This week: Chicago. Again.
Next week: San Francisco. Again.
Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
Next week: San Francisco. Again.
Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
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This is probably going to nerd you guys out pretty good, but I picked up a book on robotics today and subsequently got the idea to build a remote controlled submarine. Not just any remote controlled submarine, but one that has cameras, so you can see what it's doing! and maybe an arm to pick and poke crap. It's definitely still in the design phase...
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bluetrust:
I'm not sure.
Linux is really tough to do anything non-web related with. Damn Small Linux probably won't have a desktop or Xwindows system, and you'll have trouble finding peripherals that work on Linux. But if you can make it all work, it'll certainly be the smallest solution you could come up with.
Linux is really tough to do anything non-web related with. Damn Small Linux probably won't have a desktop or Xwindows system, and you'll have trouble finding peripherals that work on Linux. But if you can make it all work, it'll certainly be the smallest solution you could come up with.
posh:
stupid only finishing one quest!
Damn, I guess there was an earthquake here this morning. I wish I would have been awake for it. I've never been through one of those. I probably should have tried to get an earlier flight back today. My plane doesn't leave until like 6 something and I don't have shit to do until then.
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it_thing_hard_on:
Well I'm guessing if there was an earthquake but flights are still going out business-as-usual then it probably wasn't a very exciting one.
bluetrust:
I don't know all that much about robotics.
What I used to make the cat attacking robot was the Vex Robotics Starter Kit. It's still toy robotics, but the pieces are all metal and you can hook up to 8 motors to a robot. You can test the robots directly with the transmitter, remote control car-style. For autonomous mode, bust out the $50 Programming Kit and program your robot using the C programming language.
For a while, I was working every night on a super-secret robot that would paint poster-size pictures by itself, but I had trouble building an even track for it to run along like a monorail. Slight inconsistencies and bumps caused it to wobble and paint shitty pictures. The engineering part of building robots was harder than I thought.
The book I mentioned wouldn't help you learn C at all. The book uses Ruby, which is for website-oriented programming.
Anyway, it's fun. Check out the kits.
What I used to make the cat attacking robot was the Vex Robotics Starter Kit. It's still toy robotics, but the pieces are all metal and you can hook up to 8 motors to a robot. You can test the robots directly with the transmitter, remote control car-style. For autonomous mode, bust out the $50 Programming Kit and program your robot using the C programming language.
For a while, I was working every night on a super-secret robot that would paint poster-size pictures by itself, but I had trouble building an even track for it to run along like a monorail. Slight inconsistencies and bumps caused it to wobble and paint shitty pictures. The engineering part of building robots was harder than I thought.
The book I mentioned wouldn't help you learn C at all. The book uses Ruby, which is for website-oriented programming.
Anyway, it's fun. Check out the kits.
I'm getting bored with my job. I like the travel thing, but I want to do something more computery that uses my brains. Maybe I've just been getting into Cryptonomicon too much. When I was younger I totally wanted to do computer programming. Whatever happened to that? Maybe I'll look into it now. I need to get some college courses going or something or I'm...
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ricerx:
Computer programmers are nerds, dude. You don't want to be a nerd that speaks binary do you?
merritt:
House of Nanking is fucking awesome. You should go there if you don't remember the name of your place.
Oh wow, you guys can see how lazy I've been about cleaning out my friend list now. I think. I still liked being able to see my entire friends list at once. This is too myspacey.
I'll be in San Francisco next week. Woo hoo. Much better than Chicago. Chicago was pretty lame. I'm looking forward to San Francisco food. That's about it. I think...
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I'll be in San Francisco next week. Woo hoo. Much better than Chicago. Chicago was pretty lame. I'm looking forward to San Francisco food. That's about it. I think...
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hopey:
WHAT? Why, what?!
morgan:
Damn, I ain't in a credit union! I'll figure something out though...I always do!
I wish I had some sort of cool excuse as to why I haven't updated in so long. I don't though, and I don't really have much to say. Aside from hangin out with the Erin, who continues to amaze me on a daily basis with how awesome she is, not much exciting has happened. I'm working in Chicago this week. I don't know...
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samling:
even if you said you were a tired girl, too...i would've understood. and known exactly how tired you were.
hope you got some sleep.
hope you got some sleep.
mistersatan:
Eh, he looked like he was an Early Bird Special away from death as it was.
You don't just stand around to the theme song from A-Team. You get shit done. They probably built the pyramids while listening to that song.
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samling:
did you get my phone messege from last week?
fallfromgrace:
very fucking informative.
Are you in Chicago?
Are you in Chicago?
Okay, I never got around to updating again, but unless things change a LOT in the next 24 hours I'm not going to Prom this year, which sucks because I was REALLY wanting to make it this year. Instead of Prom I have to work in extremely eastern Washington this week, which is totally lame. I drove here today, my hotel is actually in Idaho....
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nullandvoid:
If you're into that sort of thing.
merritt:
I got a little white trash streak in me; what of it? Huh? Yeah, that's what I thought... punk-ass.
Okay, so my hotel's internet sucks shit and I can't tell you the whole story. Just know that today sucked, I can't go to prom, and I'm really pissed off right now.
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akirali:
Fuck, that sucks ass! 
Hope it's nothing serious, though.
Hope it's nothing serious, though.
hatefulerin:
I think I've seen you spending enough time on here to maybe update again.
Hope the drive isn't going too horribly.
Hope the drive isn't going too horribly.
FUCKING SHIT FUCK
I just typed this out and the internet ate it, but I'm going to type it again because it's time for some bitching.
I just had a tremendously fucking shitty day. I'll spare the minute details, but here's the vulgarity-filled recap:
-$18 for parking and not accepting credit or debit is bullshit, especially since I don't carry cash.
-Having eQPOST
I just typed this out and the internet ate it, but I'm going to type it again because it's time for some bitching.
I just had a tremendously fucking shitty day. I'll spare the minute details, but here's the vulgarity-filled recap:
-$18 for parking and not accepting credit or debit is bullshit, especially since I don't carry cash.
-Having eQPOST
i think the world should wake up every morning and listen to that song for inspiration. i'm going to listen to it right now. maybe on a loop. maybe while i run an instance.
are you gonna be around this weekend for live strat, ud strat or scholo?