Awesome typewriter robots

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Awesome typewriter robots:

Robots: Who will you vote for?

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Secret robots, out-of-the-garage robots, space robots, and terrestrial robots – who are you supporting this November?

In a recent poll of robots in my neighborhood (namely my driveway), there was an overwhelming support for Barack Obama over John McCain. Just look at how the driveway robot is beaming, “Yes we can.” Or is that, “10100011110101001?”

Support the cause at http://robotsforobama.com

August KCRUG video

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Partial recording of the August KCRUG meeting. Be prepared for craptastic audio. Better than nothing?

Original 1GB file KCRUG-2008-08-27-partial.MOV

Smaller divx (250MB) KCRUG-2008-08-27-partial.avi

Vimeo was down today so I don’t have a slick embedded preview.

Phusion Passenger on Mac

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Just got sent this link to the Railscast on passenger.

I never thought running script/server on various ports (when needed) was ever a pain but it must have been because it feels nice to point my browser to an url, sans port number.

50/100 things about me

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  1. I am from Missouri
  2. I like cats
  3. I have a first degree black belt in Ed Parker American Kenpo Karate
  4. I like Dungeons and Dragons
  5. I am “double-jointed”
  6. I have used Linux since 1998
  7. When I was a kid, I memorized the (approximate) speed of light in miles per second
  8. I know The Wood Whisperer
  9. I used to collect comic books and still retain an unnecessary amount of comic trivia
  10. I have bachelor’s degrees in both Art and Computers
  11. I know the entire lyrics to “Ice Ice Baby” for some unknown reason
  12. I traveled to Prague and Budapest on my college choir tour
  13. I was called “Star Wars” for brief time during my college years
  14. I played Magic the Gathering aka “The cocaine of card games” from 1993-1996
  15. I am really into photography
  16. Rather than Atari, We had an Odyssey 2 as a kid
  17. I grew up in a log house
  18. I have one brother and one sister
  19. I attended the 1993 Missouri Scholars Academy (Boomba…)
  20. I studied Japanese language and culture at Scholars Academy
  21. I am a Sagittarius
  22. I was born in the year of the Dragon
  23. I rarely remember my dreams
  24. If I do remember my dreams, they are like the movie Dark City
  25. I am not really into sports
  26. I went to college on a full scholarship
  27. I think penguins can sometimes be scary, especially animated ones
  28. My father is a Sheriff
  29. I was in a lot of theater productions in high school
  30. I have trouble remember exactly what someone said, but I can tell you exactly where everyone was standing.
  31. I don’t like talking on the phone
  32. My typing was below average until I started using IRC
  33. I have never had a cavity
  34. I have never been hospitalized
  35. I have poor vision and wear contacts
  36. I have never officially broken a bone, but there is a childhood story of a possibly chipped elbow
  37. My feet control my body temperature more than they should
  38. If I could be any animal, I’d be a cat
  39. If I could have any superpower, I’d choose shapeshifting
  40. I like Star Trek
  41. I like Battlestar Gallactica even more than Star Trek
  42. I am right-handed
  43. I like to cook, but rarely have time
  44. I like coconut curry
  45. I have no known allergies
  46. I sneeze when exposed to bright light
  47. Before Rocketmail was consumed by Yahoo, I used goddard@rocketmail.com as a throwaway address
  48. I shoot with the Sony α700
  49. I used to shoot with the Sony α100
  50. I have over 40,000 digital photos so far, most should be deleted

I has blog

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The title says it all.