Cool project [27 Dec 2006|02:11pm] [ mood | cold ] [ music | Background music from Monkeyball for the Wii ] Hi all ! I hope everyone had a great holiday ! I just got a new book, "Safety in the Handling of Cryogenic Fluids". I'm soon going to be in the possession of some large quantities of Liquid Oxygen, Liquid Nitrogen and Liquid Methane: So if anyone has every had the urge to play with very very very cold (-200C) stuff let me know. There's lots of cool little experiments and demonstrations one can do. All this relates to a project I'm embarking on this year. I've started a blog about it, http://www.colinsxlander.blogspot.com This blog is very technical and deals mostly with the design and testing of liquid rocket engines: So I won't post anything here about it, because well, most of you probably don't care. Other then that, I spent a whack of time downloading and installing Microsoft's Visual Studio Express, all to do a quick bit of OpenGL programming. What a piece of crap !! Aside from being huge, slow and useless, my OpenGL program crashed for no good reason.. arrrg That will be the last time I use a Microsoft product for any reason. I'll be installing Gentoo on my backup laptop tonight. I wish I could ditch Winblows, but a few of my work programs only come in Win, and dual booting a laptop is a pain in the ass. *sigh*.. I wish I could find a good laptop that had two HDs... Well, I'm off to read. I'll be seeing some of you on new years, everyone else I hope you have a good time too !! 3 comments|post comment

Back from Mexico !! [22 Oct 2006|07:37pm] [ mood | busy ] [ music | Elucidate - Lucid Dream Green Mix ] Well, Mexico was a nice little holiday. See Whiteraven29's page for more details and pics. Other then that, I've got a ton of work to catch up on this week. Funny how that works. I'll try to post some interesting project soonish though. post comment

Giving this here LiveJournal a try.. [08 Oct 2006|07:51am] [ mood | contemplative ] [ music | http://www.di.fm (Vocal Trance) ] Hi all ! I've been meaning to get a whole lot of info published on the web, but lacking time to build a site from scratch I'm going to try to use LJ. Most of what I want to post is in relation to my hobbies and the many cool projects that ensue. I'm whats called a Midnight Engineer, or if your a comic fan, I'm the real life Tinkerer.. maby a little more benevolent ;). As for blogging and such, well, I won't boar you with the day to day details. I intend to post quality info only. DISCLAIMER: Most of the hobbies and projects I play with are dangerous !! Don't try to reproduce anything you see here unless you actually know what your doing. I won't be held responsible if you blowup, burn, electrocute, cut or otherwise hurt yourself. The human body, while a magnificent machine, is very fragile. Some of the topics I intend to post about will include experimental rocketry, electronics, power tools, exotic weaponry, high voltage, machining and fabrication, composites, cars, trucks, and anything else with a motor. ;P Well thats it for now. 3 comments|post comment

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