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… Continue reading
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…. Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Because, really, what am I going to do with a dining room?
I’m in the process of building a new computer, something I said I wouldn’t do until I was living on my own, and, that time I has come. So far, I have only the two monitors and the case. I’m very excited to have a computer built in this decade,… Continue reading
I made it back to Grand Rapids from being up in Traverse City for Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, the shitty weather decided to come in this evening so we had winter storm warnings with heavy snow. Forecast says 2-4 inches, but given that I pushed at least 4 off the Jeep before… Continue reading