Now this is quite the machine. memory mapped video display ! omg you can display bitmaps
amazing computer deal
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This is the same old story. Comapany leaves backdoor for whatever reason , some one reverses there binarys. Epic Fail
Japanese Researchers manipulate standing waves to levitate objects
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This is extremely impressive, they are using ultrasonic speakers to levitate small but real physical objects. It’s unclear how much energy is required but I am sure its not a small amount.
if any one has more detailed info about how it works let me know
long walks and used cars in San Leandro
So on occasion I go for long walks, I am not sure why exactly other than to procrastinate but I do. recently I have decided that these walks ought to happen at night for one reason or another but mostly because I have already seen everything during the day and I dont really like people very much.
Anyways on my more recent walks I noticed a few things .
Used cars have gotten just absurdly cheap. I don’t know what the argument for buying a new car is these days, but whatever it’s not good ! If your truly too lazy to get an oil change every 5000 miles and maybe do a tiny bit of maintenance, maybe you ought to just walk or see a medical professional. These are some of the examples I saw on my
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Now these may not be the most amazing cars in the world but they will get some one to and from work who requires a car. One should also note that these cars are on used car lots, which means that better deals can probably found from private sales. I honestly wonder how much the car dealer can possibly be buying these for to make a reasonable profit. ( I figure they make most of the money on financing these days)
My walk was through the city of San Leandro. San Leandro is to the east of Oakland its a very small city but its an interesting one particularly if your looking for a nice and affordable place to live in the bay area. I Don’t live in San Leandro but I wish I did.
This is why:
- Safer than oakland, I don’t feel like looking up the crime stats but it is
- Bart – I think if you live in the bay area and you live more than 3 miles from BART you are doing it wrong ! ( don’t waste your money living in the southbay it sucks)
- Kaiser Permenente is building a brand new 1 million sqft facility, as soon as this is operational real-estate prices will sky rocket due to the influx of well paid health care workers and a supply of housing which currently only holds a population of roughley 86,000 people.
- OSI Soft along with the city of san leandro is currently deploying a large municipal fiber network the chairman of the FCC recently visited the deployment !
- several other large companies are head quartered the area Jansport, ghirardelli chocolates, TriNet to name a few and yes there are more.
- The city has a beautiful marina and golf course ( lots of people don’t know this )
The Z
So a few years ago a buddy of mine and I bought a 1974 240z to just drive around like idiots.
The Car only cost 1200 dollars. and the Idea was to drive the thing around in the desert and just have a good time.
We live in the East SF Bayarea and the car was located in Santa Cruz. We sorta decided to buy the car on a whim and ended up in santa Cruz at night ( Never buy a car at night !). We took a cursory look and things looked good. The car only cost 1200 dollars so we were not expecting much more than being able to drive the car. I took it for a test drive and man it pulled like a monster in 3rd gear.
The Drive Home.
This is when things started to go down hill. First I noticed the car had no mirrors not a huge deal, but I certainly would have noticed this if we had not bought the car at night.
If you have ever driven down to santa cruz its a great drive however driving a 1200 dollar car down the 17 at night with no mirrors is to say the least an experience. Then I noticed I was getting a bit dizzy thanks to exhaust leaking into the car.
We did eventually make it home but as we entered the driveway the engine showed signs of over heating.
Anyways the car ended up needing alot of work I think I will post about that another time.
Land Sailor
So my buddy and I built a ” land sailor”. We got the idea after making a trip to home depot to just wonder around. My friend noticed a roll of tyvek and said ” it would work well for making sails”.
We ended up not making the sails from tyvek instead we purchased a used sunfish on craigslist
And so the land sailor born
It broke during the first ride after my buddy drove it into a hole
The lake
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Went out to clear my head
Personal Goals
I saw a list of 13 goals Written by Ben Franklin and I figured I needed my own set.
- Spend Less time talking about nothing
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This refers to hours wasted on facebook or IM
- Spend Less time fallowing the cult of personality
- Read more from offline sources
- Clean Up and organize regularly
- Fallow a routine
- Avoid eating or drinking excessively
- Listen to good advice
- Waste less time ( Reading the daily news is really unlikely to help you produce anything great)
- write code daily
- Stop telling every one what your doing before they ask
- Be a better friend
- Don’t spend time “Just thinking”, The House can never be too clean
- Own a motorcycle, electric scooter or airplane at all times
- Make a daily plan.
Getting started
So I am 27 years old and I realized that after spending almost every day of the last 15 years of my life on the internet I have never had a web presence of any sort so here it is. This “blog”, or site or whatever the nonsense you wish to call it will cataloge my adventures projects and whatever else I feel like writing about
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