It sounds odd, or the start of a joke, but I'm serious.
She ordered some variety of medicine from an online pharmacy (which one, I don't know) and had some heavy cognitive dissonance. 'Did I just give money to scammers?' She waited slightly longer than she expected to, and had the thought that she really had been taken for a ride... but then they arrived, and (to her surprise) were postmarked India.
"They were cheap, and worked."
She'll be displeased to hear about just how far regulatory capture can go, in this arena...
Burglary and theft aren't the same. (I used to think they were; as a 3 or 4-year-old, I thought burglars had a fun-looking job, but I guess my moral sense was still developing...but I also thought that burglars and bank-robbers were pretty much the same thing. I was a burglar for Hallowe'en when I was 4, not realizing that the black-and-white stripes are really only for burglars who aren't at present pursuing that line of work.)
Wikipedia puts it this way: "Burglary (also called breaking and entering[1] and sometimes housebreaking)[2] is a crime, the essence of which is illegal entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary."
At least in many jurisdictions, the "in the night" aspect of common law burglary is really ignored, and (as above) pretty much any structure can fill in for the old requirement that it be a "dwelling" that's invaded.
I'm curious what projects you've done around your own home that you think are especially interesting or clever, whether they're ones you'd recommend to a beginner in electronics or not;) Do you have sensors everywhere? Have you kept a childhood train set alive? Do you have an impressive Christmas display ala the family Grizwold (or Alek's famous lights for charity -- http://www.komar.org/christmas/)?
Both the Aerobie and the AeroPress embody design traits I really like: they're durable, have few pieces, and work simply by dint of ordinary (vs. extraordinary) human-muscle power. Basically, they remind me of simple machines. (As in the wedge, the lever, etc.) What are your favorite likely areas for further improvement?
Will you come up with good improvements on... - Flashlights? (Muscle-powered flashlights have gotten much better, thanks to LEDs, but they still mostly suck.) - Sailboats or kayaks? (What could modern materials and thinking bring to small person-powered / wind-powered watercraft?) - On that front, paddles / oars... wrt ergonomics and efficiency, I think there is a long way to go... - Whistles? (Pealess whistles have come a long way, but progress isn't over) - Waterguns? (Where is the next SuperSoaker-style leap?) - Bicyle fairings? (A semi-standardized clear fairing would be useful for lots of people, esp. as some big U.S. cities improve their cycling infrastructure.) - Juicers? (A human powered AeroJuicer sounds like a good idea to me...)
Not to say that for any of the above items that there aren't smart people working in the field... but Hey, there were lots of coffee makers and coffee making methods before the Aeropress, too.
p.s. What about smaller and bigger AeroPresses, for light travel and for bigger gatherings?:)
I've bought a few Aero Presses over the years, for myself and as gifts; I think they're ingenious. I mostly use them as directed -- but I'm intrigued by the possibilities for creative, "off-label use," as in these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cm6ZAwoM78
I've done the upside down method a few times, and I also used my Aeropress to filter the coffee from some homemade coffee liqueur a few summers ago -- did a great job of that.
So: You have all the chance in the world to experiment; do you have any suggestions or favorite ways to use an Aeropress besides the package directions? Do you typically use it in any way different from the standard instructions?
Several years ago, my dad saw one of the would-have-been (not exactly "would be") pilots of one of those folding wing planes (on a different mission that never got started, as I understand it) speak at the Air & Space Museum Annex at Dulles. The pilot, he said, expressed great gratitude for the nuclear bombs that ended the war, saying that they probably also saved his life in so doing. You can see one of the folding wing bombers there, as well as a space shuttle and many, many other things.
I plan to keep my Impreza going a nice long time:) It actually does a nice job when you consider what it can hold on the roofrack with some ratcheting straps, and in the nice big hatchback. But it's really easy to spend more in a day on gas than I want to spend in a week... the opportunity cost of gas vs. an electric (or even just a hybrid) has been taunting me for a few years now. One "around-town pickup" I'm considering is a used Prius; for that matter, I could replace the Subaru with one of those entirely... A 3-year-old Prius, 3-5 years from now, might be the smartest thing.
