Treat what has happened as a gift : GF Radio #338

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” ― Wayne W. Dyer   via Eric’s Friend

In the cool DIY portion of our cool podcast, we talk about this neat segway clone, and Eric’s meeting with a Segway driving dot-com startup founder.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Rideable-Segway-Clone-Low-Cost-and-Easy-Build/

Couple of interesting things from NPR:
For the millions of people with allergies, spring can mean months of antihistamines, nasal steroids and avoiding nature….
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/11/289037074/tiny-in-nose-filters-aim-to-keep-allergies-at-bay?sc=17&f=1001

Eric’s continuing intrigue with with small scale distilling brings us a post about ocean going bourbon:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/11/288780160/for-a-faster-aged-bourbon-you-need-the-motion-of-the-ocean?sc=17&f=1001
“After his initial revelation, Zoeller sent five barrels of recently distilled bourbon out to sea with Chris Fischer. A high school friend of Zoeller’s, Fischer heads , an organization that tracks sharks and other endangered marine life. He kept the barrels on board his ship for three and a half years. Fischer covered more than 10,000 nautical miles, travelling south of the equator and in and out of the Panama Canal six times.”

In our geek department, an article in theNY Times about a new app for people who like news.

Trove app for news junkies http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/test-run-trove-is-a-treasure-for-news-junkies