--- Day changed Sat May 31 2008 00:15 < kanzure> Okay, done with high school. Need to update my site now, or something. 00:26 < Vedestin> how'd you go? 00:32 < kanzure> Nothing to report. 00:32 < Vedestin> good then 00:35 < fenn> another fine product of hays county school corporation 00:39 < kanzure> ugh 00:43 < Vedestin> oh, it's that good is it/ 00:52 -!- fenn [n=pz@adsl-75-60-175-117.dsl.bltnin.sbcglobal.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 00:52 -!- Topic for #hplusroadmap: http://heybryan.org/ http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/ http://heybryan.org/exp.html | krebs is now servicing the channel. try !help 00:52 -!- Topic set by kanzure [] [Tue Apr 29 18:54:31 2008] 00:52 [Users #hplusroadmap] 00:52 [ fenn] [ kanzure] [ nsh] [ Splicer] [ Vedestin] [ ybit] 00:52 -!- Irssi: #hplusroadmap: Total of 6 nicks [0 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 6 normal] 00:52 -!- [freenode-info] please register your nickname...don't forget to auto-identify! http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#nicksetup 00:52 -!- Channel #hplusroadmap created Sat Mar 22 15:44:12 2008 00:52 < kanzure> wb 00:52 -!- Irssi: Join to #hplusroadmap was synced in 30 secs 00:53 < fenn> power surge confused the DSLAM i guess 00:53 < kanzure> fenn: Vedestin just linked over to a ted talk about 'open source economics' 00:53 < fenn> link link 00:53 < kanzure> http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/247 01:14 < kanzure> "So when you open up the paper and you see a new fight about intellectual property, it's not because of the technical issue, it's about human sharing." <-- Stallman tried to make this point. It didn't work out. 01:19 < kanzure> I wonder if you can make people understand that point. 01:19 < kanzure> They hold on pretty tightly to money. 01:19 -!- nsh [n=nsh@87-94-146-186.tampere.customers.dnainternet.fi] has quit [Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)] 01:20 -!- nsh [n=nsh@87-94-146-186.tampere.customers.dnainternet.fi] has joined #hplusroadmap 01:20 < kanzure> http://benkler.org/ 01:29 < fenn> i like the 'difficult sentences' wiki page contributed by readers of his book 01:30 < kanzure> heh 01:31 < kanzure> interesting person 01:31 < kanzure> surprised I haven't seen him before 01:33 < fenn> "the leading intellectual" heh 01:33 < fenn> yo, leading intellectual, tell us what to do so we can scoff at it 01:33 < kanzure> ye 01:33 < kanzure> I'd like to be a leading intellectual, sounds fun 01:33 < kanzure> where do I apply? 01:33 < fenn> harvard 01:33 < kanzure> Maybe I should just assert it. 01:33 < kanzure> From now on, I am the leading intellectual in everything. 01:33 < kanzure> oh 01:35 < kanzure> so, in ##neuroscience, bohemian was telling me that I should be sending 'letters of interest' to profs that are doing work vaguely related to mine, even if I don't want to physically work at their labs 01:35 < kanzure> I don't know how these letters of interest work, is this common? from your perspective 01:36 < fenn> i think "intellectual" is something like "whipping boy" or "scapegoat", its someone you're supposed to ignore 01:36 < fenn> i dont know anything about getting around in academia 01:36 < kanzure> heh, that's right 01:37 < kanzure> the spam filters 01:37 * fenn grumbles 01:45 < Vedestin> academics drink beer 01:45 < Vedestin> and shit 01:45 < Vedestin> and breathe 01:45 < kanzure> http://www.bentham.org/open/toimej/index.htm Open access manufacturing engineering journal? 01:46 < kanzure> 'at attractive open access fees!' wtf 01:47 < kanzure> http://iciil.blogspot.com/2007/05/open-industrial-and-manufacturing.html 01:47 < kanzure> http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mechanical-Engineering/2-008Spring2004/Syllabus/ 01:49 < fenn> hmm tornado sirens at 2 am 01:49 < kanzure> sirens, outside? 01:50 < fenn> ya 01:50 < Vedestin> what triggers tornado sirens? 01:50 < kanzure> people. 01:50 < Vedestin> are they manual? 