For one of my classes, Experimental Writing, I made a Children’s Storybook with a focus on weather and nature.  I thought I might as well post it since I thought it was interesting and fun project:

Words of Weather and Nature

Salt Lake City

Through A Clearing

In the Valley

Towering Mountains

Recently Microsoft has launched an ad campaign targeted at Apple Computer’s “Mac vs PC” commercials.  I dislike commercials, and despise those which aren’t accurate.  Sure I have had Microsoft Windows crash on me, but this pales in comparison to using the original iMac’s with OS9 in middle school.  With OS9 I would be lucky to get through half the class without it freezing and they were by far the worst computers I ever used.

For some reason, people actually like these Microsoft and Apple commercials.  The commercials themselves are contradictory as they compare a “Mac” to a “PC.”  Well I hate to break this for you commercial lovers, but a Mac is a PC.  PC stands for “Personal Computer,” and Apple revolutionized this industry during the 1980′s.  A Mac is a subset of a PC, and Apple even lists this on their website: “Why your next PC should be a Mac.”

Yes, the commercials are stupid as Apple doesn’t even remember that their own company helped pioneer the PC.  Maybe someone at Apple should look up the definition of a “PC,” so they can cancel the “iPod vs MP3 player” commercials before they air.

I am in the process of improving the turbine.  I will be changing blades which should greatly increase the power output in moderate to high winds.  Additionally I am getting approval to move the turbine to a different location at RIT where it will be more visible and where the wind speeds should be higher.

I never posted any videos of the project so here is the turbine in light winds:

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