{"id":955,"date":"2002-03-27T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-27T19:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/wordpress\/?p=955"},"modified":"2020-07-23T17:49:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T00:49:47","slug":"meandering-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/misc\/meandering-as-usual","title":{"rendered":"Meandering as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a lot of things on my mind but I doubt if many of them will make it out to paper. I guess this is my first journal entry &#8211; so I ought to try to be a little bit interesting. But I probebly won&#8217;t be..<\/p>\n<p>Watched Moulin Rouge tonight. Wonderful movie. The juxtiposition of modern songs into the 19th century whorehouse and theatre never failed to get a laugh. Such a bright, happy movie, but so tragic a ending. <\/p>\n<p>It was definately a kindness for the writers to warn us ahead of time that the heroine was going to die. Although it still rather did yank one&#8217;s emotions around. Very Le Misish of the author. What is it with the french and sad endings?<\/p>\n<p>Still, I like it when hollywood throws us a sad ending from time to time. Makes you appriciate the happy ones more. <\/p>\n<p>The mk3 project continues to roll along &#8211; finally got a entire packet to spray out &#8211; then promptly broke things again by re-enabling timeout0. Shit.<\/p>\n<p>[I&#8217;m thinking that maybe the blanking packet isn&#8217;t resetting the timer. Or maybe none of the packets are resetting the timer. But I&#8217;m also thinking that right now I&#8217;m so tired I don&#8217;t care.<\/p>\n<p>The collision detection code definately works. [It works so well it keeps detecting collisions when there aren&#8217;t any. Well, okay, so this is mostly my fault]<\/p>\n<p>I have this cryptic message on my whiteboard &#8211; &#8216;Surface charge after light tap w\/ reg = diffusion!&#8217;. Something I wrote while I was rather under the influence, I&#8217;m afraid, so it may take me a while to figure out exactly what I was getting at. But I&#8217;m sure it was brilliant &#8211; or something.. <\/p>\n<p>Still intruiged by Farnsworth&#8217;s work on fusion. Need to get around to doing more research on this, but Farnsworth made [no joke] a small fusion reactor in a vac tube. [see <a HREF=www.fusor.net>fusor.net<\/a>]. Of course, he never achived overunity, and many have said overunity isn&#8217;t possible &#8211; but it is clear from the hundreds of people working on it that you can in fact make your own fusion reactor in your backyard. Now tell me _that&#8217;s_ not a mad scientist project.<\/p>\n<p>I have this funny vision of firing a fusor with high frequency high voltage AC [50kV @ 10khz or something like that] and setting up some kind of resonant reaction. But obviously, more research needed. So what else is new.<\/p>\n<p>Bush continues to find new and exotic ways to annoy me. Some day we will have a president I can live with .. but don&#8217;t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really like to see a female take the reins for a while, just to see how one would do &#8211; thus far, in 200 years we&#8217;ve had 0 female presidents. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve got anything against men, but frankly, not that many of the male presidents we&#8217;ve had have done a very good job.<\/p>\n<p>I do enjoy watching people&#8217;s reactions when I tell them I&#8217;m on Osama&#8217;s side. [Not that I really am, of course &#8211; killing that many innocent people is deplorable, and the guy&#8217;s got a lot of other undesirable attributes &#8211; but, really, it appears that the only way to get the US&#8217;s attention is by knocking down a building or two. Actually, erase and correct, apparently even knocking down a building or two isn&#8217;t enough to get our attention. Else we would have learned something from the Unibomber &#8211; or at the very least, learned something from this latest debacle]<\/p>\n<p>One does have to ask why we didn&#8217;t blow up Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, this whole war on terrorism makes me just _sick_. There was a ad on the Oscars &#8216;If you buy illegal drugs, you helped fund terrorism&#8217;. No, if you pay taxes you help fund terrorism. Remember who trained Osama?<\/p>\n<p>[For those of you who haven&#8217;t yet checked out bob harris&#8217;s commentary on this whole debacle, there&#8217;s a link to it off my homepage, go, read, be enlightened]<\/p>\n<p>Okay, moving onward.. the electric vehicle continues to do it&#8217;s thing &#8211; it&#8217;s kind of funny, it&#8217;s getting to where I just expect that when I get in it, it will take me wherever I&#8217;m going. So far [knock on wood] it hasn&#8217;t broken down once. But I do need to do a bunch of little things on it &#8211; not the least of which is replacing the springs.<\/p>\n<p>A friend came over the other day and jammed with me.. ahh, that felt good. Been entirely too long. Hopefully he&#8217;ll drop by again later this month and we&#8217;ll do a little recording, lay a few tracks down and commit them to mp3. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that&#8217;s about all I have to say for now, I despritely need sleep and I don&#8217;t think I could say anything interesting or cool if my life depended on it &#8211; just not a interesting or cool guy. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>hasta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, a lot of things on my mind but I doubt if many of them will make it out to paper. I guess this is my first journal entry &#8211; so I ought to try to be a little bit interesting. But I probebly won&#8217;t be.. Watched Moulin Rouge tonight. Wonderful movie. 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