etcetc

http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/other.html

Lifted from a slashdot post on DIY projects.

Creative people and projects:
- http://www.diyaudio.com/ (DIY audio equipment forum)
- http://sound.westhost.com/projects.htm (audio stuff schematics)
- http://headwize.com/projects/index.htm (DIY headphone stuff)
- http://www.hauptwerk.co.uk/pedalboard.html (DIY MIDI pedalboards, just add keyboards and software and you have a MIDI organ)
- http://www.diysubwoofers.org/ (what it says)
- http://www.plasmatweeter.de/eng_plasma.htm (DIY ionic tweeter)
- http://www.mini-itx.com/
- http://www.linux-hacker.net/
- http://www.robotroom.com/
- http://www.tinaja.com/

Places to buy stuff:
- http://www.goldmine-elec.com/
- http://www.newark.com/ (major electronics retailer)
- http://www.mouser.com/ (major electronics retailer)
- http://www.tubesandmore.com/ (components for vintage electronics)

Getting stuff made:
- http://www.olimex.com/ (cheap PCBs)

Interview questions:
http://netblitz2.dartmouth.edu/files/dave/files/interview.html

after us the deluge 


Fox Trot Fridays
Thank the stars there's a day
each week to tuck in

the grief, lift your pearls, and
stride brush stride

quick-quick with a
heel-ball-toe. Smooth

as Nat King Cole's
slow satin smile,

easy as taking
one day at a time:

one man and
one woman,

rib to rib,
with no heartbreak in sight—

just the sweep of Paradise
and the space of a song

to count all the wonders in it.

- Rita Rove

Ad for Manix lube.  

My reading list:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,
my wounded heart

sink hole formed when ground water level collapses

man looking in home after hurricane induced flood

Cited from Business week article about Spam's relationship with Hurricane
Steve Delgado, the marketing manager of Arial Software, got a pleasant surprise when he checked his e-mail Monday morning, Sept. 13. His in-box had only 70 spam messages. "My e-mail [address] is all over the Internet, so I usually get about 200 over the weekend." And he has a theory to explain it: "I believe that the slowdown of spam e-mails in my in-box is directly related to the adverse weather in Florida," he says, "and that the hurricanes are disrupting spammers in Boca Raton and other cities with spammy reputations."

Delgado isn't alone. Anti-spammers have been batting the idea back and forth on Internet newsgroups and in chat rooms since last week. One contributor went so far as to compare the hurricanes to Noah's flood: "And God saw that the wickedness of spam was great in Florida," he writes, "[and God said] 'I will cause it to rain upon Florida forty days and forty nights; and every living spammer that I have made will I destroy from off the face of Florida.'"

florida 2004 after the nth hurricane

cow on a patch

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.

delicious gumbo

recipe for engineers

sumod 

Entirely quoted from this article:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=9&u=/latimests/codenamegeekfun
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In 1993, Apple managers who were unsure whether the Power MacIntosh 7100 would ever make it to market named it Sagan, after the popular but speculative astronomer Carl Sagan. When the human Sagan got wind of the mock tribute, he asked Apple to drop the name.

So Apple renamed the machine BHA, which Sagan correctly surmised was short for Butt-Head Astronomer.

Sagan sued for libel and lost.

But after Apple attorneys settled other aspects of the case, the engineers promptly changed the code name a final time — to LAW, short for Lawyers Are Wimps.

After that, "the lawyers became involved and started having guidelines, saying the term has to be so generic that you don't have a possibility of getting into trouble for it," said a former marketing executive at Apple, which declined to discuss its process. "It was a lot more fun before."