A man walks with a stick on his shoulder. The stick has gear attached. I get intrigued, and sidles up: “Nice rig. What is it?” He explains it is a large-format camera. 25cm square negatives! Hands me a business card that points to his website. (Oh! That website has a picture of the wonderful camera, …
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Reboot 11: day 1 recap
Solar bike panel folks Sebastian and Tomas showed a short “Rocket” wireless adapter, which I liked so much I had to do business with them and buy one. 2W of power consumption: best in the world. 2.5W under full load, streaming media through it. Met Peter Ferne, of Bristol Wireless, a social enterprise to hand …
Reboot coming up, bread might be baked
Bread baking should be interesting.
My Java’s broken
This is a Twitter-like post. My Arduino won’t work since my Java is broken. I was unable to wait for a Java 6 that would… so I installed some MacPorts package. And… then things stopped working. Have you fixed this yourself?
New Lit! Pär Thörn books arrived
Ah! My colleague walked in here, to my screen, and handed me a big brown envelope. Padded. Full of… three thin books, all by literary genius Pär Thörn. One our great humorists. He is funny, for real. You might not find anything about Pär Thörn in English. He recently made an audiobook of an out-of-print …
Edward James Olmos just brought tears to my eyes
locke61dv calls EJO president and I just agree. It’s a video. A speech. 3 minutes.
Got angry. Joined Pirate Party
She joined Piratpartiet. I did, too. Mejla folket i ITRE, om Telekompaketet är det viktiga du ska göra idag mÃ¥ndag. OK, tack. Joining Piratpartiet is free. Yes, without cost. (I just learned: The women’s section in the party is called Nätstrumporna.)
Warsaw story
Attended a Bootstrap.pl meeting in Warsaw, where me and Kugg from Forskningsavdelningen chatted about Hackerspaces in a couch on a stage. Hardware hackers presented their stuff, and everyone was kind and smart. After the meeting, one guy introduced himself as Tomek, and said “I’m an architect, and I want to help design packaging for your …
Got a CueCat
I am picking up one of these babies — CueCats — at the post office (which is in a food store) Read the wikipedia story about them. It’s a wonderful Open Source world, which can help products after they’re abandoned by failed companies.
Marriott Residence Inn LARP
Marriott Residence Inn Originally uploaded by everyplace Decorator/stage designer: “Hotel guests need the suburban comfort. Can we add role-playing to the mix?” Hotel manager: “In your room, dear guest, you’ll be Mr. Tyler, insurance salesman. Your wife Clara and your daughter Rose will stay in the same room. They’ve requested a Southern accent from you, …