Fairly Useless…

Looks like Orlando might just be a contender! I always hoped Orlando would be high-tech city. When I moved here it was going to be the next Hollywood East and I was going to work for some movie company combining my three favorite things in high school; movies, art, and science. I thought it would be great to do special effects. Oh well, doing web design is ok too.

I am excited to meet up with and talk to people about tech face-to-face. If you haven’t sign-up yet, you better hurry. I don’t know when they will cut off registration. I hope this leads to more events like this in the area. Maybe even a Maker Faire!

When I was kid I was fascinated with the future, I could not get enough of it. I remember thinking that I would be living on a moonbase by the time I was thirty (according to the television show SPACE:1999). I was always ordering things out of the back of comic books; magic tricks, jokes, and plans.

One of my few mail order successes was from a company called “Wijit Works” in California. I had ordered he plans for building 4 complete “space crafts” for $3.95. These were the plans for making hovercrafts out of vacuum cleaner motors. I still have the plans to this day, along with two broken vacuums waiting to transformed into personal space crafts.

BoingBoing Link
WIRED article

Here is a quick static PocketMod mod for poker hand rankings. Pretty straight forward, might be useful for people just starting to play. I know I can never remember if a flush is better than a straight.

Go ahead and download it here.