I had the idea years ago of converting gas stations into battery changing stations. Instead of us charging our own batteries (which you can still do but you have to pay for the new battery when the old one goes bad) you pull into the service station and have them put in a fully charged battery. Instead of paying for…

This shipped flipped off the San Diego coast last weekend. I didn't find out till after it happened or I would have taken some pictures. I'm just glad the people who put on the fireworks show didn't build it, otherwise it would have flopped instead of flipped.

OK. I still have Eudora on my computer. That's an email program for you young'uns. I actually still use it with some of my older email addresses. Here's the oldest message received. You can see my excitement at the new features in that version of the program.

Oh wow... I probably have some from the early 90s because I archived my AOL mail. Before AOL I was dialing into the UCSD library to get on the, at the time, text only Internet. Probably didn't save any of those though I do remember logging some Usenet sessions. I'll have to take a look at that archive... next time I…

I thought it looked awesome. A lot of people were upset, some people made premature ignition jokes, I just went and got a couple beers then went home after the traffic died down. They need to do that again next weekend for Comic-con.