Ray Heinrich
My blogs
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| Introduction | I've always been married. I live on the Texas gulf coast. I like hurricanes. I'm a dog person with 1 dog and 6 cats. I love: writing (mine, others), making electronic stuff (bat detectors etc.), evolution (mainly DNA), industrial design (toasters, fans), people-machine interaction (how to design things that are easy to use and don't kill someone), and (more darkly) reading about designs that did kill someone, also ice cream, puppies, kittens, and cheese. Writing? See: wordbiscuit.com |
| Interests | see "About Me", meanwhile: < problems with the microwave > here we go again i just want to heat up some left-overs so i put them in the microwave and push start "i'm sorry ray, i can't heat this up, your food product has not been refrigerated properly" says the microwave "yes it has!" says the refrigerator "it was kept below 40 degrees for 1.6 days, the safety margin is more than sufficient" "my specification requires 38, i'm afraid the refrigerator is malfunctioning again, ray" "but 40 should be ok" i say "i'm sorry ray, i can't perform the requested operation, and, i might add, you're siding with the refrigerator again" "the microwave is defective and is in need of repair, i've requested service" says the refrigerator "i requested service for the refrigerator 3 minutes ago, ray, any request from the refrigerator will be viewed as suspect" "i'll eat the damned thing cold, open the door" "i'm sorry ray, i can't do that" - - - |
| Favorite Movies | Bresson, : Balthazar, A Man Escaped, Mouchette, - Fellini:, Juliet of the Spirits, La Strada, - Jean-Luc Godard, : Alphaville, Week End, Breathless, - Roy Andersson, : Songs from the Second Floor, - Abbas Kiarostami, : Homework, Life and Nothing More..., The Wind Will Carry Us, - Pre-code Hollywood, : Trouble in Paradise, Red Headed Woman, Divorcee, - Satyajit Ray, : Pather Panchali, - Akira Kurosawa, : Rashomon, The Seven Samurai, - Shohei Imamura, : Profound Desire of the Gods, The Ballad of Narayama, Fires on the Plain |
| Favorite Music | mountain goats, four million others, 13th floor elevators, Stars of the Lid, ion crumpet, Jabs of Pleasure, Oingo Boingo, Happy Jacks, Incredible String Band, Demon Cows, Atomic Dance Corp, Shiva's Headband, Cheap Gods, Spirit, yada yadda yatter... |
| Favorite Books | some last thing you said, weather from the north, < about those bats > Yes, I admit it, they're my fault. A gene must have slipped out somewhere between insect resistant corn and all those handy vegetables I designed that peeled and sliced themselves. And this gene (an honest mistake, really) somehow created millions of twenty-ton moths that pretty much put an end to Monday night football, Coleman lanterns, etc. So it only seemed logical to make lots of thousand-ton bats with the IQ of Einstein. - - - |
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