Omar Lutfey

Omar Lutfey

2023 Christmas Letter

The year is 2023 and I’m going back to school… to learn Dungeons and Dragons! After watching three and a half episodes of a popular Netflix original series I decided to Stranger-Things-ify my life with this classic ultra nerd role…

2022 Christmas Letter

Brown collar worker Omar Lutfey here with yet another end of the year summary of the wildly important and utterly trivial events of my life. I leave it up to you, the reader, to determine which is which. In January…

In The Beginning

In the beginning God created the mathematical universe and it was formless and void. God said, “Let this be known as nothing.” Then God said, “It is not right that this creation should be alone. I will make a companion…

2021 Christmas Letter

No time for the usual introduction as I smash through the fourth wall like the Kool-Aid Man after his latest parole hearing! WILLFUL DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY– OH YEAH! You! Yes YOU! The one reading this letter– somehow I can communicate…

Enclosure: Part 2

  I learned a few lessons from the original enclosure. The main takeaway was to not make it just barely big enough to fit the CNC machine. The drag chains would rub against the top in certain places and I…

Escher

I plan on doing some more Escher projects on the CNC. This turned out to be a nice test piece.

Custom Frame

I took this picture of my preloader and made a custom frame. I bought a few frames from the thrift store and used the plastic front and the back parts. A good investment of 99 cents.

Semicolon

Someone asked me to make them a semicolon. I used a spare piece of our flooring which means I didn’t need to do any finishing work to it.

Shelves

These were a bit of a challenge because the pieces were bigger than what the CNC machine could cut at one time, but it turned out great in the end.

Heat Pump

As with so many revolutionary ideas, this one started as a butcher paper doodle while waiting for our food at The Macaroni Grill. Anyone who has taken apart as many air conditioning units as I have knows these are by…

Heat Pump

As with so many revolutionary ideas, this one started as a butcher paper doodle while waiting for our food at Macaroni Grill. Anyone who has taken apart as many air conditioning units as I have knows these are by no…

If I Had A Million Dollars…

If I had a million dollars I would want a million more (why not two million more?) Good point… wait, what are you getting at? (I think you are missing the point of the song.) Oh, all right, let me…

Patent Description

HEAT PUMP  BACKGROUND  Technical Field of the Invention: [0001] The present invention is related in general to heat transfer apparatus and methods, and more specifically to heat pumps for moving heat from one environment to another environment. State of the Prior…

Tesla News

When asked how he balances work and family life, SpaceX founder Elon Musk explained how he makes an effort to find common ground. “For example, I spent the last forth of July with my children and we all put our…

Adventures In Europe

The first step in planning a trip to Europe is deciding where to visit. My first idea was to map out an itinerary that faithfully recreated Matt Daemon’s adventures in the first three Borne movies. After closer examination, however, this…

Fixing The Leak

Depending on the outcome of the upcoming Ecuadorian Presidential election, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange may need to find a new place to live. Assange has been living in the Ecuador Embassy in London since 2012 to avoid facing sexual assault…

2016 Christmas Letter

Countless people– well, OK, maybe three or four– have been asking about what happened to my 2015 Christmas Letter. Was I abducted by aliens who erased my memories? Perhaps, but I have no way of knowing. Was I too lazy…

Team Infinities

Welcome to the post-race wrap-up for the 37th annual Longmont Kinetics Race! I’m the team captain of team Infinities, but to keep things simple you can call me Infini-tease. I’m the one with the pink hair and the fishnet stockings.…

There Should Have Been Only One

Executives at Hulu are being investigated for “review inflation” after an investigative journalist recently uncovered a “3 out of 5” star rating for Highlander 2. Scientific investigation on this subject have concluded this movie is as close to “absolute zero stars”…

Mission Possible

So I’m sitting here in my home on a quiet Saturday morning before anyone else has woken up thinking about things I want to accomplish in my lifetime. Here are a few randomly selected items on my list: Make a…

2014 Christmas Letter

I believe it was JP Morgan who once said “You don’t rise to the top by jumping in the kiddie pool.” That, or I just made it up a few moments ago. Fact checking isn’t a strong point in my…

Internet Killed The TV Star

I showed my kids “Video Killed the Radio Star” on YouTube today. This song has the honor of being the first video ever played on MTV. In a related story, MTV has announced it will play it’s very last music…