Archive for December 2007
Build Your Own Drone
Think all that fancy drone talk is just for military nerds? Think again! A laptop, RC plane, and some GPS sensors are all you need to get stared. Paparazzi is a free and open-source hardware and software project intended to create an exceptionally powerful and versatile autopilot system by allowing and encouraging input from the…
Read MoreDirty Car Art
A guy by the name of Scott Wade (no relation to me) as come up with a way to use a dirty car to create something unique and evidently make some money in the process. Check out DirtyCarArt.com for some amazing stuff. Click the picture to your right for a preview.
Read MoreRuth, Boaz and Christmas
The last few days I have been reading the book, “Ruth & Boaz: Strangers in the Land” by Terri Fivash. It’s a fascinating historical fiction piece based on the Biblical story of Ruth in the Old Testament. One of the recurring themes of the book is “hesed” (hehs-ehd) which means “voluntary kindness on the life-saving…
Read MoreWhere things are in Haiti
UPDATED Our family has been having some discussions about where things are as we remember them on the campus in Haiti. We lived in Haiti from 1969 to 1972. Back then, Haiti was a safer place for expatriates. We started getting others in on the discussion and so I started this post so that we…
Read MoreThe Citadelle – Eighth Wonder of the World
From the best I can determine from foggy memory and sketchy data available on the Interent, this is where the Citadelle is located in Haiti. UPDATE: Google Earth now has new, very clear satellite imagery as well as great pictures attached via Panaramio.com and linked information from Wikipedia. UPDATE: Don’t have Google Earth? Here’s a…
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