Krish Ashok is the author of Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking, and also does a lot of YouTube content (see his main channel, as well as his collection of Shorts). This was an interesting comparison between two new devices/appliances. Applicable in this day and age, when AI and tooling is rapidly changing day…
A while back… I saw some advertisements for Board, an electronic board that interacted with physical pieces. It seemed like a combination of a lot of things I like – board games, with a bit of electronic tech thrown in.
“The Herculaneum papyri, ancient scrolls housed in the library of a private villa near Pompeii, were buried and carbonized by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. For almost 2,000 years, this lone surviving library from antiquity was buried underground under 20 meters of volcanic mud. In the 1700s, they were excavated, and while they were in some ways preserved by the eruption, they were so fragile that they would turn to dust if mishandled. How do you read a scroll you can’t open? For hundreds of years, this question went unanswered.”
The thing of it is, as I was getting my keys made using the machine… I turned around, and saw the guy (at the key duplication stand) staring at me. It got uncomfortable, so I turned away.
I’m not sure why Home Depot would set something like this up, positioning both stations so close to one another. It felt really awkward. When I looked at the guy, his eyes seemed to say to me “Why are you taking food out of the mouths of my children?”
For someone who has a hard time justifying more than $30 for a video game, I really got a lot of things in a short span of time. But I feel like the WFH thing is going to continue for at least another 9-12 months. And I’m feeling strongly that I may prefer to continue working remote if I can.
“If he were chasing money, he would have been living on the East or West Coast by now and doing something for some company that we’d all heard of instead of a little service provider in the Midwest. But he’s one of those guys, he operates very heavily on principle.”
This project references the trope in a lot of crime/tech TV shows, where someone is able to use a computer to “zoom in and enhance” an image. It’s an old gimmick, and laughed at a lot because… well, you can’t just zoom in on a fuzzy image and have it magically get clearer.
Remember that this was a test, so the goal was to put something in the scanner… then scan it, with the result being a new JPG/image on Julie’s laptop.
It was successful, and the resulting recursive affair tickled me a great deal. Let’s recap:
Spotted this on Saturday night, while Liz and I were out getting food. We were paused long enough for me to snap this photo.
The assembly instructions look very straightforward, and the kit allows you to experiment with creating your own games, and playing around with audio/video. While it would be fun to mess with something like this, my first inclination was: Wow, this would be great for my nieces and nephews!
Part of me is in awe at what we can achieve, through math and technology. Another part of me is just waiting for the day when an evil scientist puts some time towards these guys, and pulls off the first robotic bank heist or robotic assassination. And there’s yet another part of me that thinks all of this is fun and games, until the Singularity arrives.
Last night, when I arrived at my front door, I spotted a large pile of telephone directories – stacked into two thick columns and bound together in plastic wrap. On seeing these my first thought was: they still make these things?
A recent post on Techchrunch asks this rather intriguing question: Is Printing A Gun The Same As Buying A Gun?
The answer to their question (and to my blog post) is a little weird: Sorta.
Just read over a pretty eyebrow-raising article about the Stuxnet worm. Entitled A Declaration of Cyber-War, Michael Joseph Gross lays out what researchers have found about this virus in the past year… and speculates on the hand(s) that may have coded it. In computer security parlance, a vulnerability in a computer application that has not…
I’m not usually one to share computer mods, but this one was too good to pass up. I was a big, big fan of Bloom County, and have fond memories of the Banana Junior 6000 (a parody of the Mac that came out in 1984). Turns out, some crazy awesome nerd built a working version…