http://celestron.telescopes.com/extra-info/celestron-skyscout-review.html It’s a scope for identifying stars simply by targeting it. I’d imagine it’s a combo of image recognition and GPS and maybe some piezo gyro action… still, it’s a way cool device. I’d imagine it could also work as a sextant, seems like something that could easily be added in.

Sitting at borders books after work near union square.

So, I’ve been working on this game design, Ember Scribe, for years now. And well, it’s still a good design. Far better a design than many of the games which have been coming out for the DS. Some of the games feel a bit un-tested and some feel simply incomplete. The incoherent feeling is indicative [...]

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/03/28/2345229.shtml Accelerated, and you submit your own prior art. If law worked like this in general then that would be like going to court for murder and invtiting “friends” to be the jury. “Judge, I was in Jersey eating pasta when that guy got whacked, The entire jury was there.”

http://www.multiversaljourneys.org/ I really want to go to one of these conferences. I’d have to fly down to LA, and at the moment I really can’t afford the trip… who knows, I can live off of a credit card for a little while…

Really, nobody really listens when they need to. Listening is a selective activity. Far too often I need to convey information to people and they select to ignore what I have to say. I find this very annoying. It’s not like the input I have is invalid. Usualy I have direct knowlege on the subject. [...]

In reality nothig is really under any control. Any system has its flaws and source control is really more or less a way to manage things before they get completely out of whack.Source safe has got to be one of the lamest source control methods on the planet. I’ve been interested in looking around for [...]

So in the past week or so I read Uncertainty the story about the history behind Heisenbergs Uncertainty principle. The History of Mathematics the history behind why math sucks in school. And now I’m reading The Curious History of Relativity. All of these are quite interesting; next I need to pick up the Poincare book [...]

soon… maybe even this weekend I’ll start updating this blog. who knows.