The best description I know of for being an introvert comes, of course, from that gregarious loner Walter Freeman: "I enjoy my own company." I enjoy mine too, though usually in a less literal sense than is shown in today's stix.
This comic took me most of the day to draw, believe it or not, and now all my synapses are sick of each other and want to go to bed and read Don Quixote instead of editing articles for Sisyphus Media.
the ability to be invisible - to walk into a room and see honestly without getting a reaction. observe without being observed. to be anywhere, do anything, be anyone.
For the first time in almost a week i had some free time to screw around.
Just a toy I'm working on in the lab.
Spare parts from all kinds of stuff.... old 80/20 frame, POS motorized beam mirror, 50mW green laser diode, crappy old aluminum frame phonograph table, new stepper motor in place of the spindle motor.
Still have to get the USB-based cameras (2), stepper driver, and GPIO boards installed and some software written. Phidgets.com makes some really cool USB-based I/O boards with very cool API libraries for like 20 languages.
In theory the table has a resolution in fractions of a degree, but yeah right. The beam scanner washes resolution out to some degree, mechanics are a little loose too. Adding rotation index micro-switch so I can at least do zero-sensing.
PS, Does anyone want to come see the JELLYFISH: THE INVASION HAS BEGUN exhibit with me at the Aquarium? I know it's expensive but I'll drive! I like jellyfish, they are neat, and confusing. We could see dolphins too!!!!
Today I have to read this stupid book on the early history of philosophical language. The author uses the word 'deconstruction' a lot, which is kind of a giant sparkly rainbow text warning that says READING THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU A MIGRAINE. I am getting some amusement, however, out of the author's persistent use of terms like 'textualization', 'textuality', and my favourite, 'genre identity'.
Y'know it's getting to where if I'm digging through bins in my shop and I have to ask, "WTF is this thing?" then it's probably not something I'll be needing.
Or if it's something i haven't needed in 10 years but I've been saving because it's interesting or YNEVERKNOW... same answer.
So like a box of 7" monochrome VGA POS display? Time to go.
10x sets of the same screwdrivers? 9x go.
A heavy bag of butcher's glove chain mail? Pretty neat, but... time to go.
Every now and then I'm doing something down there and go AHA! and hack in some bit of crap I'd been saving for just that kind of thing and then go FUCK I'M BRILLIANT but in retrospect it's one of those "it had to happen someday, if you save enough shit" things.
I guess if you collect ENOUGH shit eventually some random bits will fall together into the shape of a robot death squad, but all I ever seem to wind up with huge bins of mismatch bolts. :/
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