Oh lovey Zatarans, how I love thee … with shrimp. The house smells like shrimp boil, and I’m huuuungry.
My house smells of Zatarans…
Hmm .. can’t think of anything today…
Today’s words are:
Turlingdrome
Fascinate
Maudlin
Fantastic
Thrice
Majestic
Quart
Appellation
Bucolic
Fortuitous
Wanderlust…
Today, I want to be everywhere, anywhere but right here. Wanderlust! Well at least I know next week I’ll be in Las Vegas.
I just signed a $20k lease…
Hooboy. I just signed a $20k lease for a laser cutter at the hackerspace. This is ‘heavy’
Since we’re on a homopolar motor kick…
Okay, it’s Monday and I *DO* feel better. This evening I’ll be having fun at Microcontroller Monday at the hackerspace, but for now, I’m still on a homopolar (faraday) motor kick.
This is an example of a homopolar generator. High current! It’s why flywheel homopolar generators are used to store energy from the Grid:
While I’m sick .. more faraday motors!
You can, by changing resistance, build a primitive “speed control” for a faraday motor:
A bit of bread, some soup and thou
So, fever is gone, getting better. Â Not a LOT better, but better. Â The flu really takes it out of you.. where “it” is anything you ate, energy, and patience…
flu, part 2
You know that coughing, chills, sweaty, porcelain worshipping kind of night you get when you have the flu? Â Yep. Â that one…
We’re in the 21st century. Â Forget flying cars. Â I want a cure for the flu!
I hate the flu..
Today, I’m coughing, phlegm-y, fever-y, and generally miserable. Â Let there be Matzoh Ball soup.
BUUURP. Sushi. So Good.
One of my favorite restaurants in Austin is Uchi.  They practice Molecular Gastronomy, and the dishes are delicious.  A friend of mine from California (and her beau) invited me out to dinner, and we had a lovely one. I did the ‘small’ tasting menu .. which does come to just about a Benjamin.
Totally. Worth. It.
