Nature.com reports, in Geometric whirlpools revealed – Recipe for making symmetrical holes in water is easy, that it is surprisingly easy to make “holes” in a bucket of water that have all kinds of interesting shapes. The researchers found that once the plate was spinning so fast that the water span out to the sides, […]
Mothers Day Magic Carpet
Our plane proved itself a magic carpet today, taking us from St. Charles, MO to Kalamazoo, MI to visit Candy’s mother (and family); then on to Valparaiso, IN to visit my mother (and family); and then back home. We could not possibly have spent time on Mother’s Day with everybody using any other vehicle. Total […]
Happy 1st Birthday
The Cheerful Curmudgeon web site is one year old today! Since we all know that birthdays mean presents, join me in celebrating. I like the Hobbit’s tradition that the one having the birthday gives presents to other people. (You have read The Fellowship of the Ring, haven’t you?) So here’s the deal: You, Gentle Reader, […]
U.S. has second worst newborn death rate in modern world
Do you care passionately about the situation in Iraq or Afganistan or Darfur? Are you up in arms about the AIDS epidemic in Africa? Does the Palestinian crisis infuriate you? Did you know that a newborn African-American is nearly twice as likely to die within his first 24 hours than a white baby? According to […]
Jet-Powered VW
When bugs fly / Auto geek hits highway for surreptitious runs in jet-powered VW I can’t even think of anything to add.
Original Star Wars Trilogy Coming to DVD
Finally, Lucasfilm Ltd. and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will release the original Star Wars trilogy on DVD. Look for two disc sets to be available in September. Each set will contain both the 2004 digitally remastered version and the original theatrical versions of Star Wars (1977), The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Return of […]
Give Yourself $100
CNN.com reports, “Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday.” You can read the rest of the article in, Senators to push for $100 gas rebate checks. Cool! The government is going […]
Tennis Elbow
I had been having persistent pain in my left elbow for three months now, so I figured it was time to see An Expert. I trundled off to Expert #1 who prescribed anti-inflamatory drugs and alternating cold and heat. Merrily, I trundled back home and did as I was told. The pain persisted. A phone […]
Hanging Around the Church
A local church is expanding its building and seems to have gone to extreme lengths to get congregants to hang around.
Spitfire Fun
Have you ever wondered how to have fun with a documentary commentator, a video camera, and a vintage Spitfire fighter plane? Watch this video to see the best way to do it. I can imagine the scene from the commentator’s perspective. He does his spiel and hears the plane approaching from behind him. He waits […]
IE7 Web Site
I just ran across this cool resource on Internet Explorer v7: www.ie7.com
Open Minds
Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, has an interesting editorial in the Washington Post titled Going Nuclear. He begins, In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust…. Thirty years on, my views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement needs […]
National TBIS Key Exchange Program
This is really important and the last day of the program. See the web site for complete details. National TBIS Key Exchange Program
Amazing Juggler
Take a couple of minutes and watch this video of Chris Bliss juggling. You’ll be amazed.
Ugly Web Site? That May Be OK.
We have all seen them: web sites that have great stuff on them but which look like they were designed by a trash compactor. Mark Daoust of SiteReference delves into them in his posting, The Surprising Truth About Ugly Websites. He makes some good points, in particular that some target audiences will be put-off by […]
Impressive Vex Robotics Kit
As reborted in BotMag.com, Jamie Hyneman and the Mythbusters are impressed and I want one. Jamie Hyneman: As a holder of some patents and a designer and builder of dozens of prototypes and devices, I must admit I was expecting to turn up my nose at a do-it yourself robotics kit from Radio Shack. But […]
The Great Escape
I just fought my way up a wind tunnel, scrambled through a ventilation duct, clambered across 40 yards of rope netting, rolled under a fence, and burrowed through a mass of grapefruit-sized plastic spheres. Now I’m facing two doors. One leads to freedom. The other to a room with something nasty in it, possibly involving […]
The Torn-Up Credit Card Application
Halloween horror story in March. Read The Torn-Up Credit Card Application. Buy a shredder. ‘Nuff said.
Available Light Photography with the Nikon D200
One of the main reasons why I upgraded from a Nikon D70 to a Nikon D200 is the vastly improved quality of available light photographs. I shoot a lot of indoor swimming pictures, often in poorly lit swimming pools.* I created a comparison album with a couple of typical pictures so you can see the […]
Nikon D200: First Impressions
I just upgraded from a Nikon D70 to a Nikon D200 camera: WOW what a difference. I have been too busy taking pictures to write about pictures but here are the things that leaped out at me first: Available light image quality is vastly improved. I had been jealous of my son’s D50’s quality and […]
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