A Few Links

Posted on by Jordan

Heather and I just wrapped up a HUGE weekend, and I can’t wait to post about it, but I just don’t have the time / energy right now!

Teaser: we drove over 1000 miles

In the mean time, add one of these to my Christmas list: Quadrotor UAV

Also I wanted to share a cool little application I found out about as of late, called Launchy

It pops up a launcher when I press “ALT + Space” that I can start typing the name of the application I want into and then within a few letters I generally have the program I want right there ready to go. It is so much faster than picking through three or four levels of a cascade menu in Windows!

For example, I wanted the calculator,

Using the mouse it is:

Take right hand off keyboard, find mouse, click: Start->All Programs->Accessories->Calculator

Using Launchy:

Press “ALT + Space”, type “cal” hit enter

As far as I know it works fine in Vista and Win7, but I am still living in the XP era here… I guess I could load it on Heather’s laptop… maybe I will update this later.

Stay tuned, hopefully I will have the real weekend post up shortly 🙂

-Jordan

Yet Another Video Link

Posted on by Jordan

I feel bad posing another random video, but there hasn’t been much going on as of late.

anyway, the video: Crazy things done on a bike.

Also,  I have been thinking of cataloging books here, it might be interesting to look back on. so I will give it a shot here I guess:

Finished this month:  “Dauntless” (the lost fleet, book 1) and “Zoe’s Tail”

Started: “Atlas Shrugged”

I am strongly tempted to try and post mini reviews of each finished book, but I think I will skip that for now. I should say that I rather liked Dauntless, and am really looking forward to working my way through the rest of the books in the story sometime soon.

-Jordan