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by pezman
Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:49 pm
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: MextFab studio
Replies: 0
Views: 3710

MextFab studio

For any PJ members living in the greater Philadelphia area ... http://nextfabstudio.com/
by pezman
Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:47 am
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: Odds and ends
Replies: 1850
Views: 812605

Re: Odds and ends

by pezman
Sat May 30, 2009 11:49 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: Happy Birthday to Cobol
Replies: 1
Views: 3542

Re: Happy Birthday to Cobol

Penn is still one of the big names in Programming Language research.

Every now and then I take a course there in the CIS department, but it's a bit of a reach for me ...
by pezman
Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:57 am
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: local "car cruise" pics, REBUILD
Replies: 727
Views: 3199038

Re: local "car cruise" pics, REBUILD

hmm -- glad I wasn't at work when I checked this one out ...
by pezman
Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:08 pm
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: Nice, simple 3D scanner
Replies: 1
Views: 3682

Nice, simple 3D scanner

Here's a nice laser scanner setup. You can get respectable results with the free version and a cheap laser from a level. You can even use a shadow line for a scan, so you could probably get respectable results outside using a thin, straight stick and the sun.

http://www.david-laserscanner.com/
by pezman
Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:41 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: Nonsense, up with which we ought not put?
Replies: 4
Views: 4890

Nonsense, up with which we ought not put?

A nice article by Steven Pinker in regards to "Justice Chief of the Court Supreme" Roberts' stumble during Obama's oath of office: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/opinion/22pinker.html?em Every now and then my inner stickler will rise up to paralyze my writing -- not that my stickler knows all tha...
by pezman
Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:27 am
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: 12-videos-of-welding-machines
Replies: 2
Views: 4254

Re: 12-videos-of-welding-machines

The video of the thermite weld was taken about 100 yards down the track from a crossing that I pass every time to go to work. Maybe I should take a gander at that piece of track ...
by pezman
Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:45 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: Sudden Zune death?
Replies: 4
Views: 5313

Re: Sudden Zune death?

I love how the Ad system automatically posts a Zune advertisement under this post :lol:.

Perhaps if I refresh the page, the system will infer my location from my IP address and, based on the keyword "death", post advertisements for local morticians :shock: . Ha!
by pezman
Sun Dec 21, 2008 5:33 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: youtube
Replies: 1510
Views: 537161

Re: youtube

One of Mark's recent posts listed something from "LenapeFireTurtle" as a related video. The "Lenape" part caught my eye -- so I presume that LenapeFireTurtle is the LFT in "Sebastian LFT". I didn't have time to look at all oft eh videos, but the ice pulse-jet was pretty cool! http://www.youtube.com/...
by pezman
Sat Dec 20, 2008 4:58 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: youtube
Replies: 1510
Views: 537161

Re: youtube

Down Wind Faster Than The Wind (DWFTTW)

A mechanical cousin of the ramjet, in a way ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S2HHwfcz9Y
by pezman
Sun Dec 07, 2008 3:14 am
Forum: Tools and Construction
Topic: Integrating graphical curves
Replies: 0
Views: 2984

Integrating graphical curves

Here's an interesting idea that I saw on another forum. If you have a graphical plot, you can use GIMP to integrate curves. You can take pictures of curves, fill in portions of them and then do a pixel count. The number of pixels are an integral of the filled in region. In general, the scaling of th...
by pezman
Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:03 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: Strange spooky circles
Replies: 3
Views: 5768

Re: Strange spooky circles

Cool! I'll need to take a peek at that film when I get home, but I'm vaguely remembering (?) that that is from Lenape Park (do I recall the name correctly?) -- near where the Little League practice field were (are?) -- on the same street as the Dairy Queen, only headed towards Sellersville ... I gue...
by pezman
Fri Nov 07, 2008 4:00 pm
Forum: Off topic forum
Topic: Left field
Replies: 600
Views: 222227

Re: Left field

Ceci n'est pas une pipe!