Friday, April 23, 2004
Organizational Thievery |2:44 PM| Did I spend the money I saved on a Dremel?
No, I spent it on a set of shelves and bins. Oh, wait, it's not bins, it's a SYSTEM.
When I was at the container store and they said "System" I could hear the price triple. In addition to all the other crap I had to buy, they were trying to add some sales on, like for little plastic pegs so the drawers wouldn't go out the back of the rack.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
My killbot has yet to arrive |10:05 AM| I know it was on back-order at the time, but I'm still really anxious to get that damn robot kit. Meanwhile, on the dorky side projects front, my Linux machine still lacks a floppy drive since the one I had available turned out to be much more broken than I though. I'll just go with the original plan and yank one from another computer. I haven't used a floppy drive for anything but a boot disk in probably 3 years or so.
I'm probably in way over my head on this robotics project, that's why I got the educational model. I'm assuming that I know nothing whatsoever about electronics and circuit design, and that if I do happen to remember something it's probably wrong. Programming a chip, wiring transistors, and generally every other part of the world of electronics has always been dark voodoo to me. I've built crystal radios, and some of their more complicated brothers, but this is a lot deeper.
Instead of programming with nice simple words, I/O streams, memory locations and other computer issues that I have the vocabulary to describe, this is going to be about changing the voltages on tiny wires, so the voltage of some other wires change, so that a switch is thrown and a motor turns half an inch. You might as well be saying to me "Play the correct melody on this rib-cage xylophone and ASh'T-ka, keeper of the darkness, will appear".
I'll start raising the chickens for the blood sacrifices.
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Monday, April 19, 2004
|2:54 AM| Dick is a killer: Tape loop parody song of George W. Bush speech. Fairly amusing in parts. I put it here because I wanted to download it at home, and found that the original host had taken it down. I assume other people might have had a similar problem, so here it is.
Sold books
I went to Half Price books on Sunday, carrying two big boxes of books. I was paid more cash than I expected, I bought some pulpish novels to read at work, and got rid of a whole lot of stuff that I won't have to carry when I move.
So why did I feel bad about it? Some of the books were gifts, some of them I'd had for years and years. I'd read my fill of them, though, and if I need them again I know where I can find them. I still felt kind of guilty about selling them, but I knew it to be an unreasonable feeling.
I told PortalStar that a couple of them were some of the best books-as-gifts I'd received as a child, and she replied that now hopefully some other child will get them and be just as excited.
I'll probably end up selling several more boxes of books, and that reminds me, I need to send Sinclair back his Dylan books. Speaking of Sinclair, let's all congratulate him on getting a job. HUZZAH.
Portal, Vid and I went Geocaching on Sunday. That was a fine outing, it's been a while since we've gone. The caches we found weren't all the exciting, but getting to them was very interesting. At one point, we had to construct a primitive bridge to cross a river that I estimated to be "Eh, looks like a foot or so deep." As it turned out, that was just how far down I could see, as when the bridge collapsed Vid found the actual depth to be several feet. We scared off a herd of turtles, and found a color changing lizard called an...oh crap. Annul? Anuol? I'll ask Vid.
At one point I had the choice of being educational or being a smart ass when the question of pollution and its effect on scenic areas.
Cecil: Speaking of, did you know that you can't read that Egyptian relic, Cleopatra's Needle they have in New York?
Portal: Oh? Why is that?
Cecil: Because it's written in fuckin' Egyptian!
But you don't have to take my word for it, take a look at this link!
bought robot
feel better
Linux machine STILL FUCKING DOWN
Buying that vase
Fark linked to pictoz.com again
Need to move the T-shirts
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Organizational Thievery |2:44 PM| Did I spend the money I saved on a Dremel?
No, I spent it on a set of shelves and bins. Oh, wait, it's not bins, it's a SYSTEM.
When I was at the container store and they said "System" I could hear the price triple. In addition to all the other crap I had to buy, they were trying to add some sales on, like for little plastic pegs so the drawers wouldn't go out the back of the rack.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
My killbot has yet to arrive |10:05 AM| I know it was on back-order at the time, but I'm still really anxious to get that damn robot kit. Meanwhile, on the dorky side projects front, my Linux machine still lacks a floppy drive since the one I had available turned out to be much more broken than I though. I'll just go with the original plan and yank one from another computer. I haven't used a floppy drive for anything but a boot disk in probably 3 years or so.
I'm probably in way over my head on this robotics project, that's why I got the educational model. I'm assuming that I know nothing whatsoever about electronics and circuit design, and that if I do happen to remember something it's probably wrong. Programming a chip, wiring transistors, and generally every other part of the world of electronics has always been dark voodoo to me. I've built crystal radios, and some of their more complicated brothers, but this is a lot deeper.
Instead of programming with nice simple words, I/O streams, memory locations and other computer issues that I have the vocabulary to describe, this is going to be about changing the voltages on tiny wires, so the voltage of some other wires change, so that a switch is thrown and a motor turns half an inch. You might as well be saying to me "Play the correct melody on this rib-cage xylophone and ASh'T-ka, keeper of the darkness, will appear".
I'll start raising the chickens for the blood sacrifices.
(0) comments
Monday, April 19, 2004
|2:54 AM| Dick is a killer: Tape loop parody song of George W. Bush speech. Fairly amusing in parts. I put it here because I wanted to download it at home, and found that the original host had taken it down. I assume other people might have had a similar problem, so here it is.
Sold books
I went to Half Price books on Sunday, carrying two big boxes of books. I was paid more cash than I expected, I bought some pulpish novels to read at work, and got rid of a whole lot of stuff that I won't have to carry when I move.
So why did I feel bad about it? Some of the books were gifts, some of them I'd had for years and years. I'd read my fill of them, though, and if I need them again I know where I can find them. I still felt kind of guilty about selling them, but I knew it to be an unreasonable feeling.
I told PortalStar that a couple of them were some of the best books-as-gifts I'd received as a child, and she replied that now hopefully some other child will get them and be just as excited.
I'll probably end up selling several more boxes of books, and that reminds me, I need to send Sinclair back his Dylan books. Speaking of Sinclair, let's all congratulate him on getting a job. HUZZAH.
Portal, Vid and I went Geocaching on Sunday. That was a fine outing, it's been a while since we've gone. The caches we found weren't all the exciting, but getting to them was very interesting. At one point, we had to construct a primitive bridge to cross a river that I estimated to be "Eh, looks like a foot or so deep." As it turned out, that was just how far down I could see, as when the bridge collapsed Vid found the actual depth to be several feet. We scared off a herd of turtles, and found a color changing lizard called an...oh crap. Annul? Anuol? I'll ask Vid.
At one point I had the choice of being educational or being a smart ass when the question of pollution and its effect on scenic areas.
Cecil: Speaking of, did you know that you can't read that Egyptian relic, Cleopatra's Needle they have in New York?
Portal: Oh? Why is that?
Cecil: Because it's written in fuckin' Egyptian!
But you don't have to take my word for it, take a look at this link!
bought robot
feel better
Linux machine STILL FUCKING DOWN
Buying that vase
Fark linked to pictoz.com again
Need to move the T-shirts
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