Books I read 2014

The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting, Tips, and
Advice on First-Year Maintenance - Louwis Borgenicht and Joe Botgenicht
Dinosaur Comics: fig. d Dudes already know about chickens. - Ryan North
Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on
Your Kid - Shaun Gallagher
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My
Life - Scott Adams
Red Storm Rising - Tom Clancy
The Creative Engineer: The Art of Inventing - Winston E. Kock
Warfighting: MCDP 1 - U.S. Marine Corps PCN 142 000006 00
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Do-It-Yourself Energy-Saving Projects - Sunset Book
The Colt 1911: An Engineer's Perspective - Malcolm J. Werner
T-Rex Trying - Hugh Murphy
The Dictator's Handbook: A practical manual for the aspiring
tyrant - Randall Wood & Carmine DeLuca
Crisis In Zefra - Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts (Canadian Army)
Charlie Wilson's War - Goerge Crile
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon? - Robert X. Cringely
Men's Style - Russel Smith
The Scientific Breakthrough: The Impact of Modern Invention - Ronald W. Clark
Fantastic Voyage - Isaac Asimov
Sniper: A History of the US Marksman - Martin Pegler
American Indian Myths and Legends - Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz
Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School - Edited
by Carl Japikse
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions - Randall Munroe

Books I Read 2013

All In: The Education of General David Petraeus - Paula Broadwell
The Bro Code - Matt Kuhn
The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility - Stewart Brand
Spec Ops - William H. McRaven
Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
Analogue Computers - K.N. Dodd (Teach yourself books)
Marine Sniper - Charles Henderson
Hammerheads - Dale Brown
Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Rogue Forces - Dale Brown
Animal, Vegatable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - Barbara Kingsolver
Roughing it Elegantly: A Practical Guide to Canoe Camping - Patricia J. Bell
Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Theodore Roosevelt
Theories of International Politics and ZOMBIES - Daniel W. Drezner
Eat Sleep Poop: A Common Sense Guide to Your Baby's First Year - Scott W. Cohen
Guide to Your Baby's First Year - Mayo Clinic
The Old Way: A story of the first people - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
2004 Toyota Camry Owner's Manual - Toyota
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches - Theodore Roosevelt
Elmer Keith's Big Game Hunting - Elmer Keith
The Clock of the Long Now: Mechanical Drawings of the First Prototype

2013 Superbowl pool template

New superbowl pool template

Not sure if I am doing it this year due to the move, but I update this file every year, so here it is.

Superbowl pool 2013

Haven't used a pen (sustained) in a while, its nice

I was drawing some diagrams today and drew them on paper before I put them into figures on the computer.

My trusty Pilot G-2 mini and computer printer paper were made for each other.

Lifelong goal reached

So, I finally met a lifelong goal.

I can now walk to the printer without taking my headphones off in the office.

I bought a 12ft extension for headphones and it works great.

Data fusion

I was reading yesterday and two facts came together in my head.

First, from "A Day Without Seapower and Projection Forces":
almost 90% of the world's population lives within 500 miles of the ocean

and

from an aviation week article about future technologies:
with hypersonic vehicles we can hit targets 500 nm away in less than 8 minutes

I am going to assume the Navy guy was talking about 500nm, so that means, almost 90% of the world's population would be at risk of attack in under 8 minutes if we have hypersonic vehicles.

How not to make grilled cheese

I'd just like to let the world know that you *can* make a grilled cheese sandwich in the toaster, although I don't recommend it.

I took a piece of cheese and put it between two slices of bread. I then smashed the whole thing to one slice of bread thickness. Went around the edges smashing a bit more. Then two cycles on "not crazy dark" in the toaster.

Its ... meh. Spend the time to do it right, who cares if you make a pan dirty. (I had just finished a weekend full of dishes, so I was looking for something quick.)

I was lucky that the cheese did not drip out, I think they sell sleeves for the sandwich to make cheese sandwiches in the toaster.