If you are seeing this page, its presumably because I sent you a link, its to make it easy for one off customers to buy some of our products, that for whatever reason are not on the Neuros Store.

I wrote previously about Innovation following Infrastructure and this is basically the other side of that coin. I recently was introduced to the pedal-a-watt device its a device that turns your bike into a stationary bike with resistance provided by a generator that actually puts power into your home electric lines, offsetting some of what you use. Its a neat little thing and as someone that uses a stationary bike with a very noisy fan, I was excited to get one.

Many years ago, my forth grade teacher gave us an assignment to write a recipe about how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The next day, she took each set of instructions and showed how, without using any judgment, each set of instructions would fail to produce a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If the recipe said spread peanut butter on one side of the bread and then put the pieces together, she would put the peanut butter on the outside of the bread.

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In one of the most horrifying and unbelievable developments in my life, a dear friend's father was murdered today.

This story was relayed to me by my friend Laura Bridges, who is a law school student at Northwestern University. For the life of me, I cannot imagine why this is not receiving more international media attention:

In an ambush today that appears to be part of a ongoing calculated attempt to overrun the family's mines, Campbell Bridges, his son and two other co-workers were attacked, by a mob wielding machetes and crossbows.

You don't have to be a geek to be troubled by this one:

Have you seen this story? Last week, Amazon deleted purchased copies of
George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from the ebook readers of hundreds
of users. Yesterday, FSF's Defective by Design campaign responded by
giving the Kindle hundreds of 1-star reviews, but now we need your help.

Can you share our campaign on Identi.ca and Reddit?

For years, I've been trying to convince members of the DIY/Hacker community to commercialize some of their inventions. Too often this pitch comes off as all about dollars and cents, which is a real shame because the real satisfaction in any success comes not from the commerce, but the impact it has on people.

Here's the toast I planned on my 40th birthday, but it varied a bit each time (I posted on youtube too):

I'd like to tell you a little story about my journey to this moment. It's a story that begins on New Years Eve coming into this year. Prior to that, my "emotional journey" to turning 40 was fairly ordinary. A bit of regret, self-pity and a remorse over life's disappointments.

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