Fujitsu - Electronic Paper!

[Intrigued]

http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2005/20050713-01.html

That looks awesome!

[bnkrazy]

When I first saw the image my first thought was the computer in the movie Minority Report. Pretty cool stuff indeed.

That would work great for the next generation of photo albums!

And not long after that I imagine this will be the new 'flat-screen' of choice. :lol

[gbrown]

Here it is, a couple of hundred years from Capt. Kirk, and the stuff that's sitting around on my desktop blows away the displays on The Enterprise. It's what I've said all along... the technology of TV SF shows mirrors "cutting edge" of the time. Witness these shots I took of the old Mercury Launch Control room at Cape Canaveral. These are pretty contemporary with the STOS:

Tape Units (http://www.xmn.com/images/nasa/image043.jpg)
Control Panel (http://www.xmn.com/images/nasa/image044.jpg)
Equipment Rack (http://www.xmn.com/images/nasa/image044.jpg)
Equipment Rack (http://www.xmn.com/images/nasa/image047.jpg)
Launch Control Position (http://www.xmn.com/images/nasa/image048.jpg)

Boy... just imagine...a little portable PC with a 10 gig drive. ALL of project Gutenburg on the drive. The world's libary under 10 pounds! When that "Electronic Paper" matures, it will be a world-changer.

[Corey]

"Lox Replenish"? What the? Is that a control room or a kosher buffet? :o

[gbrown]

LOX = Liquid Oxygen

[Corey]

What about the "Tail Crabs" then? Sounds like a buffet to me frankly, I just can't figure out who would go to such trouble to disguise it. :o

[gbrown]

Not tail CRAB... tail GRAB! :D

As in, the thing that holds THIS TAIL (http://www.xmn.com/images/nasa/image042.jpg) to the pad before launch. BTW... check out the blast deflector. That's that little thing on the ground dead-centre under the exhaust. It's about 6 or 7 cm high. Compare it to THESE BLAST DEFLECTORS (http://www.xmn.com/images/nasa/image073.jpg) from the Saturn rocket days. Those puppies are around 20 or so metres high!

[Intrigued]

Cape Canaveral, that was a fun time for me and my wife. Those Saturn rocket(s) are huge! What an awesome site. And then it was neat in a way to be (bragging rights I suppose) able to touch some moon rock.

But, going in to see the control room you stand there (for those that have not visiting there) waiting for this vary large door (where there is a machine gun toating guard, not the norm in the U.S. to see armed guards with machine guns) to open. Then you get packed in the room behind the door to watch a movie (and by then everyone stinks from the heat of the day, walking in such).

:yes

I got some cool pics myself. And I got my wife and I to get a snap shot with an astronaut (I believe he/she was) in the space suite! Neat stuff!

[eric_darling]

Besides... They'd NEVER serve crab at a kosher buffet! :lol

[Worm]

Eric, ya kill me!

Besides... They'd NEVER serve crab at a kosher buffet! :lol

[Corey]

Fair enough, fair enough, but how can you explain this?!?!

[eric_darling]

Now that's one fancy pizza bakin' oven ya got there, Corey. :)

"Houston to Lunar Lander, *munch* *munch* *munch*...
erm...Come in....mmmm.... this is Houston, over (lunch)..."

I'll have the two slices and a drink combo - make mine with Velcro.

[Corey]

I smell a conspiracy. And cheese. A four-cheese with thin crust conspiracy. Mmmmmmmm... Thin crust conspiracy... [drool]

[yosik]

Somebody mentionned Kosher??!?
Never tasted crab myself. Doesn't look very appetizing to me...Different strokes...
On the more serious angle, I can't wait to see these one-page-versatile-content-books.
Will OLED be the precursor of such technology?
Think about it, buying a versatile screen by the square-foot, place virtual windows, wall video screens, "roll your screen" package....
I can't wait...

