Dr. Jason W. Ellis' Blog on Science Fiction, Computers, Artificial Intelligence, LEGO, Making, and More
I wanted to display Han Solo in Carbonite more prominently on my Return of the Jedi/Jabba s Palace shelf of my Star Wars collection. There is Hasbro s set that includes Han, and there are some third-party creations on eBay, Etsy, and other websites. However, I have a lot of LEGO, so I figured that I would [ ]
I decided to dig into these two MRE cases that I bought last year: an MRE Case A (Menus 1-12) with an inspection date of 10/27 and an MRE Halal Meals case with an inspection date of 6/27. Both temperature reaction stickers were in good condition with no center shading. As shown below, I was [ ]
If you have a home hospital bed that needs to be relocated easily but can t find unthreaded caster wheels, this guide might be helpful to you. The problem that I recently encountered was a very heavy home hospital bed that needed to be moved around easily without being dragged around on a new floor. The [ ]
While I was in Georgia visiting my parents this past month, I acquired a few more Star Wars action figures, playsets, and a vehicle to add to my collection. I knew that I needed to drive my mom to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida for tests and doctor s appointments while I was there. I [ ]
Panning around my desk at home is the Star Wars version of the original opening toThe Ray Bradbury Theater. My favorites are the Kenner line of action figures. To the left of my computer monitor is Sy Snootles and the Rebo Band set, which is sealed in its original box and blister pack, but the [ ]
As I ve written about before here and here, my small office space at City Tech has accumulated many vintage computers since 2014. Due to computers getting so densely packed into my space, it was difficult to show them to interested students or dig them out for classroom demonstrations. After failing to find any other colleagues [ ]
I wanted to display my Kenner Millennium Falcon, which I ve had for awhile, and my recently acquired Slave I on a shelf above my desk at home. While I liked seeing them on the shelf above my desk Falcon with gear down and Slave I resting on its base I thought displaying them in flight would look [ ]
I recently built this new, energy-efficient AI workstation to replace the much more power hungry workstation that I built a year ago. While my old workstation had substantially more VRAM and compute than my new workstation, it was as loud as a jet engine and used a considerable amount of electricity each month. The new [ ]
I ve been using my Lenovo Thinkpad P1 Gen4 laptop as a desktop replacement system lately, so I wanted to raise its screen higher to avoid slouching and subsequent neck and shoulder pain. While there are lots of solutions to buy, I opted to use the LEGO Technics that I had on hand to build a [ ]
Last night, I stuck around after my first co-taught Interactive Technology and Pedagogy I class at the CUNY Graduate Center. The class went very well. Students demonstrated that they had done the reading and some brought deep perspectives from their disciplines to bear on our first discussion on technology and media. Thankfully, there were no [ ]