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The best part? If you register ASAP, then your money can go towards providing more nom-ables and supplies for the conference!

Tight on cash? That's no excuse! You can even get in for FREE if you volunteer for 8 hours during the 3-day long conference. Interested? Click here to find out how to get involved ( Read more... )

Muscle wire and all of the fun that it can lead to is now at my disposal ( Read more... )

Ordered NiTi Wire 500µm, which activates at 55-75°C, and modulated IR detector for the Rube Goldburg Alarm clock project ( Read more... )

A glimpse into our world:An exchange with one of my non-guys about having to be carried out of our lobby due to being dead drunk yesterday ( Read more... )

Tried to start work on the electro-magnet generator for the bike speedometer project last night, but the copper wire acquiring was fail. Though, I did start the transition from the breadboard to the printed circuit board!
Thanks to davethegreat for mounting the bike fork/ wheel ( Read more... )

Needed ( Read more... )

I want to be your firefly on a clear dark night /random-not directed at anyone in particular statement ( Read more... )

Weather controller's vacuum tubes got crossed. I got snow instead of thunder storms ( Read more... )

1. I'm far enough outside of Pop culture that I have no idea who these people are or why I should care

2. animation style of current cartoons is oddly reminiscent of cartoons I watched as a kid (in the days of He-man, pre-Animaniacs)

3. Brain's "work mode" oddly went silent within 24 hours. Yay!

4. lightpack's not worthy ( Read more... )

According to the guy beside me on my 1st flight, I have the bladder of a trucker.

Portland is wilderness (It's GREEN! He knows, because he saw it on the globe!) with no crime!- According to the janitor guy at ATL, who started talking with me because of my I <3 Portland monkey ( Read more... )