Mike’s World of fun stuff (pinball, games, electronics, amusement parks, computers, more)

Sadly, there is no Mac Mini with built-in DVR funtionality, but the new Mini based on the Intel chips is now available. Also announced were some no-so-interesting iPod accessories.
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Continuing on a similar thread from my recent Mantis shrimp post, here is a video of a Mantis shrimp, which is cool enough, but also living in a super-small 1 cubic foot tank micro reef.
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As I'm sitting here working on the site, about the turn-on the electric heater to fight-off the nightly Colorado winter chill, I thought I'd browse through some photos I took on my last trip to Florida.
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Windows only, sorry. It seems that very few people even know about the Windows-E combination to start an Explorer instance. Well, this open-source freeware lets you assign any program to any Windows-key combination press.
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An inventor in Colorado has come-up with a neat idea to create a house which can float-up with flood waters.
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This is one sea creature that will do something about being contained in a aquarium if they don't like it!
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This is a PIC microcontroller project I did some time ago which turns my computer's hard drive LED into a more interesting 10 LED bargraph display.
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These photos document the hard drive upgrade I did to my factory-dual-drive Series 1 Tivo.
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Are you not into traditional sports? Also not into extreme sports? Perhaps something like lock-picking is more your style.
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Here are a few photos of a Lego Volvo XC90 I took in Vail.
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