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April 2007 - Posts

Friday, April 27, 2007 7:07 PM

Electric Helicopter 101

I've been spending some time doing research on RC electric helicopers, and thought I'd share the highlights. I'll do this by describing the two that I own and the one that I'm considering getting. First, there's the Picoo Z . Good stuff: Inexpensive ($50
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:40 PM

A short little ride

I wrote about the Seattle Randoneeur group last fall when they did the Populaire. And I think I probably wrote something about the relative insanity of riding a 1000K course. So, how about 2519 miles in 22 days down the continental divide on a single-speed
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:58 PM

Things that don't seem possible

The Kaye effect (aka "Leaping Shampoo") From " Good Math Bad Math "
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:31 AM

Hacky way of doing changing bitmaps on a button in WPF

I came up with a hacky way of doing "hover" and "press" buttons in WPF recently. There are a couple of nice examples on the web, but I was looking for a way to do it purely through XAML. If there's a nicer way to do it through XAML (or if there are big
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Friday, April 06, 2007 2:30 PM

Midlife + 3.010958

Okay, so it turns out that I was confused. It's not real helicopter training - I'll be flying this instead. It's fairly easy to hover - easy enough that I'm not sorry that I don't have training kit (a set of poles and balls that keep the copter from flipping
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:49 PM

Midlife + 3

As some of you already know, I'm at the point in my life where it becomes expected to have a crisis - more specifically, one of the mid-life variety. In fact, many would say, that at the advanced age of 43, I'm past the point where I should be thinking
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Monday, April 02, 2007 4:13 PM

Animated stereogram

Animated stereogram I've always liked stereograms because they're one of the few cases where being seriously nearsighted is advantageous - because of my poor eyesight I am used to looking at things that aren't in focus. From Bad Astronomy
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Monday, April 02, 2007 8:14 AM

Eric's Ski tips for the 2007 season...

We're at the tail end of the ski season here. I skied yesterday - in conditions that were less than exciting - and next weekend is probably the last time of the year, assuming the weather is worth it. Over the past 7 years or so, my wife and I have taken
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