NASA Apollo Pictures

October 5, 2015 5:40 pm

Last week NASA released a bunch (over 10,000) of original images from the Apollo missions on their Flickr account.  They're all Public Domain images so anyone can download the originals and use them for anything they like.  I flipped through and picked out my favorites and cleaned them up.  I'll probably get some nice canvas prints made of some of them when Canvas Press has sales.

Here are my top 10 after cleaning them up.  I've uploaded my full versions so you can download them yourself if you want to make a poster or canvas print or something.  Clicking an image will open the full-size version, which you can then save to your computer using right-click -> Save image...21060968314_bcca0b9191_o_kbd 21065336993_765fba69b6_o_kbd 21082003763_9471526a7e_o_kbd 21472205930_d42afbe79a_o_kbd 21492224000_7f7d5991a8_o_kbd 21496319710_4d7bd28063_o_kbd 21653924176_26f5a10ce1_o_kbd 21667234912_ac412e1fb9_o_kbd 21693186921_68e0b6d72f_o_kbd 21912171516_ea0ef12faf_o_kbd

 

A Light in the Dark

September 28, 2015 7:34 pm

I wrapped an LED around a button battery with a little material to keep it separated so you push on it to turn the LED on.  Then we took turns waving it around while camera took a picture with a long exposure.

Heather's work was usually very...nuclear:

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We encouraged her to move around more:

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I tried to write my name, but my spatial awareness is apparently not great:

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Jess did better with her contribution:

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Supercharging Slickdeals

March 3, 2015 10:46 am

I've been using Slickdeals.net to discover good deals on things for several years now.  Today I thought it'd be really helpful to be able to hide deals from companies that I don't ever buy things from (like Tigerdirect and eBay).  A quick Google search turned up nothing, but playing around with Slickdeals revealed just such an option.

Open the Frontpage preferences by clicking the little gear icon at the top-right:

slickdeals_preferences_1Doing so reveals the Preferences panel which allows you to adjust Category Preferences (on the left) and Store Preferences (on the right).

slickdeals_preferences_2The Store Preferences allows you to type in a store name and it will provide suggestions for matching companies.  Select the match and it will appear with a dislike/neutral/like slider you can adjust.

Any category or company set to "dislike" is hidden.  Any category/company set to "like" will result in more deals matching that category/company being shown to you.

This makes Slickdeals even more useful since I can stop seeing stuff from companies and categories I don't care about and instead see more stuff I might actually be interested in.

Game Helpers

September 13, 2014 12:06 pm

board_gamesAt church we've been doing an annual game night.  I put together a bunch of game helpers for each of my games that are really handy to have when introducing new players to the games.  They provide information on how each turn should flow and what decisions need to be made.

So I thought I'd stick them here for anyone else that might want them.  The page numbers refer to the game manuals--where that instruction is referenced if you need further guidance.  Each file is available as a ready-to-print PDF and as an Open Document (ODT) file.

Dominion:

Flash Point Fire Rescue:

Last Night on Earth:

Pandemic:

Survive: Escape from Atlantis:

Ticket to Ride: