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By avoiding these 20 common mistakes, you might just save your startup.
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Who's running the red light?
Day 52 of The 365 Toy Project
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In a bad mood today. My Kingston 16GB CF card died. Hopefully I will get a good replacement.
Spotted in the Historic Westover Neighborhood.
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À la périphérie du Marché By à Ottawa, une ruelle sombre et souillée, décorée avec des images quétaines de bûcheroms et de trappeurs. L'enseigne suspendue au milieu indique "Hommage aux Franco-Ontariens".
At the periphery of the By Town Market in Ottawa, a dark and dirty alley, decorated with corny images of lumberjacks and trappers. A sign hung in the middle indicates "A Tribute to Franco-Ontarians".
Not sure which is more impresive. I mean, this guy was driving around on at least two donut spares for a while. But I think the clincher is the use of plastic crates instead of jackstands -- especially since the one in front is collapsing...
It helps to remember to put the lid on the developing tank before opening the changing bag.
Unsalvageable.
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Yesterday I was so sick that I couldn't come to the office - fitst time since I can remeber. I'm usually very healthy. However, when I do catch a cold, it almost invariably attracts an opportunistic bacterial infection and I get very sick in only two or three days. I started Cipro yesterday morning and today I'm back to work.
I'm now so far behind (it's the 19th here now - the last post is dated the 16th), that I don't know if I'll catch up. I thank TELIKOM for that. If I can find a cheapy shyster in Madang today, I'm going to file a million Kina lawsuit against the clowns just for the sake of harrassment.
Here's this morning's sunrise, the first nice one for several weeks: Since I had notheing better to do that tn harrass TELIKOM yesterday, insisted that a data technician come to my house and do a data transmission test from there to the exchange. The results were exactly what I've been telling them for the last five years. The decades-old cable are totally incapable of transmitting data. This morning, when I got up, I didn't even have a dial tome.
Here's a typical shot of a TELIKOM junction box: What have we here? Hmm. . . Among other items that don't belong there are water, buai spet (the horrible bloody-looking stuff that is spat from the mouth when chewing betel nut), various bits and pieces of garbage, and someone's shoe. I have seen worse. The seem to make a convenient place to, ah, . . . how can I put this . . . take a dump. I wonder if this is a matter of bodily necessity or a comment about TELIKOM. I'v been tempted.
Need more TELIKOM goodness? How about this shot that I took only this morning outside my own office: Well, that certainly doesn't look quite so messy. However, close inspection shows some serious no-no items. First is the continual flooding. I've often seen this box full to the brim with water. Chek out the silly attemtps to plug the thing up with scraps of tape. The black bulb contains all of the junctions between the wires. It is supposed to be water-tight. Does it look water-tight to you?
I've had it with TELIKOM.
From now on, it's WAR! Startomg TODAY.
John Ericsson was a Swedish-American inventor who has been regarded as one of the most brilliant inventors in history.
A son of a distinguished Swedish engineering family, John Ericsson began his career as a canal builder before inventing a heat engine. Moving to Great Britain (where his engine failed to attract interest due to its use of wood, prevalent in Sweden but not in the UK), Ericsson shifted over to steam. With John Braithwaite he built the steam locomotive Novelty, where in the 1829 Rainhill Trials it proved to be the fastest locomotive but failed the test due to boiler problems. The engineer continued building locomotives, as well as a more successful fire engine, a steam condenser to produce fresh water for ships, and a 'deep sea lead,' pressure-activated fathometer. These minor successes were not enough to prevent him from spending time in debtor's prisons. His marriage to Amelia Byam was disastrous and the two quickly separated without divorcing.
Meanwhile Ericsson had designed a new propeller system, using two screw propellers moving in opposite directions. While the UK failed to express interest, American captain Robert Stockton became interested and invited Ericsson to the United States. The Swedish inventor moved to New York in 1839 and with Stockton built the USS Princeton, the most advanced ship of the time, boasting the two screw propellers as well as a 12-inch muzzle-loading gun on a revolving pedestal, using a hoop-gun construction also invented by Ericsson. During construction, relations between Ericsson and Stockton deteriorated, and the politically connected Stockton forced Ericsson out of the project, claiming the entire invention of the ship for himself and building a second revolving gun as well. When the USS Princeton was launched, it impressed everyone with its speeds, a feat that was immediately marred when during a visit by Pres John Tyler an explosion by Stockton's gun (the Peacemaker) killed 6 prominent members of the Presidential entourage including Sec of State Abel Upshur and Sec of the Navy Thomas Gilmer. Though Ericsson's gun was fine, Stockton somewhat successfully pinned the blame on the Swedish inventor, and the US Navy refused to pay Ericsson. Infuriated, John Ericsson swore to never work for the US Navy again.
