Making, baking, and (un-)breaking things in Southeast Michigan.
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This has been an interesting, and good week. Danielle and I just finished up eating piles of curry and onion bhaji and we’re now watching the original version of The Italian Job from a PAL VHS tape in Dominic‘s living room.
I’ll write more about this past week later, along with photos not taken with my cell phone, but I will give one preview: I have pooped in one of the same places as Alan Turing.
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It’s a good thing I don’t want to retire any time soon.
This is a scan from one of my 401(k) statements, one which I received today. This isn’t all of my retirement savings, but it’s a good chunk of it. It’s a bit disheartening to see that, across all six funds this is in, everything has basically collapsed.
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Here’s a portion of the 2/3 cup of Lemon Drop Chile Peppers which I cut up tonight for use in my multi-year hot sauce project. These were grown on my front porch, planted along with the flowers grown here in 2008.
I’ve done a bunch of stuff since cutting them up and washed my hands a few times, but I’m still too scared to use the bathroom and touch particularly sensitive bits. These are very, very hot; just below habanero according to descriptions I’ve read online. When I tried to eat one slice this size in the past, the first initial bite sent my mouth into alternating numbness and horrible pain.
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Here’s a photo of tonight’s dinner, a masala dosa from Rangoli Express in Sterling Heights, MI. It was served with sambar and coconut and tomato chutney. I stopped here for dinner after swinging by the ATM. Food is always good and the people working there are quite friendly. It’s one of my two favorite places in the Detroit area for getting Indian food.
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I hadn’t realized it existed, but while poking around some unsigned single track at Stony Creek today I came across what seems like some older bandit downhill and freeride stuff at Stony Creek.
I made my way down some of the downhill stuff, although the ~16″ drops were a bit of a surprise. I didn’t attempt the bridge shown above, but instead just turned around and walked my bike back up the hill.
After riding around some I started heading back to the parking lot, but just after passing some folks and crossing over a small jump-like area on the double track between signs 2 and 1 I saw what I initially thought was a wallet and a bunch of ID laying on the ground. Heading back I found that it was just a Genuine Innovations Patch Kit Large opened and spread across the ground. I picked it up, posted about it on the MMBA forum asking if anyone lost it, and I’ll just hang on to it unless someone claims it.
Leave a CommentYou can always count on Americans to do the right thing—after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
Well, it looks like a wrap. Even Fox is calling it for Obama. Let’s just hope that Obama (and his appointed administration) do some good for this country. We need it.
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Voting this morning only took about half an hour, despite the polling place being almost completely full of people. I arrived at about 7:04 AM and departed the parking lot at just about 7:40 AM. The roads seem to be quite crowded this morning with areas around schools and churches (polling places) fairly crowded. Work itself is quite empty.
Now, to see how it all plays out… After this meeting and finishing up some other tasks, of course.
Also, my phone’s camera doesn’t have anything remotely like a macro mode. As demonstrated last night it also doesn’t do well in low light. Oh well. A crappy picture is better than none.
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I ended up some tickets to see Coldplay at The Palace of Auburn Hills. Upon collecting them we found that they were in a rather nice location, and while this isn’t the sort of music I tend to listen to it was quite an interesting show. It was also the whitest show I’ve ever been to, but I guess that’s to be expected.
We were about five rows up from the front corner of the stage, just high enough up that we could easily see everything happening on stage without being too high up. As can be seen above we or in the links below we were close enough a basic cell phone photo without digital zoom just barely fit the main part of the stage. There were some really nifty effects as well, including spherical screens with internal projectors, video feedback displayed on a large screen behind the band, and die-cut fluorescent plastic butterflies dropped while the venue was lit with blacklights.
Here’s the five cell phone photos I grabbed during the show: 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5
Leave a CommentI think I’ve found what I want to do for my next electronics project. Fitting with my usual idea of taking another OSS project and adding fit and finish (and hopefully accessibility) polish to it, I want to take Atari SDrive by C.P.U. and make a new PCB and enclosure for it, and possibly sell some of the PCBs.
I intend to make the following changes from the current design:
Leave a Comment· SIO connector to the Atari. Option for DB15.
· SMT parts.
· Double-sided PCB with soldermask.
· Different enclosure design, possibly with different label / pushbutton / switch configuration.
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This morning Danielle made pancakes for breakfast. Mmm.
Here is the recipe, although you may wish to cut back on the amount of baking powder in them.
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