Category Archives: Scribbles

Leaving The Alamo

Posted on August 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Leaving The Alamo

My self-published book of short stories, available for free in pdf in the upper part of the sidebar on the blog’s main page, or for a mere eleven bucks in paperbook at the link above it, has a new fan. Lucky for me, he even posted an appreciation on his own blog. Thank you.

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Space Elevator Games

Posted on August 5, 2009 | Comments Off on Space Elevator Games

The helicopter that was to hoist the one kilometer cable "beanstalk" for the entrant "crawlers" to climb has proved unable to hold the thing taut. So the games that were to have started today at Edwards AFB in California have been delayed "at least" a month. Pity. But it was an ambitious plan. It ain’t rocket science. It might be harder.

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Posted in Science/Engineering, Scribbles, Space

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Stupid legislative tricks

Posted on August 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Stupid legislative tricks

From the, "If it ain’t broke, government will fix it until it is" department:

Congress has banned "distributing children’s books printed before 1985."

Why? Because the ink might contain lead. Are our pols brilliant? They probably only watch TV anyhow.

Via Instapundit.

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Skype loss?

Posted on August 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Skype loss?

The last time I bought a new headphone for the Skype system, the salesman at Radio Shack claimed most people his age (i.e. in their 20s) used Skype instead of landlines. If so, they must make up a good part of the intertubes phone service’s 450 million customers who will be calling the old landline company if a lawsuit comes out the way Swedish company Joltid wants it. It would be a pity, for sure.

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Black boxes search goes on

Posted on August 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Black boxes search goes on

The French research vessel, the Pourquoi Pas? (the Why Not?) is still searching for AF 447 and its black boxes, an effort due to end in mid-August. Now Airbus is offering to pay for another search after that.

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Inspired Bicycles

Posted on July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Inspired Bicycles

Amazing, crazy amazing, Brit bicycle stunts. Fun to watch and imagine. But, uh, do? Uh uh. Not me. My thighs could never take it. Not to mention the rest of me. (Makes sense, too, that you would need a special machine to withstand all the punishment.)

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Tire art

Posted on July 31, 2009 | Comments Off on Tire art

Best use for old tires. Besides selling them. Most of us don’t have this much talent. But for them as does: get. it. on.

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