| Unfortunate collisions of holidays |
[Sep. 19th, 2009|01:56 am] |
In Judasim, it is Shabbat (an important holiday) and Rosh Hashanah (happy new year). Specifically, it is the day for Tashlikh, or 'casting away', where one might throw bread into a river to symbolize casting off burdens or sins.
In The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it is "Talk Like A Pirate Day" where one talks like a pirate to temporarily increase the number of pirates and help prevent or reverse global warming. (Yes, the advent of global warming is closely correlated with the dwindling pirate population).
This leads to the odd practice of symbolically casting your bread into the water while intoning the ritual "Arrrrr! Walk the plank! Into Davy Jone's Locker with yeh!" |
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| Random electronics and other junk. |
[Apr. 12th, 2008|02:27 pm] |
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We are doing a major housecleaning in preparation for selling our house. There is a truly astounding amount of small electronics and other junk that will be moving on without us. If there's anyone in our group that would like to haul it away and EBay it they should ping me. |
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| Hacking OLPC on Saturday, December 22. |
[Dec. 19th, 2007|02:17 pm] |
WHAT: Hacking with the OLPC, Python, and the Sugar Environment.
BRING: Your OLPC (XO) if you have one, and a laptop if you have one.
WHY: You want to play with an OLPC, or want to start developing for it.
WHEN: Saturday, December 22, 2007. Starting at 10 a.m., going
until we stop.
CHILDREN: The house is generally kid-safe, and we have a four year
old and a baby.
Usually, the more the merrier, but check in with us first
(charles.merriam@gmail.com).
WHERE: My house. It's next to Westgate mall in Saratoga. RSVP for
directions.
WHY Again: It's fun.
RSVP: Please. charles.merriam@gmail.com.
Email with any questions to charles.merriam@gmail.com, or call me at
408.368.6050 |
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| Looking for a Place to Excel |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|02:45 pm] |
Hello Everyone,
I am looking for work. I'm looking for a technical or technical sales
position in a company with exciting technology, preferably one working
near sensors, vision, or robotics.
This is a reentry into the regular workforce for me. I left JavaSoft
in 1999 on good terms as a successful strategic systems engineer with
many patentable ideas and large sales involvements. JavaSoft had
accomplished its original goals of popularizing and standardizing the
Java language and its employees were being folded back into the
larger entity of Sun Microsystems. I took some time off from the
frantic pace of JavaSoft, explored angel funding and business
consulting for startups. I founded TrueGift Donations, a charity
providing free school supplies to teachers. I took graduate
engineering classes in image processing, robotics, and silicon
processing. I kept up with changes in technology and programming
languages. Also, Judith and I had two children and finally found a
nanny we trust to stay home with both of them. Now I can go back
to work.
The perfect position is a company or business unit of between 20 and
200 employees, based in Silicon Valley, with a truly cool technology.
I am flexible about the level, compensation, and type of position. I
am willing to travel extensively. My greatest skill is creating
practical scenarios to build relationships with client.
Please let me know if you know anyone or any openings that may fit.
Have a great, awesome, and wonderful day!
Charles
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| Best spam so far... |
[Mar. 31st, 2007|12:47 pm] |
Usually I post on my real blog, but this just seems like good emo LJ Poetry.
II. List of Franklin Search Parties
This third day of our January thaw,
Through the back of the picture at the patch of white
Place of absorbing snow, itself to be
Although December's frost killed the winter crop,
Of too much truth to do much more than lie
Bronze the sky, with no
Looms in the air, deliberate and slow,
Stars, the last day, endless and centerless,
Down the road, at Cypress Gardens, a woman
Wheezing ravens, when
From there. Toward . . .
the old men burnish stories of Yaz and the Babe
into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard
whose soft bristles graze the top-racks.
Like some poor wounded wretch—long left for dead
When I am heard, and what I say is solely
Wheezing ravens, when
Oh, I know. The snow. The effective snow
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Also see the google search for more spam by this author: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22This+third+day+of+our+January+thaw%22
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| Blue Horrors... |
[Dec. 31st, 2006|01:01 am] |
Just for reference...
Rocky Horror looks surreal when the Red and Blue inputs are swapped. Most of the sets look better, and the characters become comical zombies. Especially good for the first ten minutes. Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) xthread |
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| My blog... |
[Dec. 23rd, 2006|09:17 pm] |
My blog is online. I post random new ideas fairly frequently. Some are useful. Some are not. But they get out of my head.
