…. I posted a pic of a fabricator which was leased by my employer. Here’s a guy who makes sculptures you can download and spit out into a fabricator.
This is just SO BLOODY COOL. scanged from Boingboing.net.
Category: High Tech
The transistor is 60 years old today.
Cross posted from an email from Carolyn Porco
Start quote
December 3, 2007
Dear Friends,
To celebrate the holiday season and mark the close of another year
exploring Saturn, CICLOPS is running a contest for the most popular
image taken by our cameras since Cassini’s arrival in the Saturn system
nearly 4 years ago.Please go to …
… and vote for your favorite color and `black and white’ images, and
your favorite movie clip, too. The field has been narrowed from the
thousands of image products that CICLOPS has released thus far to a
handful that have been pre-selected by the members of the CICLOPS Alliance.The voting ends at midnight on December 30th, Mountain Standard Time.
The results will be posted on December 31. And three lucky people among
the entrants will win a printed poster of the winning color image or an
image of their choice.And let’s tell the whole world what Cassini has accomplished! Invite
anybody and everybody you know to visit our site and cast a vote. This
contest is for everyone to enjoy.So, good luck to all of you, and let the voting begin now!
Carolyn Porco
Cassini Imaging Team Leader
Director/CICLOPS
Space Science Institute
Boulder, CO
End quote.
Vote early, vote often kids!
Eurekalert posts
Gee-ross redux, now with added cockroaches
Scanged from Boingboing, of course. As is the next link to a weewwy cyute gun!
Looks like a pewter tankard banged into gun shape.
Duh-no-matic
An automatic donut maker triggers a bigass blogger bundle of bile.
oooooh! Shiny!
A difference engine… writ small. Link goes to the bbc site in the UK.
I’m not sure I want it
Because then I will be saying, “Are you looking at my beaver?”
I-I-I-I phone
Godawmighty, the techsphere’s buzzing like a rhythmically whacked wasp’s nest about the Iphone. Boingboing.net went so gaga they might as well be writing advertising copy for Apple, and someguy over there said ‘THIS IS THE UI WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR’. They are aware, of course, how breathless and ecstatic they sound so they posted under the title “Jesus is Risen”. o RLY. Indeed, as RobofNine would say.
Just so, as mOm would say.
I just found the remote that came with my computer. Who knew, back in 1992, that computers could have remotes?
Saw Keith, read TWO (okay, most of two) Aubrey/Maturin books yesterday AND went to Shrek III. Yes, Shrek III isn’t ‘as good’ as the first two. But it’s still way funnier than just about everything else out there. Would have been nicer if it had taken me less than an hour to get home, but oh well. That’s life with no car. While he was here I unlimbered my credit card and bought (or so I believe, but I never got a frikking confirmation email) two books about … gee… can you guess???? Aubrey Maturin!!!! One of them is a book by book atlas and the other is detailed illustrations of all those heaps of frikkin nautical terms. I’ll probably break into them before I give them to Keith, but he’s jiggy with that. Anyway, with any luck they’ll get here before his birthday, and if they don’t nae borra. He’ll be 21. Can you believe I pushed him out of my body 21 years ago??? it’s bizarre. He’s so adult and calm and inspiring, and so easily pleased.
Day 1 of no beer. At Katie’s grad I said I didn’t think I could live a month without beer. Then I realized that this was the single saddest, and possibly stupidest, thing I had ever heard myself say. After taking thought, I figured if I can pass most of the month of July without beer, I’ll be in good shape. Dunno how I’m going to get through Tuesday though – I always drink a beer before I perform (One beer Only), as I find it prevents worry. More than one beer, though, impedes performance. Didn’t Shakespeare do a bit on that? It’s also bizarre to think that in my personal take on Ol’ Abe Maslow’s Cone of Consciousness, Beer outranks Sex. What am I, Homer Simpson??? Sad mismanagement in that, dear friends.
Off to the weight room now, I have an appointment with one of the infernal machines.
Ho ly cow – Forward from Cousin Gerald
If you’re interested in the visual representation of ANYTHING
News roundup
Hurricane forecast accuracy is reduced, but you’re not supposed to complain about it.
Alcohol protects against rheumatoid arthritis? I’ll drink to that !! Ooh, and further down it says that breastfeeding longer than 13 months protects against rheumatoid arthritis as well! (May protect, anyway, according to preliminary research…)
Monty Python was wrong…. there is no Universally Funny Joke.
I’m just going to parrot Rob of Nine
and say…. WATCH THE VIDEO. Technology RULES.
I’ve got a little list.
Unintentionally hilarious research abstract (Doc Ock approves…)
Robotic tentacles provide an interesting alternative to conventional rigid-link robotic arms; in certain situations, they may even be more capable. Kinetic Sciences Inc. has developed a hybrid electric-pneumatic tentacular robot called the KSI tentacle manipulator. It has variable compliance, can bend independently in two or more regions, and can extend to more than five times its contracted length. In total, the Tentacle has six degrees of freedom-or seven with the addition of a distal wrist-rotate joint. The Tentacle’s unusual kinematics and inherent compliance demand new approaches to control. Three schemes are considered here: joystick-based teleoperation, inverse kinematics-based tendon length control, and machine vision-based fine position control. Under control, the Tentacle has broad potential in many applications, including teleoperated vacuuming and spray washing (for nuclear hot cell decontamination), general materials handling, agricultural harvesting, robotic refueling, and endoscopy.
What about …. telesex??? I zoomed in on the “extend five times….” right away. Okay, now it’s time to go give my dirty mind a shower.
Brother Jim suits up for work
As promised…..