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I’m trying to get a better picture of it - I wish I could have found my camera yesterday - but I’ve tried FOUR sets of rechargeable batteries, and gotten three whole photos out of it. Poo. Anyway, back to whatever I was doing before.

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I’m reading Clifford Stoll’s The Cuckoo’s Egg at the moment, it’s super cool. I read Silicon Snake Oil every year or so, whenever I find it in my bookshelf - Stoll is a great writer in my opinion.

Comedy Gold. I have nothing more to say. Except click this.

Ok, so I’ll start with what I got done yesterday. One two syllable word comes to mind.

Fuckall.

Ok, so it was raining, which meant I couldn’t go to the wreckers to search for parts to suit the gemini build up. That was fine, rain = mud = unable to walk around wreckers. So instead, I went to Bob’s house and talked to him for a while, the usual planning and talking shit session ensued. I had gotten up early to go to the wreckers and get stuff done, and as usual had fucked around and wasted time all over the place.

Well, that seemed to be the longest possible way to have a four day period. I had Friday and Saturday off, due to work Sunday - so I worked with that, planning on doing some work on the Gemini, play poker with the boys, go to a house party, then work Sunday and keep going as normal, getting a normal amount of sleep.

The best plans always go wrong, damn that guy Murphy.

An interview with Dr. Bradley Edwards, a big proponent and really smart guy on space elevators. I really hope that I see the development of these in my lifetime, and the jump in technology and innovation that’ll come with them to benefit society. The world will be an amazing place when you can spend a couple of days in transit and end up in space!

I got my fuel pressure and oil pressure gauges yesterday, from Lee’s Spare Parts & Performance - a great little place down on Kingston road, near me. I ended up just buying two oil pressure gauges, since that’s all they had, and they were cheap - they are the same gauges anyway, just with different labels 🙂 They are Speco brand 2″ white face gauges, nice and small, and easily readable. They ended up being $59.95 each, which was a steal since they are electrical, and include the sender and all mounting hardware.

Well, that royally sucks, all their history is destroyed 🙁 These guys make some seriously cool animated shows and feature films, incorporating good english humor and hilarious visuals.

Found from a slashdot article here.

Oh well, so that failed, there’s no wireless access points that I can see from where I sit at this desk overnight. I’m at work, starting at eleven PM. It’ll probably be so boring that I’ll just jot down notes and rambling whenever I think of something.

23:00 The overnight. It’s a really boring shift from what I’ve heard, only about one call an hour when things on the network are running fine, or completely crazy if they are not. Let’s hope that it all goes well, I’ll just put up a recorded message begging people not to talk to me if it goes awry.

(Update 30/4/15 there WAS a ) Great review of John Romero’s “Dead” series of movies on K5.

But the site’s gone and they refused the Internet Archive’s services. http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/10/25/6750/9089