Friday, April 30

Mint Julep Tutorial for the Derby

I'm trying to duplicate this recipe.

Tuesday, April 27

My Goal

To write a winning cartoon caption.
No.
To think up a caption. Any caption.

My Samara Are Falling (Twirling)



“Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. ...In the 1950s, researchers first tried to create an unmanned aerial vehicle that could mimic a maple seed’s spiraling fall. Ever since, their attempts have been foiled by instability, resulting in a lack of control over the tiny (less than one meter) vehicles, which were easily knocked off course by wind. ...The students studied maple seeds and developed a new design incorporating the natural flight of the tiny flyers. The insight gleaned from this study enabled the creation of the world’s smallest controllable single-winged rotorcraft. The maple seed-inspired design is valuable because when dropped, unpowered, from a plane and then controlled remotely, it can perform surveillance maneuvers for defense, fire monitoring and search-and-rescue purposes.
...Part of the solution to controlling flight was to physically separate the problem of propulsion and stability. The wing of the vehicle is designed to function in the same way as natural samara and performs a stable autorotation during descent. The propulsive section of the vehicle functions like the tail rotor on a helicopter, though instead of preventing rotation, (as in the case of a helicopter), it maintains rotation (to allow it to hover)....The insight gleaned from this study enabled the creation of the world’s smallest controllable single-winged rotorcraft.”
(Adapted from the X-Journals)


Sunday, April 25

My Six Word Memoir

Too many recipes, too few meals.

Saturday, April 24

Still Cute

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