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Chaos Man

I made a new screen saver that is based on pendulums.  It doesn’t have the correct physics but it is a little more energetic this way.  It’s fun to watch at times…

ChaosMan Screen Saver

 

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Zen Garden

I decided I would take a good portion of my free time this weekend to work on a screen saver idea I have had floating around.  I always have liked the idea of Zen gardens and the geometry and such.  I decided I would try to do something similar.  This is based on the Zen [...]

More difficult than your average bear…

 

I like origami.  I find that all the instructions are extremely cryptic unless you actually know all of the lingo.  I don’t.  I have to guess from the illustrations.  Fortunately, this one had very good illustrations.  Unfortunately, some of the illustrations were the origami equivalent of “do a triple back flip” and even [...]

Another Multiple Attempt

I don’t know if my nephew understood when he asked that I would show him how I did the picture that had 3 of me in it.  Now I have one with 7 of him.  It’s another inside shot so it is very dark.  I think it turned out pretty well, though.  Let me [...]

Nerdliness is next to something…

I had to take the new test.  It was more complicated than the old one…

Windows Live Tools…

I was playing with Windows 7 and I found the Windows Live Tools.  I tended to avoid them other than Windows Live Messenger in the past because I didn’t need yet another way to put information up on the internet.  I didn’t realize how cool some of them were.  The Photo Gallery and Writer apps [...]

Windows 7

So, it took me a bit to get this set up.  I first wanted to put it on the only spare machine I have.  Unfortunately, that is an old Shuttle-PC that doesn’t have a DVD drive so I was not able to use that.  I got it set up in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and [...]

Jack-O-Lantern Time!

Jack-O-Lantern Time! Originally uploaded by LeoNewman

Here are the pumpkins we did. From left to right:

Jaquelin’s, Jillians (daddy did it), Paul’s, my LED pumpkin, and my other one.

The LED pumpkin is using a circuit I made using the instructions from EvilMadScientist.

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