Author: John
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Today’s Report – November 24th
WaPo: Kids Fuse Legos and Robotics at Competition. This is the organization that’s running this: The FIRST LEGO League. The challenge this year is “Climate Connections” and the tasks this year all center around this. The FLL is the grade-school (up to age 14) version of the FIRST Robotics League (ages 14-18). Here’s what appears…
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HP 2133 Mini-Note
I just had the opportunity to use an HP 2133 Mini-Note PC for a few weeks. Here are some high-level notes on it. Overall this is a very nice computer. Performance wasn’t all that great. It feels a little sluggish. I’ve gotta think that the VIA processor was not the best choice here vs. Intel’s…
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iBook G4 “Black Screen & Loud Fan” issue
It’s a holiday from work today, but unfortunately I’m spending the day working on my wife’s iBook. It has suddenly developed a serious problem. The symptom is apparently a very common one: When the power is turned on the screen stays black and the fan spins at full speed. We do have all the files…
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Today’s Report – June 20th
Volokh: Super funny response to a crazy court ruling. Time: Pregnancy Boom at Gloucester High. Later, there was a bunch of backtracking on this story, such as whether there ever really was a “pact” or if there was some sort of agreement what it actually was about.
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Today’s Report – June 19th
WSJ: Groom More Nerds. Read the comments, too. Nobody bitter there at all…
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Today’s Report – June 17th
Cleveland Foodie: About the new restaurant Luxe over at 65th/Detroit area. Cleveland Foodie: There’s some good recipes in this one, including Lolita’s beets. Ruhlman: On mayonnaise.