Here's the results of the California special election. All the budget measures failed. The one thing to pass was limiting raises for the legislature during bad budget years.
I was able to vote the exact opposite of the rest of CA. On one hand I feel like a contrarian, but on the other hand I was the one voting how the legislature asked me to. Maybe I'm the only sucker.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Monday, May 04, 2009
Maybe this is what I should have patented...
What happens when a need for variety meets the kitchen of a single male who eats 2 to 3 meals a day at work?
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
Vindaloo oatmeal.
Awesomeness!
Take oatmeal with a normal amount of sugar and add a generous amount of vindaloo then stir. From the moment I had the idea of spicy oatmeal I was scared. Up till that first bite when I realized that a new snack had been born!
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
Vindaloo oatmeal.
Awesomeness!
Take oatmeal with a normal amount of sugar and add a generous amount of vindaloo then stir. From the moment I had the idea of spicy oatmeal I was scared. Up till that first bite when I realized that a new snack had been born!
Saturday, May 02, 2009
Patent Application
My first patent application was published on Feb 5!
I wouldn't expect anyone here to read it, because either you're not a patent lawyer or you are a patent lawyer, but have no interest in reconfiguring batteries for medical devices. But there are a few pretty pictures if you follow the link.
Implantable defibrillators are kind of weird to design because most of the time they are super low power, but every once in a while they need to be really high power. Typically for the low power stuff you want a low voltage battery and for the high power stuff you want a high voltage battery (that statement sounds more obvious than it actually is, but I will spare you from that tangent). The battery voltage used is usually a compromise between the two. Marcus and I came up with the idea of reconfiguring multiple batteries using switches so you could have high voltage when you need it and low voltage when you don't. The patent also expands on that idea in a few ways.
Well hopefully some time in the next 5 years or so we'll find out if it actually gets accepted (oh patent office, why do you take 5 years to read an application?).
Oh - and this is post #400!
I wouldn't expect anyone here to read it, because either you're not a patent lawyer or you are a patent lawyer, but have no interest in reconfiguring batteries for medical devices. But there are a few pretty pictures if you follow the link.
Implantable defibrillators are kind of weird to design because most of the time they are super low power, but every once in a while they need to be really high power. Typically for the low power stuff you want a low voltage battery and for the high power stuff you want a high voltage battery (that statement sounds more obvious than it actually is, but I will spare you from that tangent). The battery voltage used is usually a compromise between the two. Marcus and I came up with the idea of reconfiguring multiple batteries using switches so you could have high voltage when you need it and low voltage when you don't. The patent also expands on that idea in a few ways.
Well hopefully some time in the next 5 years or so we'll find out if it actually gets accepted (oh patent office, why do you take 5 years to read an application?).
Oh - and this is post #400!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Martian Time-Slip
I actually got a response to my search for scifi with multiple governments. Of course the one response I got was from the one time I asked someone in person, hm. Anyway, while it wasn't exactly what I was thinking of, Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick does fit the criteria.
The book is actually mostly about mental illness and crazy shifting through time stuff (as you might guess from the title). While the story does have some good what is reality stuff, a lot of it seems out dated. The book involves some mix of what was accepted views of schizophrenia and autism and Dick's crazy ideas about them. But not knowing what the state of psychology was in the 60s it's hard to tell where that line is.
I'd read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or Ubik before I'd read Martian Time-Slip. Both of those seem less dated.
The book is actually mostly about mental illness and crazy shifting through time stuff (as you might guess from the title). While the story does have some good what is reality stuff, a lot of it seems out dated. The book involves some mix of what was accepted views of schizophrenia and autism and Dick's crazy ideas about them. But not knowing what the state of psychology was in the 60s it's hard to tell where that line is.
I'd read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or Ubik before I'd read Martian Time-Slip. Both of those seem less dated.
Swine flu
To minimize the spread of swine flu we are supposed to be more cleanly and find a greeting that doesn't involve touching other people's hands. Also wearing a face mask is becoming more socially acceptable.
Can we also get the cool phones, fast trains and sumo wresteling?
Can we also get the cool phones, fast trains and sumo wresteling?
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