You can see the blog in with the rest of your pages by adding ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) gizbot_blog to your friends list. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 13th, 2006|10:07 pm] |
Problem: Sweets are the easiest small treats for children. Candy is available at every retailer and comes in convenient bulk packages.
Solution: Toys should be the easiest small treat for children. Small toys can be found in the bottom of breakfast cereal and Crackerjacks boxes or from coin operated machines at the front of grocery stores. There is a market for jars of 25 or 100 individually wrapped small toys.
There are a lot of times where we want a supply of toys for small children: party treats, Halloween treats, rewards for good behavior, and a wide variety of bribes. The only substitute good I have found....
Today's idea on my blog. :) |
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| 12 impossible things before bed (that I lust after) |
[Dec. 13th, 2006|10:25 am] |
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Lewis Carroll’s queen sometimes believed ten impossible things before breakfast. I have my list of a dozen impossible things before bed. Some of these are habits, some are time commitments, and some are maintenance to stem the the onrushing tide of life. How many do you lust after? ....
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| Dinner to tonight? |
[Nov. 29th, 2006|11:40 pm] |
Wow!
I have a suddenly free evening tonight! Judith and Andrew will be elsewhere.
Anyone for dinner? |
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| Random silly LJ/RSS question |
[Oct. 14th, 2006|01:22 am] |
Hey! I'm radio silent here.
I do have an idea blog at http://www.charlesmerriam.com/blog, and there exists some a manner to squeeze RSS from WordPress, press liquify, and make it go to LJ.
It's just ideas, but at least it's not radio silence.
Anyone have experience with RSS->LJ route? Any surprises? |
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| Optometrist Recommendations |
[Mar. 15th, 2006|07:28 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  amused | ] |
My eyes are finally starting to go; happens about now in my family.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good optometrist? I want a full eye exam, ruling out any of the unusual reasons for declining eyesight. I'll be far less picky for the next "oh, I need a slightly new prescription".
Somebody in our crowd must wear glasses? :) |
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| Quick random update... |
[Feb. 4th, 2006|01:31 pm] |
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Here is my once every blue moon post on LiveJournal:
- We have gaming at our house tonight starting around 4 p.m.
- Andrew is adorable, a handful, and three this month.
- I started the PACT 2020 organization two weeks ago. The main site is up using Joomla, and the wiki is up using MediaWiki.
- I'm working to get the latest TrueGift Donations annual report out. I just moved the site from its ancient ISP. Now that we hit our first goal of making other people feel that communities should aid their local schools, I need to rework the site to be more than the absolute minimum. I'm tempted by a full rewrite in Python. Has anyone used a database reflection package for Python, ala Ruby on Rails?
- My current toy is the GP2X. I feel like I spend more time writing up my experiences than actually coding. Programming, waving hands, what's the difference?
- Editing Wikipedia articles is a great way to waste time.
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| PACT 2020 Starts on Thursday... |
[Jan. 14th, 2006|04:23 pm] |
This is the non-profit I've been starting up. It is to promote automobile technologies aimed at ending accidents in our lifetime. If you could come, I'd appreciate it.
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PACT 2020 Kick-off Event
DATE/TIME: Thu, Jan 19, 7:00pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor and Zafman, 1279 Oakmead
Parkway,
Sunnyvale
COST: Free.
Join us for the first meeting of this exciting new
non-profit. Automobile
accidents can be a thing of the past.
* Introducing PACT 2020 goals, values, and agenda
* Presentation: "What makes this possible now: MEMS
sensors, CCD
Cameras, and Moore's Law."
* Discussion of the first projects and first year goals.
* Creation volunteer committees and election of board
members.
* Meeting and mixing with other interested parties.
MORE INFO:
Website: http://www.pact2020.org
Email: contact@pact2020.org
Phone: 408-368-6050 |
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| Unfinished Adventures in Installing Linux on my Laptop. |
[Dec. 24th, 2005|12:21 pm] |
Last Saturday, I went to SVLUG's Installfest. I spent about three hours trying to install Linux on my laptop. Instead of recording the few bits of new trivia, I thought I'd record the actual steps in the hope that others may profit from my effort.
( Read more... )
Conclusions:
The first conclusion is, of course, that more effort will be required before getting Linux on my laptop.
I did learn a number of aspects to the Zen of Linux. The Zen to Linux must be accepted, or one could find one that had already accepted it.
- "A failing is only an error in the eye of the beholder."
- "One must know some of the answer before one can search for the question.."
- "One can do what one does not understand."
- "How mysterious the error depends on the mysteries one knows."
- "One cannot jump into the middle of one's journey."
I'll try again next InstallFest or when the 32-bit Ubutnu media arrives.
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