The communications team just got a 3D printer. Why they need one is beyond me. They don't have any 3-D modeling experience.... However, they've got a scanner and some low-end modeling software on the way. I read a little bit of the marketing stuff on what they bought. Not too pricy individually, but if you add the components together to make a ( Read more... )

Apparently, we experienced an earthquake on Friday. Kiera got a little upset just before we felt any effects--she stood in the foyer and started crying. A few moments later, we heard stuff rattling in the curio cabinet, and my sweetie claims she felt the tremor. I didn't really notice other than the noise. My sweetie frantically searched the ( Read more... )

Looks like yet another pair of flaps about MyLiveFaceDiaryBookLandJournalWitter and Google Mail versus "Our Privacy Rights" has cropped up. Looking at the new TOS for the former, it is time to abandon ship. After repeatedly assuring us that our stuff was safe and secure, they are now saying they have the right to monetize our stuff. In most ( Read more... )

I wish I had had time to listen to the rest of the story, but NPR ran a segment on 3-D printing and prosthetic hands via the unlikely collaboration between a South African carpenter and a Washington (state) puppeteer.

Online version of NPR articleIt is a real shame that my sweetie's company didn't make it to full production mode in the late ( Read more... )

ealdthryth called me Saturday afternoon with the news that she was feeling unwell and coming home from work early. As I happened to be soldering plugs into the the portable layout, I asked if I needed to come home. I didn't. However, since my sweetie was going to be home, we decided to go ahead and deal with the couch and some assorted items. I hurried ( Read more... )

I lost the newsletter. Again. In the exact same fashion. One of the things that really annoys me as a former software engineer is the fact that the application did not have to shut down and delete my work. It should have paused, and allowed me to change which drive I was storing the file on to. After close to 30 years, you'd figure Microshaft ( Read more... )

This week, I've made sure to enjoy the morning sunshine filtered through the new window treatment in the refurbished library before heading out. The "stained glass" film does make the room a bit darker during the day, a little lighter in the evening, but in either case, the room has a nicer feel to it. Because there is no new furniture other than ( Read more... )

Decluttering stalled out a little bit, but I did get some of the old electronics gear out of the stack of stuff we shoved into the office and got put it away--but with no sorting or weeding of the collection. I semi-randomly pulled a few books off the shelf and put them in the go away pile. I'm pretty sure I'll never re-read The Andromeda StrainA ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving weekend snuck up on me. For some reason, I thought I had another week. Time to plot logistics for cheap refueling before the prices spike. I think the pickup has enough gas to run for a few days, so I can fill up the moderately more fuel-efficient vehicle early and use up the gas in the truck until I actually need to drive a longer ( Read more... )

ealdthryth wasn't feeling too good last night, so I went to the railroad club meeting by myself. The program was pretty good--it was all about railroad patents filed by people with the same last names as the club members. Only one was actually related, and one might have been. It was pretty amusing because a number of patents filed were not actually ( Read more... )