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- Too much free time.
"Yeah, well, just concentrate on your work, okay?" is the rallying cry of someone who doesn't understand and is likely afraid of what you're doing.
- Photo album: The USA Science and Engineering Festival
Before things get hectic again, here are the photographs I took at the USA Science and Engineering Festival a few weekends ago (which I'm still recovering from, incidental
- HacDC at the USA Science and Engineering Festival.
A week or two ago it was announced on one of the HacDC mailing lists that we'd been given a pair of tables at the second USA Science and Engineering Festival which was hel
- Gibson's Maxim.
Every effort which goes out of its way to describe itself as cyberspace will come to nothing. See also "suicide by marketing."
- ContactCon 2011.
As you've no doubt guessed, the reasons for my radio silence have been many and multi-layered, and now things have calmed down a little. I've been scrambling with the rest
- Radio silence: a sign of the times.
I wish I could say it's been quiet over here, but it's actually been relentlessly busy for Lyssa and I down here in DC. I think I overextended myself a little the weekend
- Electronics projects to make you sit up and take notice.
During my daily morning mainline injection of news on the Net this week, a couple of electronics projects caught my eye that I hadn't seen before. The first is a project f
- Life is so much more interesting when you don't get any REM sleep!
It’s a sure sign that you’re trying to accomplish too much when you start forsaking sleep for other things. Lately, work has been running me ragged so to compensate I have
- Rapid prototyping a violin.
Rapid prototyping and fabrication are one of those technologies that you don’t appreciate (or even know are in use) until you walk into someplace like the Boston Fab Lab a
- Affordable personal satellites now available, launch included.
It is a long standing tradition among the amateur radio community to construct whatever you need to get the job done if you can’t acquire it somehow. In fact, the basic tr
- You're probably wondering where I've been lately.
By and large, work has been, well, work. Lots of hours at the office, lots of hours stuck in traffic sweating like Kevin Mitnick during a traffic stop. When I haven't be
- The nice thing about metrics is that there are so many to choose from.
One of the many buzzwords that you hear in the discipline of software engineering is metrics . They're supposed to be a measure of how effectively your coders are function
- Lost weeks.
I haven't been posting lately due to the fact Real Life (tm) has been keeping me away from the Net and generally too busy to write about what's been going on. Two weekends
- Birthday weekend in review.
Lyssa and I started off our Valentine's Day by getting up far earlier than should be allowed by law on a Saturday morning to go to our local H&R Block office to finish get
- Work progresses on the sonic screwdriver.
One of the main reasons that I've been hanging out at HacDC lately is the fact that they've got a pretty well stocked electronics lab in the loft. There are shelves on the
- Catching up before I go.
Work's had me running around a bit more than usual lately, which has put a serious crimp in my time to write, let alone keep up with current events. I don't know how much
- Happy (belated) Fourth of July, everyone.
Contrary to most years, my Fourth of July weekend was far lower in impact and more relaxing this time around than it usually is. I've been running short on sleep for a whi
- Last weekend, by this weekend.
Late on Friday afternoon, Lyssa and I hurriedly packed our bags, jumped into the TARDIS, and set course northward once again for southwestern Pennsylvania and the general
- Ice storms, unexpected guests, and clear roadways.
Last Friday seemed to be the day of the ice storm that wasn't really. That morning, sure, the cars were coated with ice (as I discovered at the same instant that I found I
- Librarything has just eaten my soul.
Behold: :CueCat , brought back from Pittsburgh the last time Lyssa and I went to visit our folks. Behold: Librarything . Behold: How to use a :CueCat to enter books into y
- A Gift for Pegritz...
When I saw this page at Propping Up the Mythos , I knew immediately who I'd be making a Deep One embryo in a bottle for - Derek Pegritz , the Crawling Chaos Himself. Pegri
- Making Fern Dragonstar's Book of Shadows.
Here is a picture of the book just after being bound together The covers are two layers of cardboard cut from a box that were glued together and then cut slightly larger t
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