Yeah today is a rough day. I swear if I see someone smoking I’m going to buy a smoke from them. Just one. Just one won’t hurt right?
Yeah I know, rationalizing. I’ll just keep gritting my teeth.
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Steve Jurvetson is the Geek Dad over at Wired and he’s onto something here:
When an appliance dies, I remove the power cord, and I help guide the disassembly. For consumer electronics, a small assortment of screwdrivers will do the trick, as well as a set of small Torx wrenches for Apple products and cell phones. Remember to look under the stickers for hidden screws. Old laptops are especially fun, and don’t forget to check out all the LCD light distribution layers (but be careful with the small fluorescent bulb) Source: Geekdad – Wired News Photo from Flickr
Haven’t you always wanted …read more
Yep, I’ve broken a personal barrier, the two week barrier. The first couple weeks are interesting for me, sometimes I’ve been able to quit for a couple weeks no problem, others big problem. This was a big problem two weeks for me. Lots of stress. Lots. Jim tells me that once I hit a month I’ll be in the home stretch.
Well I hope I can make it. My biggest problem is keeping up the “I want to be smoke free” feeling. Believe me it’s rough. The “just one is okay” thoughts hit me all the time. Thursday I picked up …read more
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So, is the government to blame – or are scientists working for the government to blame? Science geeks, help me out here. What really happened? Source: Daylight Saving Time – Snafu ~ Chris Pirillo
Yeah this recent change to DST in the US and Canada has been a pain. I’ve had to help re-set VCR and TV clocks. Had to make sure devices were patched. And for what? Nothing.
Yep, nothing. See here is the basic theory, by “springing forward” each Spring, people can stay outside longer and use less electricity (since it’s light out later). Okay, good idea. Yes, it …read more
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Just in case you were wondering, no I’m not smoking. No I’m not using the patch. I got some advice to pound cranberry juice to help my body adjust. Ran out of cran this morning, but since cran juice is one of my favs I’ll be getting more soon.
Now, the next question is whether the quitting is getting easier. No. Flatly no. It’s getting harder. I have a lot more stress in my life at the moment and that is NOT helping.
Will I slip? Will I cave? I don’t know. I’ve been able to resist the temptation in the store …read more
You know what yesterday’s post about the kid who made a fusion rector in his basement reminded me of? Star Trek: First Contact. Wait, stop shaking your head and hear me out. Okay the premise of the movie is simple. Picard, et al must travel back in time to keep the Borg from stopping the first warp drive test (and thus preventing first contact and what would become Starfleet). Fine, so what’s this have to do with a 17 year old making a fusion reactor in his basement with parts from eBay?
Don’t get it yet?
Think about it. One person with …read more
Channel Theme Day again. Pity, you see that the theme is an issue that is threatening the world. I wrote about antibiotic resistance last week, which is a pretty big deal. So I was stumped about what to write about. Sure we have all the usual suspects. Global Warming, malaria, HIV, war…then hit me. We, humans and our human arrogance, is our biggest problem.
Okay this is pretty harsh isn’t it, but consider what we have wrought upon ourselves. The question is, then, can we overcome our own self-destructive tendencies? Can we tap into one of our other human traits, hope?
The …read more
Ah science fair projects. Oddly enough I never participated in any, my school didn’t have them. But we did have the yearly science project for class. Let’s see for chem I tested various water proofing agents on leather. Bio was a bacteria experiment. Physics, I played with wing design on gliders. I never considered making a fusion reactor. Well a 17 year old in Michigan thought about it, and did it:
Now I don’t know what’s most surprising, the fact that it was a 17 year old that made a device that can fuse two hydrogen atoms together, or the fact …read more
This isn’t something that I thought I would come across on Zane’s blog, but anyway researchers up here in the Great White North (that would be Canada) have found that a little bacteria loves sugar maple sap and the “output” of that love are some cool bio-polymers:
Researchers in Canada have discovered that maple syrup may aid in the production of bioplastic. It turns out that a form of bacteria called alcaligenes latus has a sweet tooth, and behaves particularly ravenously when exposed to maple sap and syrup. Researchers found that the bacteria not only thrive when added to maple syrup, …read more
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