I'm with you - I bought a 25yo steel Trek frame off of Craigslist only to find out (after repainting and rebuilding it) that it was one of several models that were built exclusively by Trek employees for themselves and therefore has no serial number.
I got around this issue by posting pictures of it with my real name on fixedgeargallery.com and registering it on the local police bike registration site. Since I live in a large city, the bike shop I frequent maintains their own system of bike descriptions and serial numbers to track down stolen bikes.
Notre Dame has a new 1-year masters program called ESTEEM combining science, entrepreneurship, and technology. I've had a couple of friends go through it with various science and engineering backgrounds and really enjoy it, though I can't give you much more advice than that. The website is esteem.nd.edu .
Great call on FIRST - I was involved in their high school program for three years and I started a regular FLL program at my K-8 grade school. We had to start including younger students (3rd and 4th grade) than our 5th and 6th graders in the regular program because they were solving the proposed problems too quickly and efficiently.
Even if you do not know what to do with the kits or how to write a line of code, FIRST and LEGO provide excellent resources, the latter of which are not limited to the annual games that FIRST develops.
Disney has been using this stuff for a similar purpose for the past three years and they keep the information much longer than Heathrow's 24 hours (Disney officials state that the info is retained for as much as 30 days after the last use or expiration of a WDW ticket - your fingers aren't broken, I know you can do your own Google search to verify it). I guess if it speeds things up, and heaven only knows that Heathrow needs help in that area, then I have no problems with it.
I still have an Apple IIe kicking in my basement. It's outlasted every non-Apple/Mac machine I've ever owned (except that bloody Performa...).
And all three of my Game Boys (mini, color, and original) work just fine, though the glue on the screen covering of the original finally dried out and it fell off a few months ago. It was a sad day, to be sure.
I find this amusing because it came up in one of my architecture courses only a few weeks ago. The prof was discussing the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in conjunction with different ways of interpreting monumentality. His stark example was the difference in english translations of the inscription on the Memorial Cenotaph that he had found online. The Japanese website for the park listed the translation as "Let all the souls here rest in peace; For we shall not repeat the evil." whereas Wikipedia, which the prof. made a snide comment about before reading, was listed as "Repose ye in Peace, for the error shall not be repeated.".
Interestingly enough, the guy sitting next to me hailed from Japan and immediately pointed out to the professor that the Wikipedia translation was much more accurate. Grab a friend who is fluent in Japanese and look it up yourself - it's an interesting instance to consider.
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I'm with you - I bought a 25yo steel Trek frame off of Craigslist only to find out (after repainting and rebuilding it) that it was one of several models that were built exclusively by Trek employees for themselves and therefore has no serial number. I got around this issue by posting pictures of it with my real name on fixedgeargallery.com and registering it on the local police bike registration site. Since I live in a large city, the bike shop I frequent maintains their own system of bike descriptions and serial numbers to track down stolen bikes.
I'm still waiting for my 2D inkjet printer to be as cheap, ubiquitous, and easy to use as a pen and paper.
Permanent Records in Chicago was doing just that early this morning.
Now with 40% less CowboyNeal by area.
Notre Dame has a new 1-year masters program called ESTEEM combining science, entrepreneurship, and technology. I've had a couple of friends go through it with various science and engineering backgrounds and really enjoy it, though I can't give you much more advice than that. The website is esteem.nd.edu .
Great call on FIRST - I was involved in their high school program for three years and I started a regular FLL program at my K-8 grade school. We had to start including younger students (3rd and 4th grade) than our 5th and 6th graders in the regular program because they were solving the proposed problems too quickly and efficiently. Even if you do not know what to do with the kits or how to write a line of code, FIRST and LEGO provide excellent resources, the latter of which are not limited to the annual games that FIRST develops.
Disney has been using this stuff for a similar purpose for the past three years and they keep the information much longer than Heathrow's 24 hours (Disney officials state that the info is retained for as much as 30 days after the last use or expiration of a WDW ticket - your fingers aren't broken, I know you can do your own Google search to verify it). I guess if it speeds things up, and heaven only knows that Heathrow needs help in that area, then I have no problems with it.
I still have an Apple IIe kicking in my basement. It's outlasted every non-Apple/Mac machine I've ever owned (except that bloody Performa...). And all three of my Game Boys (mini, color, and original) work just fine, though the glue on the screen covering of the original finally dried out and it fell off a few months ago. It was a sad day, to be sure.
I find this amusing because it came up in one of my architecture courses only a few weeks ago. The prof was discussing the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in conjunction with different ways of interpreting monumentality. His stark example was the difference in english translations of the inscription on the Memorial Cenotaph that he had found online. The Japanese website for the park listed the translation as "Let all the souls here rest in peace; For we shall not repeat the evil." whereas Wikipedia, which the prof. made a snide comment about before reading, was listed as "Repose ye in Peace, for the error shall not be repeated.". Interestingly enough, the guy sitting next to me hailed from Japan and immediately pointed out to the professor that the Wikipedia translation was much more accurate. Grab a friend who is fluent in Japanese and look it up yourself - it's an interesting instance to consider.