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iPad Magic

Ken Sturgeon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:31:30 +0000

I bought an iPad a couple of weeks ago so I’ve been all about learning what I can about it. I didn’t really learn anything from this video but thought it was kinda cool.

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Michelle’s First Banjo Recital

Ken Sturgeon — Sat, 15 May 2010 19:24:24 +0000

My wife, Michelle, has been taking banjo lessons for about 7 months now and had her first recital today. I am really proud of her, she has worked so hard for this.

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Slow Motion Apollo 11 Launch

Ken Sturgeon — Sat, 01 May 2010 14:41:31 +0000

This video shows the July 16, 1969 launch of the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first humans on the moon. The camera was rolling at 500 frames per second, allowing the first 30 seconds of the launch to be slowed down into this 8-minute narrated video.

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English is a crazy language.

Ken Sturgeon — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:16:10 +0000

1. The bandage was wound around the wound.
2. The farm was used to produce produce.
3. The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4. We must polish the Polish furniture.
5. He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6. The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7. Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10. I did not object to the object.
11. I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
12. The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
13. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
14. There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
15. They were too close to the door to close it.
16. The buck does funny things when the does are present.
17. A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
18. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
19. The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
20. After a number of injections my jaw got number.
21. Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

Let’s face it – English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

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3D Projection Mapping

Ken Sturgeon — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:02:06 +0000

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Really Big Piano

Ken Sturgeon — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:25:12 +0000

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MikroKopter

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:10:44 +0000

As soon as I saw this I thought of my friend John; he’s got some remote control planes and was just showing me a video the other day from a camera that was mounted on one of them.

This is a series of tests of the MK-HexaKopter. It includes a Flight-Test, GPS-Test and Payload-Test. This “mikrokopter” has a central hub with six arms sticking out. At the end of each arm is a two-bladed propeller with each propeller oriented horizontally.

Technical data of the HexaKopter:
- flight-time: up to 30 minutes (with small payload)
- max. payload: 1kg
- weight: 1200g

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Peraves MonoTracer

Ken Sturgeon — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:35:56 +0000

Is a cabin motorcycle the sports cars of the future? They are fast like a Porsche, economical like a Smart Car and offer fun like a Super bike—without the hassle of getting wet. A small company in Winterthur manufactures them.

Do you love the feeling when driving a motorcycle, but hate heavy leathers? Then you surely have already dreamed about a motorcycle with a roof: A vehicle, which keeps you warm, offers driving fun, and does not ruin your hairstyle, because hairstyles do poorly in a helmet.

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Bookmaplet

Ken Sturgeon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:04:51 +0000

Do you want a quick and easy way to see the location of a street address without having to leave the webpage you are on? Now you can highlight a street address on a webpage, click the bookmaplet, and its location will be shown on a map.

To install Bookmaplet visit the website, grab the bookmarklet with your mouse, and drag it onto your “Bookmarks Toolbar”. Now you are ready to view the maps and images for street addresses that you may find while browsing.

When you find an address that you would like to see a map of highlight the address only, not any of the other information. Once you have highlighted the street address click on Bookmaplet…

The map will open in a popup window as shown here.

Currently the map window can’t be resized but it still offers all the regular functionality of googlemaps. If you want to see the map in a bigger window you can just select “Open in Google Maps” and a new browser window will open.

Give Bookmaplet a test drive.

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Redneck Apartment Complex

Ken Sturgeon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:19:00 +0000

Yes, you might be a redneck if you live in this apartment complex. I like the little orange and white one. That must be a bachelor’s pad. Or maybe this is a single family dwelling and that’s the guest room.

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