AC Power Frequency in Japan
Reading all of the awful news about the tragedy in Japan, I learned an engineering fact which surprised me. As you may know, the AC power systems in different countries operate at different frequencies,...
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Woodie Flowers
This month’s Technology Review has a nice profile of one of my favorites professors from when I was in college. Be sure to check out all of the pictures too. Woodie pretty much created...
Health Care Reform, the Illustrated Edition
A number of people have said that the Democrats needed to do more to inform the public about the benefits of last year’s health care reform bill. Well, one of our neighbors has decided...
This Week’s Word …
… is pentalobular. Remember: If you can’t open it, you don’t own it. – Make: Owner’s manifesto
Kitchen Light
Here’s that new light we were installing in the kitchen the other day. You can’t really see it very well in that picture. Here’s a close up. Isn’t it cute? It was made by...
Gone Fishin’
A couple of our Christmas presents this year involved fishing wires through the walls. First we ran ethernet cable through the cellar. We have all of the computer equipment at one end of the...
After the Storm
We had a big winter storm go through Sunday night. After the snow, it got really cold and windy. This morning the sky was clear and the sun was shining brightly. The wind had...
New Computer
I recently built a new computer. I am, in fact, using said computer to type this post. I bought all of the components individually from Newegg, and put them all together myself. This was...
Friday Night Videos
Here’s what we’ve been watching this week. Jarrett Heather’s video for Jonathan Coulton’s song Shop Vac. and Kent Jenkins playing everything from Mozart to Lady Gaga on his PVC tubing. Chris isn’t too happy...
