Archive for the ‘Sci / Tech’ Category
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Dear Nakeya,
We spent the last two days at Perito Mereno Glacier in Argentina.
The glacier was very, very big.
When I am around things that are big, I always have the question, “How big is big?”
When we looked through our camper window at the glacier we could not tell ...
Posted in Sci / Tech, Travel | 7 Comments »
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
This week's gadget of the week is the Celestron Sky Scout Steph gave me for my 50th birthday.
A couple of days ago we were camped up in the Andes on a moonless night and I pulled it out to show her how it worked. We stayed up most of the ...
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
File this one under: Mystery of the Universe
When we opened up the camper on the docks here in Valparaiso only one thing was out of place.
Our wine opener, a heavy, boxed SrewPull, was on the floor. The door on the cupboard it fell out of was latched closed. But that ...
Posted in Sci / Tech, Travel | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
We flew in from New York to Santiago, Chile two days ago. We spent about five hours walking around Santiago today.
One of the things we immediately noticed here, as we have everywhere we travel in the world, is the difference between the weight of people here and those back in ...
Posted in Sci / Tech, Cultures | 4 Comments »
Friday, November 30th, 2007
I just came across this company and their product launched 1 November, 2007.
Small, lightweight and portable, it combines EPIRB type emergency beacon functions with a general purpose GPS locator tracker and simple "I'm OK" message functions.
It looks like it would be great for hikers, skiers, climbers, mountain bikers, off-road motorcyclists, ...
Posted in Motorcycles, Sci / Tech, Gear, Travel | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
The Decision
These are my eyes.
They’ve served me pretty well over the years, and my wife says she likes them, but they finally got to the point where they needed some help.
Posted in Sci / Tech, Gear | 5 Comments »
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Steven Sasson, the inventor of the digital camera, was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame today.
He invented the digital camera in 1975.
Steven didn’t work for Nikon or Canon or Matsushita or Sony.
Steven worked for Kodak.
Posted in Econ / Finance, Sci / Tech, Cultures, US Politics | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
File this one under “you learn something new every day.”
While at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinville, Oregon (highly recommended) I noticed this small gasoline engine on display.
It combined several of my lifelong interests: aviation, historical aircraft, motorcycling, historical motorcycles and something from my youth, Heathkit.
When I was nine my ...
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Friday, September 15th, 2006
Just before midnight local time on the night of 27-28 August, 2005, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather buoy #42003, located in the Gulf of Mexico roughly at the intersection of a line directly south of Panama City, Florida and directly west of Naples, Florida, suddenly stopped transmitting. ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2003
Introduction and overview:
http://www.hackneys.com/docs/WWB-cover-message-20.pdf
What Will Be:
http://www.hackneys.com/wwb/
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