Sun Dial

This is a neat little Google mashup that lets you make paper sundials.

http://sundial.damia.net/vertical/index-en.html

Broke my Hamate bone

Riding my bike, I felt a tug on my shoe. I looked down and there it was, my shoelace, wrapping itself around the pedal. Having read online that when this happens on a "fixie", it's a guaranteed crash, I forcefully squeezed the brake levers and skidded to a stop.

Crisis averted... put your feet down...

Shit.

 I'm falling away from the foot that isn't tied to the pedal... maybe if I put my hand out...

*snap*

I rolled away counterclockwise a quarter turn onto my back. My immediate thought was that I had broken my arm. The remains of my summer flashed before my eyes. I looked at my forearm, wrist, then hand, there was a tiny laceration in the middle where it caught a rock, but it didn't look to be injured past that.

My fingers still worked.

I turned my attention to my right foot. My leg was still caught underneath my bike in the middle of the road. I quickly unwound my shoelace from it's hitch on the pedal, and picked up the bike, moving it to the boulevard.

That's when I noticed my little finger was numb immobile. I brought my bike home and after seeing that my hand had swollen to twice it's usual size, I hopped in the car to get to an MIR clinic. Turns out, driving a stick shift with a broken hand isn't much fun! Eight hours later, I've got a removable cast and a diagnosis;

"Mr. Carnahan, you've got an occult fracture in your Hamate bone. We'll see you in a week."

Reading up on it, I probably started the fracture golfing earlier in the year; my little finger went numb after lifting a litre of turf out of the tee-off area with a driver.

It's been getting better each day, I broke it Tuesday, it's Sunday of the same week and I think I'll be riding my bike 10km to work tomorrow with the cast on.

Your CPU has been composting.

Your CPU has been composting., originally uploaded by worldcoast.

If your computer is constantly rebooting after a few minutes of use there's a good chance the heatsink is clogged up. To clean it out, turn the power supply off, use q-tips and canned air. Take care not to spin the the fan with the air uncontrollably as you can damage the bearings.

I need two cinder blocks, real ones, none of this farmville bs

Bonfire!

Down to one bag of waste a week. Everything else gets composted or recycled. Woopty woo!

Mmm silverfish

Streetzfm

mms://wms141.netromedia.net/ciurfm?stream=ciurfm&station=streetz%20FM&link=www.streetzfm.com

Best buds

Cock soup anyone?

Firepit liberated from the bowels of the yard

It took about an hour to dig it up and then about two weeks to work up
to filling in underneath it.

Gravity

What if a vacuum really isn't "nothing", but a form of capturing reversed pressure in absence of mass. F = Vacuum Pressure/Mass

Think about it.

Vacuum becomes the universal polar constant opposite gravity.

Rocks

1991 1992 1993 1994 Tercel Tire Pressure

The official manufacturer recommended tire pressure for a 4th Generation Toyota Tercel is 32 PSI.

 

I'm posting this because it's really not anywhere on the car but in the OEM manual. Even Haynes doesn't have it!

 

http://socaltercel.com/manuals/94%20Tercel/Suspension%20and%20Axle.pdf

 

This PDF lists it :)

Waiting for mail.

Nanotube RFID's

RFID chips that can be embedded into paper, they've just been developed. This gives rise to the possibility of absolute tracking of documents. Truly anonymous notes could become a big ticket item if they need to be printed on paper that'll be about as easy to come by as 8mm film.

Imagine, not going to the printer to find your doc, you just hit the track button on your printer program and any number of RFID receivers will fire up in the office and index every piece of paper. No more printing things five times each time they can't be found. Your employee didn't get a copy of the new agreement? Yes they did. You've got it all right here in your micrologistics software.

Just sayin'....

Cat-bite biscuits ( we hope )

Brave New World

"Brave New World."

It appears on each and every stemcell and nano post on the Internet in the comments. While the commenter probably feels they are being profound by invoking the title of Huxley's work, they are simply reminding us of the worst possible scenario that they (with their pop culture education) can fathom. This is after all just one possible branch in a series of events. Something much worse could come of these discoveries, or hopefully something much better.

When humanity follows a similar path to that of a sci-fi author's works, then by definition that book can be considered prophecy. It makes me wonder sometimes if Rome is preparing a new compendium?