Memorial Day
The highlight of Memorial Day weekend around here is the annual softball game. This was the tenth year that Colleen and Phil have held it. Once again, the weather was great and everyone had...
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Buxton Collection
Last year, I mentioned Bill Buxton‘s history of multi-touch UIs. Here’s something else of his you should check out. He’s posted a gallery of his wonderful collection of interesting input devices. It contains a...
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,...
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...
