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I posted this picture of a couple of FRISCO signs I made last weekend over in my Dimensional Art blog. These were made on my home made HB2 CNC router using Vectric Aspire software and a few other computer control programs. Jump over to both links and take a look. I can do everything shown in the Vectric web site. I have still not seen any evidence that Apple will release specifics to Adobe to allow them or anyone to develop an Adobe FLASH viewer for the iPhone or the soon to be released iPad. Many web sites use Adobe FLASH for animating their sites. Check your iPhone if you have one. No FLASH animation as well as several other video modes that don’t work, like in Facebook. Grrrr… I mentioned this defect in the previous blog about the iPad. I mention it again as IMHO this is a serious defect by Apple since the iPad is touted to be the ultimate casual web browser. I get frustrated when I play with Linux OS as there always seems to be some graphic feature that I haven’t installed to make all web sites work. It’s going to be the same frustration with the iPad. Stay away from iPad until at least FLASH works in iPad and iPhone. 
Check out this URL in my THMShop blog: http://thmsblog.tedatum.com/?p=924 I just finished installing a Digital Read Out (DRO) on my machine shop milling machine. The link to my other blog will tell you how to see the four page report and the about 80 pictures I took when I installed the DRO. This device will alow me to perform accurate machining much easier than before. A DRO has been state-of-the-art in manual machine tools for years. Forget what I said on the 10th! The weather in Dallas Texas hasn’t been very nice this winter. We just set an all-time winter snowfall record of 12 inches (and more) in the area. Temperatures have been cold and the fuel bills high. Houses here are optimized for air conditioning (cooling) with return and supply air grills and registers located high. Heat rises and cold falls, making floors cold in winter. My garage workshop is unheated in winter and I open the OHD (Over Head Door) and turn on fans in the summer. Sure would be nice to have a fully conditioned workshop but I am thankful for what I have. I did turn on some electric heat ($$) for a few days last week in the garage to get a DRO (Digital Read Out) installed on one of my machine tools. I spend more time than usual on the computer because it is inside in a nice comfy home office. I have Win 7 installed now on the main computer and that OS is working just fine. I have installed new store software (X-Cart) for the online, “The Hobbyist Machine Store”. I just finished a four page 80 picture report on the DRO installation and published it in my, “The Hobbyist Machine Shop” web site. So I am trying to stay out of trouble while my spouse Gloria recovers from breast cancer surgery and takes her Chemo treatments. Her health problem was discovered late November and her treatments will continue into the summer. There are good days and there are bad days. She is back to giving piano lessons and doing her quilting. We both have to stay busy or go crazy being inside. Busy is better. Our daughter Shelley had a surgery about a week ago and is now on the mend and doing well. Son Steven and his family are the only ones staying out of harm’s way. Well, maybe me too for the most part. What’s going to get us is the Yellowstone Park Super Volcano is going to erupt and wipe out all life on the planet. Then there will be no one around to worry about global warming as planet earth turns into a giant snowball. But the asteroid may get us first. Both disasters are overdue Dang, I must be watching too much science-scare TV again… Sick or well, we better live a good life while we can and the heck with today’s weather. This winter has been fairly amazing with the amount of storms. Here in Dallas we got a little bit of snow but a lot of rain. The Central and Eastern regions have been getting more than their share of snow. We went through a few years of drought here in Texas but now the scale is fully tipped the other way. That just teaches that nothing is the same forever. Sometimes it seems like bad weather is forever, because we as humans are impatient. We dislike change but sometimes we just can’t wait for it. The period of human life on the earth is a small, truly insignificant portion of the life of the planet. We of course want it to stay in this present comfortable condition forever. I think earth will continue to do its own thing about weather. It always has. We should conserve resources but prepare for inevitable change rather than trying to stop change. Anyone ready to purchase ocean view property in central Texas? Not when the glaciers cover Ohio… |
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