lab notes: heavy pie

sci-fi computer screens

notebooks

Research Papers - These are mostly intended to be evergreen documents - expect updates. They will include standalone articles but also research for hardware projects, software, and site development.

Blogs - Short form content on various topics.


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lab notes: heavy pie

CD Thrower Robot

Ever wonder what you could do with old AOL Disks? (Yes, I know. The possibilities are endless) Meet Hammerhead, the CD thrower robot. Taxonomy upgrade extras:

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Winter Wonder Bread

Winter wonder bread More snow in Minneapolis There is no bread Well I'm here kickin' it in Minneapolis, writing a haiku. At least I think that's a haiku... There's snow here. More of it, anwyay. Excitement abounds.

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Favicon

I don't know if it's because I'm using Portable Firefox or not, but the Favicon is the little Drupal waterdrop guy. The Favicon works fine when I'm using normal Firefox (with a fully functional cache), at least as far as I've noticed so far. I think you were having problems with that a while ago. Anyone else notice anything? Oh yeah, if you're getting the same thing, the Favicon is a gray and white looking square (which is the USL logo if you look closely). Maybe if my eyes weren't so crappy I could make out all those Favicons out there a little better...

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Marmot

Today is Groundhog day, woo, ha, wee and fun. Well, the dirty little marmot apparently saw his shadow so more crappity crap, if you're stuperstitious. I say Winter until March so it's to be expected for the season. In other news, USL is looking good. It's all... grey and white, but I have a face now! Woo! Also, it's around 2:10 P.M. and there are round-a-bouts 6 guests... there are always guests. Don't just ogle, get registered and post some shit!!!

Return of Elite

I paid bruce a visit a week ago to poke at cases and do other assorted geeky things. I brought the MDPortal Elite machine back with me. I'd been itching to play some System Shock for many moons. So many moons, in fact, that I logged roughly eleven hours and fourty-four minutes of game-time over a span of two days. Nothing says good times like foiling SHODAN's plans to destroy the world and such.