This is a reminder to myself. It’s about failure, which is a paradoxically fantastic thing if you have the right attitude. Let me describe the attitude I am working to gain.
If you fail three times in a week, make a goal of trying (a possibly failing) five times the next week. Failure is the right [...]
My sister, Maria, is an excellent artist. Her paintings make you sit up and think about how people feel. Her art captures life better than a photograph.
But what does she do when a piece doesn’t fit her high quality standards? Not long ago, she finished a fine painting of a cowboy. Everyone liked it, but [...]
This past week was spring break. That’s what my kids’ school called it, anyway. I’m not sure I would call it that.
Since my kids had the week off, I made a deal with them: if they spent at least 4 hours playing outside every day Monday through Thursday, on Friday I would buy The World [...]
I need to keep a journal because as I change over time, my method of comprehending everything also changes, and some memories no longer fit my new system of comprehension.
If my memory were a computer database, then I would be adding rows to giant tables continuously, while changing the schema every time I find a [...]
Last week, an important desktop computer used by my family died. The connection between the power supply and motherboard fried somehow. I’ve never seen a connection fail like this before: all of the connections attached to red wires had burned the surrounding plastic within the connector. It was difficult to detach the [...]
While fixing the dishwasher last year by flushing out bits of garbage, I realized the dishwasher had a built-in lawn sprinkler.
The duct tape worked remarkably well.
I’ve been building small RepRapped objects successfully. (Larger objects not so successfully… I’ll talk about that another time.) One significant problem I’ve noticed is that a series of short line segments is drawn much too slowly. You can see this if you draw a circle using just the cartesian bot. If the circle has only [...]
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It turns out I am supposed to unleash my inner dork. In other words, I should write about my passion.
I am passionate about building a family business. That’s what Willowrise is. We have plenty of skills and talent, but we’re still working out how to present our skills to the world. We’re certainly not a [...]
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Check out this musical talent. My little niece is so good that she can predict the accompaniment my brother is going to play, then she fits a melody with it!