Future Fridge

What can your refrigerator do for you? For most people these days the answer is simple, “it keeps things cold” and for some “it even dispenses ice and water.”

What does the future hold for your refrigerator? Interactive message boards, digital picture frames, satellite radio, CD/DVD players, recharging cell phones and other devices as well.

All that it and it still keeps things cold...will wonders never cease. This week, a look at future fridge.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw (Irish playwright, 1856 - 1950)

Future Fridge

Repeatability and Reproducibility

Repeatability measures the success rate in successive experiments. Reproducibility, on the other hand, is the ability of an experiment to be accurately replicated. Together, repeatability and reproducibility make up precision, which is altogether different from accuracy.

Confused? It's okay. This week, a look at repeatability and reproducibility.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got." - Art Buchwald (US author, columnist, dramatist, & journalist, 1925 - 2007)

Repeatability and Reproducibility

Tomato History, Part 2

For some it is nirvana to bite into a garden-ripe tomato, fresh off a vine in the backyard sun. For me, it is the last thing I want to eat; I can't get past the texture.

Tomato sauce, tomato paste, ketchup...all good things I enjoy to consume. I even learned to like tomato soup, as long as it is devoid of identifiable pieces. Chunks of tomato...ugh. The soft, squishy center is the worst.

This week, part 2 of the history of tomatoes.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." - Albert Einstein (US (German-born) theoretical physicist, 1879 - 1955)

Tomato History Part 2

Tomato History, Part 1

Tuh-MAY-toh or Tuh-MAH-to? Pronunciation doesn't matter when it comes to this fabulous nutritious fruit known as a vegetable. It's hard to believe that such a widely-used food source was once considered deadly poisonous.

Available year-round in fresh and preserved forms, there is no shortage of uses for this versatile "vegetable." This week, a part 1 of a history of the tomato.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Mark Twain (American author and humorist, 1835-1910)

Tomato History Part 1