Even ("merely") moving big things in-town would be a great thing for an electric truck; I don't have two cars, which (living in Austin, but having occasional need and desire to drive long distances*) means I have a gas-fueled, fairly efficient car (Subaru Impreza). Even with IKEA furniture, though, that means I can't haul around anything too big;) An electric *truck* would be really cool IMO as a 2d vehicle, though... 5 years out, this is really tempting. I wonder where battery tech will be then... if it meant that the gas car (though at a lower MPG) would be long-distance vehicle, and I could drive around town in an electric truck, I'm OK with that. But especially when a lot of the time on I-35 around here is spent idling in a swamp of exhaust, I'd rather the around-town one be an electric, overall. Trade-offs!
* And I want to hit more of just such places as you name!
Would love to meet up there -- I've been there a few times before shooting this video (incl. years ago when it was at another location, basically just a few shelves of cool old stuff), and it's always fun.
You're not wrong, for the general case, but when I *do* remember and bother, I don't mind reading the wikitext version. My editing history has badly trailed off, though. I'm glad that there are quite a few people more active than I am right now, but reading through a few edit wars also turned me off a lot. But Wikipedia is so incomprehensibly useful and positive that I feel guilty about not editing out more of the simple goofs that I actually know how to fix;)
I run into quite a few misspellingz n grammar problems on the Wikipedia; I'd fix more of them if I was always by default in editing mode. That might be petty, but it's true -- it's a small friction point that I get stuck on all the time.
That seems a crazily high number. Put the phrase "Only 24 percent of young people were interested in becoming..." a lot of other jobs, and it sounds awfully strange...
Don'tcha love it that "turning a profit" is here characterized as "abuse"? And to be clear, it's not "the city" in the abstract that has anything against things like AirBnB -- nor is it guests. It's established hotel businesses, which would prefer the current low supply of rooms and the current scheme of regulation which lets *them* profit from the current configuration.
A good call. I've lived in Texas for a chunk of my life, but not explored nearly as much as I'd like, including some of the big cities -- the odd, usually short visit is all. Driving both to (and as someone else already noted) *in* Houston is sort of an ordeal, partly for congestion, partly because of just how big the place is. I have friends with a Houston mailing address who are something like 20 miles from downtown.
I understand it's a great city in many ways, but getting around is unfortunately a bit of a turnoff;) If I lived in a city like that (where getting around by car is a frequent need) I think it would drive me to finally get an electric car of some kind, or at least a hybrid, for the low-speed driving that eats my gas at present.
The TX/RX neighborhood is certainly an interesting one, though -- parking is easy, too.
A lot of it's going to be spent in France, which is famous for non-cheap labor... (And on things like Watson, which has teams in New York, Austin, and India at least -- I think in some other places, too.)
I dunno; I think if games are (good enough / numerous enough), that might be a bigger driver of "the desktop" than the desktop is of games. I'm not really a video gamer, to put it mildly, but I sure wish there were more (money-making, popular) games on Linux for that reason.
Other years, Berger told me, he's brought materials to camp to demo the lens grinding process, but this year brought only ready-made stuff -- only so much fits in the Prius at once;) I hope I'll get a demo of the grinding / design process later on, though. In the meantime, there's a lot of good info at the ATMOB site linked in the summary.
Yes, that's a barn covered with solar panels. I meant to count 'em, but forgot -- don't think it's quite 200, but it's a whole lot.
I talked this morning with one of the camp's owners, and he said of the installation (which has taken a few years to complete) "I wish we had a bigger roof..." It's supplying something over half of the camp's electricity needs, but not all. There are also solar heaters for water on some of the cabins, and generally they try to be efficient generally.
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It sounds odd, or the start of a joke, but I'm serious.
She ordered some variety of medicine from an online pharmacy (which one, I don't know) and had some heavy cognitive dissonance. 'Did I just give money to scammers?' She waited slightly longer than she expected to, and had the thought that she really had been taken for a ride ... but then they arrived, and (to her surprise) were postmarked India.
"They were cheap, and worked."
She'll be displeased to hear about just how far regulatory capture can go, in this arena ...
timothy
I flubbed at adding the link, evidently. Fixing.
