Author: Mike Garrity

Good News on Health Care 0

Good News on Health Care

So here’s some good health care news to make up for that last one. From Forbes, the insurance companies are seeing a large uptick in young enrollees. That’s good news, because it helps lower...

CDC Report on Measles 0

CDC Report on Measles

Seth Mnookin has a post today about the latest CDC report on measles. The numbers are rather scary, 118 cases in the US in the first 19 weeks of the year. It looks even...

Jim Blinn’s Corner 1

Jim Blinn’s Corner

This is really a note to self sort of post. I’m always searching through my back copies of CG&A for something that Jim Blinn wrote in his Jim Blinn’s Corner column. He had great...

Google Music Beta 0

Google Music Beta

I’ve started messing around with the new beta of Google Music. So far, I’m fairly impressed. The big problem with the Xoom is that it can’t hold much music until the get the SD...

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Vacuum Coffee Maker

We’ve been messing with a vacuum coffee maker recently. It’s an interesting contraption. It consists of two glass globes connected by a glass tube. First you fill the lower globe with water and get...

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Rapture Bus Breakdown

The talk of the office today was this bus which broke down out front. As you may have heard, the Rapture happens tomorrow. These guys were driving around in a bus with a big...

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Another Teapot

The teapot picture I posted the other day has been bothering me because of the various glitches (like normals on top). It’s been hard to get time on the dev machine because Peter’s been...

$3.9M for a Cindy Sherman? 0

$3.9M for a Cindy Sherman?

There was an article in the news the other day about a Cindy Sherman photo selling for 3.9 million dollars. That seemed so nuts that I really couldn’t think of anything sensible to say....

ADK 0

ADK

The other cool thing at Google I/O this week was the Android Open Accessory Development Kit. It’s a standard, supported way to write Android apps which talk to an Arduino device. This opens the...