Archive for November, 2007

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My friend Thomas Hawk is an excellent photographer.  He uses state-of-the-art equipment and takes a few gigs worth of photos every day. I point and shoot a lot with my Canon SD850IS.  Ain’t too much in the way of “photography as art” goin on with this camera. I think the above photo might just be […]

Technologists can’t get technology recycling done right?

Just read this at CNN. In a single world: gah! Not sure which is my favorite most terrible highlight… it could be: While there are no precise figures, activists estimate that 50 to 80 percent of the 300,000 to 400,000 tons of electronics collected for recycling in the U.S. each year ends up overseas. Workers […]

Wittiest Star Wars parody I’ve seen.

When Family Guy opened the season with a Star Wars parody episode, I received calls, texts, and emails from friends asking if I saw it.  I did, although a bit late, by which it was built up as having Best. Episode. Ever. status.  Yup, it was funny, but I didn’t find it over the top […]

The president does something useful!

Somehow in the midst of continuing a senseless war against evil (despite ignoring the situation in Darfur – must be “not that evil” down there) while vetoing healthcare plans for children, the president has made a move that seems to be good for the American people.  And not just the uber-rich ones either!  Go USA!

All I need is $283 million…

and I can own my favorite hockey team.  I better come up with one heck of a good idea sooner or later, eh?

Still lovin gethuman

Had to contact a few “big companies” this past week, and I ended up using a site called gethuman.com.  If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a great site that has the 800 numbers that get you (typically) straight to a live person, rather than dealing with the automated systems.  In a word: awesome.

Weewar is crazy addictive

A few weeks ago I was invited to play Weewar by Sal over at geek.com.  It only takes a few minutes a day to play, but it’s super-addictive if you are a fan of old-school strategy games like Ogre.  The team there seems pretty dedicated to making this huge, and I hope they pull it […]

Not a fun game: playing email catch up

Not sure how it happened, but over the past week I’ve been a terrible emailer.  My usual policy is basically to do the instant respond, delete, or archive approach whenever I check email.  I’ve let it slip for about a week, and am woefully behind.  I wouldn’t exactly called it a Sisyphean task, but it […]

Way to go CMU!

As I had predicted (fairly foolishly since I really don’t know a thing about autonomous robotics), Carnegie Mellon’s truck was the big kahuna this weekend.  Well done Tartans!  That thing musta had a HEMI…

I’ll bet my robot’s faster than yours!

Anyone who went to Carnegie Mellon in the past 15-20 years is well-aware of the school’s proficiencies in robotics (despite the fact that they put “Athletics” as the fourth link on the home page – huh?).  Heck, my old roommate (and great friend) once even blew one up, and built another one that was really […]