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my band -- local midnight : Images of my band and bandmates

my band -- local midnight

Images of my band and bandmates

Updated: Aug 15, 2005 8:38pm PST

ActionTracker V2 Rough Form : Rough wooden prototype of V2 ActionTracker ID, dimensions in line with updated guidelines from contract manufacturer. This prototype was made in about an hour to get a sense of how the updated dimensions would effect the usability of the device in advance of receiving SLAs from the CM. Photos taken on the kitchen table using natural light.

ActionTracker V2 Rough Form

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Climbing with Lise & Company

Climbing with Lise, Bryan, and Sam at the Middlesex Fells on October 1 ...

Updated: Oct 13, 2009 8:25am PST

beer drinking injury : A heroic attempt to open a non-twistoff without appropriate tools, gone horribly wrong

beer drinking injury

A heroic attempt to open a non-twistoff without appropriate tools, gon ...

Updated: Oct 14, 2007 11:30am PST

Never Ship by DHL : Clients in Canada shipped a prototype back to us for an upgrade. The package was shipped by DHL. First it got lost in customs, then DHL couldn't find our office. I told DHL to deliver it to my home instead, and that I would wait at home on Mondy morning for the signature-required delivery. I waited vigilantly, listening for the DHL delivery truck and periodically checking the front porch. I had nearly given up when at 2:30pm I heard someone on the porch. I ran down to find the DHL truck driving away -- so much for getting my signature, or even knocking on the door. What I found I simply could not believe. The package looked like it had been dragged behind the truck or run through a belt sander. The cardboard was completely worn through on the bottom. The prototype's high-strengh plastic enclosure was badly abraded as though someone had taken a belt sander to it. The enclosure and a peripheral cable were visible through the holes in the bottom of the box. There was no way to refuse the delivery since the cowardly DHL driver had fled without even knocking on my door, so there was nothing left but to photographically document the damage, as shown below. This is not the first time DHL has burned me. If I hadn't built this system in a nearly-indestructable enclosure, thousands of dollars worth of prototype electronics would have been completely destroyed. Moral of the story: Don't ship by DHL. What is it? It's a high-end sports monitor prototype my startup built for Canadian clients. And after all it went through, it works just fine, except for the ruined GPS cable. I built it to survive extreme sports -- little did I suspect that an RMA shipment would be the ultimate test.

Never Ship by DHL

Clients in Canada shipped a prototype back to us for an upgrade. The ...

Updated: Dec 05, 2005 1:34pm PST

Green Street Van Crash : An elder services van crashed into the side of the building in which I work, plowing into an (illegally) parked car first. The impact shook the entire building, cracked an exterior wall, and pushed the parked car across the curb and into the back entryway. The first six photos -- those depicting vehicles and emergency personnel -- were taken from the roof of the building 10 to 15 minutes after the event. (The last four photos showing building damage were take a couple of days later.) The elder services van was empty except for the driver. The parked car was unoccupied at the time of the crash. Nobody appears to have been hurt. The Cambridge police station is a block away, and Green Street was filled with emergency vehicles by the time these pictures were taken.

Green Street Van Crash

An elder services van crashed into the side of the building in which I ...

Updated: Nov 02, 2005 1:22pm PST