“Paper battery offers future power”

In an exciting technology announcement, Professor Robert Linhardt of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says that his team has created a battery out of nothing but paper, carbon nanotubes, and an electrolyte fluid! Even if it were perfect, it wouldn’t be available for years yet. But this is just the kind of battery technology that we …

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Latest Inadvertently Amusing Spam Roundup

Spam has become enough of a topic here that I’ve given it it’s own category, and reclassified a number of earlier entries on the subject. I also wanted to mention the blog-comment spam problem again. Oddly enough, out of over two hundred such attempts, every blog-comment spam that I’ve had here has been on one …

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“Computing the Volume of a Cat”

Although the sound volume of our three part-Siamese cats is generally set to “annoying,” this article gives a possibly-useful, and definitely-interesting, method of approximating the true physical volume. And it’s something that the cat will cooperate with. 🙂 (Be sure to check out the “rat-like creature” link, purely for the hilarious pictures.)

Fun, and How To Have It

I’ve always felt a certain kinship to the character of Sherlock Holmes. Not for his ability to notice the most minute of details, or his reasoning skills, or his undeniable flair for disguise… admirable as those and many of his other traits may be, it’s his moods between cases that I’ve always identified with.

Ahhh!

The air conditioning fellow arrived about 45 minutes ago and spent maybe fifteen minutes isolating and fixing the problem (a blown capacitor). We’re finally starting to cool down now. I may be able to move back to the office in a couple hours. 🙂