MBTA
Run more trains.
One could digress:
- Better (not lesser) service during construction and disruption.
- Improvement of daytime operations before late night (are you listening sponsors?).
- Tooth on-time guarantees.
- Expresses (over holds).
- Address dangerous platform overcrowding at rush hour.
- Out-of-servicing only in sparsely-populated direction.
- All (or most) Green-lines inbound to at least North Station.
- No schedule adjustments at core and terminus stations.
But to get back to the crux...
Run more trains.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Network Enhanced Everything - NEE.
Have discussed "supers" previously - capacitors, batteries, insulation - and in general - materials...
also LEDs, solar photovoltaics and other renewables.
Lately thinking about everything network (and computer) enhanced...
Enhanced - manufacturing, services, handling, inventory, sensing, communications and analytics.
By no means comprehensive, but meant to encompass some popular specifics like
robotics, 3D fabrication, telepresence, IoT and M2M.
also LEDs, solar photovoltaics and other renewables.
Lately thinking about everything network (and computer) enhanced...
Enhanced - manufacturing, services, handling, inventory, sensing, communications and analytics.
By no means comprehensive, but meant to encompass some popular specifics like
robotics, 3D fabrication, telepresence, IoT and M2M.
Labels:
analytics,
communications,
enhanced,
handling,
inventory,
IoT,
M2M,
manufacturing,
robot,
sensors,
services,
telepresence
Friday, April 25, 2014
Robotics - Economist - Analysis, Logistics.
Feature section on Robotics in Economist March 27, 2014.
Rise of Robots [Ecomomist]
Economist Robotics
Kiva
For lawn? Robotic Lawn Mowers
Rise of Robots [Ecomomist]
Economist Robotics
Highlights:
Asking for help where a robot is helpless is perhaps feature
and not a bug. Drones are not in as much military demand as one might
think. Who will provide us our last human kindnesses?
Thoughts:
Opportunity for analytics? Amazon Kiva Union [Forbes]Kiva
More succinctly analytics for Logistics Automation
For lawn? Robotic Lawn Mowers
Little mention of trade show robots as a tele-presence
application.
Trade Show Robots [Wired]Monday, April 7, 2014
Great Grandmother's Oatmeal Cookies.
Here is the recipe for:
Great Grandmother's Oatmeal Cookies
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon soda (baking soda)
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix all together plus add the following heated together
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup water
Heat the above two until the shortening melts.
Mix and roll out 1/4" thick.
Cut with a round cutter.
Re-roll, cut, repeat.
She always put icing on top.
Icing:
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 to 1/2 cup milk (probably 1/3).
Mix the above and bring to a boil.
Add icing sugar until the mix thickens.
Add 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.
Albert's notes:
Rolled oats are critical above.
Need a box (1 cup plus?) of icing sugar on hand.
Hmmm. No sign of baking instructions.
Probably something like 325-375F for 30-90 minutes.
(Some heat for enough time until they just start to brown.)
Probably can be taken from a standard cookie recipe?
Transcribed by Albert Putnam from notes by Ethyl Beryl Putnam (ne McCully). Spring 2001. Based on cookies baked by Alma Mae McCully (ne Withrow).
Great Grandmother's Oatmeal Cookies
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup flour
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon soda (baking soda)
1/2 teaspoon salt
Mix all together plus add the following heated together
1/2 cup shortening
1/2 cup water
Heat the above two until the shortening melts.
Mix and roll out 1/4" thick.
Cut with a round cutter.
Re-roll, cut, repeat.
She always put icing on top.
Icing:
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 to 1/2 cup milk (probably 1/3).
Mix the above and bring to a boil.
Add icing sugar until the mix thickens.
Add 1/4 teaspoon vanilla.
Albert's notes:
Rolled oats are critical above.
Need a box (1 cup plus?) of icing sugar on hand.
Hmmm. No sign of baking instructions.
Probably something like 325-375F for 30-90 minutes.
(Some heat for enough time until they just start to brown.)
Probably can be taken from a standard cookie recipe?
Transcribed by Albert Putnam from notes by Ethyl Beryl Putnam (ne McCully). Spring 2001. Based on cookies baked by Alma Mae McCully (ne Withrow).
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