Like most parts on a 30 year old car, oem parts are long gone. I bit the bullet,and had a local welder repair my old muffler. Its now built like a tank, although the insides, and the fiberglass sleeving on the exhuast pipe are pretty marginal. Otoh, its now a lot quiter, and no longer [...]

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I’ve been a Mapfi member for quite a while. Its been a very useful way to get together with other flight instructors and discuss teaching methods, safety, regs, and numerous other pertinant topics. Next week, the meeting is on glass cockpits. Since a vast majority of my flight time occured in airplanes using vacuum tube [...]

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Suncast� – Lawn and Garden Products My hose reel took a header, the inlet and outlet tubs decide to fall apart, thus necessitating spooling off all the hose, and making a big mess. I went to the suncast website looking for repair parts and saw this. My first thought was wow, thats cool, but its [...]

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Flickr: Photos from Clinical Cases and Images I wonder if the flickr guys ever thought their service would be used for xrays? An interesting concept, and a whole lot better than seeing someone kids who you don’t know.

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Microchip – Mechatronics Workshop This looks to be interesting. While its been 10 years since I wrote PIC software, I think this might be a good way to get reintroduced to them, in addition to picking up some cool anamatronix demo’s. To some extent, anytime a person changes micro’s there is always a day or [...]

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This was when I first was introduced to aviation. The FSS building (which also served as the passenger terminal is visible on the right. Back then, Wisconsin had flight service stations located at the major airports, where one could go and get a weather briefing in person. In the mid-late 80′s the push was on [...]

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tagesanzeiger.ch | Leben | Gesundheit Whoa, this is way uncool. In fairness, translating German is not one of my skills, but it appears the photo was of a man’s foot. Thats not exactly cool either.

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Biomedical Animation Free Medical Clip Art – Biomedical Animation Free Medical Clip Art – 3D Science Store (BETA) 3DScience has a small number of free images for use on websites. Its really cool. Of course, their comphrensive images are super cool, but its $$$$$.$$ for that kind of access. Anyhow, here are a few of [...]

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Savacor, Inc. This is an interesting application. Body temperature, left atrial pressure and cardiac electrical activity are are captured. They state that left attrial pressure is the most effective measurement for predicting congestive heart failure. The idea is then to generate a prescription on the fly such that congestive heart failure can be prevented. Its [...]

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Social Security Death Index Interactive Search Interesting 76 million social security numbers online with easy 1 click access. Of course, all of these people have passed away, so whether they would be useful or not, I don’t know. However, it is interesting that they are posted for anyone to access.

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