Archive for the 'Engineering' Category
Monday, August 11th, 2008
It appears that the highly-desired Cloak of Invisibility that my Dungeons and Dragons characters were searching for over 25 years ago was finally found in a lab at UC-Berkeley.
No wonder Ug the Barbarian-Ranger never found it, it wasn’t in a dragon’s lair–it was in an ivory tower!
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Sunday, January 13th, 2008
Here’s a computer-generated video of the F-15 that broke up in mid-flight back in November via Air Force AimPoints and CNN.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Some guy built a 21′ replica of an X-Wing. Good on him!
Too bad this looks like it’s just an oversized Estes model rocket.
When someone builds an actual X-Wing, let me know. I know of a canyon near Big Bend, TX that resembles the Death Star [...]
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Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Sir Isaac Newton is at once something of a hero and the bane of my existence. My latest problem has me trying to use integration by parts of natural exponentials and trigonometric functions. The last time I had to do this in earnest was 1994 (if that late). In a way it’s been fun [...]
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Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
If anyone out there can explain how to perform partial fraction expansion of a couple polynomials, please call me! I’ve got a problem that’s giving me fits!
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