Archive for October, 2006
Brick and Mud Oven
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006Just finished the 3rd batch of bread in the oven and decided to take pix of the finished product.
From the top
Bottom
Cut loaf on another larger loaf. This is a white/whole wheat mix using sour dough starter, some bread yeast, brown sugar, a couple of cups of 2 % milk, a bit too much salt ;-), and nothing else. 15 minutes of kneeding and 4 hours rising. Oven wasn’t quite hot enough to do it all. Should have had another burn but was dark and I was tired. Will start earlier next time and use less salt…
And the book that started it all:
better pix on the way.
Wired News: Honey Remedy Could Save Limbs
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006Wired News: Honey Remedy Could Save Limbs
Interesting article. Will have to try it next time I cut myself. Have used it before but like so many other things had forgotten about it.
MIT material stops bleeding in seconds - MIT News Office
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006MIT material stops bleeding in seconds - MIT News Office
If this doesn’t have other really bad side effects it will revolutionize surgery. Article goes into more detail than I have seen elsewhere today.
Techdirt: Making Sure You Don’t Get Your Rebate Money: Patented!
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Techdirt: Making Sure You Don’t Get Your Rebate Money: Patented!
And the bad part is, this is real. And they got a patent on it. Stupid patent office!
Table of Malcontents
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006What includes Jesus, the space shuttle and two American flags, and is payable in six easy installments? Why, the ultimate collectible, of course. In Table of Malcontents.
Contains profanity. Go, watch, roflyao… 
Back and done
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Other than moving the stuff from my old home directory to this one that is. This thing is a LOT faster than the other one. Has a faster bus speed for one thing. Now to run another ethernet cable to the other room so I can get to the files on the old machine. So close…
New Linux Box
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006The processor is an AMD Geode(tm) NX 1750+ running at 1394.898 MHz. Or that’s what the pclos info tool shows. As far as what kind of machine, it’s a damn if I know.
Seems to be a no name assembled with assorted parts, mouse and keyboard are Harmony multimedia products.
It just finished reformatting the hard drive and installing PCLOS on it. Now for configuring. Back when I am running from the hard drive.
First Ever Chinese Cooking Robot Cooks Like Robo-Mama Used To - Gizmodo
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006First Ever Chinese Cooking Robot Cooks Like Robo-Mama Used To - Gizmodo
With this we don’t need no stinking chefs!
PCLinuxOS: Downloads
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Just finished downloading BigDaddy 0.93a and am burning it to cd now. Have a new computer with XP home just itching to be removed from it that I am gonna use in place with this one. Not quite state of the art but at 1.5 ghz is better than the 1 ghz that the one I am now on. The new one has 512 mb memory so will upgrade that a bit. Also has a built in dvd burner. May have to add a cd burner, will see if the dvd will also do the cds first though. 80 gb hard drive. Onboard video though also has a video card slot. May move my present card depending on how it does.
Just finished burning and is checking now. Closer and closer to bye-bye XP.
Group Warns Of More Junk E-mail - International Business Times -
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Group Warns Of More Junk E-mail - International Business Times -
Judges that sit on this kind of case need to be at least a little tech savvy. Obviously this one wasn’t and isn’t. And e360insight sends out massive amounts of unsolisited email which in my book that makes them a spammer. This ruling needs to be overturned.
Teenager moves video icons just by imagination
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Teenager moves video icons just by imagination
Getting closer to no moving parts in the input control for computers. Much closer.
OregonLive.com : Everything Oregon
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006OregonLive.com : Everything Oregon
Restaurant owner says songs may cost him his business
And once again the only winners will be the lawyers… 
Boing Boing: Panicked chefs propose copyrighted food
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006The Blog | Martin Lewis: That Bush-Foley Photo: The Contest Winners! | The Huffington Post
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006The Blog | Martin Lewis: That Bush-Foley Photo: The Contest Winners! | The Huffington Post
They would be funnier if they weren’t so true. Go, look, laugh, get pissed off…
Techdirt: Diebold Machine Didn’t Count Votes, But Diebold Says Not To Worry: They Can Tell You The Actual Vote Totals
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006Paper and pencil or pen doesn’t have this problem.   Just a pain to count. But there IS a trail there unlike the electronic machines. Now we get to watch yet another election get stolen thanks to Diebold and the asshats in power. I still say lets vote them ALL out and start over!
periodic spiral - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006periodic spiral - data visualization & visual design - information aesthetics
Interesting concept. Wonder why no one has come up with this before?
CITIZEN-TIMES.com: Liberty Dollars face legal scrutiny
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006CITIZEN-TIMES.com: Liberty Dollars face legal scrutiny
To hell with the US mint. I’d use them if there were places around here that accepted them. Anything to show my nonsupport to this nonwar that the nonprez has the country in.
