Hiatus

Hiatus! I'm in Paraguay for a couple of months, enjoying the methadone of Internet connections thanks to an abysmal ADSL line from the government telecom ex-monopoly.

Posting will resume when I return to Vancouver, unless something nerdy catches my eye here.

Computer Math Jokes

Yeah, I'm not going to get a lot of new readers with a title like that. But anyway.

I was thinking about an old joke:

There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.

...and a number of examples of number-formatting trivia came to mind.

Powerbook Slaughter

A couple of Powerbooks were kicking around so without further ado I slaughtered them. I suppose that means this is snuff photography:

Don't say you weren't warned...

Addendum to Bucky TV: the source code

I've had a couple of requests to post the source code for the Dymaxion Auto-Matic Buckminster Fuller, so here's a quick follow-up. Hey, it's probably the most effective backup mechanism I've used recently.

Dymaxion Auto-Matic Buckminster Fuller

This ought to lay to rest the persistent ugly rumours that everything I make is somehow useful.

Presenting the Dymaxion Auto-Matic Buckminster Fuller. It's a retro-futuristic black and white screen mounted into a 1950s (or so) radio chassis, which generates and displays text that American luminary R. Buckminster Fuller might have said if he were a piece of software.

Toshiba Libretto

Happy new year (about 6 weeks late)!

After an extended break from Free Geek for the holidays and a jaunt down to South America, it's great to be back at the laptop station. Nothing seems to have exploded or grown mold in my absence -- a slight disappointment to my ego, which likes to claim indispensability. In fact, the place is generally looking good and I was happy to see all the regulars.

Free Geek has accumulated several interesting portables since I was last in. The first one I got my hands on was a Toshiba Libretto:

Looks pretty boring until you put something in there for scale.