Author: John

3mm Thick Paper Clock

Flex LCD 

Ok, a little big for you wrist but it would be perfect for the computer room. I love all the ePaper applications that are being thought up these days. However, they need a few more:

  • Flags: Just the thing for countries that have short cycle time on what party is currently in power.
  • Bumper Stickers: Vote for the loser and don’t want to be ridiculed by your friends?
  • Envelopes: Make them out of Tyvek and you have re-usable mailers. Download whatever address you need and your set.
  • CD/DVD Jewele Cases: Not the case itself but the liners. I hate having to make new listings of what is on the media. It would be bliss if the case could be synced up to the burning software (hell, make the top surface of the media out of this stuff. On the other hand it might spin the eInk balls to the outer edge when it spins)
  • Post-It Notes: 3M, get on this one.

Ok, if you see any of these ideas out there tell me, ok?

3mm thick paper clock

Basics of Space Flight From JPL

It’s one thing to say you like space stuff but it’s another to actually read up on how things in space work. Even a casual glance through this guide will answer a lot of common space questions. How do spacecraft talk to the ground? Why do things orbit stuff? Just what does a spacecraft do when it’s in the ‘cruse phase’? All of this stuff is in here and bunches more.

Basics of Space Flight

Alton Brown FAQ

Alton Brown

Ah, Good Eats is about the only cooking show I can stand to watch (yeah, I watch the Food Network sometimes). Mostly I’d say its because Alton Brown makes the entire learning process fun and entertaining. Might be because he isn’t a professional cook. Yep, that’s what I said, not a cook. He only took up cooking after deciding that he wanted to make a cooking show. His day job before the ‘Good Eats’ gig was as a video producer. Did music videos and gobs of commercials for TV. This would explain the high production values of his show. His big reason for doing the show is because when he was a kid he never thought that learning was fun enough and decided to change all of that. From all the people I’ve talked to he hit the mark big time. I like the fact that his shows don’t tell you just how to make one food item but the process behind how cooking works. That is exactly the sort of program that catches my attention. Plus its also a show that my wife and I can watch together, even if she expects me to put into practice my new found skills come dinner time. Umm… yeah… I’m not quite there yet. Maybe in a year or so.

Good Eats Fan Page