Darxus

( Overall these look good, they're definitely improved. )

My LDL (bad) Cholesterol couldn't be measured last time because my Triglycerides were at 688, and the test doesn't work with them over 400.

Canned chicken, instant brown rice, and barbecue sauce.

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Warning: When subsisting entirely on Kirkland diet shakes, do not chug three immediately before bed.

I apologize for not giving that impression in my last post. I just had blood drawn for another test yesterday, and should get the results around Wednesday.

http://www.bathsheba.com/sculpt/
http://www.bathsheba.com/crystal/julia/
http://www.bathsheba.com/crystal/lorenz/
http://www.shapeways.com/model/12767/hypercube_b___26_.html

I met this person yesterday and got to handle a couple of her 3D metal prints. Very solid. Very awesome.

"...the design is laid down, one layer at a time, in stainless-steel powder held in place by a laser-activated binder."
"After the whole model is built up, and the extra powder is shaken off, the piece goes into an oven, where heat drives off the binder and fuses the steel powder."
"to get rid of the porosity, the airspace that remains in the piece will be replaced with liquid bronze."

Also: bathsheba_g.

The only electronics kit I ever had demonstrated that you didn't need a power source for a radio reciever, which is kind of neat.

So couldn't you just radio broadcast a 60z tone, rip the headphone off that unpowered radio reciever and attach an a/c volt meter and get a reading?


I had heard that Tesla thought he had figured out how to charge the sky to give everyone free electricity, but that must have been crazy, right?

A couple days ago I watched this:
http://www.wimp.com/nikolatesla
That was the first time I heard he was building a radio tower to attempt the first trans-atlantic transmission - which also happened to be his sky charging machine. So he had broadcasting access to the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and presumably lots of power.

And thismorning I lay in bed lazily contemplating how a radio transmission becomes an audible tone. Since I'm not much of an electronics geek, I first thought, hey, that makes a speeker reciprocate, and generating electricity off of that is easy - before I realized you could just use the speaker inputs as power outputs.

Anybody have a radio transmitter, perhaps one of the tiny ones for getting a cd player to talk to a car stereo? Those unamplified radio kits must be cheap.

What am I missing here? How is wireless power not obvious?

I remember reading recently that somebody finally recently invented wireless power - something involving ocelating electromagnetic waves - duh.

Funding for Tesla's transmitter was cut off when they found out about the broadcast electricity thing, because the people with the money wanted to keep charging for the electricity.

My server went offline. I attempted to log into their web interface to see what was up. It told me I was connecting from an IP not on my whitelist, and that it sent me a verification email that I would need to get into the site.

Guess where my email is hosted.

16:48 < Ice> a former roommate of mine had written a script that changes his password 16 times then back to his old password
16:48 < Ice> because they save 15 times.
16:51 < Ice> Darxus, half the IT department uses it XD

- #linode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

Open source thing combining email, IM, blogging, web message boards, etc. etc...

Thanks to yay_for_fascism for the link. I don't think this video was up yet when ert posted about it.

I did this last night: http://www.eternalmachinery.com/bicycle/

The frame is green (and not as thick or round as it should be). The frame and the chain go over the rider's head. I'm interested in opinions.

http://www.scul.org
http://images.google.com/images?q=akira+bike

Update:
I think this guy's is better in every way :/
http://www.wind-water.nl/rec_build_n.html

I spent the weekend in a great mood, which is really awesome. Witnessed a SCUL knighting, which involved an incredible bicycle with a very tall lit disco ball and impressive sound system. Went fishing out on sensesurfer's boat, caught my first sea fish - two flounder, legal and yummy. Got to drive the boat, opened the throttle a lot, and a minute later the anchor whipped past from the back to the front of the boat. Those are good to pull out of the water first. Last night I got some wonderful cuddling from a woman I'd never met before. That was the highlight of my... a long time. I hope I run into her again, but if not, the cuddling was awesome on its own.

I heard three great songs on the radio today.

Down In It by Nine Inch Nails

I used to have something inside
Now just this hole thats open wide.
I used to want it all
I used to be somebody

Freak on a Leash by Korn

Da boom na da mmm dum na ema

I've been to about two frat parties. At one I witnessed a hot sorority chick doing the screaming growl of this chorus. It was a good moment.


Sober by Tool

I am just a worthless liar
I am just an imbecile

Today is the first time I used my awesome camera since December. It is sad that it has been this long.

Bird like I have never seen before:
http://www.chaosreigns.com/gallery/IMG_7407.jpg.html
http://www.chaosreigns.com/gallery/IMG_7411.jpg.html
That pole was maybe 20 feet from my house.

Necessities:
http://www.chaosreigns.com/gallery/IMG_7425.jpg.html
Where's my flashlight?

The bush I've been staring at out my window from my computer at home suddenly exploded into flowers. Bright pink, with bumblebees.

Costco doesn't sell fifty pound bags of pinto beans either!

I just ordered a Country Living Grain Mill with all the accessories except the electric motor and the lids. It can handle dry beans.