Burglary and theft aren't the same. (I used to think they were; as a 3 or 4-year-old, I thought burglars had a fun-looking job, but I guess my moral sense was still developing ...but I also thought that burglars and bank-robbers were pretty much the same thing. I was a burglar for Hallowe'en when I was 4, not realizing that the black-and-white stripes are really only for burglars who aren't at present pursuing that line of work.)
Wikipedia puts it this way: "Burglary (also called breaking and entering[1] and sometimes housebreaking)[2] is a crime, the essence of which is illegal entry into a building for the purposes of committing an offence. Usually that offence will be theft, but most jurisdictions specify others which fall within the ambit of burglary."
At least in many jurisdictions, the "in the night" aspect of common law burglary is really ignored, and (as above) pretty much any structure can fill in for the old requirement that it be a "dwelling" that's invaded.
Oh, yeah. I meant to include this link ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRFlNryaWw
I couldn't read this: "The 57.5ft diameter machine has encountered an unknown obstruction known as "the object."" without thinking of *this*:
(Specifically, 1:00 to 1:20 of this clip, if you can resist watching the rest.)
I'm curious what projects you've done around your own home that you think are especially interesting or clever, whether they're ones you'd recommend to a beginner in electronics or not ;) Do you have sensors everywhere? Have you kept a childhood train set alive? Do you have an impressive Christmas display ala the family Grizwold (or Alek's famous lights for charity -- http://www.komar.org/christmas/)?
Both the Aerobie and the AeroPress embody design traits I really like: they're durable, have few pieces, and work simply by dint of ordinary (vs. extraordinary) human-muscle power. Basically, they remind me of simple machines. (As in the wedge, the lever, etc.) What are your favorite likely areas for further improvement?
Will you come up with good improvements on ... ... wrt ergonomics and efficiency, I think there is a long way to go ... ...)
- Flashlights? (Muscle-powered flashlights have gotten much better, thanks to LEDs, but they still mostly suck.)
- Sailboats or kayaks? (What could modern materials and thinking bring to small person-powered / wind-powered watercraft?)
- On that front, paddles / oars
- Whistles? (Pealess whistles have come a long way, but progress isn't over)
- Waterguns? (Where is the next SuperSoaker-style leap?)
- Bicyle fairings? (A semi-standardized clear fairing would be useful for lots of people, esp. as some big U.S. cities improve their cycling infrastructure.)
- Juicers? (A human powered AeroJuicer sounds like a good idea to me
Not to say that for any of the above items that there aren't smart people working in the field ... but Hey, there were lots of coffee makers and coffee making methods before the Aeropress, too.
p.s. What about smaller and bigger AeroPresses, for light travel and for bigger gatherings? :)
I've bought a few Aero Presses over the years, for myself and as gifts; I think they're ingenious. I mostly use them as directed -- but I'm intrigued by the possibilities for creative, "off-label use," as in these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cm6ZAwoM78
I've done the upside down method a few times, and I also used my Aeropress to filter the coffee from some homemade coffee liqueur a few summers ago -- did a great job of that.
So: You have all the chance in the world to experiment; do you have any suggestions or favorite ways to use an Aeropress besides the package directions? Do you typically use it in any way different from the standard instructions?
Several years ago, my dad saw one of the would-have-been (not exactly "would be") pilots of one of those folding wing planes (on a different mission that never got started, as I understand it) speak at the Air & Space Museum Annex at Dulles. The pilot, he said, expressed great gratitude for the nuclear bombs that ended the war, saying that they probably also saved his life in so doing. You can see one of the folding wing bombers there, as well as a space shuttle and many, many other things.
Tim
OK, I give: I have been trolled.
In my defense: I couldn't tell ;) The troll was on a level that's sadly hard to distinguish from many people's sincere statements.
That's why it's such a safe country now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela
I plan to keep my Impreza going a nice long time :) It actually does a nice job when you consider what it can hold on the roofrack with some ratcheting straps, and in the nice big hatchback. But it's really easy to spend more in a day on gas than I want to spend in a week ... the opportunity cost of gas vs. an electric (or even just a hybrid) has been taunting me for a few years now. One "around-town pickup" I'm considering is a used Prius; for that matter, I could replace the Subaru with one of those entirely ... A 3-year-old Prius, 3-5 years from now, might be the smartest thing.
