A few nice machining quote images I found:
Favourite Celebrity Quote no.252 – Elton John
Image by id-iom
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Title: Favourite Celebrity Quote no.252 – Elton John
Media: Hand cut stencil, spraypaint, marker pen and paint pen on piece of cardboard
Used in street drop in Soho – www.flickr.com/photos/id-iom/3340333987/
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Image by RHiNO NEAL
My Fernandes Nomad.
Built for guitar players on the go, and used as a practice and warm up tool by top touring musicians worldwide, the Nomad brings the World closer 6-strings at a time. Light weight, easily stored, anytime, anywhere.
"Incredible as a practice axe, fun as a conversation piece and INDISPENSABLE as a song riff writing tool, the visionary Nomad combines the features and tone of a digital amp with the feel of an expensive guitar." -Guitar World Magazine
"The NOMAD is a very well-constructed travel guitar with great built-in FX that I have used to write songs, practice and warm up before every show on tour. Thank you, Fernandes." – Adam Jones – TOOL
I should note that the quote above is from Adam Jones who is in the band Tool – it is not from Adam Jones, with me adding the comment TOOL after it……. that would be rude, and he isn’t a Tool…..
Driver not Wanted
Image by jurvetson
Google’s Sebastian Thrun would like to put an end to humans driving cars on public roadways.
Instead, the car just drives itself, day and night. Some lucky Google engineers are chauffeured to work each day around Silicon Valley in these cars, crossing bridges, toll booths and pedestrian crosswalks.
Here are photos and video of my high speed ride in a Google robocar — the ultimate driving machine.
Quotes from Thrun’s TED Talk, which just went live:
“We have driven 140,000 miles and people didn’t even notice.”
“Driving accidents are the number one cause of death for young people, and almost all of those are due to human error, not machine error, that could be definitely be prevented by machine.”
“We could change the capacity of highways by a factor or 2 or 3 if we didn’t rely on human precision to stay in the lanes, but on robotic precision… and do away with all traffic jams on highways.”
“You spend an average of 52 minutes per day in traffic wasting your time on your daily commute. There are 4 billion hours wasted in this country alone, and 2.4B gallons of gasoline wasted.”
“I am looking forward to a time when generations after look back at us and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.”