Upgrading from the 60’s look

Five years ago we changed our 1960’s era house from a Mediterranean look to a more country look.

Mediterranean look

Country look

Notice rug and wainscoat

Now we have changed the kitchen and family room floors. First, we removed the dark wainscoat paneling, seen here in the background on […]

Thinking about the possibilities of micro-UAVs

Wired’s Danger Room points out a blue-sky video produced by the Air Force Research Laboratory (hosted by the Chicago Tribune). The video points out that micro-UAVs not only have reconnaissance abilities, but offensive capability as well. This fulfills the “precision application of force at a distance” in my previous post.

The sticking point, in […]

Delivering precision force at a distance

Some years ago, when my job involved intrusion detection and surveillance of very high value items, I recall a conversation with my boss who said we also needed a method of delivering just the right amount of force very precisely over a considerable distance. We couldn’t achieve that, for both technical and political reasons. Now, […]