Our church community group had some serious fun with Legos last week. We dumped some (not all mind you) of our Legos in a big pile and let our imaginations loose.
This three wheeler was a bit of collaboration between Chief Engineer Anthony and myself. It turns out the thing I was building was a perfect body for his self-powered vehicle.
A few days later I modified his gear box, replacing it with a two-speed transmission.
Yes, that is a propeller on the back.
It’s getting harder and harder to resist getting one of them there fancy phones.
I’m lost, drifting through space, with nothing to orient myself. What kind of a world is it when
Gmail is not beta.
In case anybody is wondering, this is on my wish list now. Make sure you watch the video.
Father’s day is coming up soon…
If you’ve used both Gmail and Hotmail, read this. It is pretty much right on–and hilarious.
Here’s an article that I think is pretty insightful.
We are different to other people. So very different.
And why is this? What is it that makes us different? And why is this dangerous?
The short version is that geeks dig it when something doesn’t work right because they get to dive in to the guts of the system to figure out what’s going on.
Just a few minutes ago Angie sent me an email, obviously annoyed, because one of her applications wasn’t working right. Her reaction was that of frustration because it was hampering her ability to do what she wanted to do. When I’ve run into the same problem on the same application before, my reaction was more along the lines of, “Oh, that’s not right, let me see here, what can I do to fix…maybe here…oh yes that got things back. I wonder why it did that. Is there something I can do to hack together a fix so it won’t do that again? I could report a bug, nah; maybe there’s something I can change in the registry…”
I ran across this blog post. I’d say most of these apply: