Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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e-books
I just finished a very interesting novel by Peter Watt’s called Blindsight. I read it entirely on my Tablet PC (an HP TC4400) via the PDF that he provides on this web site. It’s been a while since I’ve read any pure fiction (The 9-11 commission report comes to mind) and this novel was a…
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Turning Green
I got turned on to these a few months back from a Fast Company article and have replaced almost all my non-exposed socket bulbs with them. I must admit that I did it more for budgetary than environmental reasons, but I think there is a lesson there: more people will become conscious of their impact…
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Back to work
Back at work after 18 days off. I’m feeling almost European! Got lots done over the break, although not all of the projects I had planned were successfully completed. Things that were done: The 2 new horse stalls got roughed in. As mentioned in a previous post if you ever have the chance to use…
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What super hero am I?
This test is good… Your results:You are Spider-Man Spider-Man 85% Iron Man 80% Hulk 65% Catwoman 65% Green Lantern 55% Superman 55% Robin 50% The Flash 50% Supergirl 45% Batman 25% Wonder Woman 15% You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility. Click here to take the “Which Superhero am…
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3D Scan with just a web cam
This via the guys at download squad: A German research team has developed some software that allows any standard webcam to be used as a 3D scanner. Now if they could only make any standard laser or ink-jet printer into a replicator we’d be set! Institut für Robotik & Prozessinformatik
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Open Innovation meets Social Production
I may have found something to do in the workshop that came along with the house we bougt last year. I love the idea of personalizing products through laser etching (user generated content) combined with social production (the plans to make the machine to do it are open sourced) combined with open innovation (the business…
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Meet the new virtual me
I have been avoiding jumping on this bandwagon, but on Monday I signed up for an account on SecondLife. There is just such a large community there that there must be something interesting going on. What really got me though was the ticker on secondlife.com that shows how much money (in $US) has been spent…
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Home Project Update
I find myself 2 days ahead of schedule for my around the house/farm project list. The fence is installed, the stalls are roughed in and the new light is up on the barn. I even got it wired in and it worked with the first flip of the switch (anyone who took elements of electrical…
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There's more than just me
While I appreciate the link, I don’t want anyone to think that I am a blogger for UGS. Yes, I do work at UGS and yes I do blog about things that I find interesting in the course of my work at UGS, but this is my blog (not UGS’s) and I say what I…