I'll Take My Tofu Black, Thank You.
My partner has been on a food science kick for a while now. We started with kombucha. Several bottles of the carbonated, tart beverage later we declared the experiment a success. Then we moved onto kim-chi. As a certain roommate of ours so eloquently put it while wrinkling her nose, “that smells like kim-chi”. Another success.
First, Assume A Perfectly Spherical Aerialist
One of the great things about the scientific process, is the little surprises one stumbles across. A few weeks ago I was a designing a specialized piece of circus rigging to drop one half of a 100Lb ladder. It has a quick release mechanism, which when activated, drops the ladder 4′ mid performance. Now, how to figure out how strong the components should be?
So This Umbrella Walks Into A Bar...
We finally got that rain we’d been promised all week. This is the first time in nearly a decade I can remember there being a Spring in San Francisco. Rain showers, punctuated by the occasional rainbow have been a novelty here for a while. So it is somewhat amusing that I’ve spent the last week designing an umbrella completely impractical for such weather.
Making a Trapeze Bar, Part 3
Finished.
Recently, while watching me splice a thimble for the 2nd time, a friend of mine made the observation that a trapeze bar is made entirely of work… and a little bit of rope.
All Bikes Weigh 50 Pounds
I’m sitting at a cafe in the Dogpatch across from this beautiful, hand built bamboo bicycle. It’s interesting, people have been trying to improve the bicycle for over a century, usually to make it lighter.