Archives for: "May 2005"

Mike's Weblog

I've got my brother Mike set up with his own brendoman.com weblog. Check it out and leave him a comment. You can find pictures of him here. Stop in at his new site and leave him a comment. If you RSS, then you may want to subscribe to his feed. more »

Google calculator

Tonight my father-in-law called with a math problem for me. He built a water tank out of six-inch pipe to go on top of his horse trailer. This will be much more stable and wind-resistant than the 55 gallon barrel that he had been strapping up there.… more »

Space tourism, orbital vs. sub-orbital flight

Another company has started selling tickets for a sub-orbital space flight. After reading that article I started wondering why they don't just enter an orbit around the earth. That would be a more exciting trip and it would last longer. If you're… more »

Photos

Mike has uploaded some photos from his visit over the weekend. There's some very good stuff. He made a whole album with pictures of Dixie, my parents' new dog. His new camera lets you stitch photos together into a panorama. And, of course, he has… more »

Longhorn to have fewer BSOD

The new version of Microsoft Windows, code-named Longhorn and due out in late 2006, may have fewer Blue Screens of Death. But it will have a new feature to fill that gap: Red Screen of Death. I, for one, can't wait. Someone predicted this back in… more »

Garden update

We had some nice rain here over the weekend, and my garden is coming right along. Most of my greens have sprouted and are filling in nicely. The carrots seem to be doing well, too, even if only four out of the eight seeds that I planted have come up.… more »

McSweeney strikes again

Blender settings from 180 years ago more »

Second story on digg

Another of my submissions to Digg.com got promoted to the front page. Huzzah! more »

Insanity . . . subsiding

I'm not going trade my computer in. With the discount I would lose and the restocking fee I would pay, it would cost me around $300. I was already planning on upgrading my RAM (an extra gig rather than 256 MB) and when I need more hard drive space… more »

I think I'm going to be sick

Apple just upgraded their iMacs. For the same cost you can now get a computer with a faster proc, double the memory and hard drive (and video RAM), and a dual layer superdrive. Oh, I think I'm going to be sick. Excuse me. Update: I read that if… more »

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