August ← 2009 ← A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

Stuff I Want But Don't Need — shelving, lighting, tools, tripod

Aug

2009

* Fold out shelving system. Wow this is just awesome looking. * Kurt’s key list of propbuilding tools. * Rich and Bob’s Tripod reco — Gitzo1541T and the Really Right Stuff BH-40LR. I actually need this. * Hangman light. Awesome tho I think the rest of the family might object.

Football Week One — Hurray!

Aug

2009

Finally here. Here’s your reading for the day: * Navy Football — know your enemy. Navy Sports, The BirdDog. * OSU Depth chart out and other goodies in the weekly PDF. * Because I can’t help it, a little USC preview — how to attack Barkley. Navy opens at a 21.5 point underdog. I don’t ...

Books — Maelstrom, Third Degree, T is for Trespass

Aug

2009

Some airplane reads: * “Maelstrom”:amazon by Peter Watts. World at risk as cyber/nano/bio advancements spin out of control, helped by misguided human conspirators. The unique part of this tale is the abuse backstory of the protagonist and how that affects her actions. Amazon says 4 stars, might be a bit rich, but a solid effort. ...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-30

Aug

2009

I used Shazam to discover Blinding by Florence And The Machine #shazam # Worried…LA is growing on me # RT @MartinGTobias: Thanks @troyd for the family computer support flowchart http://bit.ly/wojUQ I wish more people used it! # RT @edsbs: A year old, but timeless in its utility: http://bit.ly/TDg1W # RT @BlockONation: "Take the Field Tribute" ...

Witch potion labels

Aug

2009

These labels are awesome. Hat tip to Kurt

Quick software/hardware trial notes

Aug

2009

* WPTouch plugin for wordpress is awesome. check out theludwigs.com from your iphone. * Messing around with Slingbox finally. Works well tho I had to massively reconfig home network to get rid of routers — configuring to get through one router was reasonable; getting through two was nearly impossible; getting through the three I had ...

Mac vs PC anecdote

Aug

2009

My Macbook had a motherboard failure two weeks ago. Both USB ports on left side blown, wifi chipset blown. (Blame Tekkcharge but that is another discussion). Discovered this at about 4pm on a Wednesday, went to Apple.com and scheduled a genius bar appointment at 830pm same day. At 830 I roll into the Bellevue Square ...

grimvisions on Etsy

Aug

2009

grimvisions on Etsy – Grimvisions – Where Grim Visions Become Dark Art — nice pieces from Kurt for the halloween season. I’ve seen his work in person, very very impressive.

Router-palooza

Aug

2009

I guess I have been a little inattentive to my home network config. I’ve been installing a Slingbox and installation keeps dying during router config. I suspected that I had some unnecessary router complexity. As I dug in, I realized I was putting the Slingbox behind 3 (!) routers — the Moto cablemodem, a Linksys ...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23

Aug

2009

Math wonks figure out active cloaking — http://bit.ly/Idfj6 # Brains have built-in crumple zone — http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/braincushion/ # Stimulus in action — driving thru I-5 construction zone, passing semi loaded with crushed clunkers. # Powered by Twitter Tools

Gadget packing

Aug

2009

A sad fact of modern life. When I pack for a trip these days, my packing planning and time is dominated by gadget packing. Just carrying the gadgets isn’t that hard. MacBook, iPhone, Kindle, Canon 5d. Ok I have to plan lenses for the Canon a little, and actually there is a whole endless morass ...

Books — Modern-day Vikings, City of My Dreams

Aug

2009

Scandinavia week, I may be visiting the area this fall: * “Modern-day Vikings”:amazon by Christina Johansson Robinowitz and Lisa Werner Carr. Subtitled as a practical guide to getting along with Swedes, this book is a brief guide to Swedish history, culture, and manners. A quick and interesting read. 4.5 stars on Amazon, not sure any ...

Make Your Own URL Shortening Service

Aug

2009

Make Your Own URL Shortening Service – url shorteners – Lifehacker. Must read this and implement.

Stuff I Want But Don't Need — Leg Lamp edition

Aug

2009

Remember the Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story? * USB Aroma Diffuser/Hub/Moodlight — good to see that the tech industry inventive spirit remains alive, with products like this the US economy will remain a juggernaut for years to come. * Paperclip Lamp. I bet it breaks if you adjust it too many times. * GSelect. ...

Systems Biology Graphical Notation

Aug

2009

Standardized network diagrams for biology — SBGN.Org. Cool, I have a hard time imagining electrical engineering without a standardized circuit diagram language.

OSU's reloading challenge; helmet schedules

Aug

2009

The BigTen Network has a nice page summarizing all the watch lists for this season. Which nicely highlights OSU’s challenge this year — compared to years past, OSU has way too few players on these lists. For OSU to achieve the top 5-10 finish predicted by a lot of pollsters, some relative unknowns are going ...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16

Aug

2009

Is there no place in the US these clowns could go to study climate change? Dorks, pissing away our money. http://bit.ly/2qOrL # RT @elevenwarriors: Blame Florida http://bit.ly/180NLa # Hope Tressel was watching… http://bit.ly/nwztN # @dglasser Clearly stan, he is going to buy a silver mine. who doesn't want a silver mine? in reply to dglasser ...

I need to get smarter about the healthcare debate

Aug

2009

Having spent way too much time with healthcare providers, insurance companies, etc, in the last 4 years, I certainly support change. Almost any change, change for change’s sake, is worth trying, because the system is not very satisfying right now. We should clearly try to do something. So I am inclined towards supporting the new ...

Demographics and long term competitiveness in college football

Aug

2009

Article in today’s WSJ about “Fasting Dying Cities” and Ohio is all too well represented (though Canton is growing, what is the story there??). So let’s look at the big picture — college football competitiveness. It is not so much that Ohio and neighboring states are losing population — in fact they are staying pretty ...

Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials — Science

Aug

2009

Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials — Stebe et al. 325 5937: 159 — Science — good article. “Such metamaterials may, for example, be used to create cloaking devices or light-based circuits based on manipulations of local optical electric fields rather than on the flow of electrons.” “The challenge now is to move from hit-or-miss assemblies of ...