In the Halloween tradition we carved jack-o-lanterns last night. Anji did the traditional version while I tried something a little more unorthodox. I also used a Dremel tool and zip saw attachment for some of it (in retrospect I had more control with a normal knife). Jeff carving with Dremel tool. Safety first. It looks ...

On Wednesday evening Anji, the kids, and I went to Heritage Park for their “Heritage Park After Dark” Halloween thing. Having never been we were quite impressed. All the staff was there in costume and many of the buildings were decorated. They had various haunted houses to go through, kids activities, dances, etc. I think ...

I came across The Hacker’s Diet this morning. It’s a free book by John Walker (of Autodesk fame) talking about dieting for engineers and programmers. I’m not particularly interested in this at this point but I like the idea of a book like this targeted at technical people. Cool. The description from John’s website: “The ...

A total off topic post… Not that I have a topic… For years I’ve had this unhealthy obsession with stationary. I frequent Staples, Office Depot, and Grand and Toy looking for pens and pencils that will improve my life. I also regularly raid the stationary cabinet here at work hoping that we’ve purchased some new ...

Just learned about something called a Thermic Lance today. It’s basically a iron pipe that you heat up one end with an oxyacetylene torch and pump oxygen through from the other end. Supposedly the flame from this torch burns hot enought to cut through steel and concrete easily. And it sounds so simple to build…