Friday, February 18, 2011

The End


The end.

The end has many meanings but there is only one. The end is finite and infinite. Nothing ever ends, but everything has an end. The end is the beginning, with each beginning being the end. If the end is the beginning, then there is never a beginning or end. Therefore, if there is neither a beginning nor an end, then there can never be anything, because for there to be something, it must start. A start is a beginning, which doesn’t exist because it is also an end.

Therefore, it is impossible for you to read this. I never wrote this, but imagined writing it and imagined you reading it. I couldn’t have done that either, because I need to exist to be able to imagine or write. I never came into existence because that would have been a beginning, which never existed because it was an end, which also was a beginning…

Reality is a paradox unto itself.

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Solar iPhone Charger

The Pelican Case came yesterday: model 1060. It's quite durable, as I was able to stand on it without issue. The MintyBoost is fixed in place and the solar panel is read to be set. All that remains, which should be here by Saturday, is the battery and the battery charger board. Preliminary mock-up tests show that all works as planned.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Red General Starfish

There really is beauty to be found in the oceans still... This is just an example of that - a Red General starfish. It's a neat echinoderm that particularly loves to feast on corals.


Solar iPhone Charger

MintyBoost has been assembled and the 6v 2w solar panel arrived today! Tested the panel under a metal halide and got 6.2v so that's a good sign! Battery and battery charger are supposed to be here by Friday and the case for all this is arriving tomorrow.

The MintyBoost is the small thing with a female USB port and the solar panel is the large rectangular thing...