So I didn’t get around to updating last night before going to bed at 3:30, but I’m getting around to it now. You should notice the site overhaul: I still have a garish gimp flame-plugin thing, but I needed some green, and making something by hand just wasn’t working out. The color scheme is based […]

So, I figured that I would just update everyone on exactly how I’m throwing my life away. First and foremost, I finished another set of reprap parts, this time the z-axis support brackets. If I can move it along, and my partner in crime joins in, then we’ll have these parts made in no time. […]

Google, being the benevolent giant they are, have made the api to their document viewer public. Upon realizing this, I added the option to view PDFs through Google rather than downloading a copy each time you wanted to check something. It works reasonably well, although you have to set your PDF to be public in […]

So, I’ve decided that every friday will be devoted to ignoring homework as much as humanly possible, and instead working on one of my side projects. So, today, I fixed the showing older document function (technically, actually made it publicly available), fixed the image handling so that it works with the dual LaTeX engines, and just did […]

I’ve done some work on EZLO! The first time in at least a month! Even though I haven’t exposed the functionality, you *can* access your old stuff now. Also, I gave the login page a facelift and exposed the link to the quickstart. Now for outstanding issues: Diffs *need* to work. If more than one […]

To kick off the visual arts section of the blog, I’ll outline some of the inspiration behind anim3, the third serious animation I’ve started with an intent to release. First, there is the widely read ‘Le Petit Prince’, or The Little Prince. Specifically, the world he inhabits served as a sort of model to the […]

So, I finally got around to pushing out this update… We have a second iteration of our coilgun, which was mostly put together and worked by my friend Clinton. For quick specs, we used thicker wire (21 gauge), more wraps over less area/layers (who-knows-how-many-layers over maybe 2 inches on a maybe .2 inch pipe versus […]

EZLO so far has been using a fastcgi backend, with lightty up front. However, this hasn’t been the best of worlds, since the dispatch.fcgi processes would die at a certain time in the morning, and I couldn’t figure out how why or how to find out how (I got as far as trying to parse […]

I have an Ott lite, if you haven’t already guessed: I actually have two Ott lite bulbs, and one ott lite stand. Mostly people would go buy another Ott-lite stand, but me being the ornery cranky old person that I am, I decided to hack up my own stand to save on money, since I […]

As noted before, Ze Local Awesome-blowing-stuff-up club, of which I’m the Benevolent Dictator for Life, has created the initial iteration of a coilgun. Behold! I can already hear the complaints about the lack of video of the thing actually firing, but I have an excuse: our benevolent email-writer for life, managed to kill a vital […]