Rocket Science » Things that make you say hmm… http://www.mura.org ...in the MIT Parking Garage -- by Brandon Muramatsu Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:30:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Did they mean to be funny? Part 3 http://www.mura.org/2010/06/did-they-mean-to-be-funny-part-3/ http://www.mura.org/2010/06/did-they-mean-to-be-funny-part-3/#comments Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:30:35 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=4860 This quote is from a bookmark I received from the Melia Hanoi…

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on

Source: Melia Hanoi
]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/06/did-they-mean-to-be-funny-part-3/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Did they mean to be funny? Part 2 http://www.mura.org/2010/06/did-they-mean-to-be-funny-part-2/ http://www.mura.org/2010/06/did-they-mean-to-be-funny-part-2/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:30:52 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=4858 This quote is from a bookmark I received from the Melia Hanoi…

In every organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired

Source: Melia Hanoi
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The world is full of willing people–some willing to work, the rest willing to let them

Source: Melia Hanoi
]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/06/did-they-mean-to-be-funny-part-1/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Hogan’s Heroes in HD http://www.mura.org/2010/04/hogans-heroes-in-hd/ http://www.mura.org/2010/04/hogans-heroes-in-hd/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:23:51 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=4702 Things that make you say hmm….

The Universal HD cable channel is broadcasting Hogan’s Heroes in HD.

???

]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/04/hogans-heroes-in-hd/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Clearly I’m not an entrepreneur… http://www.mura.org/2010/03/clearly-im-not-an-entrepreneur/ http://www.mura.org/2010/03/clearly-im-not-an-entrepreneur/#comments Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:30:19 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=4019 I’m working with Prof. Kimerling’s 3.003 class at MIT this semester. As part of the class, he has a number of guest speakers. Fred Salvucci presented a two hour “History of Transportation in Boston” and that’s where I heard this crazy historical fact.

In the 1800s, enterprising entrepreneurs created ponds around the greater Boston area in order to harvest ice. One fellow even went so far as start a business shipping ice from Boston to Puerto Rico. And this venture, which failed rather quickly, helped found Belmont, Massachusetts–a town I drive through everyday on my commute to work.

When Frederic Tudor created the ice-shipping business out of Boston in the 1800s he had no idea that his risky venture would help a small farming community on the western shore of Fresh Pond become a town.

Belmont Historical Society. (2009). The Ice Age on Fresh Pond. Retrieved on February 25, 2010 from Belmont 150 Website: http://www.belmont150.org/articles/ice.php
]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/03/clearly-im-not-an-entrepreneur/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ You’re not supposed to do that! http://www.mura.org/2010/02/youre-not-supposed-to-do-that/ http://www.mura.org/2010/02/youre-not-supposed-to-do-that/#comments Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:30:06 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=3768 It’s been a long time since I played a paper-based RPG, but a recent BigBearButt blog post lead me to this comic.

You did what?

You did what?

]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/02/youre-not-supposed-to-do-that/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Photo Archiving http://www.mura.org/2010/02/photo-archiving/ http://www.mura.org/2010/02/photo-archiving/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:47:56 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=3925 So, I’ve been doing a bit of organizing and realized that I didn’t have a backup for my photos scanned in 2000-2002. It took me about an hour to copy the photos from the PhotoCDs to my hard drive, and then make duplicate copies on a couple of hard drives. All in all a good idea.

Film? What's that?
Source: pineapplebun

Film? What's that?

An interesting observation…There were something like 44 rolls of 35mm film I had scanned during the photo developing process. Guess how much space all of those photos take up? About 540MB.

Now adays, the photos from my digital camera use that much space for the equivalent of 8 rolls of film. Of course my new photos are 3456 × 2304 instead of 1536 × 1024, so about 4 times bigger pixel-wise. And, at the time the photo developers scanned those photos, I’m sure they figured they were giving the customers way more than they needed. (Of course each PhotoCD only used 20% of it’s capacity so they could’ve included much higher resolution scans.)

Just an interesting observation.

]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/02/photo-archiving/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ Hrm, they must know something that I don’t… http://www.mura.org/2010/02/hrm-they-must-know-something-that-i-dont/ http://www.mura.org/2010/02/hrm-they-must-know-something-that-i-dont/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:30:32 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=3847 Here’s a recent splog post using content from this website.

Say what?
Source: Brandon

Say what?

]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/02/hrm-they-must-know-something-that-i-dont/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ They don’t really mean Inglewood, California? http://www.mura.org/2010/01/they-dont-really-mean-inglewood-california/ http://www.mura.org/2010/01/they-dont-really-mean-inglewood-california/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:06:18 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=3834 I was surfing around the other day, and saw this job posting (no I’m not looking for a new job).

A dotcom in Inglewood, California?

A dotcom in Inglewood, California?

For those of you that don’t know Inglewood, California:

  • The Los Angeles Lakers used to play at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood.
  • Hollywood Park is in Inglewood.
  • Inglewood is pretty close to Watts and Compton
  • My dad grew up in Inglewood, and my grandparents used to run a great plant nursery there (that’s long since closed down).
  • But I would never think of running a dotcom there.
]]> http://www.mura.org/2010/01/they-dont-really-mean-inglewood-california/feed/ 0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ The economy must really be bad… http://www.mura.org/2010/01/the-economy-must-really-be-bad/ http://www.mura.org/2010/01/the-economy-must-really-be-bad/#comments Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:30:13 +0000 Brandon Muramatsu http://www.mura.org/?p=3722 …I just watched a commercial for Idaho potatoes on TV.

Idaho Potato-es?
Source: Idaho Potato Commision

Idaho Potato-es?

(Uh, why is the Idaho Potatoe Commission running TV ads?)

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