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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Anyone who is even a little bit a nerd needs to read this.

2009 10 06 geekspeak
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no hat area

My new camera arrived today. It’s a Panasonic DMC-LX3, and it’s pretty nice. I’ve only just started playing with it, but I’m quite happy with this shot:

2009 09 28 photos Comments (3)

Caveman Science Fiction

I love this.

2009 09 27 misc.link Comments (0)

the basics of financial self-sufficiency

I just saw a moderately engaging presentation on why, instead of buying a new car with a loan every few years, it’s better to save some money and buy used cars for cash. It’s nothing revolutionary, but I can’t help but wonder: how are people surviving if this is new information for them? What sort [...]

2009 08 24 misc.link Comments (2)

USAF Model HGM-25A Missile Weapon System Operator’s Manual

I tonight came across the operator’s manual for a Titan Missile complex. It’s an enormous, 600-page PDF that I just cannot stop reading. It is fascinating in a very literal sense for me–I’ve spent a few hours more than I intended to already reading this–because it hits several of my buttons: Big Tech, Nuclear Weapons, [...]

2009 08 14 geekspeak
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Effects of Eating a Too Hot Pepper

Presented in timeline form: -15 minutes: Friends are encouraging, but everyone repeats one caution: no matter what, do not touch your face with your hands. Keep them behind your back if possible. +0 minutes: The immediate effect isn’t actually very dramatic. The mouth burns, of course, but not much more so than when eating any [...]

2009 06 27 what i learned at work today Comments (1)

night air assault

In case anyone was wondering, this is what I was up to last week. The reporter dramatizes quite a bit, but the essence of the story is correct.

2009 05 17 2-2 ASLT
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Autotune the News

2009 04 23 misc.link Comments (2)

Transcontinental Song

The Army’s in Korea to support our great allies. My comp’ny’s role is simple: drop some troopers from the skies, And as a junior pilot I just keep the rotors high, SO let’s all fly to Asia for the Army. I’m wearing now the wings that took two years for me to rate. A couple [...]

2009 04 09 brain flotsam
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in lieu of creativity

The following is a paragraph from a novel I enjoy. However, the author ran the published version through an auto-translator to Japanese and back, and this is the result: I stole the king woman from wheelbarrow king of sleep. I burnt under the town of Trebon. I passed the night of Felurian, my sanity and [...]

2009 04 06 bibliophile Comments (0)