2010-04-19.log

--- Day changed Mon Apr 19 2010
genehackerok so I can't do nanoscale00:00
genehackeroh crap, bush robots are amazing00:02
genehackerhmmmm... I guess we don't have microscale placement ability that works good enough yet00:04
fennyou don't need nanoscale for bush robots to be useful00:04
fennanyway, read rocheworld, or not.00:05
genehackersounds pretty cool from technovelogy00:05
genehackeranyway do we have the computational power to control them?00:05
fenndepends00:06
fennengineering is a series of tradeoffs00:06
genehackeralso I'd like to introduce additional degrees of freedom by using tentacles00:07
genehackerbecause tentacles are easier to fabricate than balljoints00:08
fennyeah, just keep making words on the screen ok00:10
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fennstalk garth minette00:36
fennand tor amundson?00:40
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kanzuremisumi beams?07:05
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JayDuggerMisumi: press dies and plastic molds.08:07
JayDuggerLots of componenets...08:07
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egestechupacabra: 09:19
egestehello09:19
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gnushahttp://giulioprisco.blogspot.com/2010/04/telexlr8-anders-sandberg-on-neuroselves.html09:47
chupacabrayo09:48
gnushahmm http://code.creativecommons.org/viewgit/libvalidator.git/plain/README.txt10:14
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ferrouswheelA day late to the exchange in my log, but I'm in the "whatever embodiment suites at the time" camp.13:38
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kanzurehttp://diybio.org/survey/16:18
kanzurethe first two pages seem to be about finances, and i haven't bothered to look past them yet16:18
kanzurehttp://appv3.sgizmo.com/testsurvey/survey?id=278246&crc=170b2f3b2933d6c30fa86a8c0300dc0216:19
kanzureheh it's too bad i'm not more paranoid or more into conspiracy theories16:22
kanzurehttp://groups.google.com/group/diybio-hifive16:22
heathwuh?16:24
heathwhois hifive?16:24
* heath visits with the niece and calls it a night16:24
fennis that like "majestic twelve"?16:25
kanzurefenn: what was your brother giving you "the talk" on?16:26
fennthe "get a job by the end of the week" talk16:26
kanzure"by the end of the week"?16:26
kanzurearen't i already paying you16:26
fennwell, no, actually16:27
kanzureuh. /me checks paypal16:27
fennanyway, minimum rent for "a room" in these parts is like $80016:27
fennbut i would be happy with a life support chamber really16:28
fennwtf why doesn't SF have capsule hotels?16:28
kanzurei pitched to capitalfactory.com the other day16:28
fennthey could make a huge fuckin beehive and solve the homeless problem overnight16:29
kanzureand it's been a long time coming, but i am now "officially" annoyed with how startups are more about excitement generation16:29
kanzureso, i'm thinking about making an excitement pyramid scheme16:29
kanzurei'm super excited about it16:29
fenni'm thinking about working on a farm with WWOOF and learning jquery while i sell reprap parts on ebay16:30
fenns/jquery/whatever/16:30
fennthe whole concept of charging 10x my food and utilities costs for cubic volume is just bugging me16:32
kanzuredidn't you have free rent with me16:32
fenni dunno, did i?16:32
fenni think i skipped the first and last month16:33
fennIOU $1K16:33
fennhappy?16:33
kanzurewhy do you owe me anything16:33
fennbecause i occupied valuable acreage in your closet16:33
fenntime*area = money16:34
kanzurethat goes for a premium!16:34
kanzurewtf those units make no sense16:34
kanzureanyway, why would you pay when you have no rent here?16:34
kanzurei know sf is very attractive, but you could do work here in the hackerspace now16:34
fenni've thought about it and don't want to go backwards16:35
fennand, you're boring, sorry :(16:36
kanzureit's true16:36
fenni'm working on treating my fun deficiency syndrome, so austin would be medically disadvised16:36
fenni dont understand why none of the 50 people I gave my card to have written back16:37
kanzurethere's like a 1% response rate with business cards16:37
fennwtf that's worse than spam16:38
kanzurei failed at buying food coloring dye16:40
kanzurei went into hobby lobby for food coloring and came out with oil pastels16:40
* kanzure must not understand shopping?16:41
fennshould have gotten watercolors, at least that's the right solvent base16:42
kanzurewhat the hell are water colors16:43
fennwater soluble pigments16:43
nshtape a viagra pill to your business  card16:43
nshproblem solved.16:43
fenner.. i think that might be sending the wrong message16:43
kanzurethe message is "try my product!"16:43
fennhttp://belfry.com/ <- last guy i gave my card to16:44
QuantumGsomehow I got on an unmanaged mailing list.. and every day someone says "can you people stop emailing me?"16:44
fennis it you?16:45
QuantumG1. yes it'd be nice if it was a proper listserv   2. learn to use your mail program16:45
fenngenehacker: did you ever do anything with those reprap parts? how many are there (what percent complete) and what else do you have if anything?16:46
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QuantumGhttp://www.nasa.gov/mp4/445566main_NE00@Robonaut2.mp417:23
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QuantumGwoah.. look at how articulate those hands are17:23
fennwhy does [austin-hacker-space] not do threading right?18:06
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fennoh oops nm, i accidentally turned off threading18:09
kanzurecool, andrew knows the cto of autodesk18:35
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kanzuredear mac cowell: etienne isn't a troll or retarded, just french.19:06
kanzure:D19:06
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kanzure"19:13
kanzure"FYI, "the DIYBio group" was recently mentioned positively in the Lux19:13
kanzureresearch venture capital report and on their biotech investment19:13
kanzurewebinar.  Email me for a PDF.  Notable quote is below.  I remember only19:13
kanzurea few times when such interest was shown by investors directly in a19:13
kanzure"internet group".  It's good!  Keep doing whatever you're doing..  I19:13
kanzureknow I will be :-D "19:13
kanzuredear lazyweb, should i watch this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room19:15
kanzureoh look i'm on cnczone http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=76512719:16
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fennlol http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/index.shtml19:37
fennuses opencv19:37
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JayDuggerWhat about misumi beams?19:50
kanzurehttp://savetheactlab.com/ hm19:53
JayDuggerWhat does ACT stand for?19:57
fennACT stands for "theatre people"20:03
JayDugger:)20:03
fennwhat is a misumi beam?20:03
JayDuggerhttp://www.misumi-ec.com/esgpen/mech/20:04
JayDuggerhttp://www.misumi-ec.com/esgpen/, rather.20:04
JayDuggerFrom kanzure's earlier comment. 20:04
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fennthis is a rather confusing table http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget#Earth.E2.80.93Moon_space22:22
fennthe network diagram works a lot better, but the lengths arent to scale22:23
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fennhmm. SPEC, the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation http://spec.org  well it's a cool name at least23:31
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fenndammit i need a clone23:47
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