?Chains off the back of a John Deere tractor. The photo was taken in December of 2009.

Technology

My own name on a screen, five feet long and luminous

Ridiculously early, Saturday, February 04, 2006 • 3 responses

It’s fair to say that my participation in (and to some extent, passion for) all-things-blog went on walkabout in 2005. The list of blogs I visited on a weekly basis dwindled to three, and after launching the most recent version of this site, entries destined for public consumption went instead to a folder named “Posts” or directly to the Trash. I tend to sculpt entries over a period of time rather than fire off fleeting, inconsequential whims, and I suppose a byproduct of that methodology is, among other things, a folder of 43 entries which have never seen the light of day.

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All’s Weld that Ends Weld

Mid-morning, Wednesday, November 24, 2004 • 3 responses

Every time I go to the eye doctor I leave thinking that they have the coolest equipment on the planet. 

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get it up in there

Early evening, Sunday, February 01, 2004 • 5 responses

Well, it’s here and after much effort, it’s in. If there’s one thing I can say about the Dual G5, it’s that the machine is ridiculously fast. If there’s another thing I can say about the G5, it’s that the machine is ridiculously big.

It kind of has to be. 

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Happy Birthday Macintosh

Evening, Saturday, January 24, 2004 • 5 responses

Jan 24, 2004 marks the Apple Macintosh’s 20th anniversary. What you think about Macs, they were (and to some extent, are) undeniably one of the most important devices in the history of computing.

Macs I’ve had over the years:

  1. SE/30: 16MHz 68030 CPU and 16MHz 68882 FPU, making it the fastest Mac in that form factor for quite some time.
 

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Congratulations, NASA!

Late afternoon, Sunday, January 04, 2004 • No responses

The first “real” etherblog post of 2004 is dedicated to the folks at NASA who have made the Spirit project successful. The apparent loss of the ESA’s Beagle was a real downer for me, particularly after the optimism spawned by the Beagle’s successful separation from its orbiter. The confirmation of NASA’s Spirit Rover’s landing, however, ushered forth a scream of joy from at least this usually-reserved individual.

I can’t blame the Mars Exploration Rover Team for being this happy [photo taken from Nasa’s Mars Exploration Rover Mission website]. 

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