While Austin Themes is on the rise, Sometimes the bills pile up. Subsequently, I’ve updated my Resume’ with future employment possibilities in mind. Check it out in PDF (54k)

After several weeks of debugging and frustration dealing with a firefox installation that would freeze intermittenly with 100% CPU use, I decided to take another approach to find the solution. After using the free program “MozBackup” to backup my previous installation, I loaded Version 7, then imported my bookmarks using mozbackup. To my surprise, I saw the last several months worth of my browsing history. After a little testing, it…

Remember Magic Eye ™? Here’s a little slice of the mid-nineties, thanks to the Easy Stereogram Builder.com

With the recent test firing a failure for the most  part, and with the donation of a humble PVC endcap, the vortex ring cannon’s combustion chamber has been totally re-thought for simplicity and reliability. A stationary gas inlet now creates its own vortex while feeding in, creating a better gas mixture that I hope will make a much more predictabe “thump”.     PS – Do not attempt to make…

FarCry2Maps

Out of curiousity, I decided to map the locations of a variety of UFO sightings in texas to see if there were any geographical or location trends. Other than sightings being clustered in densely populated areas (duh.), there don’t seem to be any, but I thought I’d share the map anyhow because it paints a broad picture of just how many sightings there have been in texas alone. Some of…

While exploring google earth’s more advanced features in a mapping project, I stumbled onto another of google’s awesome, off-the-beaten-path easter egg features in their industry-leading satellite mapping utility “Google Earth”. This great free program allows you to use google maps in a much more interactive, free-standing program for a variety of platforms. DOWNLOAD GOOGLE EARTH: http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html In this case, you can find the flight simulator feature by going to “tools…