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| kanzure | that's the guy that was lecturing for http://heybryan.org/school/Biology/notes/output.html | 01:07 |
| * kanzure just got back from an awards ceremony with the guy | 01:07 | |
| kanzure | http://heybryan.org/webalizer/usage_200805.html | 01:37 |
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| fenn | g'day mate | 07:54 |
| fenn | just hit "send" to gershenfeld.. *frump* | 07:55 |
| fenn | btw no, i didn't "make the torus knot using the system" since there is no system in existence | 08:02 |
| kanzure | fenn: you sent the email to gershenfeld? | 08:08 |
| kanzure | or are you telling me to? | 08:08 |
| kanzure | http://www.google.com/Top/Science/Events/Conferences/ | 08:09 |
| fenn | i just did. damned english | 08:11 |
| kanzure | fenn: did you explain it all? | 08:12 |
| fenn | no, basically i threw myself begging at his feet | 08:13 |
| kanzure | neat | 08:13 |
| fenn | ok maybe not quite that bad | 08:14 |
| fenn | but i didnt explain skdb | 08:14 |
| fenn | just "i am working on similar things, here's some pictures:" | 08:15 |
| fenn | http://img.cba.mit.edu/browse/070630_norway_bySmari/DSC03443.jpg | 08:20 |
| fenn | that's carl scheffler, not smari | 08:20 |
| fenn | note the image on the laptop | 08:21 |
| fenn | http://img.cba.mit.edu/browse/070927_gadgetoff2007/IMG_2666.jpg | 08:22 |
| fenn | good with ketchup | 08:22 |
| kanzure | heh :) | 08:25 |
| kanzure | I was browsing through gatech.edu and found a manufacturing uh, division, lab or something | 08:25 |
| kanzure | and they organize the industrial conferences it seems | 08:25 |
| kanzure | they have a new format, SMPFF or something, but it doesn't look all that useful | 08:25 |
| kanzure | it's an object-oriented method of doing specs for manufacturing objects or something | 08:26 |
| kanzure | http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Exoskeleton has some notes [in the totally wrong place :-)] | 08:26 |
| kanzure | fenn: did you see the pics? http://heybryan.org/ has a new front-page-head-photo, and then I dumped a link some time last night to the full photo | 08:26 |
| fenn | sheet metal part forming format? | 08:26 |
| fenn | good, that's a nice photo | 08:26 |
| fenn | i ran across the exoskeleton vid a couple days ago too (eris be praised!) | 08:27 |
| kanzure | the tether is retarded | 08:27 |
| kanzure | but might just be for demoing | 08:27 |
| kanzure | maybe they have the battery problem solved :) | 08:27 |
| fenn | eh? of course it's for demo | 08:27 |
| fenn | no, they probably just dont want some goddamn chainsaw engine running during the interview | 08:28 |
| fenn | bleex is noisy as hell | 08:28 |
| kanzure | oh, and http://heybryan.org/webalizer/ | 08:29 |
| kanzure | 200k-hits/mo | 08:29 |
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| kanzure | fenn: heh, I'm #13 for queries on Google over ' "the deepest commitment, the most serious mind" ' | 08:30 |
| kanzure | that's not bad :) | 08:30 |
| * kanzure needs to run off to school | 08:31 | |
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| kanzure | Hey. | 18:06 |
| kramer3d | hello | 18:16 |
| kanzure | http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Sustained_attention#2008-05-23:_Athymhormic_syndrome <-- "mental blankness" and lack of motivation via removal of basal ganglia. | 18:25 |
| kanzure | VOLSABOX: small fabber that makes secondary-fabbers that process asteroid/moon rock into surface-area that can be assembled into either some giant mirroring system, or a giant space-based solar power satellite (energy beaming via microwaves (2.4 GHz according to CFR)) | 19:32 |
| kanzure | the surface area is needed to harvest the output of the sun | 19:32 |
| kanzure | Hm. I had an idea earlier today. | 19:34 |
| kanzure | one of the reasons why solar cells don't capture all of the spectrums of photons, I hear, is mostly because there's not enough 'photon holes' so there's a lot that's missed | 19:35 |
| kanzure | so what if we could focus solar photons into very fine, sub-mm radius, beams of light, and then try to capture all of the photons by using piezos to specifically target molecules with electrons waiting to get the energy? | 19:36 |
| kanzure | or something like that | 19:37 |
