I have lost faith in the human race. From the BBC: A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger. An eyewitness said the victim was stabbed 50 or 60 times by the man sitting next to him, who then severed his head with a large knife. […] “When we [...]

It seems that a Japanese company known as Genepax is touting an over-sized battery as a fuel cell that runs on plain old water and air. The system uses what the company has termed a “membrane electrode assembly,” or MEA, to split water into Hydrogen and Oxygen through a “chemical reaction.” Well of course it’s [...]

A few days ago I decided to hit up Canada’s Wonderland for the first time in several years. One of the triggers for this was to try out their new hypercoaster, known as Behemoth (Wikipedia article). I woke up at 8:00am on Sunday morning and drove up to Bloor St. to meet up with my brother. [...]

I have been getting many questions regarding our aircraft, the KS-77 Vermillion, as to the direction of flight. It seems most of you think it is flying backwards. Well, it’s not. The KS-77 does indeed fly forward, although I think I know where all the confusion is coming from. You see, the directionality of nearly [...]

I tried several times over the past week and a half to write a post but have had trouble finding the time. Last Friday (April 4th) I had a thesis draft due. This involved staying up all night on Thursday to get as much done as I could. Although my final progress wasn’t as far [...]

I must not like the idea of getting back to school since I seem to have a tendency to write long posts on Sunday afternoons. It’s a gloriously sunny day today, if a little cold at a few degrees below zero. The wind doesn’t help matters too much, but it is still nice in the [...]

Yay, the grades for Structures were finally posted =D I did about as well as I expected, which lands my final semester average at a few percent above the class average of 78%. In other news, we’re down to four days until the boat show this Saturday. Yet again, we will be arriving early and [...]

When Porsche released the Cayenne in 2002, I thought to myself “Porsche.. SUV.. Something doesn’t fit.” I’ve seen many of them on the road and I can’t say I’ve seen any of them display any real driving performance. It seems an odd relationship to their smaller, sportier cousins. Earlier today I read an article about a [...]

I was sent this article earlier today regarding General Motors demoing their new HCCI engines. While it is by no means a solution to the problem of vehicle emissions, it certainly is a cool step forward in engine technology.