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Archive for March 27th, 2010

Deja Vu

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

I am currently watching two kittens: a grey persian (Lucy) and a black and white long-hair (Nana), as seen above. Below is an old picture of me and my sister with the two cats we had while growing up, Spunky and Moxie (left to right).

Google Out of China

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

China is acting all tough about Google pulling out (new school) and saying that they can’t. Well, they did. Google beat China. My disappointment with China comes from the current generation of post-Mao deciding be spoon-fed economic revolution for political revolution. To me it is like a genie granting you a wish. You should ask [...]

Mole Hill >>> Mountain

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Ant hills are no different than shopping malls, except for our ego-driven perception.

Turing Me On

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

This project is possibly my favorite internet project ever. It is a Rube Goldberg-esque machine that uses my favorite microcontroller, the Parallax propeller. It is a Turing machine that uses 1000 feet of dry-erase comaptible 35mm film to store a series of literal “1″ and “0″ drawn by an automated marker. The construction is amazing. [...]

rambling

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

A big problem I have with the healthcare bill is that it prevents any state from setting up a canada/UK/communist system. Healthcare reform is a bailout to an industry that is not failing, but making record profits. The medical-industrial complex is more of a threat than the military-industrial complex. The supreme court decision to allow [...]