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It took me 7 minutes to break my Syma S107c helicopter

  • Posted on February 3, 2013February 3, 2013
  • by john

I’m playing around with nano copters, the first I picked up was the “Syma S107c”:http://www.amazon.com/Syma-Channel-Control-Helicopter-Recording/dp/B0081VOEZM. Cheap and has a camera. So super simple to set up, it comes assembled, you…

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Recent Books — Going Clear, The Big Truck That Went By

  • Posted on February 2, 2013February 2, 2013
  • by john

* “Going Clear”:amazon by Lawrence Wright. A tough look at Scientology. The author does a nice job of letting the evidence speak for itself. If even a fraction of the…

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Quick gadget reviews — sphero, twine

  • Posted on January 25, 2013
  • by john

The “sphero”:www.gosphero.com is nicely done and drives dogs crazy. Solid packaging and works. But it is crazy expensive for a little gadget. I appreciate everything that has gone into it,…

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Where to take my ‘stache

  • Posted on January 21, 2013January 21, 2013
  • by john

Trying to decide…I am drawn to the Zappa…

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Books I’m Reading — Haskell, Viruses

  • Posted on January 19, 2013January 20, 2013
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I am pushing myself a little this month. * “Real World Haskell”:amazon by O’Sullivan, Goerzen, Stewart. Functional languages have always seemed like a research toy to me. But some of…

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Recent books — Machinery of Life, Half-life of Facts, Moonwalking with Einstein

  • Posted on January 5, 2013January 7, 2013
  • by john

* “The Machinery of Life”:amazon by David Goodsell. I have a reasonable understanding of atoms and electrons and electron-based chemistry, particularly for semiconductor materials. I have never really understood biochemistry…

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Board games this holiday season — 7 Wonders, K2, Kingdom Builder

  • Posted on January 4, 2013
  • by john

We always get some board games over the holiday season and have some gamefests. Settlers, Ticket to Ride, Survive have been winners in past years. This year we tried 3:…

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iPad mini rippling thru my hardware setup

  • Posted on December 29, 2012December 29, 2012
  • by john

Ok I got an iPad mini for Christmas — thanks family! The lack of retina display does bother me, it is super noticeable. I will certainly upgrade to an iPad…

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Too many bowls? More likely a short term demand problem

  • Posted on December 29, 2012
  • by john

Per @CFTalkThrough, through 14 bowl games, attendance is down more than 11 percent from a year ago. 574,095 in 2011, 508,969 in 2012. Too many bowls? Maybe. But “looking at…

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Recent books – Black List, Quantum Thief, Stone Arabia, and Antifragile

  • Posted on December 23, 2012
  • by john

* “Black List”:amazon by Brad Thor. Eh. A treasonous cabal plans an apocalyptic cyber-attack on the US. Pretty standard suspense tale, some interesting characters left completely undeveloped, pretty standard plotting.…

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Software I’m dorking around with, waiting for the Seahawks kickoff

  • Posted on December 23, 2012
  • by john

* Great list of tools from Patrick Rhone at “MinimalMac”:http://minimalmac.com/post/38230590462/some-tools-that-made-my-computing-life-better-in-2012. Installed doublepane right away. * “Infoxicate”:infoxicate.com seems like it could be IFTTT only really useful. Tho seems to be just…

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Programmable behavior everywhere, in everything.

  • Posted on November 30, 2012
  • by john

“A nice article”:http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/11/to-eat-or-be-eaten.html from @mikeloukides that extends on the “software is eating the world” idea, and talks about how the world is eating software. Programmable behaviour is getting stuffed into…

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Raspberry Pis — Limit 25 to a customer

  • Posted on November 20, 2012
  • by john

It is fascinating to me that a site like “MCM”:http://www.mcmelectronics.com/content/en-US/raspberry-pi has to limit raspberry pi sales to 25 to a customer. Many possible reasons for this of course, but exceedingly…

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low end computing grab bag — arduino, sensors, fritzing, LEDs, coin batteries, etc

  • Posted on November 18, 2012
  • by john

A random collection of links I’ve noticed in the past month or so, need to follow up on most of these. * “APDuino.org”:http://apduino.org/. Standard software for managing an arduino fully…

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Books — a bunch of airplane fiction, Makers, MLK Jr.

  • Posted on November 14, 2012November 14, 2012
  • by john

A handful of airplane reads: * “Up Against It”:amazon by M. J. Locke. YA SF, set in the asteroid belt. Nice technical treatment of asteroid belt life and some interesting…

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I watched episode 1 of Bravo’s “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley” this weekend.

  • Posted on November 12, 2012
  • by john

Hey, Ohio State had a bye, I had to watch something. 3 observations after watching “the show”:http://www.bravotv.com/start-ups-silicon-valley: * I am now embarrassed to say I work in the tech industry.…

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Hal Berenson defends Office on Windows RT

  • Posted on November 7, 2012November 8, 2012
  • by john

Hal presents “a reasoned and rational defense of the current state of Office on Windows RT machines”:http://hal2020.com/2012/11/07/understanding-office/. I am almost half convinced. But I do differ with Hal on some…

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Two thoughts spurred by FiveThirtyEight

  • Posted on November 6, 2012
  • by john

* “FiveThirtyEight”:http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ and other election watchers have made it crystal clear that candidate attention has moved entirely to swing states — and increasingly swing counties and swing demographics within those…

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At least the Surface has forced me to think about what devices I carry

  • Posted on October 31, 2012October 31, 2012
  • by john

Overall the Surface is, well, a turd. It is a crappy cheap laptop. Or maybe an ok-but-expensive tablet, although completely lacking the tablet apps I want. But it has forced…

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I wouldn’t rush out to buy a Surface.

  • Posted on October 29, 2012October 29, 2012
  • by john

I have the attention span of a gnat, and too large a hardware budget, so of course I ordered a “Surface”:http://www.microsoft.com/Surface/en-US day one. I got my Surface on Friday. 64G,…

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