--- Day changed Mon Aug 18 2008
01:34 < kanzure> http://www.getmiro.com/
01:34 < kanzure> http://www.hulu.com/
05:31 < kanzure> Does anyone know of an XML-like calendar event representation format?
05:38 < kanzure> quick name check 
05:38 < kanzure> somebody suggested I throw up a wiki to just mass dump my information on Austin events / calendar stuff
05:38 < kanzure> austincal.org 
05:38 < kanzure> good/bad?
05:59 < pk> howdy
05:59 < pk> anybody around?
05:59 < kanzure> yes
06:00 < pk> hi bryan
06:00 < pk> it's sean hobin
06:00 < kanzure> hobin?
06:00 < kanzure> let me think for a second
06:00 < pk> meh I haven't had much communication with you
06:00 < kanzure> oh good :)
06:00  * kanzure sighs
06:00 < pk> I might've met you at the neural interfaces conference
06:01 < kanzure> Didn't go.
06:01 < pk> neither did i
06:01 < kanzure> but I did try to steal all of their videos from their website
06:01 < kanzure> stupid flash protocol server or something
06:01 < pk> yeah, they're using dumb stuff
06:01 < pk> mmm it's a stream of some sort
06:01 < kanzure> rmtp
06:01 < kanzure> anyway
06:02 < pk> what have you been reading about recently
06:03 -!- pk is now known as shobin
06:06 < kanzure> hm
06:06 < kanzure> http://heybryan.org/2008-08-15.html
06:06 < kanzure> just got back from an sf convention today
06:07 < kanzure> Once upon a galaxy, Modesitt's Gravity Dreams, The Silicon Mage, Ian Banks' Excession, Larry Niven's The Ringworld Engineers (signed! woo etc.), good times.
06:08 < shobin> I haven't heard of any of them
06:08 < shobin> I'm guessing you've read biopunk though, eh?
06:08 < kanzure> Larry Niven and Ian Banks are two names you should hear of.
06:08 < kanzure> yes
06:08 < kanzure> Brain Plague comes to mind
06:08 < shobin> I'm reading Ribofunk right now
06:08 < kanzure> and Egan's Luminous stories
06:08 < shobin> have you read it?
06:08 < kanzure> No.
06:09 < kanzure> Send it to me :) kanzure@gmail.com
06:09 < shobin> It's good
06:09 < shobin> oh, I'm reading a physical copy
06:09 < shobin> heh
06:09 < shobin> I can't stand e-books.
06:09 < shobin> I might be able to tolerate something like a kindle
06:10 < kanzure> DRM?
06:10 < shobin> it's locked up?
06:10 < kanzure> avoid it
06:10 < kanzure> might be
06:11 < shobin> yeah I wasn't planning on buying it anyway, too expensive
06:11 < shobin> have you heard of the company selling 'transgenic cats'?
06:11 < kanzure> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=4
06:11 < kanzure> no?
06:12 < kanzure> glow in the dark cats?
06:12 < shobin> just engineered to be hypoallergenic, or so they claim
06:12 < shobin> I think it's bullshit
06:12 < shobin> http://www.lifestylepets.com/cats.html
06:14 < shobin> That site doesn't seem to mention genetic engineering much, but Wired said the cats are transgenic, and I usually respect their word
06:15 < shobin> what do you think about it?
06:17 < kanzure> blah
06:17 < kanzure> give me a day or so
06:17 < kanzure> talking with Wittig over here about Stanislav, trying to see if this guy might be worth my time
06:17 < kanzure> and Tony about the discrete nature of process physics as applied to topologies/contextualization for deterministic "you win" stuff that I was mentioning earlier that you totally missed today
06:18 < shobin> I miss a lot of stuff from the groups I'm subscribed too - I subscribed to too many
06:18 < shobin> I'll check it out though
06:19 < kanzure> never too mnay
06:24 < shobin> do you ever get synthetic biology people here?
06:24 < shobin> like mac cowell or any of that crew
06:26 < kanzure> yes
06:26 < kanzure> I also met mac recently
06:27 < shobin> where?
06:27 < kanzure> he's basically the stereotypical party guy
06:27 < kanzure> at biobarcamp
06:27 < shobin> which one
06:27 < kanzure> 2008
06:27 < shobin> that's located in cali right?
06:28 < shobin> mm it is
06:28 < kanzure> Palo Alto, California
06:28 < shobin> he's a cool guy
06:28 < shobin> infectious enthusiasm
06:28 < kanzure> my enthusiasm is better
06:28 < shobin> oh yeah?
06:28 < kanzure> sure :)
06:28 < shobin> maybe I'll meet you at something one of these days
06:28 < kanzure> how about you fly here? :)
06:29 < shobin> are you going to participate in iGEM 2009?
06:29 < shobin> I thought you were in Texas
06:29 < shobin> are you in Cali now?
06:29 < kanzure> Austin.
