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Google Earth
Holy GOD Google Earth is awesome. It’s like what I imagined The Mysterious Future would be like as a kid. It’s built on top of Keyhole. The nice thing about it is that you can share links to places. So, for example, if you have Google Earth installed, you can just click on the links…
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Shotgun update: Weekend of Serious Awesomeness
I’m in the (happy) predicament of having waaay too much going on to be able to come up with anything but a train-wreck of a blog post. Also, I’m going to brag a lot, I should warn you in advance. Okay, here goes: SIDECAR FINALLY MOUNTED BY COMBAT-BOOT STEALTH-BIKE ELVES My brother Sam and his…
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I’m slightly nerd famous this week
The Ultimate Water Gun got listed on über-blog Boing Boing on Thursday night, and is now making the rounds of the other gadget blogs. Gizmodo said that the gun makes you the wearer look like a moron, that I have too much time on my hands, and that the gun is harder to make than…
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eBay item 5978705618 is a big hit
eBay item 5978705618 is a big hit. Lydia likes to retract the diving board (the diving board! I had forgotten about the diving board!), move the deck chairs, open the top deck, stuff everyone including the dog down in the bilge, and close the top deck again. Narrrr, me hearties.
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Cry Havoc! And let slip the, er… finger on the “max bid” button, or something.
I should point out that the whole reason I’ve got this ballistic Fisher-Price jones going on is because of the Fisher-Price garage playset that Kate’s Mom brought up from the basement, freshly scrubbed with environmentally-friendly detergent. (I am not rolling my eyes, here: when I clean something from the basement, it always ends up reeking…
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It appears I have a weakness
“Master your desires”, counseled the ancient stoic philosophers, “and you won’t be ruled by them.” It’s a seductive philosohpy (and a hypocrical one, usually — most of the stoics were colossal yuppies by today’s standards.) One of the worst side-effects of this point of view is the loathsome feeling of superiority you get when someone…
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The Mexican Forklift Story, Part Two
(This continues a story I started telling in April, 2003, about how I spent a college summer in Reynosa, Mexico helping a well-organized church program build houses. And about our contact there, Rommel Kott. And, eventually, how I got a big dent in my left leg.) Rommel Kott was, single-handedly, the person who transformed the…
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It’s a Major Reward!
At long, long last, my Velorex 562 sidecar arrived on the curb, in a Volpe Express truck driven by a kindly fellow named Bob. The box was intriguingly mysterious: seven feet long, six feet wide, brown cardboard covered in shrink wrap and weighing three hundred pounds. It sat on the curb in a maddeningly intriguing…
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Everything new is old again
I was wondering why I got a bunch of Retropod mail today. Turns out I made the Make blog today, courtesy of Philip Torrone. What’s up, PT? Also on the Make blog, I saw that Fortune had published an article titled “The Amazing Rise of the Do-It-Yourself Economy“, in which Daniel Roth talks about all…
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Love is easy; middle management is hard.
In fifth grade at Westtown school, we were assigned “artist reports”; a ten page(!), illustrated biography of an artist we admired. To a fifth-grader, ten pages is a dissertation, a monumental scholarly work that consumed the whole second half of the year, so we selected our subjects pretty carefully. I picked Norman Rockwell. Partly, I…
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