Returning to New York City, John Ericsson started a successful business relationship with industrialist Cornelius DeLamater, building a hot air engine (instead of a steam engine). The smaller engines would eventually prove to be successful enough to make Ericsson a wealthy man, and his design would lead to the Thermodynamic concept of the Ericsson Cycle.
John Ericsson then started building armored ships, which attracted some interest. During the American Civil War, with the Southern forces assembling ironclad ships to break the Union blockade, Congress asked for metal ships to be constructed as well. Still smarting over the USS Princeton Incident, Ericsson finally agreed after extensive persuasive efforts (and payment) by Sec of the Navy Gideon Welles, and shipbuilder Cornelius Bushnell. His design was the USS Monitor, a unique metal ship with no mast and a revolving turret. In the celebrated Battle of Hampton Roads, the first duel between ironclads, the Monitor fought the CSS Virginia to a standstill, preserving the Union blockade and possibly the American Civil War. While the Monitor was too shallow, the full metal body and the rotating turret would become integrated into the battleship design throughout the World. He would end the war designing a torpedo, torpedo boat.
Created in 1926 by James Fraser, the John Ericsson National Memorial commemorates Swedish engineer John Ericsson, the innovative creator of the screw propeller and the all-metal ironclad USS Monitor that ensured Union naval supremacy during the American Civil War. It was dedicated by Pres Calvin Coolidge and Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. The statue depicts a seated John Ericsson with three figures symbolizing Adventure, Labor and Vision.
West Potomac Park, Washington, District of Columbia
January 10th, 2001 - Oakland
A blimp emblazoned with an XFL logo crashes near a waterfront restaurant.
My first attempt to "bribe" L to take a picture with his little sister. I guess I shouldn't have given him the piece of chocolate beforehand. I thought having it in his hands would give him even more incentive. I also didn't realize that 10 clicks of the camera was enough to melt the chocolate in his fingers (well, that and the 90 degree day we were having!) LOL!
E's t-shirt was a little surprise for the hubby. I recently gave him a fancy shmancy electric guitar after passing all three levels of the CFA Exam, WOOHOO! E is already his #1 fan, he plays for her every night and she loves it!
Messy first ever attempt at Nail Polish Marbling..
Little finger not included as yet because it failed. nailsandnonsense.blogspot.com/
I thought brazing on a nipple would reinforce the joint, but the fitting was too loose to contain the filler metal and because of excessive work time the remaining filler crystallized into a very brittle structure, eroding the base metal as well.
It would probably hold better if joined on a solid rod, but I would never know. I just replaced this whole contraption with a heavy-duty motorcycle bar on a dual BMX stem.
Source: 170216_084507.ORF
I was trying to take a selfie with the parakeets, but they kept moving and landing on my cameraphone, and Irene kept grabbing me because she was freaking out about all the birds!
Last night, I veered past "auto" on my camera and tried out the Tv setting and used a slow shutter.
I wanted lots of light streaks from the cars passing me by.
*sigh*
I'm goin back to the safety of Auto.
Amazingly, Scientific American picked up on the CSPI news released, and published it without any fact checking.
They even added an *extra* taxonomic error.
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So- I have this very nice Rolleiflex old standard. I bought it on ebay in 2001 and got totally screwed ("perfect working order" -my hairy backside)- the shutter was sticking, the front standard fell off and the mirror is not very reflective. Recently I worked up the courage to try and fix it- sorted the shutter, cleaned and re-lubed most of the moving parts and got everything running tickety-boo. I found out on the interweb that you can use a mirror from a polaroid 600 type camera. I got one, and today tried to cut it down. It didn't work very well
I think i'll just buy a brand new mirror already cut to size....
okay, I know this is not Hi Key. the grandparents asked for some high key shots to match some other family photos they have. So I independently lit the background to make it super white, epic win. and put the key light in the front of some kiddie chairs and asked the boys to sit. They of course did not. Firstly they moved the chairs to against the wall, and being blondes their hair immediately picked up the back light and proceeded to make their head disappear. so I turned off the back light, and they continued to move chairs around.
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Epic High Key fail.
ODC Trend, high key with white background is very trendy (well it does look fab darling).
sorry about all the kiddie shots lately.