It is done. My first combat robot. Only sixteen ounces, a SOZbot, it's called Hatchling, and it's a classic wedge. My team? Team Chaos Engineering. Driver and builder: me. Steel Master: Gen'l Kim Knollenberg. Financier: Ken Zarifes ( Read more... )

I am now officially a BattleBots builder. Not only am I the (sole) member of Team Chaos Engineering, I'm also the newest adopted member into South Bay RoboWarriors, home of Mauler 2000 and Mauler 51-50 ( Read more... )

So a bit earlier in the week I ran across someone's LJ entry in which they expressed amazement and disbelief that Friend A had stopped talking to Friend B because Friend A didn't like the sort of people Friend B hung out with ( Read more... )

There was a time, back in our distant past, when we had no rules, no laws, no regulations. In fact, if you did something really, really truly incredibly awesomely stupid, you probably died. Commonly known as "cause and effect", this also became known to humans as "consequences" and more recently as "evolution in action". If you did something ( Read more... )

So as we progress through life, we start out with a kind of hidden liking for the folks who play the role of the Fool. Not enough to want to BE the Fool, but there's a certain admiration there during our teenage years. After the college years, however, tolerance for the Fool diminishes, with some folks actually getting angry at folks who might ( Read more... )

So as I'm standing there, Brillo pad in hand, scouring out the sink I got to thinking about the role of the Fool through history, and why we value maturity. Yes, this is what I do when I clean ( Read more... )

The choreography holes have all been filled in, and everything flows together nicely. There's still a couple rough areas that I'm working out, but it's complete. And, there's a possibility I may get to dance it in a restaurant in August; I'm first up on the cancellation list ( Read more... )

So the trip up to Reno went absolutely FANTASTIC, 112 degree heat notwithstanding. Found the best ever griffin plushie in Davis on the way up (which is now reigning over the Casbah), had an outstanding time hanging out with Asha, our sister tribe; taped their performance in the park and photographed it as well. One of the troupe members was ( Read more... )

So there I was discussing LiveJournal with a friend of mine, and a few interesting points were raised. My friend hates LiveJournals. He doesn't see a need to publicize every itty bitty little detail up for the whole wide world to read...as he put it, "I have a public life, and a private life". LJ, he says, is one of those flavours du jour, an ( Read more... )

Still 254. No gain, but no loss either. It has to be all those cherries I scarfed down last week. Can't resist fresh Bing cherries warm off the tree....

I've also started a new art project. Hubby loves the art of Shag, the retro tiki artist, so I've designed and am custom-painting for him a Shag-esque tiki scene to put on the glaringly naked ( Read more... )