More fumbling with electronics. 

Oh look I made a thing.

Also, I owe some people hell of apologies for being out of contact since forever. I am going through my email backlog, I swear. 

I decided I needed someplace to talk about electronics.

krdbuni very kindly set up this blog for me, performing the strenuous and arcane labors required to create a Wordpress site.  And rax created an lj feed, riktronic. Thanks to both of them. 

If this is all true, I really hate being right. And I never planted my vegetables, although I've got a pretty decent harvest of plums from the tree in my backyard. I will do better at this. 

Apparently you can sell almost anything to the DoD. I bet there's some pretty hilarious SDI hardware rotting in a warehouse somewhere... right next to the 286 beige box whose serial port used to control it. 

 From Stewart Brand by way of Bruce Sterling's blog: "Superlinear cities", a comparison of how energy use and productivity scales between lifeforms and cities. Very interesting and full of factoids to drag out in defense of urbanism, although it contains at least one remark that seems very fatuous to me: ""Cities tolerate crazy people [...] ( Read more... )

A blackly funny dispatch from the drug wars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara_(demon)


(with thanks to Anaisdjuna for indirectly pointing me to this)

I've just made these reasonably successfully for the second time, so I'm writing it down for myself. ( Recipe follows. )

In my working life, what there is of it, I feel as if I am polishing the gingerbready decorations of an enormous and Byzantinely complex skyscraper... while ninety floors below, floodwaters and barbarians chip constantly away at its foundations. Sometimes it's more like I'm selling hamburgers to the barbarians, but usually I'm doing something ( Read more... )