Monthly Archives: July 2005

I was at World Market with my mom, and I stopped into the food aisle, hoping to find some Pocky. Mmm. Pocky. I digress. Anyway, I couldn’t find any Pocky, so I looked for something else tasty and Japanese. My … Continue reading →

I wanted a TV for my office, but I didn’t have room. So I got a cheap TV tuner card and slapped it in my Linux box. To my indescribable shock, it worked! No config, no fiddling, it just worked! … Continue reading →

They’re building an addition onto my office building. They’ve started by tearing up a big patch of parking lot, and adding 10 inches of dirt to the resulting hole. Excitement!

One Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Dual IV film scanner, Plus some film (with scissors to cut it up into managable 6-frame strips)… And some latex to keep things clean… Makes this. w00t! Interestingly, if I were to add a cheap … Continue reading →

Getting sick of the wall-to-wall Lance Armstrong on my TV now. I’m sure he’s a fine athlete and a great guy and all, but the thickness of the hyperbole wrapped around this guy is exceeding that of all seven of … Continue reading →

Doing Redshark, my car media player project, with a repurposed Xbox console was an interesting hack inspired by convenience, but I’d be the first to tell you that it’s far from the best solution. Indeed, it has some pretty huge … Continue reading →

How do you know if you spend too much time at Best Buy (AKA The Temple Of Consumerism)? I got a fairly radical haircut (not quite a Corgan like last time, but close). I needed a USB cable to help … Continue reading →

Airspace CPU first boot… Finally got the programmer operating after some tinkering. The CPU is the smaller chip on the right of the programmer (in the socket labeled “EVALUATION SOCKET”…which I really must replace with a ZIF socket). The illuminated … Continue reading →