I'm working on an autonomous boat with HBL... and I just stuffed the calendar with work parties for it. Hopefully it will be ready for Toorcamp...

I think I might start using this thing again. Or maybe not. Who knows. It's longer than the bird channel and not FB. Anyone still in this thing?

Where in Seattle can I get a whole bunch of vuvuzelas? Say, about fifty?

I'm in SF Bay now; will be at Maker Faire this weekend, doing unspeakable violence to poor, innocent quarters.

Also: Dollar Rent-a-Car sucks rancid dog balls.

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aoibhill and I will be hitting Norwescon tomorrow (Friday) evening. I'm hoping to get there in the late afternoon.

So, yesterday morning, I found that, after driving to work, my manual transmission truck would not go into gear. Drove it & parked it just fine. I started it up to drive to another part of the Boeing Everett site, put it in gear, and no motion on the wheels. Tried putting it in 4WD, still no love. Fuck. Anything involving a transmission repair is ( Read more... )

I really feel like jumping up on my desk and belting out Orgasm Addict at the top of my lungs. But that would be a CLM.

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at rendering the innocent lewd.

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1202503

The Hokey Pokey is a paean to cocaine, not a parody of the Catholic Mass.

(wha?)