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Today, Google are celebrating the birth of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc[^] a French architect.
Pah! They clearly didn't notice that today is the last Monday in January, which means...
...It's Bubble Wrap Day![^]
So, folks, let's get a-poppin'! You know you want to...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Just turned upside-down the office - no bubble wrap here - can you spare some?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Thanks a lot!!! Now I can celebrate properly...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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I wish I had a touch screen to view that on. 
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Have fun[^] 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Have a song to celebrate![^]
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I want an Arduino Tre (Clickity[^])
I learned about it from this post[^].
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Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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After the conversation in that thread I looked at a couple of videos and it looks like a nice unit.
What intrigued me was the bridge software that married the Linux and Arduino units.
I had thought about ordering one but I'm already way far behind on my learning schedule. 
1) Finish WinHeist conversion utitlity - not going well
2) Beaglebone Black - steep learning curve
3) Linux - so I can better understand how to program the BBB
4) Python - This is for bonus points.
5) Robbie - the autonomous rover
6) 2 online classes
- UTAustinX: UT.6.01x Embedded Systems
- Georgia Tech, Control of Mobile Robots
7) Still working on the house, replacing windows is next on the list.
8) My old truck needs some work.
I'm busier now that I'm retired as when I was working full time??????
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0) and I also have one of these[^] coming that I'm using in the UT class I'm taking, which looks promising.
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Here's another one that's got me drooling Paralella board[^]
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modified 26-Jan-14 21:29pm.
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That Parallela board looks terrific. What kinds of applications would take advantage of it?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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A super duper toilet paper dispenser?
I can't think of any application that would need that much HP but would sure be fun to play with!
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Quote: Here's another one that's got me drooling Paralella board[^]
I'm drooling with you.
Veni, vidi, vici.
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Me Too. I've got a mini-cluster coming as part of the kickstarter. 4xParalella 16 core boards. Don't know when they will actually arrive, they keep slipping their schedule due to hiccups. I think the latest best guess is March.
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I'm tempted to get one but don't know what I'd do with it other than learn parallel computing?
4 boards, that would be awesome to get a cluster going. What else do you intend to do with it Dave?
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I want to play around with Linux more and also look at things like mongodb clusters, sharding etc. Understand node.js in distributed environments etc.
Basically just faff about when I have some time on my hands. 
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DaveAuld wrote: I want to play around with Linux more
I've spent the last few days with Linux on the BBB and I ?think? I'm starting to get a handle on it.
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Go buy it
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Money is tight at the moment.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I'm not entirely sure what you're saying... do you or don't you want it? 
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Well, I'm two days late (US time) to whimper my felicitations, but: why not; after all, them was fuzzy (and hirsute) times back in 1984 in the Valley that $ilicon made [^].
That January of Orwell's year I was running a computer program for children at the French-American Bi-lingual school in San Francisco; it would be more correct to say that, with 200+ children per week warming the seats around our sixteen-or-so Apple II's, the program was running me ... ragged.
Around March (I think) of that year I escorted a group of the elite (International IB) upper-school students over to Oakland to see the first incarnation of the Mac (128k, 68000 cpu at 8mhz.) at an Apple dealer's shop. US $2500 for the little critter seemed (and was, in those days) a very high price.
The de rigeur demo of MacPaint didn't do much for me, but MacWrite and MacDraw were eye-openers. I had seen WYSIWYG word-processing and vector-drawing programs in demos on the Xerox PARC machines, but never thought mere mortals would have them.
It was a year later, sometime in the spring of 1985, I was able to buy my first Mac: at one of the bay area's geek flea-markets: a talented hardware-wizard, a Jamaican named Robert from Berkeley, had somehow gotten hold of Macs that had failed qa and were headed for the junk-bin, and somehow ... uhhh ... "rescued" them ... salvaged them into kind-of working machines.
So for US $600 I had a 128k Mac with a keyboard with the entire bottom row of characters transposed one character over. Learning to type fluently on that machine was to give me problems for years.
My first-wife went Krakatoa on me when I came home with my prize (she was an actress, and play director, and epic explosions were her specialty).
A year later, when (I believe) the first Apple LaserWriter to be rented to the public was available at Krishna Copy in Berkeley, I started my first company, Technical Document Design. I would whip-out custom graphics for technical companies, print them, have them turned into negatives on film by a local print shop: voila instant overhead-projection slides with high-resolution (compared to what was the then standard).
And, the Mac and LaserWriter combination led me to specialize in PostScript, which turned out, in the long run, to be a very lucky choice of obsessions.
So, I can say of the Mac, as Pele said of soccer: "been very good to me."
Thanks, Mac !
p.s. The small room (upstairs) where the first LaserWriter for rent was available at Krishna Copy was something of a circus. Which, given Berkeley's latter-days of the counter-culture hive identity, could be expected. People would bring their dogs, and children. The scent of patchouli and sandalwood as likely as proto-yuppie cologne, and human sweat.
One of my first paying clients was a self-anointed "spiritual master" with wonderfully luminous eyes, and massive dreadlocks, who claimed to have reached enlightenment in Afghanistan after being sent to live alone in a small hut for four years in total silence, never going outside the hut.
He said that once a year his "guru" would summon him for an audience, and ask him a single question: "what have you learned this year?"
The first year he replied: "the food is terrible." His guru said: "excellent, now back to the hut."
The second year he replied: "I'm so bored I might as well be dead." His guru said: "excellent, now back to the hut."
The third year he replied with a single word: "fark." His guru said: "excellent, now back to the hut."
The fourth year he replied: "This is a total waste of time !" His guru said: "excellent, now get out of here, and go teach."
I was definitely sucker-punched by the punch-line, but after I had recovered from laughing, I asked him if he didn't feel, at times, angry with his teacher. He said: "no the other disciple had to stay in the hut seven years."
The Prophet hired me to do a brochure for a dating service that supposedly matched, using what he claimed to be ancient Vedic astrology, high-rolling gamblers going on trips to Las Vegas with a selection from a bevy of female escorts whose compatible signs would render them "shaktis" for said punters, thus increasing their luck exponentially.
To say that the virtue of these ladies available for cosmic escortage was beyond anything but lucky ... would be a stretch.
I am not making this up !
“But I don't want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can't help that,” said the Cat: “we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.”
“How do you know I'm mad?” said Alice.
“You must be," said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.” Lewis Carroll
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BillWoodruff wrote: My first-wife went Krakatoa on me
Mine still does once in a while. I'm not saying I married a super-volcano but once in a while I can feel the vibrations in my toes at which time, it's better to turn and run.
BillWoodruff wrote: The scent of patchouli and sandalwood as likely as proto-yuppie cologne, and human sweat.
Ronald Reagan apparently said, after losing a hippy vote in California: "what can you say about people who look like Jane, walk like Tarzan, and smell like Cheetah."
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Septimus Hedgehog wrote: .... smell like Cheetah
Well, that shows Reagan can crack a better joke. Or maybe my sense of humor was dead when I read about the guru
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http://howdovaccinescauseautism.com/[^]
Well fads they come and fads they go.
And God I love that rock and roll!
Well the point was fast but it was too blunt to miss.
Life handed us a paycheck, we said, "We worked harder than this!"
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I think that's more of a soapbox post as the page it points to is definitely NSFW. 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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