Archive for August, 2005

Remote Control Lawn Mowing

Posted August 10th @ 7:52 am by Rich

Right now I have a riding lawn mower. A beautiful John Deere L120 Lawn Tractor in fact. But all that riding and cutting is really tough because I am out in the heat. I would prefer to prop a chair up inside of the bay windows at the front of our house and cut the […]

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August 2005 Screenshot

Posted August 8th @ 8:58 am by Rich

This month’s screenshot features my dual monitor setup. Yes, the screen is 2560×1024 or 2 19″ monitors wide I realized that I had enough LCD monitors laying around that just by shifting some equipment, I could go dualie.

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Intelligent Design in The Skools

Posted August 5th @ 7:51 pm by Rich

So the debate over Intelligent Design rages on but who was the intelligent designer of our current school system?
Humor courtesy of Scrappleface

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Maria’s First Day Of School

Posted August 4th @ 2:08 pm by Rich

Maria had her first day of school today. You can check out all of the pictures here at RobotThoughts or at Flickr.

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The Moore’s Law Dialectic

Posted August 2nd @ 8:13 pm by Rich

Dana Blankenhorn writes about the coming change in politics from a cultural schism to a technological divide. If you follow my writings and screenshots you will see that I am strongly against proprietary operating systems and media. I use Linux to watch movies. As Microsoft and Apple follow the path of “trusted computing” which serve […]

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Did You Freaks Really Vote For This Guy?

Posted August 2nd @ 2:58 pm by Rich

So our President, who clearly won his last re-election with an overwhelming 51% majority, today said he believes schools should discuss “intelligent design” alongside evolution when teaching students about the creation of life. I just want to make sure everyone is clear on the differences between the two theories:
Theory of evolution - can’t say for […]

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KegBot!

Posted August 1st @ 3:36 pm by Rich

It sounds like a crazy idea, build a beer dispensing robot that tracks how much you drink, you blood alchol content, your calories and unleash it upon an unsuspecting DEFCON. The results are pure genius and something every beer drinking hacker should aspire to build.
via Make: Blog

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iRobot to Go Public

Posted August 1st @ 3:07 pm by Rich

If you are a big fan of the Roomba or you just bought a few Military Style Packbots, you might think that owning a piece of the robotic future would be prudent. Forbes thinks you would be wrong.
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