Wired's military tech blog Danger Room has the best press release I've seen in some time. Company Denies its Robots Feed on the DeadIt does seem that any time the idea of a robot powered by foraging for biomass is mentioned, fears that they'll rise up like carnivorous terminators seems to follow. Of course giving the thing a name with the acronym ( Read more... )

BBC has the best headline I've seen in some time. Stoned wallabies make crop circlesI've always figured some kind of intoxicant was involved in crop circles. Even if you buy the alien explanation, those aliens are likely the extraterrestrial equivalent of drunken frat-boys doing doughnuts on your lawn. The comments on the article are pretty good so ( Read more... )

On the way back from DVC today I noticed a truck with a campaign sticker or sign on the back. Pretty common, except who the sticker was for. Dewey - Warren.

The truck looked old, but not quite THAT old. On the other hand at least they backed a winner.

I am of course referring to The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.

This isn't exactly new but recently I've talked to several people who haven't read this brilliant article. It's a bit long, but you really do need to read it.

I should be in bed, but I didn't get up untill 5 so I should be ok for tomorrow. Besides, I have important news for you....
Anteaters are truly awesome. While screwing around the other day I found the Flicker page for TamanduaGirl. She's got a pair of anteaters (Tamanduas) as pets. I didn't know anteaters had this much personality, I just new they ( Read more... )

I once again have fully functional intertubes ( Read more... )

I wasn't really planning on spending the entire day at DVC, 7.5 hours in the math lab (and 2 hours of assorted breaks and other running around*) seems a bit excessive. Especially considering it's just a quiz tomorrow not a full test. Well at least it's less work to prepare for next Wednesday's test. And it's not like I'd really have used that time ( Read more... )

Whining is what LJ is for isn't it? Well I've still got plenty of things to whine about but I'll focus on one. My networking trouble. My net connection is still buggered, if slightly less so then it was. I can actually get to LJ and Wikipedia now, and can also get to my friends page, but posting comments or even reading some are still not possible ( Read more... )

I completed the upgrades on my computer and things are truly groovy, with one exception. I'm having network trouble. Many web pages work fine, but certain other ones (like Livejournal) I can't get to at all and trying to download anything doesn't work. I can't even ping the web sites I can get to. At first I thought it was Comcast being Comcastic ( Read more... )

Did a 6 hour session in the math lab (with a one hour break) today. I think I'm mostly ready for the test, (I don't think I can do anymore without my brains leaking out my ears) but I thought I was last time too ( Read more... )