Author: Mike Garrity
Robot Video
Peter did some more work on his robot today. He’s got a big battery pack installed so that it doesn’t need a cord. It still has the cable to the Wii nunchuck though. Faith...
NMUSAF Virtual Tour
I mentioned the National Museum of the USAF at Wright Patterson after we visited it this summer. My only disappointment was that we only managed to see a tiny corner of its vast collection....
Dave Brubeck
I just heard that Dave Brubeck died this morning. NPR has a nice remembrance. He made so much great music for so many years that it’s hard to know which to pick out, but...
Base i-1: There Be Dragons
John Baez recently posted this picture (by Anton Sherwood) on his G+ stream: The story behind it is pretty cool, and it involves two of my favorite things: TAOCP and unusual number systems. Let’s...
Today’s Kludge
A few weeks ago, I dropped the Miata off at the service station for some suspension work. My usual mechanic Paul wasn’t there, but I left it with the other guys. A short while...
Pictures in Silos
The other day, Josh Wallaert posted a nice article about what silos like Facebook are doing to the availability of photographs for reuse. He’s talking about the fact that people are now taking hundreds...
Revenue Sources
Now that the election is over, all of the chatter in Washington is about the fiscal cliff (well, not all the chatter). I’m surprised by how narrow the discussion is when it comes to...
