Archive for July, 2006

Net Neutrality & the South Central Farm

July 11th, 2006

I think when my own personal history is written and I tell people about what I was doing in the summer of 2006 in LA one thing will stand out. That I stood by blocks away while the South Central Farm got bulldozed. It’s not a 100% binary issue, since it does involve [...]


Pics from the scrapyard challenge

July 10th, 2006

Here. Not at all self explanatory, so maybe I’ll be able to write it up a bit later… you can see me hiding in there rocking an achewood shirt amongst all of the sweet people who made such awesome stuff. Honestly I feel like a Milhouse when Bart let’s him know the secret [...]


OK… ok… ‘puter something?

July 9th, 2006

Is it ok computer? ummm well anyway, the www.machineproject.com / www.scrapyardchallenge.com thing I did today was officially the funnest (technical term synonym being: most fun) thing I’ve done for an entire day since oh… I don’t really know, definitely a long long time. (Our workshop at my lab was pretty darn fun too [...]


good and bad.

July 8th, 2006

Ok… good things, got accepted to the MIDI controller scrapyard challenge tomorrow. Bad things… have a giant! assignment due Yesterday (metaphorically) and wednesday, and a bit of code to perfect ASAP. Good things, biked about 40 miles in the past 48 hours (including a spinning class, the SciArc RideArc 1 year anniversary ride [...]


Ride the lightning

July 6th, 2006

This guy seriously needs a new shirt from metallica and a new iPod from apple. from: eternal time sink boing boing. I always feel happy to hear about people surviving lightning strikes, because the only person I knew well who got hit by lightning died (before his time).
In other news got my new glasses, [...]


glasses in an hour vs. glasses in a week

July 6th, 2006

I am going to go grab my new pair of glasses (Marc Ecko Scopes that look like something Marc Cuban or early p-diddy in the shadow of Biggie (RIP) would wear, all that with a touch of amateur Air Traffic Controller). As some may know, my old pair got chewed up.
When I tried [...]