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Oct. 16th, 2008 @ 01:24 am I mean, no one's gonna eat your eyes...
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Jun. 21st, 2008 @ 11:37 am I Prefer Rational Discourse.
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I think the optical drive in my desktop was a Debian extremist. It destroyedჅ the Ubuntu disc rather than let me install it.As I do not negotiate with terrorists, it had to be executed.



Ⴥ It engraved several pretty radial gouges into the disc.
Oct. 21st, 2007 @ 08:36 pm Maker Faire & Heroes
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Maker Faire was wonderful and very inspiring. The musical tesla coils and the computer fabrication corner (laser cutters, 3d printers, CNC milling and so forth) were my favorite bits, but it was full of all sorts of awesome. Reminded me of all sorts of projects I've been wanting to do, and gave me lots of ideas for other ones.

There is apparently going to be an Austin branch of TechShop, there is going to be a meet up about it on Tuesday. If I didn't have my biology class that night, I'd totally be there. I hope they have all the same cool toys the one in the Bay Area has. I'd really like to take one of the metal casting classes.

On a different (but no less geeky) note, the regularly scheduled Fort Norton showings of Heroes start back up tomorrow. We'll start at 7:00pm with last weeks episode and watch the new one at 8:00. Let me know if you need directions to Fort Norton.
Mar. 21st, 2007 @ 11:38 am Agave Rye Pale Ale
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Current Music: Live - T.B.D.

I made some beer. It was reasonably tasty. The five gallons are almost gone now¹.

I fully intend to make another batch.

¹ I didn't drink it all by myself, I promise. About half of it was consumed by Sasona and associated party goers.
Sep. 16th, 2006 @ 12:12 am All Hail Eris!
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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickled Eels!
Aug. 7th, 2006 @ 11:32 am Overheard in Austin
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Yeah, I saw him at the airport. He looks just like the Mona Lisa, but so tiny.
-- anonymous speaker at the next table over


Co'o rodo,
Namaste, y'all
Apr. 28th, 2006 @ 12:59 pm The Singularity Summit
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I'd love to go to the Singularity Summit.

I've wanted to meet K. Eric Drexler ever since I read Engines of Creation when I was in junior high.

If I decide to go, are any of you folks interested in joining me?
Apr. 24th, 2006 @ 03:33 pm (no subject)
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Apparently some folks have figured out how to identify the digital camera that took a particular digital photograph based on some sort of stochastic noise profile generated by analyzing previous photographs taken by the same device.

So, which software utility will be available first, the one that lets you "erase" the digital fingerprint from your photographs, or the one that will let you change the fingerprint to look like it came from a different camera?
Mar. 4th, 2006 @ 02:59 pm Not Clown
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I'm planning on going to see Not Clown tonight.

I'd highly recommend it. The Physical Plant Theater site has more info.

Co'o rodo,
Namaste, y'all
Feb. 23rd, 2006 @ 11:44 pm DJ Cat Lives On
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Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: The Joker
On silverchat, I had my @url set to djcat for ages.

[info]sheilagh remembered that and sent me a link to the Cutest Fatboy Slim Video Ever.

Co'o rodo
Namaste, y'all
Jan. 19th, 2006 @ 09:23 pm Simple Beginnings
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I finally did my first day's worth of Simple Fitness.

It sounds a lot less strenuous than it is and or I am much more out shape than I thought I was. :)

Co'o rodo
Namaste, y'all
Jan. 19th, 2006 @ 08:16 pm Sam Donovan
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My favorite William H. Macy character was the one he played on Sports Night. He can be entertaining playing losers, but it seems like such a waste after that performance.
Jan. 18th, 2006 @ 02:34 pm Web Service Idea #4,345,126
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There should be a website where you can sign up with your zipcode and a radius in miles, then compile a list of musical preformers and it would email you when any of those preformers were going to be preforming within the specified radius around your zipcode. For bonus points it could let you specify the radius per artist.
Dec. 2nd, 2005 @ 02:15 pm They Might be Jazz
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I was listening to Flood on my new pocket sized mp3 player and it sounded kind of off and tinny, so I decided to play with the equalizer. When I chose the "jazz" preset it sounded great. Who knew?

In case you were wondering, the best preset for Pimsleur Italian lessons seems to be "classical" (though I assume that is meant to be used for latin and greek).
Jun. 23rd, 2005 @ 11:54 am I Warped Time and Space. AGAIN.
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Sorry for any inconvenience.

I now return you to your regularly scheduled Time Space Continuüm.
May. 4th, 2005 @ 05:13 pm Random Fact #8,432,206
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Current Music: Jethro Tull / Witch's Promise
I can have 41 tabs open in one Firefox window before the tab bar overflows. That seems to be more than I should ever reasonably need open at once, but if that is the case, why does it keep coming up?
Dec. 13th, 2004 @ 11:55 am Twenty Fun Things To Do With A Time Machine
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1. Take half a critical mass of plutonium back to meet itself.
2. Infest the timestream with time-beavers.
3. Shoot the gunsmith.
4. Take one end of a space-time wormhole and throw it into the other end.
5. Release cloned Michael Crichtons into the Jurassic.
6. Organise a mutual infanticide pact.
7. Prevent this suggestion ever being made.
8. Persuade Lewis Carroll to write "The Time Machine".
9. Abduct your grandchildren and bring them up as your own kids.
10. Plant a suicide note in JFK's pocket.
11. Develop the temporal equivalent of waterskiing behind a speeding Tardis.
12. Swap Adolf Hitler and Charlie Chaplin at birth.
13. Genetically engineer yourself for maximum skill at genetic engineering.
14. Go to Hiroshima, 06-Aug-45, and run amok with a chainsaw.
15. Establish a Time Patrol Corps to prevent such frivolous tamperings with history (in 1897).
16. Find whoever coined the phrase "Time Paradox" and hand them their own skull. Repeatedly.
17. Simplify the controls on the average VCR remote by substituting chronoscopy for television.
18. Steal Schrödinger's cat.
19. Sell ten-year-old yoghurt without contravening its "best before" date.
20. Park your Time Machine on the Turin Shroud and travel backwards to see where it really came from.

Stolen from A Guide to SF CHRONOPHYSICS
Jul. 15th, 2004 @ 05:06 pm My Car
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My car has been a huge pain. It is currently immobile and I don't want it anymore. It is a 1999 VW New Beetle (Turbo). If it were in "average" condition it would be worth $7k-$8k. I want to sell it, but I don't even know where to start. Where would be a good place to take it? I don't really want to tow it back and forth to a bunch of places, that would get really expensive real quick.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Co'o rodo
Namaste, y'all
Jun. 20th, 2004 @ 04:53 pm Sasona Coöperative
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Sasona Coöperative is a non-student[1] 17 member coöperative in the southern Zilker park neighbourhood. We are a non-profit coöperative whose purpose is to provide affordable room and board to any interested persons in the community, and to empower those persons by allowing them to participate in democratically running the house.

Rent includes:
  • Food & cooked meals[2]
  • Utilities
  • Phone
  • Laundry Room access
  • Internet usage
  • Use of the common areas (computers, tv room, study areas)
Rent is based on room size. The rooms coming open this summer range from 400-650 per month. We are located on an acre of tree shaded land with immediate access to the 3, 331, 338, and 29 Capital Metro bus routes, and are a 5-10 min walk from the Green Belt. House meetings are held each Sunday evening, so stop by and check us out!

Contact Wonko (wonko at sasona dot org) for more information.

[1] Though students are welcome.

[2] Vegetarian food that is.
Jun. 12th, 2004 @ 11:23 am interesting...
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this is very interesting.

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