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Caffwa Cwanico: August 2009
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Sunday, August 30, 2009. I took the family out to have a little "rocket party" last Saturday. I had been working on a rocket with an onboard digital video camera and it was finally finished. (More information on this over at my Tinkering Lab blog. The kids were funny to watch during the launches. Even though the rockets aren't that loud, the kids would plug their ears and flinch away. They even seemed to be a little scared of the launch controller, hitting the switch and almost running from it. That phot...
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It’s a Trap! | Aaron Eiche
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Learn just enough to be dangerous. It’s a Trap! For the past few years, my brother and I have been pranking. Each other a bit when it comes to gifts. It took on a rather peculiar theme a couple of years ago when my brother gave me a copy of Starcraft II. He had cleverly hidden it in a Warcraft III box and when I opened it. I did my best to express gratitude. Before I could get very far, he exclaimed in his best Admiral Ackbar “It’s a Trap! The box before opening. If you’re interested, File Download...
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Bread | Aaron Eiche
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Learn just enough to be dangerous. Sometime before Thanksgiving we (Hykel and I) agreed to bring bread to Thanksgiving Dinner. Rolls, specifically. I figured when we’d agreed to it that we would probably just be buying something at the store and taking them like we usually did. That week however, I got it in my head that making them at home would be better. My mixer, which is an amazing machine. What the heck, I think I’ll pull that out and use it. Realizing that I was, in fact, capable of making bread, ...
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Star Trek! | Aaron Eiche
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Learn just enough to be dangerous. I was going to say that this is the nerdiest thing I’ve done in public in a while. But I was presenting at MakerFaire. Just a couple of months ago, so I guess not. I digress. Hi-definition TVs have been around for long enough that they’ve actually become pretty affordable. You can find most of your favorite shows on Blu-Ray, and most any broadcast or cable channel provides an HD version for viewing. A suspicious missing entrant was. Trek: The Next Generation. We arrived...
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10 minutes with Cory Doctorow | Aaron Eiche
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Learn just enough to be dangerous. 10 minutes with Cory Doctorow. This past Wednesday, I had the opportunity to go see Cory Doctorow (arguably my favorite author) on the local stop of his tour for his new book. And I A number of years ago I was talking about something that Cory was involved in (rather excitedly), and she looked at me and said “Who? 8221; It hadn’t occurred to me that. Didn’t know who Cory Doctorow was. Since then, it’s always been our joke whenever I bring him up. And here was this perso...
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Me at the Portland MakerFaire | Aaron Eiche
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Learn just enough to be dangerous. Me at the Portland MakerFaire. This past Saturday (Sept 15) I got to participate in Portland’s first annual MakerFaire. I’ve written about MakerFaires. Before, but this is the first one where I was showing off a project. Note: I do plan on sharing the details of my Kinect-driven Roomba in a future post. This post is more about my experience at the faire. Decided to have a booth hosting anything its members wanted to show. At this point. I didn’t have anything. You that ...
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Caffwa Cwanico: January 2009
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Our first time snow caving. We went to Timberline Lodge on Mt Doom.er, I mean Mt Hood. 1 David learned that jeans aren't very warm in snow, especially when wet. 2 I learned that a plastic tarp on an icy cave floor likes to quickly find the lowest point in the cave. We slept horribly, but we had fun. Timberline Lodge is beautiful and I'd like to go back there in the summer.maybe even next winter for some skiing. Tuesday, January 6, 2009. Welcome to the Caffwa Cwanico.
