Parrothead Jeff

Wetware is hardware that’s implanted in the body. It’s been a dream for many and I can think of quite a few things I’d like it for. Until recently it’s been a dream. No longer.

Gimme a neural interface with my online world! Yep, I can only imagine how homes and cars [...]

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I don’t hold a candle to this

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I was checking out my own blog to make sure things were working OK and looked right when I took a good look at this pic:

Yep, that’s one of the random header pics for this blog and I immediately thought about how that was one of the good times and it don’t get much better [...]

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Yep, I promised it so now I’m delivering - here’s the first pic of my new HHR :thumb:

My Cavalier was a true basic car - crank windows, manual doorlocks, etc. The only option on that car was the deck spoiler! OK, so it had ABS and a CD player standard, but that [...]

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The crash of my Cavalier got me thinking about another black Chevy I once owned and loved which met a similar fate. Quite a few years back now, I owned a 1988 IROC-Z that’s still my favorite car out of all that I’ve owned .
I have to admit that Eleanor (I named her [...]

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OK, so I’m guilty again I’ve switched interests.
While I’ll still attend all the airshows I can, will continue to go out and take pics and videos (which will be coming soon!), and will continue to go fishing, I have another new interest. Actually it’s a return to an old interest.
Guns!
Without getting too [...]

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For those of you following the Turbine Toucan’s upgrade process, there’s news over at the website - good news !
You see, they’re moving into the 21st century with their most certainly composite biplane and giving it a new glass cockpit, more sensors, and more safety
It appears that there’s still an eight foot [...]

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Some readers may remember my post about the RyanAir calendar and all the controversy surrounding it. Sadly, I must report that I recently received a notice in the mail informing me that demand had outstripped supply in an overwhelmingly quick timeframe and that I would not be receiving a calendar. A refund was [...]

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OK, I left everyone with a little bit of a teaser in the last post. Here’s a pic of the overall case :thumb: Hit the jump for the rest of the details

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Author’s note - This was all pretty much finished on Sunday, but it’s taken a while to get the pics uploaded and properly edited. I’ll try to get the video up soon.
Yeah, it was a busy weekend, but it was worth it all around :thumb: ! This is a bit of a long [...]

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Hello Kitty AR-15 - evil black rifle meets cute and cuddly

Well, in the “spirit” of the California Assault Weapon Ban I decided to do my best to alleviate the fears of my fellow citizens and gun-banning legislators when I put together a new AR-15 for my wife. Below is the result of my painstaking [...]

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In the walkway between the Paris and Bally’s hotel/casinos there is a small podium display. The glass appears bulletproof and the construction appears stout.

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Ryanair calendar - 2008 cabin crew charity calendar
Fox News:
MADRID, Spain — Spain’s government-run Women’s Institute has labeled a 2008 calendar for low-cost airline Ryanair featuring bikini-wearing air hostesses as sexist and said it would be sending letters of complaint to Irish and EU authorities.
Yep, it’s come down to this. Ryanair, a low-cost carrier [...]

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ThinkGeek :: Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker

The Sonic Bomb Clock has an adjustable volume alarm with a maximum loudness of 113 decibels (just for reference, a jackhammer is about 100 decibels!) And the bed shaker does just that. Slip it under your mattress and your ears will bleed and your bed will shake, [...]

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USB to DVI or VGA Adapter (1280×1024), 128 MB - SW-8601, $119.95
The revolutionary USB to DVI offers virtually perfect video quality and turns your USB port into a true DVI port.
Ever want to be able to add another monitor or two, but you don’t have the room for another video card in your computer? [...]

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Wireless: Airbox CM3 Turns Your Car Into a 100MPH Hotspot

There’s something that I don’t like about DSL and cable internet - you can’t take them with you. I had Ricochet internet back in San Diego and I could go just about anywhere in the San Diego metro area and get a good 300+ Kbps [...]

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ThinkGeek :: 35mm Slide & Negative Digital Converter

Take 35mm Slides or Negatives and scan them at up to 1,829 DPI for easy conversion to Jpeg or whatever digital image format strikes your fancy. This handy scanner connects with USB and comes with easy to use Windows software for editing, cropping and resizing photos.
Oh yeah, this [...]

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The European Union (EU) has agreed further funding for a European civil hypersonics project whose goal is to achieve passenger flights from Brussels to Sydney in “two to four hours”, at speeds of Mach 4 to 8. The now-retired Concorde was capable of only a little better than Mach 2.
I’m not an expert, but I [...]

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Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech Memory
Terabyte Thumb Drives Made Possible by Nanotech MemoryResearchers have developed a low-cost, low-power computer memory that could put terabyte-sized thumb drives in consumers’ pockets within a few years.
Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State University say [...]

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Asus Eee PC 701 Review by LAPTOP Magazine

Oh yeah, I want one of these !!! It may not be the most capable or smallest on the market, but the $400 pricetag gets a whole lot of computer for the money!

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