How To Use Compression Ratios

An automobile manual will provide you with a list of numbers about your car or motorbike. One of them is the compression ratio. In the case of of my KZ 305 LTD, that number is 9.5. The number that my compression tester gives me is 145 psi in each cylinder of the...

School Again

Back at school for my third semester of Computer Systems Tech. I’m taking a moment on my lunch break to reflect on what, if anything, I learned last semester. 1. PHP. This is an interesting language. The constant feeling that you’re building a house out of...

Trying to Make a jQuery Gallery

Edit: I figured it out. Here’s a tutorial that helped me. Here’s my post about some further adventures.   I’ve got my little website, you’ve probably seen it if you’re reading this. All the HTML and CSS skills they taught me in...

Leadership

In school, we sometimes get group assignments. Someone always becomes the leader of the project group, and it’s usually me. It’s always an organic process – there’s no election, or special “Boss” hat that I seize by force. But when...

Space Is For Whatever You Want

Robert Zubrin has asked, how much is an astronaut’s life worth? The answer according to NASA turns out to be about 5 billion dollars. That was the justification for deciding not perform some repairs on the Hubble that would extend it’s life for another 10...