--- Day changed Tue Apr 07 2009 00:11 < kanzure> http://www.me.utexas.edu/~adl/graphsynth/images/ruleOverlap.png 00:26 < kanzure> "In 1921 in the city of Kane, Pennsylvania a doctor desperate to prove something to the medical establishment takes a knife and under local anesthetic cuts open his own abdomen. Dr. Evan O’Neill Kane a 60-year old Chief Surgeon “believed that ether was being used far too often when less dangerous local anesthetics could be used”. Dr. Kane propped up on the operating room table with a mirror over his abdomen successfully preformed a surgical procedure to remove his own appendix." 00:26 < bkero> Reminds me of a story of a mexican woman giving herself a C-section since she was too far from a hospital. 00:29 < kanzure> Damn straight. 00:31 < bkero> Or a dude who went to Ghana to get infected with hookworms to cure his asthma and allergies. 00:45 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@146-115-127-170.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com] has quit [] 01:13 -!- genehacker [n=chatzill@wireless-128-62-96-128.public.utexas.edu] has quit ["ChatZilla 0.9.84 [Firefox 3.0.8/2009032609]"] 02:34 -!- elias` [n=me@cs78208074.pp.htv.fi] has joined #hplusroadmap 07:50 -!- any89091232 [n=someone@75-120-47-63.dyn.centurytel.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 07:52 -!- katsmeow-afk [n=someone@75-120-29-33.dyn.centurytel.net] has quit [Read error: 60 (Operation timed out)] 08:21 -!- UtopiahGHML [n=libre@rps3868.ovh.net] has quit ["leaving"] 08:22 -!- Utopiah [n=libre@rps7452.ovh.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 08:25 -!- Utopiah is now known as UtopiahGHML 08:41 < kanzure> 4 pm today (don't know if that's central or whatever time Boston is on) there's an interview with me, Mac, Bobe with singularityhub 08:41 < kanzure> on skype 08:53 < kanzure> haha, just call us the freedo-manufacturers! 08:59 < nsh-> hmm 08:59 < nsh-> i need about $300 08:59 < nsh-> suggestions? 09:00 < kanzure> mechanical turk for a thousand years? 09:00 * kanzure goes to class 09:25 -!- nsh- [n=nsh@host217-43-230-27.range217-43.btcentralplus.com] has quit [Remote closed the connection] 09:48 -!- nsh- [n=nsh@host217-43-230-27.range217-43.btcentralplus.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 10:25 -!- samrose [n=samrose@c-24-11-214-181.hsd1.mi.comcast.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 10:57 < kanzure> messages that you do not want to hear on your phone: "Hi, this is Dr. Ellis with infectious disease control calling for Michael Young, and we need to get you back here as soon as possible. It's Friday at 4:30 right now, please call me back at , thanks." 10:57 < kanzure> just called her back telling her that she just might want to redial that number .. erm.. yeah. 11:29 < kanzure> fenn: do you remember buttbot from omgwallhack? 11:29 < kanzure> I'm tempted to write a mail bot that replies to OM and replaces every occurence of 'open' with 'butt' 12:12 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@146-115-127-170.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 12:32 -!- xp_prg [n=xp_prg3@99.2.31.217] has joined #hplusroadmap 12:35 < kanzure> http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/gears/CADgears/2009-04-07_2.png 12:36 < kanzure> but the restrictions on the input are terrible, and they look nothing like gears 12:36 < kanzure> why is it that I'm paid to make an array of objects? 12:37 * fenn laughs 12:38 < fenn> you could say they're gold coins for a super mario bros remake 12:39 < kanzure> my favorite super mario remake that isn't a remake is super mario arena. 12:46 < bkero> Try the Infinite Super Mario Brothers 12:56 < kanzure> any thoughts on what format to export this thing to? STL will not work because it's not a single solid, the IGES exportation thingy crashes HeeksCAD, and I can't quite figure out how to export STEP yet 13:06 < kanzure> I don't know why I thought gmsh would work .. especially since I compiled gmsh with OCC support, and that's what HeeksCAD is running on 13:07 < kanzure> can anybody tell me if this file is bullshit? http://heybryan.org/~bbishop/docs/gears/CADgears/cylinder.iges 13:42 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@146-115-127-170.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com] has quit [] 14:07 < fenn> it's empty 15:07 < fenn> http://www.physorg.com/news158333205.html 15:07 < fenn> Nanofarming technology harvest biofuel oils without harming algae 15:18 -!