- Enjoyin marshmellows with family http://twitti.ms/cHJK #
- Look who just walked past me #insect http://twitti.ms/429E #
- Having a tough time installing Snow Leopard. I bet OS X is sad to also see Windows and Linux on my HDD #
- Nice kitty #yyc #osx http://twitti.ms/rVJD #
- Support IE6 Must Die, add a #twibbon to your avatar now! – http://twibbon.com/join/IE6-Must-Die #
- http://twitpic.com/fm780 – Some have called the use of HTML tables in to question, in fact, many have. I suppose yes, I could have rende … #
- Happy Snow Leopard day world! I'm getting my copy after work! #
- The #yyc #Apple store will have shiney fresh copies of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard on sale tomorrow. SWEET. #
- To reiterate: LATENCY is the new Bandwidth #
- Ugh twitter spam fail #
- #html question: Making a calendar web app, should I render it with a table or a set of divs? #
- HAh! Hilarious @theguild video, @feliciaday, you're awesome! http://bit.ly/2qudF6 #mmo #youtube #
- Making on a #django course scheduling system. Finished conflict detection, now to nail down various views. #Python FTW! #
- This wolf t-shirt can make you a rock star. Hilarious comments! http://bit.ly/16E6qC thx @Ioannes #
- Super cheap (probably good for one use) Soldering Iron: http://tinyurl.com/m69zwk #
- Finally ordered a good multimeter. #Sparkfun has an awesome autoranging one $60USD http://bit.ly/HLrKH #
- "Regular Expressions" should be a revered grade school discipline. Society could subsequently enter a golden era #
- DVDFlick looks like a good #opensource dvd #windows authoring tool, do you use it? http://bit.ly/3C4OOG #
- It's remarkable how often #Subway doesn't have Honey Oat Bread & how 'a tiny bit' often equates to 'drowning' #
- Ohh man, am I ever ridiculously tired today. I had FAR too much caffeine this weekend. #
- someone's BatMobile #yyc http://twitti.ms/WmK6 #
- I guess this is positive PR, but what a harsh mug http://twitti.ms/zyNW #
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23 http://tinyurl.com/mjvhpy #
Month: August 2009
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-23
- RT @SarahKSilverman: Carrots are good for your eyes but only if you take them orally. #
- Still wet, greenified wall http://twitti.ms/nMhq #
- repaint our hang out room in the basement #yyc http://twitti.ms/sdzB #
- kinda cool, EB Games has used 360's for $120 #yyc http://twitti.ms/9PI2 #
- This weekend we're completely rearranging our basement. That's a massive undertaking.. Cool, but ugh.. #
- RARELY I'll get 10 hours in to a game like tonight. As usual, #Vista killed my game to force an update & reboot. #
- huh? Is this restaurant pushin drinkin in earthquakes? #yyc http://twitti.ms/fWJM #
- Wall of awesome in Market Mall #yyc http://twitti.ms/bZjy #
- Poor little bonsai, silly Home Depot, don't you know these little juniper type ones die in #yyc http://twitti.ms/UAIb #
- Next time I need to tap my personal afterburner, I'll pop one of these #thinkgeek pots: http://bit.ly/Ty2Hm #
- My new fav website: http://www.liquidware.com Right up there with #sparkfun in my books. #
- Want to stop eating out? Health code violations may help, check ur fav #yyc restaurant: http://bit.ly/qnwG #
- Whoa, that bag of chips just murdered my energy level.. Note to self, junk food still sucks. #
- Speaking of #ssh, here's a #bash script to keep an ssh tunnel & Reverse Proxy live: http://bit.ly/zy6R8 #
- I love #ssh so much. I've used it for over a decade, it's a bottomless rabbit hole of awesome #
- Attention #yyc, you may save on your water bills by taking Free Showers, just step out your door. #
- Well, I think I've slayed the event calendar conflict detection demon. Now I need to take down the event calendar view generator dragon #
- I'm making an event calendar tool in #Django, all the hard stuff is given, still, recurring events & conflict detection hurts #
- I wish shaving was THIS much fun for me http://twitti.ms/uRY2 #
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16 http://tinyurl.com/my7hf5 #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-16
- Garage Band can make #iphone ringtones from your own files, despite #itunes stating you must buy each one #
- http://twitpic.com/e22ln – #Apple, stopping me from using my own recordings as #iphone ringtones makes me hate you. #
- I so want a remotely okay Multimeter: http://bit.ly/HLrKH #
- Another #google service I've just found, Google Checkout – I might use this over Paypal? https://checkout.google.com/ #
- Google Base looks to me almost like a rip on Craig's List or something: http://bit.ly/11Zzpt #
- My Twitter personality: likeable inquisitive cautious My style: chatty academic ROBOT http://twanalyst.com/docdawning #twanalyst #
- Lately I've felt like returning to political stuff.. I formerly went to conventions (etc), perhaps I will again #politics #yyc #
- Testing FlickrSendr http://twitti.ms/Hbqk #
- Reinfocing my bath experience with Magnesium Sulphate… Mmmm, salty #
- engaged in Django educatonal combat http://twitti.ms/0Zme #
- Wholy crud, 8 people have downloaded STP today, that's like 7.9x what I usually get.. #shit-talker #osx #apple http://bit.ly/14IXwk #
- Listening to #"Suns of Arqa" fantastic music to work to. #coding #
- City of Calgary Secrets? http://tinyurl.com/nc88qg #
- yum yum http://twitti.ms/vu4H #
- Continuing my dive in to #django. Such a neat approach. Parts seem alien to me, but it all feels fantastic. #
