Sunday, February 12, 2012

Floored

Greetings from a couple of snowy people

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We had a fun snowstorm that included some low flying clouds that, when parked over the university, combined with the university lights, made it look like they was a massive fire!

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We just marked our 1 year anniversary here.   Seems that was a long enough penance of living with carpet to cover any past sins, so we are about to renovate 1700 square feet of flooring, a combination of travertine, tile, and wood.    To pick the wood, we did stress tests of a bunch of samples.   Here I’m doing the wrench drop:  

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And Helen did the knife test:

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We also did water, sandpaper, and rocks.   Here are some of the samples looking the worse for wear:

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Today I started, with some pleasure, ripping out the carpet:

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I’ll do the wood install and hire out the stone and tile installs.

In other news, Nick has been hard at work on porting Skritter to the Ixxx universe.   He has a fun preview video here:

    http://www.skritter.com/ios

And in slightly older news (from December), here is an article about one of the activities that has been keeping Helen busy:

 http://healthcare.utah.edu/neurosciences/news/pressreleases/sep_directors.html

And in amazing stuff from the future news, here are some of the latest things those amazing flying robots can do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YQIMGV5vtd4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=S-dkonAXOlQ

I was impressed.   This guy was not impressed:

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Bruce

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