Defcon 20 was a great year ( Read more... )

After having re-watched a program on the NASA Mars rovers, I began thinking back on my own adventures in robotics, and thought I might share a story ( Read more... )

Time for another short work of fiction. Hang on ( Read more... )

Preface: After the 30+ hours of driving I did over the Thanksgiving weekend, I had a chance to catch up on a ton of podcasts and spend a lot of time inside my head. The two combined, and as such, I decided to write this, inspired by listening to The Moth podcast. This is a short non-fiction story from my life ( Read more... )

I pulled into the lonely gas station with the sun sinking on the horizon. I had just ridden many, many miles of new roads, new experiences, and I was nearing the 500 mile mark since I set out early that morning. I topped up the tank, and headed for the intersection. Turn right, 100 miles to Monticello, turn left, 150 miles to Monticello. I turned ( Read more... )

This is going to be a somewhat random post, but that's how it goes sometimes ( Read more... )

The weather is getting colder, and the drivers are turning into mutant morons around here. This morning, there was a big pickup in front of me, which moved to the lane to the left, but left his right tires in my lane, and then looked at me like I was in his way. He went behind me, moved over to the right lane, started into an exit, and then pulled ( Read more... )

UPDATE: Here's a google map of my journey

So I'm back in the office today, after a week on vacation, and some 4000 miles of traveling complete. I'm kind of easing back into things, and no one has spotted me come in yet, so I think I might have a few minutes before I find myself with 12 new things to do.

I left out of here Saturday before last, ( Read more... )

I found some interesting open source software for tracking beer brewing, so... I installed it on the server. As such, I'll be yakking about my brews there, so feel free to check out what is going on at the 'brewery' as it were ( Read more... )

Today I brewed up an Irish Stout which the kit claims tastes like Guinness, which would be nice. This was my second attempt at beer, the first of which was a collaborative attempt with the GF. That attempt was an Irish Red, which is now complete, bottled, and the first couple of 6 packs are chilling in the fridge. I wasn't feeling great tonight, so ( Read more... )