can replacements.

Sunday, June 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

We have these plastic Stockli 7 liter watering cans that we love — but after years of use they are breaking down. I can’t find any US source for ... Read more..

Kill cell phone speaker buzz

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Clever Uses: Magnets Kill the Cell Phone Speaker Buzz — an old but effective idea Read more..

Wrap your car just like the big boys do

Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Infectious Car Art — pretty cool stuff. Read more..

Home media server

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Now that I have a PS3 I want to serve up photos etc to it. Trying to decide between all the choices out there: Google’s new media server Free Media Player ... Read more..

Products I don’t understand — Power-Drill Tent Stakes

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Power-Drill Tent Stakes — OK I love to use power tools but I tend not to carry them while camping, not even if I ever ... Read more..

HDMI AV receivers — Sony

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I’m going to convert sometime in the next 6 months to an HDMI receiver I think — here are some Sony units — CrunchGear » Archive » Sony is adding ... Read more..

Motivation

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Hard-ass quote for the day: Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.– Lou Holtz Read more..

Summer 2008 Lopez to Anacortes Car Quotas

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The WSDOT does a great job posting ferry schedules and making them available for cell phones. For some reason tho, the exact quotas for cars on each sailing are ... Read more..

‘Image Fulgurator’ prank

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

CrunchGear » Archive » ‘Image Fulgurator’ ruins photos with hilarious results — this is awesome. Read more..

Mark Anderson on Solving America’s Energy Crisis — get to all electric with nuclear then solar/wind

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Strategic News Service Blog » Blog Archives » Solving America’s Energy Crisis — a reasonable approach. I heartily agree with the idea of getting to all electric as soon ... Read more..

Rich on SBUX WIFI

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rich cleverly figures out how to game the SBUX WIFI system — just have multiple prepaid cards. Read more..

Amazon Unbox rental — never again

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rented a flick on Amazon Unbox last night — it downloaded fine to my Tivo and it looked fine, but the 24 hour exploding limitation is beyond stupid. We ... Read more..

Rich’s photo tools recos

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Photo Tools: FDR Tool, PortraitProfessional, Lumapix, Digi-labs | Tongfamily.com — lots of great tips here. I am currently using Aperture and Noise Ninja, with an occasional dip in Adobe ... Read more..

Firefox tweaks I am trying out

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

turn on color management colorful list view in google reader — requires greasemonkey…i like it! About:robots. cute tweak the suggestion algorithm piclens plugin. works great with smugmug Sxipper — enhanced password manager Read more..

Replacing my DVD player with a PS3

Saturday, June 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Spent the morning hooking up my birthday present — a PS3. Replacing my DVD player. One major bummer is the PS3′s use of bluetooth for remote. While I appreciate ... Read more..

Solar cost competitive by 2015

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Electricity Rates from Solar Cost Competitive by 2015 « Cooler Planet Clean Edge, a research and publishing company focused on renewable technologies and the non-profit organization Co-op America released a report ... Read more..

Henton transferring

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Antonio Henton, On the Midnight Train to Georgia - Sunday Morning Quarterback — this is too bad, he seems like a great talent. But as another commentator noted, he has ... Read more..

3D printer roundup

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

14_3D Printers « long exposure photography, video and sculpture — via Make Read more..

Lost Space Colonies of NASA

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

NASA space colonies — awesome, I remember these pix from back in the day, very inspiring. My other strange space link of the day — something about Nazi invaders from the ... Read more..

Energy links — IT leaders, Tesla, Nuclear, Duke Energy, Construction

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

HP working on solar PV, IBM putting a billion dollars into green datacenters, Intel spinning out a PV firm — nice to see the IT leaders getting behind alternate energy DOE ... Read more..

Stuff I Want But Don’t Need

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Toolmonger » Blog Archive » Meet Rockwell’s Jawhorse — I have a thing for portable work benches and their ilk Borosilicate Tea Kettle — just because I like saying it, “could ... Read more..

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