Archive for December, 2008

Killington

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

Michael and I arrived in VT in the late morning of Saturday, unloaded a bit of stuff into the condo and promptly started sleeping. Ideal case was that we would have been arriving sometime around 3AM and have had five or so hours to sleep. As it turns out, due to weather we didn’t leave [...]

Switcher CAD

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

I noticed my laptop was hotter than normal and it occurred to me that that just might be the processor. So, I opened up the task manager and low and behold: Switcher CAD pegging both cores at 100% Damn it’s nice to have a computer that can run this stuff. And nice to know that [...]

Mt. Bonnell

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

I am currently residing in Austin, TX for the weekend as there is more work to be done Monday. Steve was busy for the weekend, but Friday afternoon he was kind enough to provide me with a list of suggested sites to visit. Despite not feeling so grand, I did make it to Mt. Bonnell [...]

800 Wireless Watts Through Your Skull

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

The Nevada Lightning Laboratory has experimented with Nicola Tesla’s methods of wireless power transmission to push 800 Watts over 5 meters, besting MITs mark of 60W over 2 meters last year. http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/12/10/181229.shtml It bothers me that the general public sees this as a competing technology with eCoupled, which is what I work on on a [...]

The Corner of Computational Horsepower

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Because, really, what am I going to do with a dining room?