So the hottest thing in the espresso community has been “bottomless”, “naked”, or “crotchless” portafilters. When Sherry packed my espresso machine she forgot to pack my portafilter and my special La Marzocco double basket, so the machines been sitting on my granite countertop and I can’t use them until she brings those with her next [...]
Archive for September, 2005
Toslink
So optical > metal… My receiver has 3 Toslink inputs, so I got a Toslink and a Mini-to-Toslink cable from eBay. The Mini (optical) to Toslink is for my Airport Express, it’s pretty impressive that the thing actually has an optical output, it definitely justifies the $99 (I picked up 2 of them at the [...]
Grand Challenge
I went to a Carnegie Mellon alum event at the NASA Ames Research Center, Steve Wozniak was their MC, it was good to see Woz in person. Prof Red gave an awesome presentation, it was refreshing to see someone who loves his job so much.
It is less than 100 hours to DARPA Grand Challenge, best [...]
crib
seoulfully asked for some pics of my new place, so I just took some and posted them here, quality wasn’t that great, I used the EOS batch processing program to turn the RAWs into JPEGs. Obviously, I am missing a dining table, Ikea was out of stock. I also need to find a big rug [...]
catching up on unread RSS feed
I have more than 1k unread articles, I’m tempted to do “mark all read”…
busy weekend
Haven’t had time to blog, life’s been crazy, last weekend was spent doing these:
picked up sherry from airport
moved from hotel to condo (this took a couple of days)
getting TiVo to perform initial setup without a phone line
drove up to SF to have dinner with Jen
rented a Penske truck, drove to Costco for a TV and [...]
meebo
I found meebo and I’ve been using it tonight, it’s pretty damn impressive!! Check it out!
Would be nice to have an SSL connection too, I’d imagine a lot of ppl would use it to bypass their work’s firewalls!
iPod nano torturing
iPod nano torturing
damn, poor iPod nano… I kindda want a black one, but I must resist… it’ll only fit like 15 CDs in lossless format anyway… hehehe…






