urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:colinfitzgerald The Midnight Engineering and Other Antics of Colin Fitzgerald's Colin Fitzgerald 2006-12-27T21:12:40Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:colinfitzgerald:934 2006-12-27T21:12:40Z 2006-12-27T21:12:40Z Background music from Monkeyball for the Wii Hi all !<br /><br />I hope everyone had a great holiday !<br /><br />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.<br /><br />All this relates to a project I'm embarking on this year. I've started a blog about it, <a href="http://www.colinsxlander.blogspot.com">http://www.colinsxlander.blogspot.com</a> 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.<br /><br />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...<br /><br />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 !! urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:colinfitzgerald:673 2006-10-23T04:57:57Z 2006-10-23T04:57:57Z Elucidate - Lucid Dream Green Mix Well, Mexico was a nice little holiday. See Whiteraven29's page for more details and pics.<br /><br />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. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:colinfitzgerald:450 2006-10-08T14:15:00Z 2006-10-08T14:15:00Z http://www.di.fm (Vocal Trance) Hi all !<br /><br />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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Engineering">Midnight Engineer</a>, or if your a comic fan, I'm the real life <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkerer">Tinkerer</a>.. maby a little more benevolent ;).<br /><br />As for blogging and such, well, I won't boar you with the day to day details. I intend to post quality info only.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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<br /><br />Well thats it for now.