To Do Tomorrow:
· Order Elenco XP-720K power supply kit.
· Order additional soldering iron tips (very fine cone, or something similar, different from what comes with Weller WES51 (ETA). Person at the place I ordered things from happily added to the order.
· Look for a good deal on a scope (maybe 50mhz or so) on eBay. Hopefully less than US$100. Currently bidding…
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Yesterday
From time to time I have read about The Cryonics Institute, but it was only a few months ago when I realized exactly where it is; right at I-94 and Shook.
Also, it appears that they are having a potluck / lecture at 6pm tonight, right at their facility. It may be interesting to go to one of these lectures sometime. Hopefully I could catch a glimpse of the actual facilities used to house the 72 humans and 42 pets currently in cryostasis at the facility.
Hmm. If I wasn’t already going skating, I’d find someone to go with. Oh, and bake cookies or something first. I think a visit to one of the US’ two cryostasis facilities is worthy of tasty chocolate chip cookies.
So, today I acquired a bottle of George Dickel for purposes of making irish coffee.
Well, I’ve made myself one, and I’m sipping it while doing dishes.
It’s quite good, especially for a cheap(er) whisky. It puts Jack Daniels (shudder) to shame.
Mmm. This is great for American whisky. And if only used in irish coffee, it will go a long way.
When heading to lunch at Qdoba today, there was a Jack In The Box truck driving up the off-ramp from M-59 Eastbound on to Rochester Road. Then it turned left, to head north towards Rochester.
I find this rather odd, because the nearest Jack In The Box location is in Illinois.
Perhaps such resturants are being built in this area? Hmm… I wonder…
Hey everyone… I’m trying to find some place to get something printed at, but I’m really not sure where to start looking.
First off, I’m looking to have a set of overlays printed for the x0xb0x I hope to make soon. My idea for this overlay is to have something similar to an arcade game control panel overlay, which is similar to the heavy plastic adhesive ads stuck to the floor of some grocery stores.
My understanding is that these are typically printed on the back of a piece of plastic, and then the adhesive is applied to the back. Or, it is printed on adhesive vinyl then the textured plastic is applied to the top of that.
So, this brings about the question of where one would get something like this printed.
I’m thinking that I’ll first try the sign printing place in downtown Utica, as one of the services they advertise is custom printed car wraps, and this isn’t too different. But, do any of you know some place to get this made up?
Thanks!
Well, my preorder for an x0xb0x has come up. I just wonder if I should buy one… US$315, although being a really nice TB-303 clone it’s likely worth a lot more once completed.
Hmm… Should I? What do you all think?
Back at the end of December 2005,
I finally got around to captioning the photos today, and they are available by either clicking on the photo above, or this link: Detroit Historical Museum, the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, the Scott Memorial Fountain, and a few other places on Belle Isle (photo gallery retired).
No, I’m not going to write much about them right now… Hopefully you’ll enjoy them, though.
Oh, and yes, I know the pictures are mostly crap. This was the first day I took my new camera out to actually give it a try. I’ve become a lot more familiar with it since then, and thusly the photos have gotten considerably better.
Well, I just went ahead and created a new Gallery theme called ‘nuxx’ and modified it to serve AdSense banners in the left hand column. You can see the result in any of my photo gallery pages.
I really don’t think it looks too bad, and it’s fairly inobtrusive. Again, though, I’ll leave it for a while and see how much it brings in before deciding whether or not to pull it.
I had originally tried to use image banners, but it seems that Google doesn’t have a very wide range of AdSense images, so I kept getting non-profit or not-very-accurate banners. The text ones — while still ads — are much more accurate… Some I’d even consider clicking on, were I not at my own site.
Anyway, I think this is good for now.
Wow, just out of the blue someone purchased one of my iSight Tripod Adapters. Yay!