Category Archive: Uncategorized

Oct
07

Shadow “Duke” Rhodes, 1994-2011

Yesterday, a wonderful member of our family, our Pomeranian Duke, passed away at the age of 17. He was a great dog who was such big part of our lives. He lived a long happy life and made our lives better having him. He was no ordinary dog and didn’t take a liking to many …

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Nov
11

RIP Dell XPS 700

My computer died on me today. It turned on but nobody was home. According to Dell the motherboard needs a replacement but being that the computer is 5 years old and out of warranty my only option is a new computer. Replacing just the motherboard would cost as much 25-35% of a new equivalent PC. …

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Aug
03

Google SketchUp 3D Challenge #104 – Stereo

For this challenge I created a concept for a compact stereo system. It is a combination of a full 7.1 surround sound AV receiver, a BluRay player and a biometric iPod safe. As far as I know there are no biometric iPod safes in existence. When you place your iPod in the dock it is …

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Jul
19

Google SketchUp 3D Challenge #103 – 2D Components

This challenge seemed very unconventional to me so I decided to do something unconventional for SketchUp. SketchUp is a great program for 3D modeling but not so much for flat 2 dimensional images. For this challenge I decided to created a parody of a game I used to play as a kid called Wolfenstein 3D. …

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Jun
23

New theme

I decided to give the new default theme for WordPress a try. It is much simpler than the other one but it will let me try out some new features in WordPress 3.0.  So far so good but it still needs work.

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Dec
28

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!  Keeping in tradition with last year I thought I would let everyone know what I was given for Christmas.  Last month my parents gave me an early present which is a replacement for my trackball mouse called a SmartNav 4AT from NaturalPoint.  It is a hands free mouse that uses an infrared …

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