Cool! Now anyone can put junk into orbit!
Author: Doug McCaughan
Father of 5.
Juggler.
Ticked off at blogger.com.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I was tested and failed.
Master: Sometimes lessons look like tests.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Do guns hurt people?
Master: Guns don’t hurt people. Dick Cheney hurts people. [Source]
see also: Commentary on the Cheney shooting
Infant Milestones
Evan, 8 months, slept through the night last night! Now if we can get him out of the swing
Today’s Cool Video
I really like the music in this video by Graffiti Researd Lab showing LED Throwies. Well composed!
A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together.
From the Make:Blog comments. One commenter questions the environmental impact:
what do you think the ecological impact of peppering the landscape with a handful of lithium batteries is?
And another bemoans the waste of good electronics:
It seems a shame to have the still good magnet and still good LED slaved to a dead battery halfway up a wall.
From the mouths of babes
Dad trying to converse with Mom. Baby screaming enhanced by television and daily chaos.
Mom, exasperated: "I can’t hear shit!"
Amy, 3 years: "Mom. Why can’t you hear a ship?"
I was laughing tears out of my eyes about the time Amy said "hear."
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Who am I?
Master: You are the embodiment of how others perceive you. Be true.
Sweet! Please vote.
Please vote for my wife! Thanks!
For the record
I was NOT the guy that wrote into Amanda from E TN!
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day
My wife! My life!
She gives me sight.
Brings things into focus.
Makes them right.
She gives me joy!
And so much more.
Thank you my wife!
My life!
And Cathy, you actually have to get out of your news reader and come the site.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Why so many obsticles?
Master: The uncommon road has heavy tolls.
Father of the Year
This morning I send Noah to the bus stop in -.5°C weather with no coat. This is not my fault. I provide my 9 year old son with nice, warm coats. He just wants to make sure that if there is a sudden drop in temperature that wherever he is he can quickly put on a coat. So, he makes sure to leave a coat at school, at the grandparents, at a friend’s house and so forth. I just can’t seem to purchase them fast enough so I suppose it is my fault.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: I can’t get on task.
Master: Be more specific.
Saving the Internet
Alright! Let’s hear it for Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.)! A politician that understands with the telcos are doing. Earlier I posted "Large Telcos Want To Kill The Internet". Rep. Rick Boucher explains:
Essentially, what these executives are proposing is the creation of a two-lane Internet where larger, more established websites with financial resources could squeeze out smaller, emerging websites. …
Internet2, a nonprofit partnership of universities, companies and affiliate organizations, including federal agencies and laboratories, has been studying this matter and has demonstrated that a multitrack Internet model is unnecessary to assure quality of service. Internet2 has for the past seven years deployed an advanced broadband network to more than 5 million users and has learned that in a network with enough bandwidth there is no congestion and no bits need preferential treatment because all of them arrive quickly enough to assure excellent quality, even if intermingled.
I find it somewhat sad that our speed over the last mile, that is from the switch to the house, is so slow.
In countries such as Japan and Korea, network speeds over the last mile of 100 megabits per second (mbps) are common. In the United States, our typical speed is less than 1 mbps.
Special thanks to Tom Maszerowski of My Likes and Dislikes for pointing out Rep. Rick Boucher!
Who are you? Fabled.
I like the traveler but I fear I see more and more rancher’s everyday.
