Month: January 2006

Cartman was right along

I haven't seen it and I don't know whether they actually eat pudding, but when I first saw the preview for Brokeback Mountain, the first thing I thought of was one of Cartman's classic lines in an episode of South Park about an...

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The future of Ruby

Slides from a presentation from Ruby creator "Matz" about future enhancements in Ruby2 and Rite. Why Ruby Sucks: A presentation by Matz

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OpenCV FreeBSD port

It looks like the FreeBSD ports folks finally sorted out the troubles with the FreeBSD port for OpenCV that I submitted back in March of 2005 Problem Report ports/78473: OpenCV...

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Ordered a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower

Having built a simple Mindstorms robot, but not having the ability to program it, I bought a Lego Mindstorms USB IR tower on eBay. I can't wait for it to arrive so I can start messing around with RCX Code, NQC, brickOS (formerly...

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Seeker: A Lego Mindstorms Robot

Seeker: A Lego Mindstorms Robot, originally uploaded by msabramo. Seeker is a light-seeking robot with a tank-like chassis and it's used as an example in the "Extreme Mindstorms" book that Nicole bought for me. The problem is...