Chuck's Blog

Auburn Engineer & Christmas lights

Only an Auburn Engineer could improve Christmas lights

Lights on Merrimac Ridge features 43,000 lights, 130 amps of power and 112 channels of light controlling goodness. This year we have a mix of d-light and LOR (Light-o-Rama) controllers running with LOR S2 software. The build time was several months and it took about five days to completely errect the display. Come by our display at:

Click for light and music show

Flugschau mit Zeppelin in California U.S.A. T.M.

If you had to pay for a flight it would have been $425 per seat.

At least with this one you can look at it again, and again and again. Fabulous. Enjoy.

FYI, click on Comcast link below.

You can take this flight commercially, but it is very, very,

expensive. This one is free.

http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1b/Zeppelin/Zeppelin.html

Big Japanese brands readying 3-D flat-screen TVs

Oct 6, 10:03 AM (ET)

By JAY ALABASTER

CHIBA, Japan (AP) – Japan’s big-name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3-D for launch next year.
At the country’s biggest consumer electronics show, which opened Tuesday just outside of Tokyo, all the major makers had large 3-D prototypes on display. Visitors to company booths at the CEATEC show donned special electronic glasses and watched as soccer balls flew toward them in sports clips and virtual heroes dodged deep into the background of video games.
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Citroen GT Supercar on the Streets of London

Now this is a change from the Citroens of the past.

An American Sketchbook

Now, this is neat. Someone needs to get credit for a great idea and hard work for this one. State Flowers

From 1960 to 1999

See who was president and the economy, music and many more statistics. See it here:

One Year in 40 Seconds

http://www.flixxy.com/time-lapse-digital-photography.htm

Front page of major news papers

Click here for the front page

This is a very cool site. Put your mouse on a city(click) and the newspaper front page pops up… Double click and the page gets larger. Also, if you look at the European papers, the far left of Germany will pop up as The Stars and Stripes (European edition, of course) This site changes daily with the publication of new editions. Enjoy.

Money Origami

If you intend to give money for a Christmas gift, you may want to select one of these neat folds. http://members.cox.net/crandall11/money/

Great stereograms!

Do all of you know what a stereogram is? Looking at a stereogram, you can see three dimentional objects. There are a lot of cool pictures at this site: