A Rough Year
I guess it's been an eventful year. Bike stuff: I built a polo bike and a flatland bike. Sold a road bike and acquired a mountain bike. Rebuilt a motorcycle carburetor, and replaced almost all the major parts of that motorcycle (it's almost reliable now!). Road...
Success with Stripe
In a previous post, I remarked on my difficulty with getting Stripe running. I see it's been almost 2 months since I posted that. Boy, I take a while sometimes, but I get stuff done. I finally found success with the help of an excellent tutorial by the handsome and...
How to build a flatland BMX bike
A flatland BMX is a little different from any other type of BMX. The mods that make it great for doing tricks make it essentially useless for any other purpose. Even a polo bike (stay tuned for "How to build a polo bike!"), with it's silly low gear ratio, can be...
Screw you world, I finished a project
It is a moderately useful Android app that you are welcome to download from here. The app does some very simple math - given the size of an engine, the maximum RPM of the engine, and the volumetric efficiency of the engine, it tells you what CFM value...
Skipping School
I stayed home from school today. I thought all my classes would be cancelled because of a teacher's strike, but it turns out that my teachers have no objection to crossing picket lines, and classes went on as usual. However, by the time I found out, I was already lost...
New Phone Time
A couple weeks ago, my Blackberry started acting up. When the battery was low - not very low, like maybe half - I would get a white screen. All the buttons stopped working, I couldn't turn it off, just bright white screen with nothing on it, until the battery died....
Getting a little further with Stripe
Edit: I had some success getting it running with C#, read it about it here. Ok, so now I've got the code for the payment form and the action for it on my server and running, and I can at least tell whether stuff is working or not (it's not). Check it out at...
Trying to figure out Stripe, being new at this not all that smart
I'm building a website to sell stuff I want to buy. It doesn't really matter what I'm selling right now - I just need to set up the store so I can sell anything. Stripe offers a nice system for setting up online payments. Their API is very well documented, if only I...
Writer’s Block?
I'm teaching a kid to ride a bicycle. "Be careful not to run into that mailbox", I tell her. She doesn't know how to steer yet, so she zeroes in on the mailbox, focussing so hard on not hitting it that she rams it head on. If I hadn't said anything, she'd be fine. You...