Author: Mike Garrity
Asteroid 2010 KQ
Did you see this report yesterday from NASA? It’s about an “asteroid” which passed the Earth this spring. It came from deep space and swung by just outside the Moon’s orbit. What’s interesting about...
Paper Work
Tom had some interesting math homework tonight. He had to make a kite. They’re all going to fly kites in math class tomorrow. I don’t know what flying kites has to do with Trig,...
Mixed Grill
Mixed grill is an old family expression for leftovers night. Tonight’s post is a very random collection of stuff from the Internet that we found interesting recently. First up, some good poetry from the...
Toyota & Tesla
NUMMI was one of the casualties of the recent mess that hit the American car industry. It was a joint GM Toyota plant in Fremont California. It produced a lot of the joint GM/Toyota...
Budget Simulator
So politics appear to be derailing the federal budget process yet again. When I last talked about the budget back in February, I forgot to mention one great resource for information about the budget....
Comment Spam
We’ve been having a bit of a problem with spam in the comments recently. It all seems to have started with the following Google search. inurl:blog “post a comment” –blogspot canvas So I’ve been...
Non-Latin Typography
How much do you know about non-Latin writing systems? I’ve been bumping into them quite a bit recently. Tom has been taking Mandarin in High School. He has a lot of homework drawing Kanji...
DIY Ring Light
As you’ve probably noticed, we do a lot of closeup photos of things like flowers and electronic projects on this blog. Lighting is always a problem on those types of pictures. The “right” tool...
