Archive for June, 2004
Sony -Uh- Un-Plugged
Bringing together all my stuff from around the web, I found this plug for Sony Clies.
I own an ipaq 3670 and an ipaq 3835. This was one of those people that you didn’t waste your time trying to explain the difference. Anyway, I couldn’t quite get them to the Dell price point so I told the to buy a Sony Clie (how do you pronounce that by the way) which is basically a Palm+
Sony does a lot of cool things with their devices they just aren’t the best at making whatever they do the standard — like MS. Can anyone say beta? Anyway I would love a Sony PPC but we’ll never see one ’cause old Bill and the CEO of Sony are basically involved in a billion dollar pissing contest… and let’s face it, the PPC industry just isn’t worth enough $$$ for them to kiss and play nice.
Scott
Row Row Row Your Boat
A french woman is looking to become the first woman to row across the North Atlantic in both directions. Having learned much from her first trip, she is setting out in a custom single person row boat that includes GPS, radio, solar power, desalinator and a sealed cabin just big enough for her to lie down in. While her craft and preparations seem necessary for the task at hand, it seems as though on some levels rowing a 1300 lb boat would be more difficult than a lesser vessel.
Jelly Belly Tribute
The makers of Jelly Belly jelly beans have created a jelly bean tribute to President Reagan. President Ronald Reagan discovered Jelly Belly’s wares while Gov. of California. He used jelly beans as a sort of nicotine sugar patch to help him quit smoking.
Paper Grand?
No not that type of grand. A Grand PIANO. That’s right a grand piano made out of cardboard. A mover’s dream or a keyboardist’s joke? Well actually it was built to show off a new process which presses circuits into paper instead of silicon. No plans for sales at this time. Sorry ikia boy.
Laptop Picture Frame
Channel Nine has a new “citizen engineers” section. These techies have come up with a DIY way to create a laptop picture frame. Let’s take a look:
1. Pull all hardware out and throw away the covers
2. Study the hardware modules in the laptop
3. Select the modules that are necessary for the picture frame
4. Build a holding mechanism for the selected modules
5. Build an aesthetically pleasing picture frame around the holding mechanism and the modules
6. Assemble the picture frame
7. Test
It sounds simpler than it is…..
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Flash Drives
ArsTechnica has a nice round up of some current flash drives (Flash drives are those key chain looking things that have a USB connector on one side and hold 32-512 Meg of info) if you are in the market for one. I personally like the flash drives that have MP3 player built in.
Tron’s Fat Brother
Here’s a funny site about a guy’s journey to be the coolest Tron friend type person there is. At a costume party at least. The pics are funny but so is some of the text so don’t miss out on great quotes like these:
It turned out to be easier than I thought, largely because acrylic paint is easy to work with. It went exactly where I told it to go. The learning curve was in figuring out how to tell it.
Thanks Kenneth
Segway Insurance
You can get insurance for just about anything. Including your segway. In case you do lots of damage to something or someone while speeding around recklessly at 10 mph! (the max speed of the Segway HT-i) Looks like coverage starts around $300 a year.
Kitchen Snow
Apparently my dog KC thought that I left her alone for a bit too long today. Or perhaps she was just hiding the several bones that quite honestly were well hidden. Or perhaps she just didn’t like the crinkly sound her new bed made. Whichever. When I came home from work, I discovered snow all over the kitchen. I probably should have been mad, but it just seemed pretty damn funny instead.
Archives Added
Due to popular demand, we have added an archive page to reduce the size of our main page. I had hoped to have either A) some new software that would automate the archiving of older articles or B) 100 pages of printable text on the main page before creating an archive page. Oh well the best laid plans and all (at least i hit 50 pages of text before the masses rose up against me). So enjoy the new slim trim Scott’Soapbox.
Scott’s Soapbox Archived Articles
UPDATE: Our new site SW allows you to browse the archives by month and topic