Author Archives: Thanos

The Best 3-D Printed Gun Yet Shoots Paper Airplanes

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Thanos

Paper Airplane Machine Gun / Papierflieger-Maschinenpistole – YouTube.

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The Internet of Things Is More Than Just a Bunch of Refrigerators

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Thanos

Harvard Business Review covers the internet of things, but everyone is probably wondering what the heck is meant when people say that. The (with a capital T and capital I) Internet of things is all of the public accessible things … Continue reading →

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Kansas City Renaissance Festival Gallery

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Thanos

Here are some of the better photos I took at the KC Renaissance Festival yesterday.

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Blood Moon

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Thanos

Here’s a gallery of moon shots from this morning. Just for reference here’s a normal, no clouds in sky, everything done perfect moon shot from September of last year:

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Things to Come to the Internet of Things

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Thanos

The other day I participated in one of Cisco’s weekly Internet of things chats, ( #IoTchat ) and found it thought-provoking and worthwhile. The online chat in turn inspired me to do another “Things to Come” post.  Some of this will  be about … Continue reading →

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Will Broadwell Kill ARM-Based Tablets? Maybe, With a Little IT Help

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Thanos

Rob Enderle advocates a corporate step back from Arm based Pads to full windows / Intel architecture. With the kludginess of connectivity, speed of I/O, and pure amount of jiggery pokery that users have to manage to keep their Pads and … Continue reading →

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IEEE Picks Up 25Gbit/s Ethernet Cause

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Thanos

This is a needed step – for cloud services to work well the “heavy iron” server infrastructure in the cloud’s core has to function superbly – that means many hefty application, content, and data servers connected via speedy high capacity … Continue reading →

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Oregon Coast

Posted on July 19, 2014 by Thanos

This photo in the mountains above the Oregon coast is cropped down from a very wide angle (8mm) shot. I like how the land, clouds, sea, and sky all blend together and disappear like it’s the edge of the world … Continue reading →

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Redbud Leaves

Posted on July 13, 2014 by Thanos

Redbud leaves have some weird property about them that causes water to bead up a bit more than it does on other leaves. This makes for some good photos.

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Far Right Common Core Opponents Know Little About it, But that Doesn’t Stop Them

Posted on July 12, 2014 by Thanos

As usual the Far right backlash against common core is fed by populist reactionary fear mired in fundamentalist ignorance. This means the usual anti-science theocrats who not only want to rewrite science classes according to the bible, but also rewrite … Continue reading →

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