Monthly Archive for February, 2008Page 2 of 7

Held in suspense!

Published
by
Michael Comfort
on February 22, 2008
in Projects
. 2 Comments

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OK, it’s time for a Jetta update. I know many of you are won­der­ing what in the world has been hap­pen­ing with The Transplant…

Well, the answer is—not much! I got as far as I could go (until I needed spe­cial tools and a cherry picker (engine lift), so Deanne and I towed it over to the VW guy’s shop so he could do the parts that I couldn’t (this was exactly a month ago!).

To make a long story short, I’ve been get­ting bumped. He does work there some­times, and mostly he’s been work­ing on other stuff, but it’s not a real busi­ness. You know, the kind that you can call and talk to some­one, or even leave a mes­sage? Nope. This is not that. Mostly I just wait, and drive by hoping to catch him there.

So I’m being patient. And thanks to Lucy, my mother in law, Alison does have a car to drive, so it’s not all bad.

Actu­ally, I’m sort of cul­ti­vat­ing a friend­ship with Matt, and some of the other guys that hang out at his shop. These are guys that I just don’t see in my normal “home-​work-​church” weekly rou­tine, and they really are pretty friendly.

So, the plan is that Matt will swap the motors, and use his spe­cial tools, and then I can have it back and hook up all the stuff that I took part. One down side is that putting my part back together is going to be a bit tougher now, as things are not as fresh in my mind as the weeks have gone by! As you saw in the top photo, though, a lot of progress was made today, and both motors are out!

Here’s a bonus photo. It’s the donor vehi­cle. Kind of reminds me of my root canal last fall!

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Is this for real?

Published
by
Michael Comfort
on February 21, 2008
in Attempt at humor, Photoshop fun and Technology
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This tech­nol­ogy essen­tially would extract carbon diox­ide from the atmos­phere and, using a form of elec­tro­chem­i­cal sep­a­ra­tion, turn it into fuel. The goal is to create a fuel that will work with exist­ing vehi­cle and air­craft infrastructure.

Cool! It solves two big prob­lems at once!

  1. Too much CO2
  2. Not enough clean fuel

Here’s what I envi­sion it look­ing like:

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(Maybe we will be able to fuel our jet packs with these?)

Here’s where I first heard about it.

Recent Work

Published
by
Michael Comfort
on February 20, 2008
in Photoshop fun and Work
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Here’s a project I worked on this morning!

Artex is in Canby, and is a world-​leader in Emer­gency Loca­tor Trans­mit­ters (ELTs). I have done their pro­mo­tional and prod­uct lit­er­a­ture, trade show dis­play design, prod­uct pho­tog­ra­phy, and lots of other fun stuff for sev­eral years now. This graphic is the start of a brand tran­si­tion to their parent com­pany; Cobham Avionics.

Work can be fun, but not vice-​versa. Some days I am paid to work. Other days I am paid to have fun.

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