Actually, I've no idea how this Hogmanay celebration works, but I'm given to understand it involves visiting friends, inflicting fruitcakes on them, and burning things, where the things might or might not be Viking longships.
Crazy/genius talks at Five Minutes of Fame at Noisebridge hackspace tonight.
If you have any interest in things hackerish whatsoever,CLICK ME, skip a couple minutes in, and keep listening despite the terrible audio quality.
For the opening talk, Jacob Applebaum recounted how he went to the military dictatorship known as Burma (or Myanmar depending on who you ask), and how he hacked everything... Read More
Nothing makes my life feel more like an episode of Escape From Monkey Island as locking myself out of the apartment.
OUTSIDE OF APARTMENT
The door clicks shut. You pat your pocket and realize your keys are still inside. You are now locked out. What would you like to do?
> LOOK
You're outside your own locked apartment. A bag of dirty laundry sits next... Read More
You'd only said you pried it open a little and that the latch looked out of reach Wouldn't be the first time a window was broken to get into a residence...
Last night we took them to Sensored, a meet-up for folks who make cool reactive things. It was the one-year anniversary of that group, so they had a cake. The cake had a dinosaur... Read More
I'm watching Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking and it's just gotten to the point in episode 3 (about 25 minutes in) where he talks about the life cycle of a star - how the each star begins as a mass of hydrogen, that starts to form helium by fusion, and then helium fuses into carbon and so on... until the star has made iron.... Read More
It does seem kinda of mystical and magical. I always kind of laugh at myself loving to immerse myself into fantasy worlds but the real world is just as fascinating and wondrous. Faerie starts <3
I know we are a bit bizarre for it but I always like a strong jawline...angular, strong features in general.
I don't know if it's that series or another, but one thing that really struck me was how rapidly the star dies after iron is fused. It really is stellar poison.
One of my favorite folks from the hackerspace where I spend my days just launched a new product line of high-tech fashion: Agent of Presence.
I've seen Alana (one of the two founders) at TechShop all hours of the day and night, inventing new finishes for novel materials to make them catch the light just so, or soldering circuits for the prototype handbags. And... Read More
I have heard tell that American chestnuts are sweeter and better-tasting than European chestnuts, and that the reason chestnuts have fallen out of favor here is that Americans were unwilling to settle for the European kind. It is presumably easier to sing the praises of something no one's ever tasted, of course.
The South misses you, but it is happy to see that you are where you want to be
I got to Night Market late. We didn't really get to do much before the cops showed up. Also, my friend was itching to get over to a speakeasy to see her friends.
They had one plan to send a 8 million ton ship to Jupiter. That's the size of a modest city, or 40 Sears Towers put together. Interestingly, running the numbers on what it would cost to do, it was ~16 trillion dollars; approximately the entire economic output of the modern US in a year. Actually, about 4 years worth... Read More
Science!! 2012 has concluded. This is what we have learned:
Guinness and Murphy's stouts both make a good Irish Carbomb.
Average rating for Guinness: 7.28
Average rating for Murphy's: 7.17
That difference is within the margin of error. They're both equally good, so far as we can tell.
- Where'd the shampoo go? Ok, I'll get another bottle. Hm. Two choices. This one is green and has a leaf on it. This one is clear and has a turnip on it. Obviously, I HAVE to try the turnip shampoo. My Poland experience can't be complete without trying the turnip shampoo.
Wouldn't be the first time a window was broken to get into a residence...
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