Category: lj-import

I'm always impressed by the artists on DeviantArt who do crazy things with just Paint and similar programs. No spiffy Photoshop for them! Anyway, if you're interested in such things, you might want to take a look at \”Traveling the lands of Sillis\”.

Just when you thought cockroaches couldn\’t get any harder to kill…. \”The latest issue of Make Magazine volume 2 from O\’Reilly publishing has an article on a cockroach controlled robot. Roboticist Garnet Hertz has mounted a Giant Madagascan Hissing Cockroach that drives a small mobile robot around by walking on top of a Kensington trackball.…

I love the rain! We didn't get nearly enough of it in Spokane. I swear, in the last couple days, we've had more rain here in Portland than Spokane got ALL YEAR! Today (yesterday), I went to get job applications, and it began to pour on the way to the second set of stores. By…

Hey, SST and NRST alumni. Some people seem to be putting up a site with Alumni contact information, and what people are doing, and stuff like that. So, drop them an e-mail (you can easily find their mail on the site), and tell them what you're doing, your web site, and your e-mail address, if…

Well, it looks the the United States is grabbing ahold of its destiny yet again. Bush already backed out of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty (in 2002), which forbid space weapons, and now he's looking to spend billions for defenseive, not to mention offensive measures. \”Published studies by leading weapons scientists, physicists and engineers say the…

Okay, I have to learn C++ programming well enough to be able to challenge a course in the fall. Does anyone know of any good resources? A book to help learn it, or something? There are a billion books out there, and I have no idea which to choose. Anyone?

1. Orthodox Quaker (100%) 2. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (87%) 3. Seventh Day Adventist (81%) 4. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (76%) 5. Liberal Quakers (73%) 6. Eastern Orthodox (70%) 7. Roman Catholic (70%) 8. Orthodox Judaism (60%) 9. Baha'is Faith (60%) 10. Hinduism (58%) 11. Unitarian Universalism (58%) 12. Islam (55%) 13. Reform Judaism…

Stardust as a Play Neil Gaiman mentioned this on his blog, and I immediately started to feel a strong amount of envy for anyone who lives in Chicago. If I were there, I'd be at the show in an instant. Unfortunately, I don't have any good way to get to Chicago, so it doesn't look…

Perhaps this one will be more deserving…. Elana: Shortly after I signed off, I wrote this, trying to get the thoughts out of my head. I wrote a lot of other stuff, but I wanted you to read this. It's exactly as it was when I wrote it, trying to grasp whatever emotions I was…

I often post things that don't really relate to me. They don't tell you anything about me, besides something interesting that happened in my day. Or (in some cases) something not-so-interesting. I'm going to try to spend more time on each entry so that it really reveals something about myself. I'm sure I'll fail often,…