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Zomg Babbage
I'm in Mountain View, CA this week for work and for a variety of reasons ended up taking a ridiculously early flight down today. In the end it was probably worth it since I got to finally visit Weird Stuff and the Computer History Museum. Weird Stuff was something of a let-down as it's mostly just full of old PC hardware and while the prices are ( Read more... ) -
Pow! Pow! Power-wheels!
The battery in the R50 is giving up. On my ride home last week the headlight would go out if I let the revs drop. So today while I was out I picked up another. This is the box that it came in:
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How to piss off your customers in 3 easy steps...
Imagine you are a cellular company that wants to shed some customers because your network is being driven into the ground by iPhone users. Here's a plan that should get you some breathing room:- Announce that you are going to require data plans on 'Smart Phones.'
- Without warning 'upgrade' all your customers to a $30/month data plan.
- Refuse to ( Read more... )
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This weekend I spent some time assembling a little project that I've been working on:
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Weekend
Had a great weekend up until tonight when the computers started fighting me. Mostly it's the BIOS on this new server, but aggravated by stupid installers. Enough about that, here's the fun I had ( Read more... ) -
update-o-rama
I've been extremely busy of late. Mostly helping my friend Matt open up his new retail space (http://metrixcreate.tumblr.com/ for a bit of info.) I'm pretty happy with the shelves I built. I designed them in Sketchup, cut all the bits and screwed it all together with only minor ( Read more... ) -
So busy...
I'm helping out with a bunch of projects. One friend is building a 15' rubik's cube, the other is starting a new business, I'm trying to build a makerbot and I've got a motorcycle that needs some love. I think that I need to take a week off just to sit at home and do what I feel like. Too bad I can't for at least a week. -
It's Alive!
Tonight gordonmessmer came over and we installed the exhaust system, put a bit of gas in the tank and did a few last minute checks. The engine started and ran on the second kick. This is even more amazing considering that we soon discovered that the left cylinder wasn't firing (pulling the plug wire did nothing to engine RPM.) Turns out that the left carb ( Read more... ) -
Final steps, and a closer look at the next project
I pulled the R50 out of the garage today to do some work on it and was startled by how good it looked in the daylight. The clean engine makes a huge difference:
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