This is what

I want for my birthday!!

The New iMac

Talk about eye candy.......

Yum Yum iMac

C.S. Lewis

Quote worth noting:
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

IBM put on its Thinking Cap :-)

IBM Home Page:
http://www.ibm.com/us/en/

A Smarter Planet:
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/20081106/index.shtml?sa_campaign=message/ideas/learnabout/all/smarterplanet

THINK:
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/think/index.shtml?loadSect=planet2&ca=agus_brthinklp-20081111&me=banner&met=words&re=nyt&s_tact=106aw01w&cm_mmc=agus_brthinklp-20081111-106aw01w-_-b-_-words-_-nyt

DistroWatch

I really like this website:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora
as well as VersionTracker for Windows or MAC:
http://www.versiontracker.com/windows/
I also like cnet downloads:
http://www.download.com/windows/
Just FYI
:-)

Official Gmail Blog: Last chance for Gmail stickers

Official Gmail Blog: Last chance for Gmail stickers

Vista and XP Networking Problems

These links are from Microsoft Technet. I find the site very useful.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/thread/8b228f88-ca0a-4c7a-a4c6-d0f8b09603a4/

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/thread/2ae702ae-b0a3-480e-90a3-d6a4a9ad5806/

NASCAR COUNTDOWN

Lap cat ??

http://www.mycathatesyou.com/cats/2008/09/18
Check it out !!
Too cute !!

Do you remember when ??

This will really bring back the memories!

http://www.shaunsayre.com/70s/70sfads.htm

Icanhascheezburger widgets

GET ONE of THESE here:
http://icanhascheezburger.com/widgets/

Crochet ideas for the Holidays.....

http://www.wikihow.com/Crochet-a-Checkerboard-Square

Grass Banking

http://science.howstuffworks.com/grassbanking2.htm
Help keep our planet safe and sound.
Be a good steward of our bountiful earth!

In memory of Matthew Raasch

All our love and prayers to you dear friend !!

More info I found on the World Wide Web:
Matthew E Raasch
3619 Pickwick Dr
Bakersfield, CA 93306
Phone: (661) 872-1562


Business Categories
Desks, nec in Bakersfield, CA
Wholesale Portable Desk, Furniture Merchant Wholesalers
SIC Code and Description
5021, Furniture
NAICS Code and Description
423210, Furniture Merchant Wholesalers
Matthew E Raasch, President
Populus Products, Inc is a private company categorized under
Desks, Nec and located in Bakersfield, CA.
Our records show it was established in 2000
and incorporated in California.
Current estimates show this company has an
annual revenue of $1,000,000 and
employs a staff of approximately 8.

Could this paper have been written by Matt?

A reinforced concrete bicycle bridge design
--by Matthew E. Raasch. (1995)

Abstract
Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 1995..
Includes bibliographical references (leaf 25 (1st grouping))
Microfiche.--San Luis Obispo, Calif.
:--MPI Microfilm Service,--1996.--1 microfiche.

Publication details Repository
OCLC's Experimental Thesis Catalog (United States)

Click to Help -- It's FREE !!

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com

When you go to the Animal Rescue site, be sure to click on the other tabs at the top of the page.
Read the “About” paragraph to see exactly how the website uses its funding.
The Hunger tab for the eradication of world hunger, feeding people in America and overseas.
The Breast Cancer tab for free mammograms.
The Child Health tab for children who need very basic health care.
The Literacy tab for free books for children.
The Rainforest tab to save habitat being destroyed all over the world.
And the Animal Rescue tab for food for animals in shelters.
You can set up daily email reminders so you don’t forget to “click”.
My friends and I have been doing this for more than five years.
I believe it is a good cause.

National Geographic

omni-directional wheels

http://www.airtrax.com/company/history.shtml

From United States Patent Office:
Omni-directional vehicles capable of controlled motion in any direction have long been recognized as having many useful applications. A number of designs of omni-directional vehicles have been disclosed. Most omni-directional vehicle designs are similar in that they use wheels that feature a number of rollers positioned about the periphery of the wheel; the rollers permit the wheels to support motion in directions at an angle to the wheel's plane of rotation. Omni-directional vehicles using such omni-directional wheels can move in any direction by rotating the wheels and rollers in an appropriate combination. Each omni-directional wheel's rotation is mechanically driven and servo controlled in a coordinated fashion to cause the vehicle to follow a desired path as previously disclosed by Ilon in U.S. Pat. No. 4,598,782. Three, four, or more omni-directional wheels are connected to a suitable chassis, suspension, wheel drives, and controls to form an omni-directional vehicle. Hereinafter, all uses of the words "roller" and "rollers" refer to the type of rollers used on or designed for omni-directional wheels for omni-directional vehicles.

Omni-directional wheels can be grouped into two general classifications. The first class of wheels is comprised of a rigid hub that supports a number of free spinning rollers around its periphery. The hub is rigidly coupled to an axle that, along with other omni-directional wheels and axles, supports the vehicle. The rollers are mounted at an oblique angle to the wheel's axle and are free to rotate about their own axles. Omni-directional wheel roller mounting angles of ninety degrees have been disclosed by Blumrich in U.S. Pat. No. 3,789,947. The omni-directional wheel disclosed by Blumrich was mechanically driven to produce motion parallel to the axis of rotation of the wheel. Omni-directional wheel designs with a ninety-degree roller mounting angle and free-spinning rollers have been disclosed by Bradbury in U.S. Pat. No. 4,223,753; Hiscock in U.S. Pat. No. 4,335,899; Smith in U.S. Pat. No. 4,715,460; and Guile in U.S. Pat. Nos. D318,219 and D318,791. Omni-directional wheels with rollers mounted obliquely at roller mounting angles of approximately forty-five degrees with respect to the wheel shaft have been disclosed by Ilon in U.S. Pat. No. 3,876,255 and Amico in U.S. Pat. No. 5,701,966. U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,876,255 and 5,701,966 are hereby incorporated by reference in their entirety.

The second class of omni-directional wheels differ from the above described omni-directional wheel design concepts in that the rotational axes of the free spinning rollers intersect with the wheel's axis of rotation. Wheels of this class have been disclosed by Bradbury in U.S. Pat. No. 4,223,753, and by Pin, et al, in U.S. Pat. No. 5,374,879. In wheels of this class, two or more spherical rollers are mounted in fixed positions so as to constrain the vehicle's motion in the direction of wheel rotation, while being unconstrained in a direction that is orthogonal to the wheel's axis.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=9&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=5,701,966&OS=5,701,966&RS=5,701,966

1987 was a very good year !!

The A2000 was actually two machines in one, it was first a Commodore computer capable of the fantastic graphics and sound with a large library of games, and second an IBM clone completely compatible with the entire DOS based software library.

Specifications here:
http://www.myoldcomputers.com/museum/comp/amiga2000.htm

I used to build 8" floppy drives for Shugart

This was our third computer.................

The TRS-80 model II was intended to be a business computer for use in offices and labs. It is equiped with a full height Shugart 8'' drive with a capacity of 500k.

I wonder what we ever did with all the old computers..........