My grandfather, may he rest in peace, was a lobster fisherman on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. So was my great grandfather before him. So the instinct to cast a well-baited hook into the depths in hope of hauling in a good catch is hard-wired into my DNA.
No wonder I am so interested in social [...]
What follows is a short but exquisitely sweet video clip that was shot by my good friend Fred at Berekley Campus. He used a Flip Camera for this project and you will see how nice the resolution is. A shout out to Fred for this, great job!
To quote Fred from his Youtube post, “Here’s a [...]
Yesterday was NOT the easiest!
I simply wanted to include a snippet of code that would make my blog posts re-Tweet-able and that’s when the problem started.
Without going into too much detail (it is still painful to think about, even now) suffice to say it was a SNAFU.
What was formerly normal suddenly wasn’t.
In fact, I ended [...]
Trying to decipher and figure out the design of the flat version of Skyaak so you can cut it out and build it is, well, quite tricky your 1st time around. There’s no denying that. Unless you are a mechanical whiz-kid, you will find it fairly…how do I put this…strange.
I am here to tell [...]
I stuck some text over the extraordinary image above to act kinda as a watermark.
Pretty excited around here to let you know that our R&D is paying off again in SPADES!
Just received the first freshly-minted batch of Micro-Wings made out of ‘Lexan’.
Lexan is a virtually indestructible, super light-weight, exceptional tensile (spring)-strenth material.
This material upgrade ushers [...]