by Bruce | Aug 17, 2007 | General
I have to admit, I’ve never done the “grow the crystals on a string” experiment before. Seems like everyone I talk to is saying “oh,yeah, I remember doing that as a kid.”. One of the great bonuses about having children is...
by Bruce | Aug 17, 2007 | General
I’ll be the first to admit when I am wrong. There is a laptop (coming) with similar specs to my quad-core desktop. It even has 30% more disk space, and a second NVidia graphics card (I only have one). Sure it’ll set you aside $10k, and a...
by Bruce | Aug 16, 2007 | General
I'm all for realistic expectations for shipping dates from online sellers. But this order recently from a popular online bookstore really got me wondering. Shipped on August 13, in Allen Park, Michigan (159 miles away) and departing, but it will take nearly...
by Bruce | Aug 14, 2007 | General
No, not some weird ritual – but about the most fun you can have with latex tubing and surgical clamps! I hope you’ve all had the chance to tie off the end of a nice length of 1/4″ latex tubing and fill it with pressurized water (if you...
by Bruce | Aug 14, 2007 | Development
I have spent the last 15+ years going back and forth between laptops and desktop machines for work and development. My first laptop was in 1991, a PowerBook 100. It was so drastically underpowered (and had a pretty ugly passive matrix screen, a smaller...
