http://blog.grunest.com Musings... Musings... More Musings... Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:03:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Very cool idea.  Although, having played hours of WOW at this point with my kids I’m not sure it’s so important to move even less than one does now while playing video games.  I’d actually like to see someone incorporate a wii-fit or some other sort of controller that REQUIRES ... http://blog.grunest.com/?p=96 When I first walked into a Karaoke bar  I was convinced that this was some form of torture arising out of Asian culture that westerners had completely misunderstood. Now I’m sure of it. http://www.wingmusic.co.nz/listen.html http://blog.grunest.com/?p=100 A fabulous musician whose life was too short.  A good friend of mine introduced me to his music back in Kevin’s “Toy Matinee” days.  People tell me he sounds a lot like Steely Dan.  I never liked Steely Dan. http://www.kevingilbert.com/ It does amaze me though ... http://blog.grunest.com/?p=105   All these years of doing my own laundry (and screwing it up).  I knew there was something I was missing. http://blog.grunest.com/?p=99 BACON? What a great concept.  Hells-to-the-yeah!   http://www.baconsaltblog.com/ http://blog.grunest.com/?p=104 Visited the Portland Sportsman show this year.  Great place to wander around for an afternoon.  By far, some of the best things I saw were in the parking lot. http://blog.grunest.com/?p=93 I LOVE THIS PICTURE.  I believe it's from a 1950's issue of Popular Science magazine. What exactly are the two "steering" type wheels used for? http://blog.grunest.com/?p=80 This evening marked the last hours for my trusty 21" CRT InterGraph monitor.  The picture finally went out on this 75 lb beast of a monitor.  It's only... um... 15 years old?  Now I'm stuck with this crappy 22" LCD monitor.  UGH!  How do people deal with these things.  What ... http://blog.grunest.com/?p=77 I've come across two packages that seem to excel at schematic capture and PCB layout.  KiCad - a full featured schematic capture and layout program that has extensive libraries and is entirely free and open source under the GPL license.  It runs on Windows (XP, 2000, Vista) and ... http://blog.grunest.com/?p=76 A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant ... http://blog.grunest.com/?p=75