For a project at work I needed a solid button that would be easy to press. It turned out that the Staples Easy Button was a perfect match for what I needed; heavy, easy to locate without looking for it, a great size, and it was just a single button. I opened it up and…
Author: Bob Baddeley
I play with fusion
As a resident of the Tri-Cities, I am close to the Hanford area and have access to a wide array of nuclear materials… What a great way to start off a story, huh? What really happened was last night I did some ballroom dancing and decided to play around a little. The DJ was doing…
Dancing movie worth seeing
Those who know me know I am an avid and well-rounded dancer (except Tango and line dancing. I’m not a fan of those, but I can honestly say I tried them and they just didn’t agree with me). I like ballroom, swing, latin, hip-hop, break, everything. I like bringing them together, too, and playing around…
Coconut Shrimp
These will turn out fantastic. They’re best served warm or right off the frying pan. This isn’t a recipe so much as a process. Remove the shells from the thawed, uncooked shrimp. Traditionally, the tail part is left on, but it’s annoying at eating time, so you can take the whole shell off if you…
Good dinner, good workout, the New Year is starting off well
The New Year has been treating me well so far. Today I woke up before my alarm clock, showered, had time to make sausage and eggs for breakfast, and got to work before 7. This is in sharp contrast to the past few months, when I was snoozing for an extra hour and a half,…
Coconut Shrimp are SO EASY! Cake frosting is not.
In preparation for the new year party I attended, I decided to make coconut shrimp. I found many recipes, and all were very different. You’d think there’d be some consistency between recipes when making a specific dish, but this was not the case. I decided on one for which I had all the ingredients (I…
Corvallis
I stayed in Richland the night of the 23rd, and then left on the 24th to go down to Corvallis to be with other family for Christmas. The night that I arrived was when all the gift-giving took place. We did a Secret Santa thing so that each person would get something they wanted and…
Great Falls
I returned from D.C. on the 19th of December, had my marathon of work on the 20th, and took off on the 21st to go to Great Falls. It was an 8 hour drive, and there were some sketchy parts that go along with winter driving. On the road to Spokane, things started off great,…
D.C.
On my way back from Tampa, I was fortunate enough to have an overbooked flight and a flexible schedule. I volunteered my seat for a flight 4 hours later, where I was given a first class seat and a free round trip ticket good anywhere in the 48 states and some money for lunch. So…
Tampa
Back in November I went down to Tampa for work. The project is called InfoStar, and the purpose of the project is to provide information about the Supercomputing 2006 conference to conference attendees. The tricky part, though, is that it’s dynamic data from a variety of sources, it’s available to anyone with an internet-enabled device,…