“Efficiency Expert” by Edgar Rice Burroughs is a very entertaining story. I recommend reading it. More importantly, I recommend downloading it from the above link and using Microsoft Reader to read it for you. Look, there’s a lot of stuff out there that I’d like to read, but who has time. My employer seems to think that I should be doing...

I’ve updated the Sirius project with a new page of pictures.  I have only two or three challenges to solve before I can finish it up.  AND then, we’ll launch this puppy!  Ok, five. Rail buttons–not really a challenge, I just have to order them. Motor retention clip.  I think I can probably fabricate this…we’ll...

My friend, Thomas Joseph Murray IV, would always request disambiguation with the following phrase, “Is that a flaming herring juggler?”.  I think it comes from the muppets (much like my drawing).  Anyway, the question centers around which object is actually on fire, the herrings or the juggler. So, in the case of Midget Smugglers–well, you see...

Well, that didn’t take long Chris has already posted a comment: I think you’re projecting your own backpack insecurity and inadequacy feelings onto me. You’re going to be begging me to carry some of your stuff in my super comfortable, internal frame, light-weight, high-tech backpack: nimbus_latitude It’s amazing. The backpack is the same...

ScummVM is a great application.  If you haven’t been able to play the old LucasArts adventures on your WinXP machine, then this is your one-stop-shop.  It is unbelieveably easy to use…just point it at the game and it just runs.  For instance, I took an ISO of Sam and Max: Hit the Road, mounted the ISO using Virtual CDROM Tools, pointed ScummVM at...