Eliot's "wonder" of the day

I wonder....

...if he still returns Jazzy Jeff's calls.

Lamentation of the Day

There are about 7000 systems in place on the net to get a bible verse
of the day emailed or widgeted at you. (okay I made that number
up.) And of those 7000 you can siphon out one that suits you (i.e.-
for business morality, or a quote from Jesus, etc.)

But I bet there isn't a system built yet to give you a Daily
Lamentations verse.

I should start one. I like being the first at things. Who doesn't.

I bet I could get a dozen subscribers.

After a year or so.

Homemade stepper motor for CNC miling

Here is the homemade stepper motor for the tray. Man, tomtechart makes these things look so easy. Do you think there are any Mac software titles for operating this stuff?

Will an AppleScript work?:-)

This is what led me to post the previous blog

Would someone please tell me why I shouldnt have one of these

Lottery the key to Sprague's financial success

I think this is the only way I will actually get money out of the
oregon lottery system

Support the children, grow a moustache

From Russia with ... Love?

Just a funny pic my well travelled buddy forwarded to me. No offense intended.

The sign of "Coercion"

Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has already started her 2008 presidential campaign by aligning herself with the military and pretending to be tough on terror. Fortunately, the ultra-liberal Hillary has yet to brainwash all of the voting public in to believing that her symbolism is really substance.. Many have never forgotten that when she was co-president for eight years she was quoted as saying : ' I loathe the military.'

The picture shows that this soldier has been thru Survival School and learned his lessons well. He's giving the sign of 'coercion' with his left hand. These hand signs are taught in survival school to be used by POW's as a method of posing messages back to our intelligence services who may view the photo or video. This guy was obviously being coerced into shaking hands with Hillary Clinton. It's ironic how little she knew that he would so inform us about the photo---perhaps because she's never understood our military to begin with.

If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000.

The rate in Washington D.C is 80.6 per 100,000.

That means that you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in our Nation's Capitol, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in
the nation, than you are in Iraq.........Conclusion: We should immediately pull out of Washington

Germany's Water Bridge OVER a river

WaterBridge in Germany . What a feat!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long.......now this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the f ormer East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.

To those who appreciate engineering projects, here's a puzzle for you armchair engineers and physicists .

QUESTION :
Did that bridge have to be
designed to withstand the additional weight of ship and barge traffic, or just the weight of the water?


Answer:
It only needs to be designed to withstand the weight of the water!
Why? A ship always displaces an amount of water that weighs the same as the ship,
regardless of how heavily a ship may be loaded .