01:50 < Vedestin> right 01:50 < kanzure> oh, network 01:50 < Vedestin> could vandals do it? 01:51 < kanzure> anybody smart enough would probably value silence ;-) 01:51 < fenn> no, looks like the storm will hit the north side of town but not me 01:54 < Vedestin> oh well 01:54 < fenn> better luck next time, vedestin 01:58 < Vedestin> with? 02:04 < fenn> destroying my underground laboratory using your soviet weather modification technology 02:06 < Vedestin> ahhh 02:06 < Vedestin> i'll get you next time 02:07 * Vedestin redirects his ionic heater 02:07 < Vedestin> *ionospheric rather 02:07 < fenn> sharper image sells weather modification tech now? 02:10 < Vedestin> yep 02:10 < Vedestin> pretty expensive 02:10 < fenn> "Sharper Image™ presents The Inflatable Lair" http://www.villainsource.com/lairs.html 02:14 < kanzure> "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." 02:36 < fenn> marshallbrain.com turns out to be very pro-h+ and robotics, despite what i originally thought was 'scare tactics' 02:38 < kanzure> oh shit, where's my stack of stuff 02:39 < fenn> my hoard! where's my hoard! 02:40 < kanzure> I was at a restaurant and left it 02:40 < kanzure> should we try contacting Brain? 02:41 < fenn> he seems very interested in open source development, but it looks like he has no real first-hand reports of what it's like 02:42 < fenn> i think fernhout linked to his site, that's how i found it 02:42 < kanzure> uh 02:42 < kanzure> 'A manual for rebooting a crashed civilization back to 21st century technology' 02:42 < kanzure> http://www.keepthelightson.net/tiki/tiki-index.php 02:43 < kanzure> 'Forbidden - you have no access' 02:43 < fenn> just bad webmastering 02:44 < kanzure> 'security through self-sufficiency', yeah some self-sufficiency *that* webmaster has :) 02:44 < kanzure> http://web.archive.org/web/20070416232103/http://keepthelightson.net/tiki/tiki-index.php <-- the problem 02:44 < kanzure> why would you possibly insert a new user on page load 02:44 < kanzure> oh, sessions 02:44 < kanzure> http://web.archive.org/web/20061206001336/http://keepthelightson.net/tiki/tiki-index.php 02:45 < kanzure> ‘It is necessary to any originality to have the courage to be an amateur.’ 02:45 < kanzure> — Wallace Stevens 02:47 < fenn> http://web.archive.org/web/20060515042017/keepthelightson.net/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=Manual 02:48 * kanzure is more interested in the contact info 02:49 < kanzure> '' 02:49 < kanzure> Articles: Civilization-in-a-box... available now! 02:49 < kanzure> second result on Google: the Singularity Institute. 02:49 < fenn> Alex Future Bokov 02:49 < kanzure> http://www.singinst.org/ourresearch/publications/GISAI/paradigms/seedAI.html 02:50 < kanzure> specifically Yudkowsky 02:50 < kanzure> yeah, I've met Bokov 02:50 < kanzure> in person 02:50 < fenn> san antonio, texas; +1.2109490128 nwfarxr02@sneakemail.com 02:50 < kanzure> oh, is that his wiki? Keep the Lights On? 02:50 < kanzure> yes 02:50 < kanzure> he just got his PhD 02:50 < fenn> thats who the domain is registered to 02:50 < kanzure> he also did a group called 'Transhumanism NOW' 02:51 < fenn> is his middle name really future? 02:51 < kanzure> he's currently: "alexbokov42" 02:51 < kanzure> yep 02:53 < kanzure> okay, email sent 02:54 < kanzure> stupid convergence - I was hoping it was somebody new 02:54 < kanzure> I met Bokov at an Alcor meetup at Shannon Vyff's house. 02:54 < kanzure> it's also where I met Sean, the UT sociology student doing web 2.0 development 02:54 < kanzure> I think he's the only guy I've met in person, ever, who could top me in spitting out popular website names 02:55 < fenn> ah but you've got more bookmarks! 02:55 < kanzure> :) 02:56 < kanzure> I actually don't have many bookmarks on social-networking websites 02:56 < kanzure> hm 02:56 * kanzure is doing a recursion through WikiIndex 02:56 < kanzure> let me post what I have 02:57 < kanzure> http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Wiki_index 02:57 < kanzure> especially anything in bold 02:57 < fenn> gah now that we have the internet and basically unlimited bandwith and page space, why do people insist on using initials in their references? 