Comments (0)

By Dave, September 7, 2006 11:32 pm

xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – COMPLY

A bit of a situation… 😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 7, 2006 9:36 pm

DenverPost.com – Veggie thieves’ penalty tossed

Looks like the internet strikes again.  Seems that the folks that prosucated the kids for stealing vegies meant for a pig farm have had a change of heart.  Course they are not available for comment… 😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 7, 2006 4:39 pm

After spending 4 hours getting ready to being able to move a chair, the hole I was looking for (to run ethernet cable in) wasn’t under it after all. So I went to the next isle and started to kneel down to look closer as the light right at the wall isn’t too good. As I went down I kicked back with my left foot as my right knee went to the floor, which would have been fine if the bottom corner of the subwoofer (30 inch cube, made of a sheet and a half or so of 5/8 particle board, and HEAVY (this equates to very non moving)) hadn’t been in the way of my ankle as it went by. Tore a bit of skin off and made me say many bad words but seemed to be ok so while I was down there anyway I looked for the hole for the ethernet cable to feed through. Getting up it was a bit painful but not too bad. The swelling started about half way down the hall. By the time I was in the center room by the display cases I was limping and holding on to the nearest case. Looked at the ankle and wondered where the egg (medium) attached to it had come from. I limped back here (Repair shop) as it has an air conditioner and the computers, since the ethernet isn’t run yet. 🙁 Got a chair and some pillows and ice (thanks Cat!) and am sitting with the foot in the chair wanting to be out finishing up the cable run. Waiting is… A real pain at times like these…

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 7, 2006 1:03 pm

Adam Kumpf @ MIT

Instructions for making the pickup from the piezo buzzer.  Simple enough.  Love repurposing stuff like this.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 7, 2006 12:58 pm

a cardboard box upright bass | BlogCadre

This is truly a homemade upright bass. Neck is a board, strings are weed whacker cord, tuning knobs are faucit handles, body is a cardboard box, and pickup is a RadioShack piezo buzzer with the body removed. And it sounds pretty good judging from the audio from the video. Good stuff!

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 7, 2006 12:41 pm

Travelogue UK (1) – Bobulate

This is  Adriaan de Groot’s experience riding in the cab of a Dutch train.  No hitech, no computer link at all.  Comunication with the train and between workers is by radio.  Weird situation and interesting read.

Comments (2)

By Dave, September 6, 2006 10:57 am

5 Days now since I finally got a response from them (automated at that) and haven’t heard from them so I sent another email. Keep hopeing that these posts about them will trigger something if nothing else…

My profile/feed page
http://www.technorati.com/blogs/http://www.technoprimitive.org/wordpress

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 11:32 pm

monkeybrains.net – Rudy’s (and Alex, and Rafael) ISP

Rudy Rucker Jr.’s ISP.  Different.  On several levels.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 11:29 pm

UNEASYsilence » Hand Grenade Lamp

This is cool.  Will have to try to make one.  Got a friend that has some of the casings.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:48 pm

Treehugger: Is it Art Or an Environmental Statement?

It’s called shelter. The most basic of human needs. While I admire the art in the work/building he is doing, I think admire folks that live that way more.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:40 pm

My Way News – Aspiring ‘Biotown’ Gets Visit From CSNY

Still breaking new ground and putting their $ where their ideals are! Way to go guys!

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:37 pm

The Blog | Dan Worth: How I Lost 10 Pounds in 10 Days on the Climate Neutral Diet | The Huffington Post

Burn more than you eat and you do this every time.  Amazing how that works.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:32 pm

USB Aroma Joule: Whole Lotta Stinkin’ Goin’ On – Gizmodo

Get thee away, thou foul stinking instrument of satan! This is so much worse than the plugin odor maskers. I hope they come with warnings for folk that are hyper sensitive to odors.

2 thumbs down!

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:20 pm

SCIFI.COM | Battlestar Galactica

Coming soon!  Clips available Tues and Thurs online till the season starts.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 4:54 pm

Everybody loves Eric Raymond » Eric buys an Ipod

Snort out loud  funny!

Comments (2)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 12:01 pm

Just a quick post to say to Steve that this post is being written on a machine using the damaged hard drive. Got the latest and greatest pclos distro and after a fairly short time installing and then a LONG time finding a good ethernet card seems to be working fine. Am upgrading it to the most current software now. So it will come back to you with pclos preloaded. You’ll have to configure some of it but it should work. And the drive seems to be fine now… 😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 10:00 am

Technorati Blog Info: TechnoPrimitive

So today is either 49 or 53 days that none of my posts have showed up on Technorati.  All the other sites seem to be getting my updates but no joy with Technorati. Long weekend is over so maybe sometime today. Yea right… 🙁

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:57 am

OpenStreetMap

Cool!  Will take a while to map the whole world but it sure looks like the open source community is making a good start on it.

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:55 am

Boing Boing: GNU costume for Free Software advocate

Weirdly dressed GNU spotted in the savannah greenhouse of the botanic garden of Zurich in Switzerland. 

Is this a GPLed GNU costume?  Your seamstress wants to know… 😉

Comments (0)

By Dave, September 5, 2006 9:51 am

Boing Boing: Is it legal to look at the Web in Canada?

Total stupidity.  Teh whole freaking world is going DRM nuts.  Now by using DRM someone (?) is either going to charge all the Canadian schools a fee to use the internet or will kindly LET the poor little kiddies use it under a blanket educational license.  Soon ALL the data are gonna be belonging to someone and everyone will have to pay to see anything and have to use special equipment or software to do so because someone may look at WORDS without paying.