06:29 < kanzure> I flew back to Austin on the 9th
06:30 < shobin> actually
06:30 < kanzure> Not going to participate in igem it seems, no team
06:30 < shobin> my friend lives in Austin
06:30 < kanzure> which one?
06:30 < shobin> so flying out may be a possibility
06:30 < shobin> in fact, we were talking about it
06:30 < kanzure> who?
06:30 < shobin> he's a software developer, not much interest in trasnhumanism
06:31 < shobin> anyway, why don't you start a team?
06:31 < shobin> are you at a university now?
06:32 < kanzure> yes
06:32 < kanzure> the lab I was working at did, in fact, have a team one year
06:32 < kanzure> they did the photobacteria engineering
06:32 < shobin> ut austin
06:32 < shobin> that's great
06:32 < kanzure> the professor has a strong dislike of biobricks and igem and so on :)
06:32 < shobin> um, why?
06:32 < kanzure> bullshit
06:32 < shobin> anyway
06:32 < kanzure> MIT being territorial and such, apparently
06:33 < kanzure> shocking :p
06:33 < shobin> I'm almost positive you'll be able to start a team
06:33 < shobin> if you want
06:33 < kanzure> sure
06:33 < kanzure> I wonder if I can submit myself as a genetically engineered machine
06:33  * kanzure goes to check the docs
06:33 < shobin> lawl
06:34 < kanzure> http://heybryan.org/genetic-circuits.html or something had my first organism
06:34 < shobin> does MIT have some kind of ownership of the parts in the parts registry or something I'm not aware of
06:35 < kanzure> no, I'm sure it's not that
06:38 < kanzure> http://austinbrains.org/ now to deploy a wiki
06:38 < kanzure> him
06:38 < kanzure> *hm
06:38 < kanzure> late night project :)
06:38 < shobin> probably because MIT is getting most of the attention for a lot of work done by all the iGEM teams
06:39 < shobin> but, deservedly so
06:39 < kanzure> nope, I'm sure it's not that either
06:48 < kanzure> http://austinbrains.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
06:48 < kanzure> okay :)
06:50 < shobin> good job, lightning fast
06:50 < shobin> who do you using for hosting
06:52 < shobin> anime universe!
06:52 < shobin> you're hosting it then
06:59 < kanzure> hah, anime universe was 2003
06:59 < kanzure> yeah, I host all of my stuff
06:59 < kanzure> it's a box right next to me
08:56 < ybit> bryan, what's the status on the hplusroadmap mailing list?
15:43 < fenn> wow $31k for a transgenic cat
15:43 < fenn> and it doesn't even shoot lasers
15:44 < fenn> or glow in the dark
18:07 < kanzure> ybit: still down
18:07 < kanzure> need a relayhost
18:10 < kanzure> in my inbox:
18:10 < kanzure> 'Dear Bryan, 
18:10 < kanzure> 'Wireless Transceiver has 23 x 31 mm footprint.'
18:10 < kanzure> http://enews.thomasnet.com/ct.jsp?uz3763235Biz7163911
18:10 < kanzure> 'Aug 18, 2008  Based on Freescale(TM) MC13224V 32 bit ARM Platform-in-Package (PiP), FreeStar Pro 32-bit ARM-based ZigBee radio module is suited for remote sensing, AMR/AMI, home and building automation, industrial control, and security applications. Low power unit features +20 dBm output power, range of over 4,000 ft, and supports Freescale BeeStack(TM) software. Designed for mesh, point-to-point, and point-to-multipoint networks, as well as battery-
18:11 < kanzure> Hm.
18:11 < kanzure> wire this in to the electrodes and ... :-)
18:11 < kanzure> 4k ft
18:11 < kanzure> bwahah
18:11 < kanzure> the skull is just an inch or so
18:13 < ybit> heh
18:14  * ybit sadly disconnects to mess with electrical outlets
18:15 < kanzure> http://asciilifeform.livejournal.com/
18:25 < kanzure> http://www.asciilifeform.com/paralleleye/eye.html
18:40 < kanzure> http://www.fusor.net/ open source fusor
18:40 < kanzure> hahah, front page story of the Wall Street Journal
18:40 < kanzure> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121901740078248225.html?mod=todays_us_nonsub_page_one
18:40 < kanzure> http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid452319854/bctid1733221668
18:40 < shobin> that reminded me of David Hahn
18:40 < shobin> the radioactive boyscout
18:41 < kanzure> sure
18:41 < shobin> I wasn't about to post that to the diybio mailing list though
18:43 < kanzure> hah, he has back issues of Nuts and Volts
18:43 < kanzure> :) Vern writes for that magazine
21:51 -!- nsh is now known as piphog
21:52 -!- piphog is now known as nsh
22:24 < kanzure> what the hell good is a dorm if the fiber cuts off?
23:37 < kanzure> best ways of doing calendars?
23:42 < kanzure> calendars are kind of like git
23:42 < kanzure> conceptually, at least
23:42 < kanzure> patches and updates = events on the calendar