burrito and some con queso dip) called 'Microwaves Ruin Everything', featuring a bunch of things blowing up in microwaves shot at 500 frames per second. The message is that microwaves are bad, and Moe's doesn't use microwaves. I couldn't agree more -- I haven't owned a microwave in almost five years and look at me. "You look retarded." It's true, I am a little re-re.
This is an ad for Moe's Southwest Grill (great, now I want a
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_SOLOWHEEL (link)
Picture a unicycle without a frame or saddle, and you have the Solowheel. Not working for you? Ok, add this to the picture: footboards that fold out from the wheel. To ride it, you stand on the footboards and straddle the wheel. Lean forward, and the wheel engages a battery-powered electric motor that can send it —and hopefully its rider— zooming along at 10 miles per hour. The wheel has a gyroscope that helps keep the rider upright. In other words, it's like a Segway with only one wheel.Because of the rechargeable battery, which has a 15- to 20-mile range, the Solowheel weighs 26 pounds. That's as much as a folding bike, but the Solowheel is more compact. It's sold by Inventist LLC for $1,800. Its creator is a serial inventor, Shane Chen, previously came up with the AquaSkipper, a human-powered hydrofoil. Who's it for? Brave people with a good sense of balance, who want to utterly surprise everyone they meet. _A year ago, Michael Chrisman placed a pinhole camera in Toronto’s Port Lands and aimed it — as best one can aim such a camera — at the city skyline. For 365 straight days and nights, light has crept through the pinhole, slowly building an exposure on a piece of photosensitive paper.
Ponder that. On New Year’s Eve day, Chrisman trudged out to retrieve the camera and exposed paper inside. “I’m thrilled with it,” Chrisman said Sunday. “It’s a very dreamy photo. This one has a soft and kind of foggy feel.” Think of it as a time-lapse painting. The physical progress of the sun leaves a streak that shifts minutely each day. The daily on and off of building lights leaves only light, not dark. Once exposed, there is no way to undo it. The camera, a simple black box, was mounted to the side of a rusty metal box next to a shipping beacon near the shipping canal. Chrisman used tape and a few bricks to “secure and position the camera for its long wait,” he said in an email exchange with the Star. STORY LINK |
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"If you learn only methods, you'll be tied down to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods."- Ralph Waldo Emerson Archives
February 2014
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