Archive for January, 2007

My Quiet Life » DoD Hard Drive

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

My Quiet Life » DoD Hard Drive
I had some repairs done on my laptop today — the extended support plan is gonna expire soon, so I had them replace the LCD, keyboard and hard drive (the old one was yielding frequent IDE channel resets). So, the Dell rep shows up and goes to work, and [...]

Dark Roasted Blend: Good Clean Star Wars Fun

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Dark Roasted Blend: Good Clean “Star Wars” Fun
With “Star Wars” epic coming again on big screens (this time in full 3D) sometime this year, lets look again at the film that started it all “Star Wars IV: A New Hope” – and reconsider the story in the light of films I-III
Some funny images in there. [...]

Gung Haggis Fat Choy

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Gung Haggis Fat Choy!
It’s an event organized by one “Toddish McWong” that takes place at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and pays homage to SFU’s Scots roots and sizable Chinese student population.

links for 2007-01-28

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Galería cefvigo – Marcos Vilariño
(tags: photography lego art)

Flickr: trickhips’ photos tagged with lego
(tags: photography lego art)

bookofjoe: Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself
(tags: DIY laptop desk)

Going snowboarding extra – Hack A Day
(tags: hack-a-day make links)

CNC ROUTER PLANS DIY
(tags: CNC plans howto DIY)

Rainbow Boys: LiquidMetal
(tags: liquid metal video bouncing)

bookofjoe: Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

bookofjoe: Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself
Ray Earhart’s Floor Desk: Way cool — and you can make it yourself
This does look way cool. I wonder if the wife would approve of computing in bed. I’m guessing so as long as I build her one too.

links for 2007-01-26

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Python SNMP framework
(tags: python snmp network monitoring)

HowTo: Make Your Own Juggling Rubber Chickens (FuzzyCo)

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

HowTo: Make Your Own Juggling Rubber Chickens (FuzzyCo)
The first thing you need, of course, are rubber chickens. I got three from Oriental Trading for about $8 a piece. (Oddly, they call it a “Realistic Chicken” when it’s one of the fakest things I’ve ever seen.) Now, you could just juggle them right out of the [...]

links for 2007-01-25

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

How I built an electricity producing wind turbine
(tags: energy wind diy generator)

Photocritic » Smoking is good for you!
(tags: photography tutorial smoke howto)

Flickr: The artsmoke Pool
(tags: photography smoke photo flickr)

Sensitive Light: Coloured Smoke
(tags: photography smoke photos)

{ Coloured Smoke } – a photoset on Flickr
(tags: photography smoke)

Smoking Pot with an IP Address aka DIY Big Green Egg

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

The Sect of Rama
This afternoon I gave the homemade smoker v2.0 a run with something relatively quick: smoked chinook salmon. If you haven’t read my earlier entry, v2.0 is basically the gutting of the electric internals, and replacing it with charcoal and a Stoker system. It worked *remarkably* well!

Cool and somewhat cheap DIY smoker.

Paper Robots 1999

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

paperrobots1999.com
Cool paper robots.