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From the who-needs-a-driver? department:
You’ll have to excuse me if the next few entries seem a little rushed. They are. Time is constrained. I’ll probably limit myself to 10,000 words (heh). Oh, yeah. And since internet is kinda constrained as well, entries will be brief, big, and infrequent. So, recent […]

From the who-needs-a-driver? department:
Well, the weekend is almost over and tomorrow dawns a new day and a new adventure: autonomous vehicle racing!
I’m part of a team of people who’ve written some software and modified a truck to drive autonomously. We’re competing in the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005, where 40 teams, picked from well over […]

From the me-timbers-are-shivered department:
Well, I totally missed Talk Like A Pirate day. Arr.
In other news, I haven’t written any new posts in awhile, and that’s just no good.
I’ve been working on a little essay-like document that explores listening to music, but that’s no excuse for not coming here to write stuff in […]

From the too-many-DAPs department:
Well, yesterday I talked about a migration towards more photos. So be it! Today’s post looks at the insanity that is my MP3 player collection. I’m a typical engineer/geek type guy: I love the gadgets. I have three players I actually use, and three dust collectors. Not surprisingly every single one of […]

From the autumn-looms department:
The season of running the air conditioner every night, of barbequeing at 20h00 while it’s still light out, of lying in the sun, of water-skiing, of gorgeous girls in short shorts and spaghetti straps, of bikinis on the beach, of biking for hours, is coming to a close.
Unfortunately I don’t have any […]

From the energetic-music department:
If you’ve ever played Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 then you know what I’m talkin’ about: “Fever for the Flava” by Hot Action Cop. I heard it in one of the American Pie movies, grepped the name and artist in the song list after the credits, and the next thing […]

From the clean-cars-r-us department:
So I cleaned my car last weeekend. Sounds like a real pile of fun, doesn’t it? Surprisingly, I spent two days (!) on this episode of fanatic sudsmanship.
SATURDAY
Without going into *too* much boring, lame detail, I basically spent the day on the interior of the car — well, with part […]

From the whats-wrong-with-deepthoughts department:
I just tried to add a deepthoughts this morning and discovered that I’d managed to break some file permissions the last time I was monkeying with it.
Lesson: Always test your project after you monkey with it.
Number of times learned: More than I can count, man.
Resolution: I resolve to make the same […]

From the shoulda-done-this-a-week-ago department:
ALL ZERO READERS OF THIS LAME BLOG: Enough whining about your slacking off, NormMonkey, and get to the post!
ME: But I really want to say how bad I feel that…
AZROLB: Enough! Shut up!
ME: OK, fine. Here goes….
Alrighty then, here’s the list of stuff I wanted to talk about from waay […]

From the a-whole-week-late department:
So, I have neglected my blog again. This is becoming the norm and not the exception. Time to turn this boat around. I am so often caught in life’s many vicious cycles (finding a job needs experience but you can’t get experience without finding a job, meeting girls needs the kind of […]