02:58 < kanzure> tradition nonsense 02:58 < kanzure> I'd totally go with a one-word name/identifier if it was socially acceptable 02:58 < fenn> there must be a thousand engineering professors named 'C. Zhang' 02:59 -!- ybit [n=u1@unaffiliated/ybit] has quit ["Konversation terminated!"] 03:02 -!- ybit [n=u1@unaffiliated/ybit] has joined #hplusroadmap 03:04 < Vedestin> it is socially acceptable 03:04 < Vedestin> madonna is a very well known academic 03:04 < kanzure> Madonna? 03:05 < fenn> the popular sex image theorist? 03:05 < Vedestin> yes 03:06 < ybit> "[Fri May 30 2008] [00:31:20] I'm planning on some automated cloning machines + automated education machines. 03:06 < ybit> [Fri May 30 2008] [00:31:23] think stormtrooper" 03:06 < fenn> her models have been conclusively disproven by lil'kim et al 03:06 < ybit> i misread that as starship trooper 03:06 < fenn> um, i mean, l. kim 03:07 < ybit> and spent nearly 45 mins watching that movie before being disguisted and reading the wikipedia entry looking for the technology introduced in the film, etc... just realized that it was stormtrooper o.O 03:09 < Vedestin> hahahahha 03:09 < kanzure> ybit: Hahah. :) 03:09 < fenn> ybit: the thing to understand about that film: it has no relation to the book, and it's actually a satirical comedy 03:09 < kanzure> ybit: You never saw Starship Troopers? 03:09 < ybit> never until now and still didn't watch all of it 03:09 < ybit> fenn: is that so? because i truly was laughing 03:10 < fenn> well i dont know if it was ever advertised that way, but it must be 03:10 < ybit> that would make sense 03:10 < ybit> it's how i perceived it 03:11 < fenn> in starship troopers the little wet lump of flesh is the biggest liability of their combat machine 03:11 < ybit> konversation and kopete need built-in spell-checkers 03:14 < fenn> god i cant believe that fucking film is more popular than the book 03:17 < ybit> kanzure: what did you write which appeared in Make? 03:17 * kanzure doesn't like Heinlein much, even though he did read some of his work. 03:17 < kanzure> ybit: the open biohacking kit introduction and link 03:17 < kanzure> when I released the link. 03:18 < ybit> ah, that did spread 03:20 < kanzure> We need joshcryer to get in here. 03:21 < kanzure> (2008-05-31 02:26:13) joshcryer: kanzure, Gingery machine, made my own homemade forge and all. 03:23 < fenn> here we go.. getting better at this: 03:23 < fenn> I just want to remind you apes that each and every one of you has cost the gov'ment, counting weapons, armor, ammo, instrumentation, and training, everything, including the way you overeat -- has cost, on the hoof, better'n half a million. Add in the thirty cents you are actually worth and that runs to quite a sum." He glared at us. #So bring it back! We can spare you, but we can't spare that fancy suit you're wearing. 03:24 < kanzure> hm? 03:24 < fenn> so, cloning is pretty useless in the starship troopers universe 03:26 < kanzure> heh, 03:27 < kanzure> in Star Wars, cloning was automated, with automated education 03:27 < kanzure> and super-cheap manufacturing of the resources to arm the troopers, throw on some armor, etc. 03:29 < fenn> how educated do you need to be to get cannon-foddered for some teddy bears? 03:30 < kanzure> which one is the name: balter, baldo, balder, bolder, a middle name. 03:30 < fenn> depends on the first and last name 03:30 < kanzure> last name is of Polish descent 03:30 < fenn> i'd say balter with no further information though 03:31 < fenn> just because the others have silly meanings in english 03:31 < fenn> and baldor is trademarked :P 03:32 < kanzure> (2008-05-31 02:35:15) joshcryer: kanzure, the paper is entitled, "Exponential Growth of Large Self-Reproducing Machine Systems" 03:32 < kanzure> I think that's Lathner. 03:33 < kanzure> Lackner, rather. 