The good news is I got the motor up and running the other day.  And everything works, if not as well as it should.  Need to finish some stuff up, test and refit.  yay.

I just can't be too stoked about that right now, though.  I got an email from the boss the other day with a really good idea.  Better than my idea.  Much better, actually.  It's just ( Read more... )

A couple of friends of mine have gotten me into a new game, WoW minis:  http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wowminis/en/default.aspx

It's kinda like playing magic in a lot of ways, but easier.  Instead of decks having 60 cards, parties have 3 (or even sometimes ( Read more... )

Okay, I finally made it to my all-time favorite bar Evar(TM).  I've spent 6 of the last 7 nights in The City and still hadn't made it to Zeitgeist, so we got mediterranean food and hit the bar.

Fuck.

First off, it was crowded.  Wall-to-wall, unable to walk, even outside a the beer garden.  WTF?  Bartender was frantic, couldn't get a pitcher, and ( Read more... )

Meant to do this before I left, but whatever.

So, yeah, I'm in California right now.  Menlo Park, to be specific.  I have temporarily (?) relocated to the Bay Area, this time for business rather than pleasure.  I should be here for a month or so, trying to finish up our prototyping phase.  Wish me luck.

So during my meeting today, I had a bit of an epiphany.  I know what I'm going to get for my next tattoo ( Read more... )

I'm a fuckin' genius.

That is all.

Dude, Steven Chu is going to be Energy Secretary?!  I love this guy!

This is a nobel-prize winning physicist, who left atomic physics to go run LBL, which is doing (among other things), some really ambitious renewable energy research.

I got a chance to hear him speak about exactly this when he gave a colloquium at UW a couple years ago.  It's still ( Read more... )

Okay, they just called mothafuckin' O-hi-o for Obama.  Can we call it yet.  Can we end it?  Is it over?  Can you motherfuckers just say it?

SAY IT!

They just called PA for Obama.  At 5pm.  So, like I've been saying, it's going to be an early night.

This justifies my anger at some of the writing.  People have been talking a lot about how McCain was trying to win PA and how this election was in doubt, and "you never know".

Never know what?  That literally every poll taken in PA in the last month ( Read more... )

So, the networks aren't saying it, so I will.

Early results from Indiana, Georgia seem to indicate that those states are close.  McCain wins them probably, but that's not the point.  The point is that it wasn't obvious that they would be, and we only found out they were close through polling.

Therefore, the polling does not seem to be bat-shit insane ( Read more... )