I wanted a small bike trailer that I could take with my folding bike with the notion that I can take a train/bus/plane/whatever to my destination with a folding bike and whatever bags I have and then be able to ride away from the terminal with everything. The constraint was that it should tear down to small enough to fit with my folding bike and ( Read more... )

I was curious about the chemist Alex G. Streng. His papers are referenced in this, now classic, Things I won't work with blog post. The following is mostly for my reference because I spent the time to look it up and I may as well write it down somewhere.

I'm not sure when he died but he was survived by his Wife Lucia V Streng with whom he co- ( Read more... )

Built a macro stand for my camera today. This was prompted by a) multiple postings of things how to make a microscope with random objects and b) seeing that I could take pictures like this picture of the head of a pin with just the camera equipment that I had ( Read more... )

Went to the Not Quite Pittsburgh Juggling festival. Highlights include:

• Getting in some good club passing including being the short person since I was only on stilts whereas the person I was passing with was on his "vertical tricycle".
• Shockingly everyone else in the 5 ball endurance contest dropped within a minute and a half. I hadn't even planned ( Read more... )

So my legal right to drink alcohol in the US is now old enough to drink alcohol in the US.

And, thanks to that hoopy frood, I know that my age is the answer to everything (including life and the universe).

Saw Bela Fleck's "New York Banjo Summit" yesterday. It was a pretty good show. A steady stream of some of the best known Banjo players playing different things and slightly different styles with a small country string band. If I were to fault it for something it was that it dragged on a bit because it was just 2+ hours of internationally renowned ( Read more... )

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Does anyone know of a gps receiver that will allow you to geocode a raster image and use it directly (or a program that will automate the process of dealing with one ( Read more... )

Over our memorial day weekend camping trip I rented a kayak for a bit and wandered about a small lake. Nice simple relaxing fun. Went back and on a lark I tried out one of these. It is an ungainly catamaran of two pontoons with much of a bike frame perched on top. The handlebars are just a simple tiller arm to the rudder and the pedals are ( Read more... )