03:39 < kanzure> joshcryer thinks the skdb project is 'uncomputable' 03:45 < kanzure> (2008-05-31 02:49:38) joshcryer: He can't do the whole of the project alone because the element seperation cycle, the IC manufacturing, all of those are going to require outside specialized involvement. 03:45 < kanzure> (2008-05-31 02:49:38) kanzure: I mean, just saying "And then magic happens here!" is not a good design strategy. 03:45 < kanzure> (2008-05-31 02:49:54) joshcryer: It is a perfect design strategy thank you very much! 03:46 < kanzure> talking about the reprap nozzle 03:46 < kanzure> fenn: #space please 03:49 < ybit> suppose i should go to bed 03:49 < ybit> 'night 03:49 < kanzure> night 04:05 * kanzure is going through his photos trying to find an image 04:05 < kanzure> http://heybryan.org/camera/IMG_4400_3.JPG sister 04:08 < kanzure> http://heybryan.org/camera/IMG_7709_2.JPG <--- Summary of my high school experience. 04:08 < kanzure> That's what I was looking for. 04:12 < fenn> so, senior year would be piles of papers covered in tiny black letters all in capitals 04:12 < fenn> and computer monitors everywhere 04:13 < kanzure> well, that was junior year too 04:13 < kanzure> senior year would be piles too, although I don't know where the piles have gone, they're kind of "lost" and "absorbed" into the rest of the piles in the room 04:14 < kanzure> I lost track of organization of school work in my senior year when I stopped caring 04:16 < kanzure> joshcryer's main objection seems to be that "it all looks incoherent" 04:16 < kanzure> so we need a way to convey to people that yes, it's actually coherent 04:19 < kanzure> fenn: http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2008-May/043812.html this is a good intro to extropy 04:22 < kanzure> in #space, did my BS detector just click? 04:27 < fenn> click clik clkckkkkckkkkkkchhhhhhh 04:27 < kanzure> eh? 04:27 < kanzure> beep, I mean. 04:27 < fenn> get outta thar she goanna blow! 04:27 < kanzure> heh 04:28 < kanzure> but he did mention he does RepRap and gingery machines 04:28 < kanzure> and he mentioned the extropians 04:28 < kanzure> so I was figuring I found a good convergent source 04:28 < kanzure> however, he doesn't seem to think that actually getting stuff done is a good idea 04:28 < fenn> he's enthusiastic at least 04:28 < kanzure> true. 06:27 < Splicer> on starship troopers: there was a reason they sent people instead of just bombed the panets which the they easily could have done and later did. I think one needs to know why it had to be people to understand the movie. 06:31 < Vedestin> why did it have to be people? 06:31 < Vedestin> i forget the movie 06:33 < Splicer> To me it's associated with ideas from the 30:ies... they are probably older, I don't know... it has to with that a country/society is forged throug war.. 06:33 < Vedestin> ohh 06:33 < Vedestin> i thought you meant there was a plot device 06:34 < Splicer> no... just that the movie is actually very well written, but people don't have the referencepoints 06:34 < Vedestin> it's a novel 06:34 < Vedestin> and that would come out better in the novel 06:35 < Splicer> some of the stuff is from 'mein kampf' 06:35 < Splicer> like the idea that citizenship comes with military service not before 06:35 < Vedestin> Through Rico's eyes, Heinlein examines moral and philosophical aspects of suffrage, civic virtue, the necessities of war and capital punishment, and the nature of juvenile delinquency.[3] 06:35 < Vedestin> that comes from spartan society Splicer 06:35 < Splicer> yeah.. i believe you 06:36 < Vedestin> oh sorry, that's from the wikipedia page on the novel 06:36 < Vedestin> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_troopers 06:37 < Splicer> the idea was that every generation has to have a war... if you had an enemy that was womderful.. otherwise you had to create one to have the war. 06:38 < Vedestin> interesting idea 06:38 < Splicer> starship troopers is full of these references 06:39 < Splicer> for people who don't know about them it just becomes a stupud move about bugs in space. 