Archive for the 'misc' Category

Garbage Strike? Must be summer in Toronto.

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

LCBO gave us a scare with the strike threats, talk about a one day sales boost, wow.

So the plan for this weekend is to get a 1.0 OpenWiimote out the door. I have an action plan, just need to execute it. Easy right? Hah.

Breaking radio silence

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Lots going on, not much posting.

Follow me on twitter, yay, here:

http://twitter.com/gordonturner

New project (using Google code) to provide a processing library for the wiimote:

http://code.google.com/p/openwiimote/

Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden frontman, commercial airline pilot

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

So I guess every musician has a day job. The lead singer from Iron Maiden? Yeah he’s a commercial pilot for Astraeus airlines. Awesome.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2002/oct/15/theairlineindustry.g2

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2956597/Iron-Maiden-frontman-Bruce-Dickinson-piloted-XL-rescue-planes.html

Thagomizer

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Is the name of the spikes found on the tail of some dinosaurs, from wikipedia:

The thagomizer, or tail spikes, is an arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tails of particular dinosaurs of the clade Stegosauria, of which Stegosaurus stenops is the most familiar. The tail arrangement is believed to have been a defensive weapon against predators.[1]

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Greenfrog v4.1 – tagged and released

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Greenfrog 4.1 is done, no major changes just a version bump to track OpenBSD 4.1 and some website edits.

See the changes here, download it here and figure out what it does and how to use it here.