The good news: we’re finally done with the water boiling! It’s a good thing, too. The stores are all out of bottled water.

The bad news: the girl has a nasty migraine :-( She was supposed to leave Friday afternoon for the weekend, and it looks like that may not happen. I hope she doesn’t have to cancel altogether. She’s been doing SO much better ( Read more... )

Why do we have a reverse-911 system, if the county won’t use it to tell us things like, “Hey, we had a water main break and you need to boil your water before using it.”

We’ve had so many water main breaks in the last year that I’m glad we don’t drink tap water, anyway (even with boiling, it tastes nasty to me). We do cook with it, though.

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Device writes on water

Researchers at Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), working in conjunction with professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka University, have developed a device that uses waves to draw text and pictures on the surface of the water. The device consists of 50 water wave generators encircling a cylindrical tank 1.6 meters in diameter and ( Read more... )

Device writes on water
Researchers at Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), working inconjunction with professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka University, havedeveloped a device that uses waves to draw text and pictures on thesurface of water. The device consists of 50 water wave generatorsencircling a cylindrical tank 1.6 meters in diameter and 30 cm ( Read more... )