Even ("merely") moving big things in-town would be a great thing for an electric truck; I don't have two cars, which (living in Austin, but having occasional need and desire to drive long distances*) means I have a gas-fueled, fairly efficient car (Subaru Impreza). Even with IKEA furniture, though, that means I can't haul around anything too big ;) An electric *truck* would be really cool IMO as a 2d vehicle, though ... 5 years out, this is really tempting. I wonder where battery tech will be then ... if it meant that the gas car (though at a lower MPG) would be long-distance vehicle, and I could drive around town in an electric truck, I'm OK with that. But especially when a lot of the time on I-35 around here is spent idling in a swamp of exhaust, I'd rather the around-town one be an electric, overall. Trade-offs!
* And I want to hit more of just such places as you name!
Would love to meet up there -- I've been there a few times before shooting this video (incl. years ago when it was at another location, basically just a few shelves of cool old stuff), and it's always fun.
You're not wrong, for the general case, but when I *do* remember and bother, I don't mind reading the wikitext version. My editing history has badly trailed off, though. I'm glad that there are quite a few people more active than I am right now, but reading through a few edit wars also turned me off a lot. But Wikipedia is so incomprehensibly useful and positive that I feel guilty about not editing out more of the simple goofs that I actually know how to fix ;)
I run into quite a few misspellingz n grammar problems on the Wikipedia; I'd fix more of them if I was always by default in editing mode. That might be petty, but it's true -- it's a small friction point that I get stuck on all the time.
That seems a crazily high number. Put the phrase "Only 24 percent of young people were interested in becoming ..." a lot of other jobs, and it sounds awfully strange ...
- Phlebotomist?
- Entrepreneur?
- Doctor / Nurse / Physical therapist?
- Academic?
(etc)
I'd have been far more surprised if some even higher percentage *did* express interest ...
Don'tcha love it that "turning a profit" is here characterized as "abuse"? And to be clear, it's not "the city" in the abstract that has anything against things like AirBnB -- nor is it guests. It's established hotel businesses, which would prefer the current low supply of rooms and the current scheme of regulation which lets *them* profit from the current configuration.
A good call. I've lived in Texas for a chunk of my life, but not explored nearly as much as I'd like, including some of the big cities -- the odd, usually short visit is all. Driving both to (and as someone else already noted) *in* Houston is sort of an ordeal, partly for congestion, partly because of just how big the place is. I have friends with a Houston mailing address who are something like 20 miles from downtown.
I understand it's a great city in many ways, but getting around is unfortunately a bit of a turnoff ;) If I lived in a city like that (where getting around by car is a frequent need) I think it would drive me to finally get an electric car of some kind, or at least a hybrid, for the low-speed driving that eats my gas at present.
The TX/RX neighborhood is certainly an interesting one, though -- parking is easy, too.
That's good to know! I intend to get back to TX/RX sometime soon, and food recommendations are why the internet exists :) Thanks.
A lot of it's going to be spent in France, which is famous for non-cheap labor ... (And on things like Watson, which has teams in New York, Austin, and India at least -- I think in some other places, too.)
Re. #2 on your list:
I dunno; I think if games are (good enough / numerous enough), that might be a bigger driver of "the desktop" than the desktop is of games. I'm not really a video gamer, to put it mildly, but I sure wish there were more (money-making, popular) games on Linux for that reason.
Brainfart; sorry. They're both such nice names!
Other years, Berger told me, he's brought materials to camp to demo the lens grinding process, but this year brought only ready-made stuff -- only so much fits in the Prius at once ;) I hope I'll get a demo of the grinding / design process later on, though. In the meantime, there's a lot of good info at the ATMOB site linked in the summary.
Yes, that's a barn covered with solar panels. I meant to count 'em, but forgot -- don't think it's quite 200, but it's a whole lot.
I talked this morning with one of the camp's owners, and he said of the installation (which has taken a few years to complete) "I wish we had a bigger roof ..." It's supplying something over half of the camp's electricity needs, but not all. There are also solar heaters for water on some of the cabins, and generally they try to be efficient generally.