- anthonyl|out is now known as anthonyl 15:22 < kanzure> hahah 15:23 < kanzure> now I just feel like an idiot 15:23 < kanzure> cline just sent me this 15:23 < kanzure> http://heybryan.org/books/papers/microfluidics/gkm389%20Miniaturized%20PCR%20chips%20for%20nucleic%20acid%20amplification%20and%20analysislatest%20advances%20and%20future%20trends.pdf 15:23 < kanzure> page 3. figure 2b. 15:24 < kanzure> PCR via a spiral design.. different quadrants with different temperatures due to different heating/cooling elements at the four corners of a bounding box of the spiral design 15:24 < fenn> so? that's the same as the $10 thermocycler 15:24 < fenn> but on a chip 15:27 < kanzure> the $10 thermocycler was using some custom plastic part I thought? 15:27 < kanzure> erm 15:27 < kanzure> there's also another paper in the parent directory that cline contributed (sort by date) 15:36 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@dhcp-18-111-22-136.dyn.mit.edu] has joined #hplusroadmap 15:40 < fenn> they should call that 'millifluidics' 15:40 < fenn> or minifluidics 15:44 < kanzure> right 15:44 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@dhcp-18-111-22-136.dyn.mit.edu] has quit [] 16:37 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@c-76-118-182-6.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 16:46 -!- any89091232 is now known as katsmeow-afk 17:16 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@c-76-118-182-6.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has quit [] 17:24 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@c-76-118-182-6.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 17:26 -!- samrose [n=samrose@c-24-11-214-181.hsd1.mi.comcast.net] has quit ["Ex-Chat"] 17:45 < kanzure> I find it weird that somebody from NY Times Magazine posted to the diybio-nyc group asking for people to interview with, 17:46 < kanzure> especially when I was able to tell her to go talk with Jack Hitt, the last NY Times Magazine guy who interviewed me 17:46 < kanzure> "oh, my editor transferred the project to me" 17:46 * kanzure wonders why he knows more about internal NY Times Magazine politics than its own employees 17:50 < cis-action> don't brag 17:51 < kanzure> just pointing out their own pitfalls :) 17:54 < kanzure> fenn: how was the $10 thermocycler supposedly structured? 17:54 < kanzure> I remember reading the paper multiple times but I don't remember the shape 18:04 < fenn> there was a triangular prism with a teflon tube wrapped around 18:06 < fenn> then there's another version that's a square with teflon tube around it 18:07 < fenn> it's just a loop that goes around and around though, not a spiral 18:48 -!- wrldpc [n=worldpea@pool-173-48-214-204.bstnma.fios.verizon.net] has quit [] 18:48 -!- PeerInfinity [n=someone@216.36.180.162] has joined #hplusroadmap 19:31 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@c-76-118-182-6.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has quit [] 20:02 -!- cis-action [n=cis-acti@146-115-127-170.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 20:27 < fenn> i wonder if i could swap framebuffers on the beagleboard s-video out and somehow mux 3D stereo video to the myvu 20:27 < fenn> today i saw that it does indeed have two video plugs (one for each side, yay!) 20:44 -!- nsh- [n=nsh@host217-43-230-27.range217-43.btcentralplus.com] has quit [Remote closed the connection] 21:02 < fenn> wow that really slims down nicely http://dailydiy.com/2009/01/13/myvu-display-in-a-wearable-computer/ 21:10 < fenn> heh this is what the "solidoptex" marketspeak is about (at 4:30 in) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1WSxUXGXv8&feature=channel_page 21:12 -!- nsh- [n=nsh@host217-43-230-27.range217-43.btcentralplus.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 21:25 < kanzure> hm, are tdebs just debs for translations? 21:27 < fenn> looks like it 21:29 < kanzure> hm, I found somebody posting to debian-dev with an @omgwallhack.org email address 21:33 < kanzure> well now I'm pissed, a levitating tetris block! gravity isn't implemented? 21:36 -!- wrldpc [n=worldpea@c-24-60-18-62.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 21:44 < fenn> this is funny; i'm talking to gregor in #beagle 21:45 < fenn> the myvu hacker 22:41 -!- genehacker [n=chatzill@wireless-128-62-96-128.public.utexas.edu] has joined #hplusroadmap 23:09 -!- titojankowski [i=4c693f9c@gateway/web/ajax/mibbit.com/x-eec21f4379ef1094] has joined #hplusroadmap 23:09 < titojankowski> yo 23:32 -!- wrldpc [n=worldpea@c-24-60-18-62.hsd1.ma.comcast.net] has quit [] 23:47 -!- PeerInfinity [n=someone@216.36.180.162] has quit []