Archive for July, 2008

radar.weather.gov rocks my world.

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Conus/full_loop.php is an hour and ten minutes of the entire United States Doppler radar network in animated mosaic.  Bigger than any monitor I have ever used,  the full resolution version is 3400 by 1700 pixels - 220k per image. http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php serves up this beauty of 2.7 megabytes.   I just love Doppler ...

haikumice

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Like lolcats, only different. I wrote the haiku for an Instructable that describes using soda bottles to make an interesting environment for small rodents, at the website by that name. Instructables is on the blog roll. Speaking of which, I wonder what progress JBo is maximizing today...

Carbon Fiber mousetrap

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Well that seems like an interesting idea. Carbon fiber laminate over the standard birch, then paint black. How's that going to look spattered with mouse head? I'd use them in the mouse trap chain reaction, but a full set of 24 x 6 would run ...

Mushroom season, yummy boletes!

Monday, July 7th, 2008