A spinning wheel with Robby the Robot etched onto the side.

Wool, ready to spin into yarn.

I've heard of knitting circles before, but this is the first spinning circle I've ever seen.

Sadly, these were only empty boxes and not stuff we were asked to clear out of the data center.

From the HacDC space blimp meeting a couple of weekends ago: telemetry proof-of-concept.

Clockwise from left to right: Windbringer, HTX-202 hand-held ham radio, remains of breakfast, random PS/2 stuff from R. Mark Adams' workshop, keyboard, someone else's laptop, 35 watt linear amplifier, USB-to-serial converter, TinyTrak 4 TNC, LCD display for TinyTrak.

We get signal?

This is the bluegill that Bill accidentally gigged when reeling his line in last Saturday.

Thursday nights at HacDC for the next couple of weeks have been taken up with a nifty new class courtesy of Elliot - a basic electronics course in the guise of building noisemakers. From basic oscillator theory we moved on to... I couldn't make it to the second class due to a scheduling conflict, truth be told, so I don't know what was taught. Jade and I did make it to the third class which was about low-pass filters (which allow low frequencies to pass (the definition of 'low' is highly situational) but filter out high frequencies), how to vary the …

MTV has posted their spot on steampunk to their website - you can watch it here.

There is also a written article by MTV here and some of the photographs they took are up here.

I've finally put the photographs from Saloncon online - you can view them here.

As always, if there are any corrections, or if you'd like to tell me who you are so I can caption pictures correctly, please leave a comment.

The sonic screwdriver: One bottle of blue Gatorade. Two fingers of vodka. Shake. Serve ice cold. Drink responsibly.

Saturday was Pretend To Be A Time Traveller Day. I spent most of it constructing a new firewall and the evening prepping for the party over at Scraun and Fishy's. Lyssa was kind enough to take a couple of pictures after we got home that night.

Sunday: Recovering at Laurelinde's place with the family. I passed out on the couch sometime around 2200 EST5EDT.

Monday: Sick as a dog. My body's immune system isn't handling the jet lag or running myself into the ground very well. They sent me home from work this afternoon so I could rest and hopefully …