Sweet Spot

I came across this video clip not long ago, and find it absolutely hilarious!  Some things just can’t be well-enough designed.  Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRBIVRwvUeE

-Joel G.

Okay, typical scenario: you’re stuck in an airport. Your flight has been cancelled. You’re trying to rebook, and the line is huge. You call the airline’s toll free number. Read the rest of this entry »

Today a neat idea came up during Umber Shamim’s thesis defense. (Congrats Umber!) How can teachers integrate up-to-date news items into curriculum without having to go do all the legwork and research themselves? Read the rest of this entry »

Okay, this one is a bit far afield for me. I’m no mechanical engineer. But clothes dryers have to be the most inefficient way to dry clothes. What I’m thinking Read the rest of this entry »

I would enjoy an interactive exercise bike and/or treadmill that could integrate with sites like http://www.gmap-pedometer.com so you could actually run or bike the course of any route you can create. Its resistance and elevation would change based on ground covered. This would allow the user to gauge one’s ability to handle a course that is not easily accessible, or try to tackle something like a Tour leg or the Ironman, rather than prepackaged (and not very realistic) courses. Then you could also compare times to winners, or see where you might fall in the pack of a competition, if you are planning on taking part in a triathlon, bike race, or marathon.

I think in the future i would like to see how nature centers in US use technology for education. What kind of technology and How it is used?

I fear the length of time that will be required for the American Psychological Association, the Modern Language Association, and the other popular academic publication style guidelines to acknowledge modern search and retrieval methods. Read the rest of this entry »

This is not really what I wanted to do with this blog, but I have to give a shout-out to three lovely things that already exist. (I wish I’d invented em, I guess.) Read the rest of this entry »

OK, so two guys work for a huge multinational corporation their whole life. Five years before retirement, one stays with the main company, the other Read the rest of this entry »

Certain products are so highly evolved in their genre it’s hard to imagine improvement. The old hardy Bell telephones come to mind, as do the electromechanical Selectric typewriters. In many ways, they were perfect. Read the rest of this entry »