Building Toys and Blowing off Steam

The Joel-o-scope was basically a toy periscope so short people could see the world from the perspective of their tall friends, or possibly the other way around. It provided a surprisingly interesting change of perspective.

The project name is homage to the skunkworks project of the same name. This Project Oxcart was the repair of a dell laptop with fried firewire by replacing the TSB41AB1. You might as well burn your warranty card after this one. You also need to know that this is not the way to do this repair if you have access to hot air re-work tools. With hot air re-work I could literally get the whole project done in one eleventh the time.

Lifters are fairly controversial devices with most physicists saying they are powered by ion wind and feral supporters saying that they do all sorts of cool things like some how bending space time. I would recommend looking at Americanantigravity.com for more information. As a whole lifter technology has a lot of crackpot and psycho mixed with a few people doing some very interesting and cool work. The most interesting thing about lifters is that they do provide thrust with no moving parts. So if you have vast amounts of power at your disposal, and I do mean vast, this is one way to provide thrust when operating a ship inside an atmosphere.

Real men are not happy with any software solution for deleting their data. In fact they are not happy until they have personally reduced the offending hard drive into molten slag! Once that is done they are not happy because they are way too paranoid and they think the milkman is trying to kill them. No, but seriously, I think the milkman is after me… He has these beady little eyes and always seems to be…. Oh, well never mind.

Starting any sentence with the phrase "Real men are…" is a good way to get bit in the arse. This is a simple tale of me shooting my mouth off and ending up getting the honour of building a ceiling projector mount. I would like to think that I learned my lesson. Or at the very least learned not to under estimate my friends ability to pay me back for a payout. I am not a real man. See, ending a sentence that way is fine.