3D Printed Bulbasaur Planter
Date: 2024-06-30
Categories: Things I 3D Printed
I printed out this Bulbasaur planter for one of my succulents
Retreat to Move Forward: RSS
Date: 2024-06-30
Categories: I Got Something to Say
There’s a popular belief that Google, and the internet in general, started going to shit the day it killed the beloved Google Reader. If nothing else, it was the first signal that the fun and experimental Google everyone knew and loved had put on its big boy pants and gotten down to Serious Business (i.e.,…
LADWP Power Plant 1
Date: 2024-06-28
Categories: Photos
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Power Plant 1. Completed in 1917, it was the first power plant to provide electricity to the city of Los Angeles, using water from the LA Aqueduct to turn waterwheels, generating 28MW of electricity. The power plant still operates today, providing 70MW of power, and two of the…
Space Toilet
Date: 2024-06-24
If you ever wanted to know what a space toilet looked like, here you go This one is from Space Shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center
Week in Review — 20240623
Date: 2024-06-23
Categories: Week in Review
A lot of travel this week, limiting the amount of interesting things I could accomplish this past week. I was in Kansas City, MO for a good deal of it and overall it wasn’t too bad of a time. I stayed at the 21C hotel and you know you’re in for something less than ordinary…
Ken Mattingly’s Apollo 16 Space Suit
Date: 2024-06-21
Ken Mattingly’s Space Suit, On Display at the California Science Center in LA
Week in Review – 20240616
Date: 2024-06-16
Categories: Week in Review
This was thankfully a non-travel week for me in what has been a busy June so far, and I was able to start & continue several things this week Started the Basics of Python3 course at Code Academy. I’ve dabbled in programming in several languages over the years–JavaScript, Java, C++–as well as scripting languages like…
Things I 3D Printed: Seed Planter
Date: 2024-06-15
Categories: Things I 3D Printed
I 3D Printed a seed starter planter. This one will be starting marigolds and zinnia
The Oligopoly Controlling Food
Date: 2024-06-14
Categories: Soiciopolitics
Meet the uber-wealthy families who control much of the food system in the US and Australia Frerick realised that what was happening in the pork industry — this huge consolidation of power and wealth — was happening throughout the US food system. When he started investigating, he found that a handful of US families controlled…
C-53 “D-Day Doll”
Date: 2024-06-14
Categories: Aviation
Tail No. N45366, Production Year: 1943, Currently with Inland Empire CAF (KRAL)