After my post about the Stardust@Home project, I’ve found myself in awe of aerogel. It’s the lightest solid, a great insulator (as evidenced above) and just looks crazy neat. I can’t believe this shit has been around since the 1930’s – that part alone blows my mind. I did some digging around, and found this neat site about creating aerogel…
Hung out with Justin a bit at his house, looked over some of the stuff he’s developing, and watched a bit of a punk rock documentary. We grabbed a few drinks over at Rainbo, and ended up talking about The After-School Project™ a bit. It’s funny that when we try to unwind from work, we typically end up talking computers/technology.
After work, Justin and I headed over to Rainbo for a few drinks. Spotted this silhouette spray-painted on a gate, along Division. As we continued down Division, I started seeing more and more of these guys. It got me thinking about street art and vandalism. I’ve taken a lot of photos of the street art I come across, but every…
When we first moved back into the office Chris and I came across this small bouncy ball designed like a mini soccer ball. We bounced it off of desks/shelves, and that lasted maybe a week and we forgot all about it. Today, out of nowhere, the ball started making the rounds again. And next thing you know, the Lord and…
After shaving himself for work yesterday, today Ben finally gets rid of “the flavor savor.” And it seems only appropriate here that I offer a bit of a flashback to September, 2002, when our fledgling department had both a low number of people and a low face to stubble ratio.
Ok. Wow. I remember hearing about this substance a while back, but god DAMN – some of these pictures are amazing. The used Aerogel on the Stardust spacecraft to collect particles. Simply stunning photographs.
There’s something a-brewing over at Berkeley again. Similar to their prior multi-user projects like SETI@Home (which I participated in, for a long time), the Stardust@Home project affords would-be researchers to help lend their eyes in search of dust grains from the recent Stardust spacecraft. Unlike SETI@Home though, this isn’t just some program you let run on your computer when it…
After work today, Chris, Ben and I ended up playing a really fast game of Holdem. After Ben left (he was rushing to catch a train), Chris and I decided to play another game – just the two of us, heads-up style. Only… we decide to spice it up a bit. Remember all that Tequila we got? And remember that…
A few days ago, I posted a video that showed a magic trick that Bryan had taught everyone. Well, all of us have been sort of practicing it, off and on, since then. Lately, it’s become this thing where Jane and I have tried to make silly bets as to whether or not one of us can do the trick,…
At work, from time to time, we end up grabbing a digital camera and going on a photoshoot. We mostly know what we’re doing, and it ends up being a lot cheaper than hiring a photographer or buying stock. In order to get the images we need for our projects, we end up shooting our own. Currently, we’re working on…
Just now, I remembered a cool link to a $14 Steadycam that I saw on Ektopia a few days ago. You know – in case anyone decides they want to create something for current.tv.
My boss Rey sent this link out to all of us a week or so ago, but at the time I didn’t do more than glance over the site. Today, I happened across a BB post about the site, and ended up taking a closer look. Wow! Talk about some compelling content! And the Survival Guide is pretty darn incredible…
Yesterday, I posted a poem by Billy Collins. Today, I was searching around some and stumbled across a small cache of mp3 files – six poems in total! Check out this page on download.com for some free audio files and get your poetry on.
This is a pretty wicked Java-based game, posted by GHaST over at Twelvestone. Lots of interesting interactions. Plants grow in water; fire burns oil; water puts out fire. I haven’t fully figured out the sand and cera and salt just yet… but this thing is like your own little virtual terrarium. The link that seems to be making the rounds…