RSS FEED IDEMS: Physics Geek
- Because you can
GPS devices are both cool and useful. You know what's even more cool? Building your own GPS device from scratch. Excerpt: The block diagram of the described GPS receiver is shown on Fig. 13. In the microwave frequency range, at...
- Install Linux via the Internet
No nasty downloading and burning ISOs, where you find that your handy dandy DVD burner will not correctly burn a Linux Live CD image. You absolutely need a CD (only) burner. A CD-RW/DVD-Read only will work fine, but if the...
- The perfect desktop?
Falko Timme installed OpenSUSE 10.3 in the hopes of creating a full-fledged Windows replacement. Did he succeed? You be the judge. Excerpt: This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 10.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for...
- Interesting innovation
Those tricksy Linux developers. They've created more distros than you can shake a stick at, one variation for pretty much any need or desire. I think that the multitude of distributions is both a strength AND a weakness (newbies get...
- Some common sense
Lots of people talk past their political opponents with regards to the current US troops still in Iraq. Gerard reposts an excerpt from his 2004 pre-election column and adds some more insightful comments. While it's entirely possible for reasonable to...
- Happy news
Our lovely hostess at Everyday Stranger gave birth to the Lemonheads via emergency C-section. Be sure to stop by and congratulate our newest MuNu mother. Helen, here's a long distance electronic hug from me to you. In honor of the...
- The bitter truth
Harvey posted a quip that I plan to file the serial numbers off of, take across state lines and use as my own: Coworker: It all depends on whether you see the glass as half-full or half-empty. Harvey: The glass...
- This is humor?
Via Gerard comes this little SNL clip on YouTube. Truthfully, if the voice were more grating, and the smile a little more I-eat-live-babies chilling, I'd think it was Hillary. Money quote: "And you, John Edwards, you phony, two-faced, ambulance chasing...
- The rich get richer
Colleges and university endowments, that is. Gregg Easterbrook, in TMQ this week, makes one of his usual detours into a non-sports topic and, as usual, makes a pretty good analysis. Excerpt: At Least Harvard Hasn't Demanded a Seat on the...
- A veritable who's who of washed up has-beens
Where Aren't They Now? over at Cracked offers some post-sitcom career roundups of people who you probably don't remember anyway, except maybe Danica McKellar. I second their comment below:...
- The time is nigh
The GABF is once again about to kick off in Denver, Colorado. I will be there-again- for my 9th trip in the last 10 years; I took off one year when my daughter chose the GABF weekend to be born....
- Health report
I wasn't feeling well, so I went to see my doctor. He told me that I needed to eat better to feel better. He said that I should visualize my foods as colors- red, yellow, green- and that I should...
- Question answered
Jay Pinkerton, over at Cracked, runs down which movie version Batman is the baddest of them all. Excerpt: #5. ADAM WEST - Batman: The Movie (1966) ... Ass-Kicking Ability BatWest fights like someone having a stroke. To be fair, Batman:...
- Calling all nerds
Geekks, dorks and dweebs, too. A 49-disc collection of the entire ST:TNG will be released for the low, low price of $440. Excerpt: The definitive DVD collection features all 176 classic episodes from the series' 1987-1994 run along with all-new...
- What I miss on the weekends
I almost never check my Sitemeter statistics because (a) I blog because I enjoy it and (b) the low numbers are usually depressing. In any event, I clicked to see my traffic levels for the last week and saw an...
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