- Coolest #yyc garbage can http://twitpic.com/dklly #
- My bud's been randomly contacted by ~5 disjoint past significant others recently. Trippy. #life #
- Ugh, freakin ancient Dot Net Nuke Woes – glad we're moving away from this stuff, but until that process is entirely complete… I sigh #
- Dear Douche Trying to Break In to my Website http://post.ly/27c6 #
- Ugh, someone's trying to break in to my website. Go find something better to do ya douche.. #
- Neato, Check out the #AVR Stick. A little #USB logger, very similar family to #Arduino: http://bit.ly/17YndC #
- Feelin like I'm losing Anti-Matter containment with my #Django bubble.. Bah, I'll slay this.. #
- Damn, have a fat $80 in roaming voice charges from #toorcamp produced by 53mins of phone usage. Thanks #Rogers & #At&T #
- I'm still a baby with #Django, but I feel like I'm approaching the warp-barrier, if you all get my drift. #python #
- Fatman and Circuit Girl Awesome ustream starting now http://www.fatmanandcircuitgirl.com/live/ #
- Look, our fish are alive.. http://twitpic.com/dc33d #yyc #fish #pets #
- Kittens make excellent snacks http://twitpic.com/dazoy #
- Havin a coffee on the deck http://twitpic.com/daddq #yyc #
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09 http://tinyurl.com/l9rn49 #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09
- I love coffee so friggin' much! #
- Golden Boy Fish Sauce http://twitpic.com/d8oze #ftw #hilarious #
- Goram football games suck for those who live near stadiums #yyc #
- Wow, what a beautiful scene: http://tr.im/w25G #flickr #photography #earth #
- [URL Fixed!] PCB Etching Progress http://tinyurl.com/llg4la #diy #protospace #backyard-chemistry #
- PCB Etching Progress http://tinyurl.com/llg4la #
- #Apple – please change the home/end/page up/page down functionality of OS X. The case-by-case basis currently used is bafflingly hindering #
- RT @NoxDineen: Potential for awesome is off the charts! RT @zemote: Ice-T repairs a mac – ROFL http://bit.ly/yDU1w #wtf #apple #macbook #
- Takin my rxn products (CuCl, FeCl, etc) of PCB etching to the firehall for disposal #protospace #backyard-chemistry http://twitpic.com/d2sid #
- STP Replugged – Who would you call? #osx #software #free #speech-synthesis http://post.ly/1xaa #
- Awesome WP File download tracking plugin: http://tr.im/vNfC #wordpress http://post.ly/1xYX #
- Great #Arduino Starter Kit by #Sparkfun: http://tr.im/vMyJ #
- I wish I had about 48 additional hours in my day, I'd spend half of that sleeping #
- Crikies! This is the freaky lore of nightmeres: http://twitpic.com/cxh95 #walmart #scary #wtf #
- FAIL: Getting closer to the process working, but not there yet.. http://twitpic.com/cxddm #
- Trying to make PCBs again http://twitpic.com/cxbrb #
- Trippy, just saw a completely different Twitter login screen.. #
- For the many of you who don't wash your hands after EVERY trip to the washroom: "WTF!? You all make me sick" #
- Is it time for a fork of OpenOffice? Maybe so: http://tr.im/vDdi #
- Whoa Posterous FTW! http://tinyurl.com/l296bs #
- The Logo of Doc http://post.ly/1v9z #
- Bluegrass Music Owns http://tinyurl.com/kk5xkc I just wrote up a post on these festivals I keep going to and why they raise the musical bar #
- Bluegrass Music Owns http://tinyurl.com/kk5xkc #
- RT @feliciaday Felicia Fails the hashtag, haha. Use #emmysfail Restore the writing awards! http://bit.ly/iOueN #
- #yyc I love this moisture sooo much! It feels life inducing. It's candy/health food for my lungs! #
- RT @cheeky_geeky Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching U.S. Secret Service – http://bit.ly/1pKQj1 #
- Currently ironing another soon-to-be PCB http://twitpic.com/cszb0 #hardhacking #protospace #diy #backyard-chemistry #
- Want to launch your own satellite? Got ~$8K? http://tr.im/vu95 "Holy Coke-Bunnies Batman!" #space #diy #
- The part I consistently hate about replacing ppls sites is that I always find so much go'ram text content bleeding for a rewrite. #wordpress #
- RT @pgoss Firefox: One Billion and Counting http://bit.ly/oK5nx #
- RT @NeilGilbert Awesome Craigslist ad: http://tinyurl.com/mqm4bv #
- Ripping out yet another #wordpress site. The Atahualpa theme is so freakin awesome, it's template crack: http://tr.im/vtjg #
PCB Etching Progress
Well, a few of us Protospacers met up and worked out some more home-made cheap Printed Circuit Board progress.. Vast thanks to the help of my esteemed friend HappyThawts, we finally got out a board of usable quality! Woot! We used a single sided Arduino pattern I found (saved me some seri
ous time). And followed a fairly well documented process involving use of Ferric Chloride, Acetone, Clothing Irons, Cheap Magazine Paper, Water and patience.
All in all, it worked damn well. I’ve been getting ready to run a Protospace workshop on the topic for awhile now, so this particular attempt had been intended to be the first run through with a big group. But after several failed attempts at getting a usable PCB out of the process (and some other problems involving shipping stuff from China taking for FREAKIN’ ever), I decided to delay the first real workshop somewhat. Nevertheless, the results were great and I’m certain the next attempt will be a great deal better on account of the toner transfer used here was several days old and probably a lot more settled than toner that’s minutes old. 😀