about 2 weeks ago - 1 comment
I love a Turing machine. It is a simple mechanical calculator that can mimic any computational system. And LEGO built one in honor of Alan Turing’s birthday. Like This Post? Rate it and tell your friends! Click the Share button below.
about 4 months ago - No comments
Disaster is Imminent, a photo by BelchSpeak on Flickr. A Lazy Saturday Night. The boy and I are building towers of terror for unsuspecting Lego employees while I rebuild a laptop I had lying around with Ubuntu. My son is telling me about the casualties of his tower of terror. Seems that the bodies get…
about 6 months ago - No comments
This is a pretty amazing machine built out of legos, and it even employs electronic sorters to separate the types of little balls. But I agree with the commenters on YouTube that say the only thing this guy has really engineered is a way to be forever alone. Like This Post? Rate it and tell…
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
I finally got around to posting some pix and videos up. Here is the group that rode on that wet Saturday down US route 421 from Shady Valley Tennessee. The roads were slick, and this was filmed on one of the first big switchbacks, and no one was moving too quickly. Like This Post? Rate…
about 11 months ago - 1 comment
A bunch of us were playing around with the Photosynth app for the iPhone. This is Dan’s trick of putting Robb in many of the panorama frames for a hilarious effect. Like This Post? Rate it and tell your friends! Click the Share button below.
about 11 months ago - No comments
The Snake’s Wailin’ Wall, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak. at the Shady Valley Country Store in Shady Valley TN is this collection of road debris and busted parts left behind by motorcyclists who tackled the Snake and lost. 489 curves in 11 miles of mountain road. Like This Post? Rate it and tell your friends! Click…
about 11 months ago - No comments
The Blue Ridge Outcrop, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak. A great shot from yesterday showing the outcrops at the Raven’s Roost Overlook on the Blue Ridge Crest. The weather is a little misty this morning as we prepare to set off on the Poker Run to the Shady Valley Country Store in Tennessee. More updates to…
about 1 year ago - No comments
I leave for the Freebournes Lodge tomorrow to participate in the Fragile X Poker run, and am really looking forward to it. I will spend almost three whole days riding the SSR, topdown, through the mountaintops of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. As always, a highlight of the ride is on the Striped Snake with…
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
Novartis has taken a step closer to creating a drug that will alleviate some of the neural problems suffered by those with the Fragile X genetic disorder. And researchers are also hopeful that the drug may be able to treat autism too. From the NYTimes here: An experimental drug succeeded in a small clinical trial…
about 2 years ago - 1 comment
Loser Cruiser, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak. My Chevy SSR encountered a rock on the Blue Ridge parkway and it flattened by front passenger-side tire. Since there are two different sizes of tire on the SSR you can’t carry a spare. Instead, it comes with an inflation kit- an electric airpump, powered by a cigarette lighter…
about 1 year ago
VERY cool! It’d be awesome to see whipping down the road, if nothing else!