Happy Repeal Day, all of you living in the US. Go have a fifth.

I had a long series of dreams last night in which I was shown in excruciatingly exact detail the proper technique to be used, by which to gain knowledge and therefore control over known objects and systems, physical and conceptual, for the furtherance of understanding of these subjects. Unfortunately, given the interplay between the tenuousness of ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, sorry I've been impossible to get ahold of for a little while. There was the matter of Thanksgiving, and also my sister gave birth immediately thereafter, which went well ( Read more... )

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Well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't regret not going to burning man now, but hopefully I'll make it next year. After all, since I'm now in the process of making servo driver circuits, and the targeting algorithm works reasonably well, soon you will all fall into the crosshairs of my semi-autonomous hunter robot ( Read more... )

Has anyone out there tried not to hurt anyone's feelings, and ended up hurting EVERYONE'S feelings instead? If so, I'd like abstract advice, because I'm starting to suspect that I might be the dumbest person on earth.....

Well, I completed that triathlon in just a little under 2 hours. You can find my sucktacular results at ( Read more... )

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So, I picked up a 1996 Dodge Neon with 70,000 miles in portland for $1700 (they wanted 1800, but I talked them down a bit ( Read more... )

So, *no one* wanted to give my micro-PK experiment a shot? Zanfur (I think it was him) suggested that perhaps I should write a web interface for it, or in some other way make it simpler to get and use. Would anyone want to do it if I went through that headache? Throw me a line here, I'd like to get an N of at least a few thousand, and there is ( Read more... )