06:41 < Vedestin> yeah ok 06:41 < fenn> the movie was about ww2 in czechoslovakia, read the director's interviews 06:41 < Vedestin> pretty sure it's about bugs, fenn 06:42 < fenn> why were they wearing plastic helmets and shooting machine guns then? 06:42 < Vedestin> http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/19 Kevin Kelly: How does technology evolve? Like we did 06:42 < fenn> running around on foot 06:42 < fenn> on another planet ferchrissakes 06:42 < Vedestin> czechoslovakia isn't on another planet 06:43 < Vedestin> as much as you might have wanted it to be 06:43 < fenn> you're being intentionally dense 06:43 < Vedestin> facetious is the term 06:43 < Vedestin> yes, i am 06:43 < fenn> heinlein barely even mentions bugs in the book 06:44 < Vedestin> you're talking about a movie 06:44 < Vedestin> the book is not the movie 06:44 < fenn> yeah, and the movie is about ww2 in czechoslovakia 06:46 < fenn> the book is mostly about life in the military, but also about infantry combat in the space age, which is where the movie totally falls flat on its face for no particular reason except the director/producers wanted to be a bunch of dicks 06:47 < fenn> i think he brought up the bugs just because he had this great idea about bombing cities with meteors and wanted to use it somehow 06:48 < Splicer> Dizzy: My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything. 06:48 < Splicer> Jean Rasczak: Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that. 06:48 < Splicer> [to Carmen] 06:48 < Splicer> Jean Rasczak: You. 06:48 < Splicer> Carmen: They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed. 06:48 < Splicer> Jean Rasczak: Correct. Violence has resolved more conflicts than anything else. The contrary opinion that violence doesn't solve anything is merely wishful thinking at its worst. 06:50 < fenn> well, all i gotta say is that's not in the book 06:50 < fenn> well, not the hiroshima reference at least 06:51 < fenn> i say well too much 06:51 < fenn> rawr 06:52 < Splicer> Maybe, Paul Verhooven has his own visions... I like his movies.. they are usually very good social commentaries weaved into satire 06:53 < Splicer> maybe not usually.. but some of them 07:01 < fenn> According to Heinlein, his desire to write Starship Troopers was sparked by the publication of a newspaper advertisement placed by the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy on April 5, 1958 calling for a unilateral suspension of nuclear weapon testing by the United States. 07:01 < fenn> so he would really have to be an asshole to put in the hiroshima reference 07:04 < Vedestin> didn't he start a group in direct opposition to that group? 07:04 < Vedestin> like they wanted to ban nuclear testing and he wanted to continue it or something 07:05 < fenn> yep 07:07 < fenn> apparently it was a "Non-notable minor organization totally forgotten except by fans of Heinlein" 07:11 < Vedestin> i read it on his wiki page 07:11 < Vedestin> not his 07:11 < Vedestin> the books 07:16 < fenn> ah i knew it! "Verhoeven admits that he never finished reading the actual book." 09:36 < kanzure> Vedestin: Kevin Kelly is a good guy to keep track of. http://kk.org/ it's how I learned about how Gingery and ultimately fenn. 09:38 < kanzure> I'm not impressed with Heinlein, for the record. 09:38 < kanzure> Barely impressed with Asimov (except his work ethic -- 9 hours a day of pure typing). 09:55 < kanzure> ooh 09:56 < kanzure> http://www.wikiindex.org/Let.sysops.be instead of NPOV it's ntPOV -- new troll point of view. 10:03 -!- nsh- [n=nsh@87-94-146-186.tampere.customers.dnainternet.fi] has joined #hplusroadmap 10:04 < fenn> aka skepticism 10:04 -!- nsh [n=nsh@87-94-146-186.tampere.customers.dnainternet.fi] has quit [Connection timed out] 10:07 < fenn> a lot of old things are no longer as impressive because we've been inundated with imitations and spinoffs of the original 10:07 < fenn> lord of the rings for example 10:13 -!