Joule Thief

I made a joule thief. So what? So nothing. I just thought it would be fun and interesting to find something to do with all the old, not-quite-dead-but-not-quite-useful batteries I have sitting around. That is a 3V LED and it can be lit (lighted?) by a battery showing less than 0.5V of potential. Cool? I… Continue reading Joule Thief

Girl, you know it’s true

I realized earlier today that I sang as many notes on Milli Vanilli’s song Girl You Know It’s True as Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus did. I also have as many Grammy’s as Milli Vanilli. Did I have a point? Not especially.

Two Latin quotations

Labor omnia vincit. Alea Iacta est. “Hard work conquers all.” Virgil said it more than 2,000 years ago. “The die is cast.” Attributed to Caesar, having crossed the Rubicon. Here is how I am tying these together today: Most of the year, I follow the first quotation. Work work work. Just like the governor in… Continue reading Two Latin quotations

No, no, no. No Clippy!

Microsoft is bringing back Clippy the paperclip. You’d think the people who brought you Microsoft Bob would learn not to double-down on bad interface decisions, but, apparently not. I would expect there would be a way to turn off Clippy within Windows, or you could always do it the way I did: Use a Mac.

Moof!

If you smiled when you read “Moof!” you are 1) An original Macintosh fan, 2) a nerd or a geek, your choice, 3) old, 4) all of the above. I miss the sense of humor that was present in the software world years and years ago when we had to walk up-hill both ways to… Continue reading Moof!

RFC1149

I was looking for something else entirely (how to access the built-in webserver on my wifi-enable Keurig coffee maker, thanks for asking), and I ran across the classic RFC 1149. If you don’t have all the internet requests for comment memorized, RFC 1149 is titled “A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian… Continue reading RFC1149

A big one!

Although by the time I found it it was an ex-scorpion, much like Francis Buchholz, it was still a big one, about four or five inches long! I left it here on a rock so that one of our desert creatures could have a snack, or even a meal. Yum!