George and I met for the first time at Humble Pie, a Pizza/Pasta/Salad restaurant & bar near Desert Ridge. It was really tasty, but even the lunch special ended up costing me $15 with tip.
For the first time in a while, I finally brought an agenda to the lunch (George always has one).
We talked quite a bit about web application development, mostly because he's done a bunch of it and I am just now starting my first web app at work.
No time for a lot of elaboration this time, so I'll just list a summary of some of the agenda items I shared with George:
1. A video of someone building a blog website from scratch in Ruby on Rails in 15 minutes.
2. The best Five Books, a site with a daily post of five books that will make you an expert in a particular subject.
3.The Brooklyn Space Program, where a father and his kids launch a weather balloon to the edge of space with an HD video camera on board.
4. Food for the Apocalypse: Costco now offers a special item for just $799.00: A one-year supply of dehydrated and freeze-dried food for one person. Stock up now!
5. It seems Ratheon has developed an exoskeleton for use by the military that bears at least some resemblance to Iron Man's suit: The XOS 2.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Friday, June 5, 2009
Get better at the shell thing
I got the tip for this from Daring Fireball: A new video aimed at newbies to the Unix/Linux command line. According to reviews, it's a great video for veterans, too.
Meet the Command Line.
Meet the Command Line.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Bussard Fusion: Looking for Funding
George was telling me about a lecture he watched on the web by Robert Bussard, an aging physicist (perhaps best known for designing the Bussard Ramjet) who recently came very close to a fusion power system which generates more power than is put into it.
His small company Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2!) was funded by the U.S. Navy until recently, and he and his colleagues did not discover the amount of success they had achieved until weeks after they were forced to shut down their lab.
The reactor is constructed using six rings assembled into a box. Each ring contains copper windings, allowing a magnetic containment field to be created when power is applied. Here's a concise story at Defense News that does a pretty good job of outlining the project and its uncertain future (it looks like the U.S. Dept. of Energy doesn't like competition).
If you really want some in-depth information, check out the paper by Bussard: The Advent of Clean Nuclear Fusion: Super-performance Space Power and Propulsion.
His small company Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2!) was funded by the U.S. Navy until recently, and he and his colleagues did not discover the amount of success they had achieved until weeks after they were forced to shut down their lab.The reactor is constructed using six rings assembled into a box. Each ring contains copper windings, allowing a magnetic containment field to be created when power is applied. Here's a concise story at Defense News that does a pretty good job of outlining the project and its uncertain future (it looks like the U.S. Dept. of Energy doesn't like competition).
If you really want some in-depth information, check out the paper by Bussard: The Advent of Clean Nuclear Fusion: Super-performance Space Power and Propulsion.
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