We chose to take part in the long standing tradition of the hot dog bar today in the Magicc Lab.  The first hot dog bar started in the spring of 2007 while at the INL, established with the de facto condiments: ketchup, mustard, relish, and Sour Kraut.  Later that year mayonaise was added to the…

A friend stopped by yesterday mourning the loss of his MacBook Pro power  adapter.  Since he had already ordered a new one from Apple, I asked if we could try to resuscitate the “broken” one.    It turned out to be a simple fix: Chisel along the seam of the power adapter; this may be…

A friend tells me he is getting ready to sign on as an eXfuze drink distributor.  In his explanation of the company, he named a few fruits I had never heard of. Not wanting to get left in the dust (yet again) about some new trend, I decided to do “light” research on some of the supposedly…

These quotes by Emerson could almost stand on their own, if such a thing could be said.  It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect…

At one point, I wanted to connect from my MacBook Pro (using OS X Leopard 10.5.1)  to our OS X server’s Samba shares from off campus.  The only problem is that the server only allows SSH connections off campus.  This is all you need, however, to create a tunnel and connect to the windows shares.…

Here we are, yet again, memory of memories, cross-country skiing in Rexburg.  

On a snowy Sunday afternoon, we made our way to the “Duck Park” in Rexburg, ID.  When we arrived we found the ducks all gathered around a drainage pipe that had warmed up a portion of the lake enough to melt the ice.  There was limited space, and unfortunately the ducks had to share this…

Above are the front, back, and top view of the recovered camera from the  Thor II launch, recovered nearly two years after launch.  This camera differs from that used on the Thor I launch in a number of ways, namely: the film type used was Advantix on ThorII, versus standard 35mm on ThorI. The most…

This was inspired by the many fun pool games played in my current house, which we have dubbed “the Lion House.”  Done for my introductory graphics course, this game features a 3D color mode, as well as a Farm Animal Sound mode.  Implemented in Mac OS X using XCode 3.0/C++/OpenGL. Should compile on Windows and…

In this video, rez the dog demonstrates his helicopter catching ability. Rez can jump up and gently snag the tail of a helicopter, avoiding the dangerous blades, with a success rate of about 90%.  He typically jumps 2-3 feet in the air to make these kills. http://carson.oakenweld.com/rezTheCopterCatcher.html