- nsh- [n=nsh@87-94-146-186.tampere.customers.dnainternet.fi] has quit [Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)] 10:13 -!- nsh [n=nsh@87-94-146-186.tampere.customers.dnainternet.fi] has joined #hplusroadmap 11:09 < kanzure> http://howstuffismade.org/ it's like howstuffismade.com except includes 'human labor conditions' 11:09 < kanzure> even though it's about, uh, manufacturing 11:13 < kanzure> https://wikis.nyu.edu/xdesign/mediawiki/index.php/American_Flag haha, human flags made by human hand 11:13 < kanzure> brilliant 11:13 < kanzure> (specifically, the Chinese) 11:13 < kanzure> eat it 11:26 -!- Splicer [n=p@h98n2c1o261.bredband.skanova.com] has quit [Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)] 11:26 -!- Splicer [n=p@h241n1c1o261.bredband.skanova.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 11:35 < kanzure> http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/MadScientist/HomePage mad scientist wiki 11:35 < kanzure> hey, look, it's David Cary :) 11:36 < kanzure> http://david.carybros.com/html/mad_science.html 11:37 < kanzure> he has a list of other mad scientists 11:39 < kanzure> friend of David Cary per the recentchanges - http://www.communitywiki.org/cw/MattisManzel - which cites lionkimbro ... hm. 11:53 -!- Vedestin [n=Vedestin@d122-109-35-58.sbr3.nsw.optusnet.com.au] has quit ["User pushed the X - because it's Xtra, baby"] 12:06 < kanzure> http://carybros.com/ <-- impressive family? 12:16 < Splicer> cool creature: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/10/natures-great-survivors-water-bears.html 12:17 < Splicer> (tardigrades) 12:23 < Splicer> it says they can be frozen to "at -272 degrees Celsius for a couple of minutes, or at -200 degrees Celsius for days on end"... what would be the thing that hat happened in it after being frozen for a year as opposed to 2min in -272 deg celsius? 12:44 < kanzure> extremophiles :) 12:47 -!- Netsplit niven.freenode.net <-> irc.freenode.net quits: ybit, nsh 12:49 -!- ybit [n=u1@c-71-207-240-143.hsd1.al.comcast.net] has joined #hplusroadmap 12:53 -!- nsh [n=nsh@87-94-146-186.tampere.customers.dnainternet.fi] has joined #hplusroadmap 15:03 -!- Splicer [n=p@h241n1c1o261.bredband.skanova.com] has quit [Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)] 15:03 -!- Splicer [n=p@h5n3c1o261.bredband.skanova.com] has joined #hplusroadmap 15:51 -!- Splicer [n=p@h5n3c1o261.bredband.skanova.com] has quit [] 16:05 -!- Phreedom [n=freedom@www.online.dn.ua] has joined #hplusroadmap 16:32 < Phreedom> bad news guys: the other person involved in my project how is out of the game for 2-8 weeks due to injury :( 16:32 < Phreedom> but we're going to finish it anyways 16:56 < kanzure> Phreedom: /me still does not know what this project of yours is. 16:57 < Phreedom> I'm 100% sure I tried explaining it at least once 16:57 * kanzure goes back to the logs 16:58 < Phreedom> it's a cheap high-precision positioning system capable of driving anything from a cnc milling machine to STM/dna assembler and other nanotech stuff 16:58 < Phreedom> by cheap I mean no more than $100-$150 per axis 16:58 < Phreedom> eventually can get as low as $50 16:59 < Phreedom> which means ATM/AFM can be as cheap as $300(depends on how cheaply you can make a vacuum pump, chamber etc) 17:00 < Phreedom> it will be based on piezo motors and interfeometers 17:00 < Phreedom> piezos can provide unlimited resolution. in practice resolution depends on the resolution of your position feedback system and control electronics 17:01 < Phreedom> interferometers can automatically compensate for most of manufacturing and assembly defects but need very fine polishing on optics surfaces 17:02 < Phreedom> this can be tackled as well with magnetorheological polishing 17:02 < Phreedom> there will be two varietes of the system. one optimized for macro stuff and other optimized for nanotech 17:03 < Phreedom> both quite similar in fact 17:03 < Phreedom> it's just the choice of parameters/dimensions and electronic components 17:57 < Phreedom> perhaps I wrote too much too early :P