My unasked for future birthday present

February 4, 2009, 10:23 pm

I was scanning a few blogs for examples of great communicators and ran across a reference to Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium. The following video was given as an example.

I was particularly interested in the description of the asteroid Apophis and its close approach to earth on April […]

February 4th, 2009 | Category: Technology | Leave a comment

Upgrading from the 60’s look

February 3, 2009, 3:26 pm

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 […]

February 3rd, 2009 | Category: Family | Leave a comment

Thinking about the possibilities of micro-UAVs

January 29, 2009, 5:28 pm

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 […]

January 29th, 2009 | Category: Technology | Leave a comment
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