I thought that this XKCD was cute, but it triggered a bit of a Moxy Fruvous earworm: 'When I was three they put a dog in space, and left it there you should have seen her face...'

Sorry Spirit, you done good, but I've more emotions for Laika.

-ETR

Time to visit Boston.

Time to show off the spawn.

Time to give N a vacation from all kid wrangling.

I'll be in Boston from Tuesday to Tuesday spanning the October/November transition.

Let the visiting begin.

-ETR

I know just enough about pressure vessel design to be _very_ dangerous, especially now that I have access to a metal lathe and milling machine ( Read more... )

More on the job feeling out front.

Do you know anyone connected to the Broad Institute?

http://www.broad.mit.edu/

-ETR

I am sending out a couple of feelers here hoping to bring in a few extra dollars...though if this leads to a large enough influx then it might facilitate my return to the North East ( Read more... )

I have some chocolate to get rid of pre-pesach ( Read more... )

If the e-mail address that I have for you is @livejournal.com, then you will not get messages from me. Apparently my companie's system fails S25R rule one, probably something to do with reverse DNS. I will be investigating this on our end, however this means that a number of messages have bounced ( Read more... )

For A's birthday, I decided to make a Jacob's ladder cake tray. The idea was to have a climbing arc in a lexan tube coming out of the center of the cake, sort of the ultimate birthday candle. Owing to difficulties obtaining an appropriate transformer, I couldn't pull this off in time, but I did get to show off a mockup, which the kid thought was ( Read more... )

After 15 years of hearing about this crazy thing, I'm finally getting my ass in gear and going to Burningman ( Read more... )

Glycerol has a melting point of about 17C ( Read more... )