Archive for the ‘Sci / Tech’ Category
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Garmin GPS to Google Earth
For this task I use GPSBabel, a great little donateware utility, to generate the Google Earth KML files from GPX files created by Garmin Mapsource. The procedure for creating the GPX files from Mapsource is detailed in the next section.
GPS waypoints and associated photos to ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Route Map
I added a route map of our travels to the web site. Click here for the route map: http://www.hackneys.com/travel/index-routemap.htm
Use the zoom control on the upper left corner of the map to zoom in on a specific location. You can click and drag the map or use the pan control to ...
Posted in Sci / Tech, Travel | 2 Comments »
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 Cultures, Sci / Tech | 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 Gear, Motorcycles, Sci / Tech, 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 Gear, Sci / Tech | 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 Cultures, Econ / Finance, Sci / Tech, 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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