Month: May 2006
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‘Cause waking up is hard to do…
We’re doing this “10-4” thing at work for one week out of every month; this week is the first one (i.e. 10-hr days for 4 days, and friday off*); that’s probably it. And one single specific timecritical project** that I need to have results for by the end of tomorrow (while constantly being interrupted with…
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Nine times out of ten it’s an electric razor…
After much slacking around and procrastinating, we now have Rez Vibes! Lots and lots of them, if I feel like making more and selling them on ebay. The nitty gritty details are written up here.
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A friend (who, ahem, should be studying now! ;-) sent this the other night: The Autism Quotient test. (A real test by actual researchers, not that OKCupid crap.) If you take it, post your results here – I’m kind of curious what everyone else got; e.g. what’s the spread, whether the test seems skewed one…
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Fun with PCB Fab Express
Yet another electronics geek post. Click here for sssexy circuit boards and my lab Stickin It to Da Man (aka being cheapwads).
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Life’s a beach, and then…
Einstein’s down on the beach staring into the sand Cause everything he believes in is shattered What you fear in the night in the day comes to call anyway-ay We all get burned as one more sun comes sliding down the sky My folks came out to Boston-land this weekend; dragged me out to Cape…
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And echoes with the sound of salesmen…
Yeah yeah… I probably sound like I’m on some kind of guy-rag lately. But I feel like ranting, so ranting is what I will do ;-) At work some of us got into a random product-ideas-sales-suggestions discussion over email, passing around the @everyone list. I started writing a quick reply with a few ideas, and…
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Compress track by external program
You’ve cared for it, you’ve babied it, you’ve glued it back together a few times, you’ve limped it along, blown the dust out, wiggled and jiggled it back to workingness, and as it went south, prodded ever more carelessly hoping to get back any response, any sign of life, and ultimately, watched it go up…
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Motorola E815 hacking
Yay, it is done. This phone kicks ass! I ran into some weird problems at first, not mentioned by any advice forum / tutorial / etc., so I wrote this up to hopefully save people with the same issues a lot of debug work. Read more…