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  • Fadecandy on the Making Embedded Systems podcast

    Fadecandy on the Making Embedded Systems podcast

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    I recently had the opportunity to speak with Elecia White on the Making Embedded Systems podcast about Fadecandy. The conversation ranged from beautiful LED control algorithms and open source embedded projects to triangle tessellations, art, and identity.

  • Sifteo and San Francisco

    Sifteo and San Francisco

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    Moving to The City, starting a new job at Sifteo, and a month-long trip to Thailand!

  • November Update

    November Update

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    I guess I don’t have a complete blog entry to write on any one thing.. but there are several unrelated things that I feel like writing down. I recently joined Twitter, but I must suck at using it because none of these things ended up there. Life Tragic. Introspective. Complicated. This isn’t really a place where…

  • Moved off of LiveJournal

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    My old LiveJournal blog has served me well over the last four years, but I was getting tired of LJ. When I first started this blog, I mostly used it like any other whiny homesick new college graduate would. But nowadays, I use this less like a social networking tool and more like a way…

  • Debt free!

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  • Ants, meet tasty electrical doom!

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    One of the chores that came up this weekend was to take care of a minor ant infestation. Paul and I had noticed a few scout ants here and there, but there was no clear pattern. That is, until it became clear that they really like my desk. Fine. The ants haven’t really been paying…

  • Tripleverb Sighting

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  • Random update, DIY Wirelesss Guitar Hero

    Random update, DIY Wirelesss Guitar Hero

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    Yikes, it’s been nearly a month since I updated this last. A lot has happened since then… but I’ll skip to some more recent things. David is a Californian, as of last Tuesday! He kept busy buying furniture and waiting in line at the DMV, but I did manage to see him at my birthday…

  • A windy day in San Francisco

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    Coffee and a muffin in my favorite Sunnyvale cafe. The train car full of baseball fans and their Keystone Light. Metro to Golden Gate Park. A long walk on the beach, south until the San Francisco Zoo. A single slice of pineapple pizza accompanied by fine people-watching. A great diner style cheeseburger with a re-run…

  • Surely I’m not the only one?

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    Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine.. out of a Saratoga? The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a plane, why not do it with some style? Uh, does it run on regular unleaded gasoline? Unfortunately no, it requires something with a…

  • Random Update

    Random Update

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    Well, it’s been a while since I’ve updated. Nothing on its own recently has inspired me much to write, but I have some smallish things to mention. I have a new laptop on the way! My 700 MHz Pentium III with 192MB of RAM was just getting too clunky for day-to-day use. I recently ordered…

  • CIA Updates, Cappucino in The City

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    Database v7 Well, it’s been a busy past couple days, but I have some great news to report with regards to CIA. The new database backend I’ve been hacking at for the past couple weeks is now in place, and the performance is great. So, to back up a bit… CIA uses MySQL. It has…

  • Fighting entropy

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    I’m still continuing the gradual process of acquiring furniture and dispersing any large piles of junk from my living room. I finally got to pick up my coffee table yesterday, which I ordered about two weeks ago. I also found a cabinet to hold my server and A/V equipment. It’s garage-grade furniture, but still fairly…

  • Let the pixels flow

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    My posts have been pretty light on the photos recently- this is mostly just because I haven’t been taking a whole lot of pictures, but even when I had plenty of pictures they were safely quarantined behind gallery rather than flowing freely over my blog and all that aggregate it. I admit, this photo has…