Yossi

[Corey]

They sure don't taste like they look. I don't eat meat anymore, but I remember good crab being unbelievably *delicious*. And lobster is arguably the most delicious meat on earth. :)

Anyhow almost all the "crab" they serve in restaurants, etc. nowadays is artifical crab made from pollock. :yes

[eric_darling]

Anyhow almost all the "crab" they serve in restaurants, etc. nowadays is artifical crab made from pollock. :yes
Blasphemy! Not down here on the coast. The only fake crab being bandied about is in Sushi and fast food restaurants. But, I can imagine how hard it would be to get fresh crab in Calgary - doubtfully a hotbed for that sort of thing. Although I'm sure the finer dining establishments carry it regularly as a delicacy. All this talk of pizza/buffet got the best of me - I cooked up that Margharitta CPK that was in the freezer for a few weeks tonight. MMMMMmmmm.

[Corey]

I think the issue is more cost than access. We can get stuff flown in from Vancouver, no problem. The thing is that restaurant owners who serve things like crab salads for example want to cheap out and make lots of money. The pollock is formed to look exactly like crab, it even has the red layer on the outside, etc. Most people don't notice. Nutritionally pollock is probably OK though, so... If you eat at hotels and wotnot, even in areas with plentiful seafood, you find a lot of fake crab, especially in salad bars, etc. The cost savings is very large and very few people complain so they keep doing it... :o

I've been eating almost exclusively Mexican stuff this summer. Whole wheat tortillas, tofu chicken strips, beans, cheese, salad, various veggies and peppers, fruit, yogurt, tea, and juice. That's about it. It's deliciously decadent eating and actually my waist right now is the same size it was in grade 9. Beans rule man, THEY RULE! :)

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We just got an industrial juicer this week. And I'm fixin' to "get into juicing". I'm just reading up on the food combinations this week. It's tricky because certain things negate other things, whereas some combinations compliment each other. Looks like pomegranites have finally weaseled their way into my life.

[eric_darling]

I'd like to see you come out with a vegetarian cookbook for the computer nerd or some such thing, Corey. You seem to have a knack for food combining and keeping prices of meals within reason.

[Corey]

I'm going to have a "health" section on my personal site when I eventually get around to finishing it with recipes and a few different excercise/diet plans for various scenarios. Particularly for out of shape people wishing to get into shape. I actually worked as a chef for a few years when I was younger, and also as a personal trainer for a time. I was lucky to work for a few really knowledgeable chefs when I was young, and it's amazing how much I learned from them.

It used to be hard for vegetarians but nowadays they sell so many delicious "artifical meat" prooducts that it's easy. I just ate some tofu based chicken nuggets in barbeque sauce for example that were awesome, you'd never know the difference. They've pretty much mastered the taste and texture of the real thing these days. The new steaks even have a textured soy based "strip of fat" down the side that looks/tastes/feels exactly like the real thing. :)

For me the only thing that matters is taste and I refuse to eat anything non-delicious, so I'm actually lucky I didn't try to quit meat 5 years ago when all these manufacturers were still working out their products because some of those early soy burgers/steaks were *foul*. :o

On a sourer note food prices here have skyrocketed here in the past couple months. Must be fuel costs... I just bought a 275g can of Planters mixed nuts yesterday from a large grocery store and I didn't notice until I got home, but I paid $8.50 for it!!! $8.50!!! :o

http://www.foodservicedirect.com/productimages/OT376181S.jpg

[gbrown]

Dorothy was over last night looking at vacation pictures.

She (my space geek sweetie) rolled her eyes at the pizza cooker and said "you guys have way too much time on your hands."

GcB

[Sandy]

Mmmmm...I love crabs. We get them quite often. Our local Sobey's sells them live for super cheap. We're going camping with some friends next weekend, and we're going to have a crabfest! Oh yeah! :D

[Corey]

You kids these days with your crabfests and rock and roll guitars. Whatever happened to clambakes and accordians? Seriously. :o