Specialization is for Insects

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

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Wearable computing Bad Idea: 1

May 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Wearable computing, I find it utterly facinating.  I wants one!  I’ve been designing a system for myself since about the age of 14.  Most recently I’ve been thinking of a low profile backpack / wrist screen platform.
I ran into this link via Makezine today.  It involves salving Prius hybrid batteries.  The formfactor of the battery [...]

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Don’t touch grub unless you have a boot disk

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Seriously, Grub is a boot to the head.
I rarely shut down my computer.  It’s linux, and is pretty low powered, so I don’t really have to.  Last night I did shut down my machine before I went to bed. I had been playing with and cleaning up my grub config last night.
For those of you [...]

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Resizing PDF’s in Ubuntu from 145Mib to ~700KiB

May 9th, 2008 · No Comments

Let me state this up front.  I hate PDF
’s.  I’ve worked in graphic design and print design blah blah blah.  And I’ve had to deal with every lame application’s specific intrepretation of PDF more times than I would like.
PDF’s don’t do well in web browsers, they are far larger than the componant text file, don’t [...]

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Blag down, blag to go

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

My blag software has been down for some time.  But it’s back now.
Newness?
I now live in ellensbouguise again, and am going to CWU.  I’m trying to finish my degree, eventually.  Degrees actually.
I’m going to be here for another month, and then to Boston for the summer.
More to come

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Why XO?

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been very very busy as of late.  I have been volunteering with the One Laptop Per Child Project, doing content and grassroots type stuff.  Its a great project, and I love it very much, but it takes a lot of out me.  I haven’t really had time to post here or any of the [...]

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When you sleep, where do your fingers go?

October 20th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Mine write apparently.
I went to bed last night with a pen and a notecard on my bedstand. Between klaxons from my alarm (I hit snooze a few times) I wrote the following:
I felt paused. Was this clock still driving the ship of my time? Or had it abandoned me for it’s own [...]

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Conversations about Crisco, or why Google is starting to Scare me

October 17th, 2007 · No Comments

Before you get all grossed out and stuff. It’s in reference to

aanway. Platonic-friend becky are talking about hanging out this weekend, and that we’d better have something to do, or we’re gonna have to whip out the Crisco.
The creepy part is how my gmail processed the message.
A little backstory, google reads your [...]

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Censorship battles and bad hairdo’s

September 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I haven’t been posting much, but that should change once I again have interweb at my homestead.
In the meantime, please consider my flickr account to be my home.
In other news, censorship sucks, and the internet re-routes around it like a bad trunk-line.
http://b-heads.blogspot.com/

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Greetings MySpace & Facebook peoples! (part two)

August 15th, 2007 · No Comments

Pictures are very important on Facebook and Myspace. But in both places, I don’t have incredible exposure, and photos are only really viable by one’s friends. So I prefer to have my photos on Flickr. Flickr is a Yahoo property (bleh) that has great search and tagging abilities. If you don’t [...]

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Greetings MySpace & Facebook peoples! (part one)

August 13th, 2007 · No Comments

I know I’ve been out of touch, but I’d love to get back in touch with everyone that I haven’t seen in forever. I let it be know on MySpace and Facebook that I want people to read my blog, if they feel so inclined, and that if they did, I would talk about [...]

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