Category: Random

This is shaping up to be a weird morning

Someone in a blue labcoat just wheeled an electrostatic cart past my office door. On the cart was a mewing cardboard box. … The hardware design lab now appears to be part kennel. A cat is in there hiding behind a curtain of CAT-5 cables. I think this is the day in which we hope … Continue reading This is shaping up to be a weird morning

Waterboarding

Every time I see or hear the term waterboarding, my brain immediately jumps to thoughts of playing in the ocean (specifically boogie boarding.) It takes a sec for my brain to recalibrate and latch in to the fact that waterboarding is really a torture technique currently in use by the US that dates back to … Continue reading Waterboarding

iPhone / netnice

Similar to what they did with Aperture rebates a while back, they’ll be doing the same thing with the iPhone. $100 ain’t too shabby. Do any of you Unix-heads know if there is some network-equivalent of the “nice” command for limiting bandwidth under Linux and/or OS X? For instance, it might let me issue a … Continue reading iPhone / netnice

Idea! Digital Holga

Everyone seems to be going hyper over Holga cameras. In case you do not already know, they are cheap (in both price and quality) film cameras originally manufactured in Hong Kong. They have cheap lenses, light leaks, and other “issues.” People love this–Wikipedia describes the resulting pictures as being “appreciated for their low-fidelity aesthetic.” You … Continue reading Idea! Digital Holga

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