RichC | May 11, 2024
As someone who has spent their career in printing and publishing, I should know this, but why do so many creative people and graphic designers make reading magazines and some newspapers so painfully difficult? The typography in some is ridiculous. I enjoy reading in the evening when my eyes are tired and the lighting is […]
Category: Business, Human Interest, Memories, Tidbits |
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Tags: brenda, cvs.com, design, facility, foreign affairs, magazine, printing, reading, soma, typography
RichC | March 11, 2023
When I was in high school, I headed off to Ohio Northern University to become an engineer although veered off into industrial technology, facility design and then teaching when offered a Miami University instructor position when in graduate school. Now putting that education redirection aside … and the other career moves that followed … I’m […]
Category: Education, Innovation, Science, Social Media, Video |
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Tags: design, engineer, engineering, miami university, mp4, ohio, onu, sidney
RichC | May 20, 2020
Several posts ago I mentioned that I was participating in the Makers Mob woodworking 6-week Scrapwood Challenge as part of the stay-at-home COVID19 orders. I can’t say that this project is anything great, but it did give me something to do in the evenings besides tweet political garbage or watch more outrage and debate from […]
Category: Archive, Personal, Photos, Woodworking |
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Tags: artwork, challenge, design, hooks, makers mob, painting, picture, scrapwood, woodworking
RichC | November 16, 2019
Here’s a WIRED article that made me think … although it has a misleading title line, even if that is what caught my attention and started me reading it. When does user-friendliness, algorithms and anticipatory artificial intelligence that is designed to help us make decisions, end up becoming "I don’t need to think at all" […]
Category: Archive, Business, Human Interest, Innovation, Misc |
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Tags: ai, algorithms, article, artificial intelligence, b-17, decisions, design, macintosh, steve jobs, user friendly, wired, ww2
RichC | October 22, 2019
One thing about waiting for a start-up car company to build a car is that I’m learning a lot more about the automotive manufacturing process. Nowadays, many of the parts are manufactured by suppliers to the automotive industry and then assembled. The same will be true for the unique Elio Motors three wheel tandem seating […]
Category: Automotive, Business, Technology |
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Tags: automotive, design, digital buck, digital mockup, elio, elio motors, engineering
RichC | September 6, 2019
Perhaps it is just me, but I’m growing tired of the software development trend to make every piece of software resemble a smartphone app. I spend a significant amount of time using a desktop computer with plenty of display real estate, yet apps and webpages are all trying to make their mobile apps, notebook computer […]
Category: Cellphone, Computer, Software, Tablet, Technology |
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Tags: apps, computerhope.com, design, gripe, hamburger, icon, menu, program, programming, Software, tech friday, techfriday, webpages, wikipedia
RichC | August 28, 2019
Category: Aviation, Ideas, Innovation, Photos, Tidbits |
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Tags: aerospace, airplanes, aviation, birds, design, engineering, flying, inspiration
RichC | July 7, 2017
Complaining is getting me nowhere … but those of us old school users of Yahoo and Google continue to be frustrated to see both companies going down the "design for smartphone – card look format" to their pages, even for large display computers. YAHOO A few weeks ago Yahoo Finance forced all users to give […]
Category: Business, Computer, Financial, Marketing, News, Technology |
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Tags: complaint, design, finance, google, News, portfolio, smartphone, tech friday, techfriday, website, yahoo
RichC | December 16, 2016
Got to love Facebook for connecting people who love the same things … in this instance, a naval architect and sailing guru Robert Perry has posted a couple of his favorite photos of one of his early designs — the Baba 30 (our first sailboat, Brenich). It was a beautiful boat and enjoyable to […]
Category: Memories, Photos, Sailing, Social Media |
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Tags: baba 30, design, facebook, robert perry, sailboat, ta shing
RichC | August 25, 2016
After we “cooked” our generator (my fault for not telling Brenda to prop open the enclosure door), I’ve been tinkering to get parts in order to fix it as mentioned before … but my best attempt as scrounging parts has failed. I could only come up with a possible match for the windings and the […]
Category: Archive, Energy, Misc, Personal, Photos |
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Tags: addition, back up, design, generator, greenhouse, grill, porch, power, project
RichC | August 2, 2016
Now that we’ve been in our house for over 20 years and haven’t really done much to update our kitchen and the builder grade cabinets and appliances. It is time to start the ball rolling and at least get a few ideas. Brenda thinks our kitchen is too small by today’s "big house" standards so […]
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Tags: building, corbett, design, house, kitchen, update
RichC | May 3, 2016
Noticed a short video on TechInsider website demonstrated a few of the Apple design details that make an iPhone an iPhone. Some I knew and paid attention to, other I hardly noticed. Good stuff. http://richc.us/tiny-iTips
Category: Apple, Technology, Video |
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Tags: apple, design, iphone, TechInsider
RichC | June 13, 2015
If you have already traveled by airplane, chances are you’ve noticed a tiny hole on the lower portion of all airplane windows The hole is designed to balance out the pressure between the last two layers of a typical pressurized-cabin window. For more images and a more detailed explaination see the article at Interesting Engineering.
Category: Aviation, Misc |
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Tags: airplane, design, engineering, flying
RichC | April 14, 2015
How cool is this project and design? Check out Manifattura Italiana Design or for more images look at DesignBoom.com’s post.
Category: Innovation, Misc, Woodworking |
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Tags: creative, design, manifattura, table
RichC | May 8, 2014
While sorting and tossing some old “paper” magazines last weekend, I stumbled across an article about New Zealand’s Duke Engines in a September 2011 issue of Sport Aviation (PDF of article) that peaked my interest. I’ve posted on engine design ideas before as they relate to aviation and automotive, but thought this design has some […]
Category: Automotive, Aviation, Innovation, Video |
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Tags: aviation, design, engines, youtube
RichC | March 31, 2012
Take two on the “who designs these things?” A couple of weeks ago I posted on the rust inside an automatic icemaker and wondered why a better grade of material that could resist the rust wasn’t used inside a freezer so prone to moisture. Today the knob on our GE clothes washing machine snapped off […]
Category: Misc |
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Tags: design, engineer, ge, general electric, washer
RichC | February 1, 2011
It is nice when websites run and link to webOS friendly media content. One of the better sites is reagan.gop.com remembering President Ronald Reagan’s legacy and his upcoming February 6th birthday – he would be 100. In browsing with my Palm Pre yesterday I found it to be one of the few utilizing content and […]
Category: Cellphone, Politics, Video |
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Tags: browser, design, gop, palm, reagan, webos, website