If I had a hammer…
This is a shirt I made a few months ago after a particularly difficult meeting! One of the things I find funny is that people frequently don’t read the whole thing — they read the first line, and then are …
Thread-safe generic collections, containers and dictionaries in .NET
It is very common with threaded applications to need to share data between threads, often in the form of dictionaries, lists, stacks, etc. However, the standard containers (generic or otherwise) in .NET are not thread-safe—if you just, say, reference a …
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If you don’t know where to go…
If you don’t know where to go, turn right! At least, I assume that is the meaning of this sign. Alternatively, the sign-maker might be a Doctor Who fan? Or, perhaps, this is how to get to a statue of …
Mythbusters
We met the Mythbusters!!! Yesterday, Jamie and Adam’s final tour came to Denver, and we had passes (along with about 80 others) to go backstage to ask questions and pose for photos. Admittedly, the photo looks a little bit like …
Big and Little Tardises (Tardii?)
A while ago I blogged about 3D printing a Tardis. In fact, the Tardis on the right (the one that is lit up) is the one from that post. But one of the cool things about 3D printing software is …
Bishop’s Castle
Last weekend, at the suggestion of a friend, we drove down to Bishop’s Castle, which is about a 2½ hour drive from Colorado Springs. Bishop’s Castle was basically built by a single guy, named Jim Bishop, over the course of …
I guess winter is here
This is the view of our deck this morning. We have 5 foot drifts, although there’s really only about 2-3 inches of general accumulation. Oh, and the wind is 25-40 mph. Glad I don’t have to go anywhere today!
Waldo Waldo photos
The organizers of the Waldo Waldo 5K just released a huge group photo of the event on their site. The event raise over $140K for disaster relief, trails and open space maintenance, which is not too shabby. The picture on …
Adipose Rex
It’s been a while, but we finally did a new costume! This is Adipose Rex, (very loosely) based on the Doctor Who episode Partners in Crime, where the Doctor and Donna are investigating a weight loss program where the “fat …
3D Printed under-desk headphone holder
I recently found a 3D model on Thingiverse for an under-desk headphone holder. Unfortunately, it was for a 3/4″ desk, and my desk is 1″ thick, so I quickly threw together my own version in FreeCAD. I’ve uploaded it to …