In my mind, offering a warranty on a product implies that you believe that the product will meet some criteria. For instance, a car with a 5 year/60,000 mile warranty is expected to last five years or sixty-thousand miles. If it fails to meet that criteria, then something happens. In this […]
My friend Steven and I finally got started building a couple of cars from scratch. We’re building Lotus 7 inspired cars. There are a surprising number of folks building these cars. They are typically called Locosts, from the book Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as 250 Pounds.
We’ve only worked on them for […]
Some folks with too much time on their hands put together a fanciful gallery of imaginary iProducts that Apple could have produced. Some of them are fantastic, some of them are silly, all of them show that someone is very talented with Photoshop.
Somehow, I think that Apple would make a more user friendly […]
In 1918, Cornell University Professor William Strunk Jr. wrote a little book of rules of grammar for his college English class. That book is The Elements of Style, and it is still in use today. In this book, Strunk gives the following advice:
Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary […]
Being an engineer, I find myself fascinated by mechanical toys. Particularly those toys which, while fun, also are instructive. At least to those with a will to learn.
First up, from Very Cool Things, an Edison-style phonograph kit. This kit lets you record onto a regular plastic cup, for up to […]
