From Here to There

Random Ramblings from the Garrity Family

Author: Mike Garrity

Cleve on Titan 0

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Cleve on Titan

I work at the MathWorks. When most people think of the MathWorks, they think of Cleve Moler. Cleve wrote MATLAB originally, and is in many ways still the heart of the company even though...

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Penrose Paving

I love this time lapse video of installing the pavement at the new Andrew Wiles building at Oxford. I bet the construction crew thought it was an interesting project. If you’re not familiar with...

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Turkey

Our neighborhood turkeys are making themselves a bit scarce today. Probably because they know about this: As you may remember, we have quite a few wild turkeys in our neighborhood. Some years more than...

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Stripping

Most of my car time is still being spent stripping parts off of the old Miata. Last weekend I finally got the wiring harness out. It was a total of 30 pounds of wiring!...

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Wayne Shorter’s Birthday

Last night we were lucky enough to be in the audience for the big ‘do at Symphony Hall in honor of Wayne Shorter’s 80th birthday. It was quite the lineup. First up, was ACS,...

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cars / westfield

Dash

One of the more complicated bits that gets transferred from the Miata to the Westfield is the wiring harness. It doesn’t seem like it should be that bad, but the wiring harness in a...

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The Most British Bit

Nothing too exciting on the Westfield front. I took advantage of the wonderful weather we’re having by stripping more parts off of the old Miata. I’d be nice to get that done before winter...

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westfield

Puzzles

So I’ve been sorting through the pile of car parts in the garage. I’ve now got things in good enough order that I can plan the first step. As you might expect, that has...

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Westfield

So last weekend we finally got the box open. It was from Westfield Sportscars in England, and it contained a kit for a Lotus 7 clone which is based on the Miata. That’s what...

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Curious

On our last night in London, we went to a play in the West End. We went to see The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night–Time. We had heard good things about...