I have to admit I kind of like this blog. It had it’s moments. It also had trouble getting born though. I wanted to work on projects, a hardware project did make it into a few stages. A software project not so much. Those unfinished projects have been the bane though. Philosophically I am not [...]
I need to document my life, to see where it is going, or remember how it got here. So I decided I will name every month so as to have some reference point. For example last month I inhaled some cement dust, which lead to a case of laryngitis, followed by a sinus infection, followed [...]
I will not propose projects here. I strongly realized I didn’t believe in M1lk enough to follow through with it. I do believe in serious games in social communication but I am not going to to create something AND seek to build a a community at the same time. I won’t last. After M1lk I [...]
It is a just a realm to explore social taxonomy. I never even got it rolling and have since abandoned it is as means to develop taxonomic ideas. It was supposed to be a website for categorizing games. The process of categorizing games was going to be game-like unto itself and thus easier for adoption [...]
I thought so. The WordPress clock is off. I posted this at 12:25pm PST not 7:25 pm. Anyway the point of this post is that whether or not my last post was at 4:43am, since then I had clearly accepted defeat. It was difficult through the rest of the semester, and neophyte electronics, my friend, [...]
Honestly I can’t believe I haven’t posted since I had been forcibly humbled by a failing grade in my major subject. Since then I had my hours cut in half, I had been healing a achilles heel condition that has kept me from working out, my laptop died for good, I lost my mind to [...]
But not for long. Class begins again on August 16th. That leaves me 11 weeks to replenish my bank account and attempt to enjoy some free time working on projects, especially that of Watching Machines. It is not lost on me, though, how poverty stricken I am in terms of free time or meeting the tab that comes with the [...]
Not for the Maker Faire. I dropped out of San Mateo’s faire this month, stayed in for October in Austin. It’s next week anyway, not two weeks. No, two weeks more before the end of finals, after which I can safely and responsibly be obsessive about hobbying. I haven’t done a lick of work, since [...]
A day later I learn from a page on the Seattle Robotics Society’s web newsletter, Encoder, that I can in fact solder those tiny bug sized IC’s that left me itchy yesterday. In fact I can do it using a toaster oven and a special ordered compound! It looks like a fun experiment, but unfortunately at this point [...]
An artist named Niklas Roy created this beautiful object called Grafikdemo. Notice how the green wire mesh teapot is slightly off screen? That’s because it’s not a visual display, it’s a real wire mesh teapot! Roy explains his process in an interview on Gizmodo: When I started to build it, it was funny to recognizebthat [...]