| kanzure | the idea is to "hit the ball into the bucket" | 19:37 |
| kanzure | the ball is the photon | 19:37 |
| kanzure | bucket is the electron or molecule or maybe even quantum dot (not sure) | 19:37 |
| kramer3d | focus like with a V shaped solar panel? | 19:37 |
| kramer3d | ah ive to go | 19:38 |
| kramer3d | we shall talk when i get back :) | 19:38 |
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| kanzure | fenn: looks like I have a lot of content to spider from Alex Weirr | 19:54 |
| kanzure | http://fabuntu.org/ | 19:54 |
| kanzure | http://fabfoundation.org/ | 19:54 |
| kanzure | http://fablab.jp/ | 19:54 |
| * kanzure frowns at the "151 GB used space" indicator on the data server | 20:34 | |
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| kanzure | Hi shogunx. | 22:20 |
| shogunx | indeed kanzure | 22:20 |
| kanzure | fenn: here's your sleekfreak | 22:20 |
| shogunx | heh | 22:20 |
| kanzure | we've been discussing in #solarnet-dev on gnuveau.org and trying to synch some good ideas together | 22:20 |
| shogunx | howdy fenn. guilty as charged. | 22:20 |
| kanzure | fenn might be dead at the moment, so we'll see | 22:21 |
| fenn | still kickin | 22:22 |
| kanzure | what a shame. | 22:22 |
| * fenn twitches uncontrollably | 22:22 | |
| shogunx | no need to twitch on my account. | 22:24 |
| fenn | re: photon catcher, i saw a gold (nanoparticle?) terahertz-frequency inductor that could be used for catching infrared light | 22:25 |
| fenn | they had some new printing process that made it feasible for solar panels | 22:25 |
| shogunx | using more of the spectrum for pv is a damn good idea. | 22:25 |
| kanzure | fenn: "catching" IR photons? | 22:27 |
| fenn | its like a radio antenna for light | 22:27 |
| kanzure | I see; can it be a flat surface? | 22:28 |
| fenn | it was on nextbigfuture.com but no googles | 22:28 |
| kanzure | an antenna usually sucks since it's a small cylinder | 22:28 |
| fenn | yeah they had a sheet of plastic covered in this nano-feature pattern | 22:28 |
| kanzure | whereas the local star does massive photoproduction all over the place | 22:28 |
| kanzure | ah | 22:28 |
| kanzure | neat | 22:28 |
| fenn | using soft lithography | 22:28 |
| * kanzure needs to find a ref | 22:28 | |
| fenn | hey google got some more buttons | 22:30 |
| shogunx | ideally this could be made transparent to other frequencies, and could be used as a laminate for existing pv panels to increase amperage output. | 22:30 |
| fenn | well, not really, it looked like gold aluminum foil | 22:30 |
| fenn | but i think they said it could theoretically be 80% efficient, which is good enough for me | 22:31 |
| shogunx | is there really more energy in IR than in the visible spectrum? | 22:31 |
| fenn | yep | 22:31 |
| fenn | on earth at least | 22:31 |
| shogunx | 80% efficiency would be nice. | 22:32 |
| fenn | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Solar_Spectrum.png | 22:33 |
| fenn | shogunx: could you explain the "free dsl over southeastern north america"? | 22:35 |
| shogunx | i was explaining to a friend who was an engineer at bell how there was hole in their radius implementaion. | 22:36 |
| shogunx | it essentially allowed infinite many logins on the same uid | 22:40 |
| shogunx | why do you ask? | 22:44 |
| fenn | it just seemed improbably | 22:45 |
| fenn | i mean, your tracker is barely scraping along :) | 22:45 |
| shogunx | not sure its even on, actually. | 22:46 |
| shogunx | hmm. apparently so. | 22:46 |
| shogunx | that was many years ago. sleekfreak will be 10 soon. | 22:47 |
| shogunx | that 2 megabit circuit is often saturated. | 22:48 |
| shogunx | i wonder if alex has a new version of that... | 22:51 |
| shogunx | the cd3wd that is | 22:51 |
| fenn | yes it's expanded to 16GB | 22:51 |
| fenn | mostly due to non-ocr'd pdf files | 22:52 |
| fenn | there's only so much you can do with dead-tree-format though | 22:53 |
| fenn | so this is why we're working on skdb | 22:53 |
| fenn | btw i see your webpage all the time from the ebooks, good work :) | 22:54 |
| shogunx | thanks. by my estimation i have had several hundred thousand college students eating a little better from that. | 22:55 |
| kanzure | shogunx: http://heybryan.org/textbooks.html for cheap textbooks (purchasable) | 22:56 |
| shogunx | ok i see. | 22:57 |
| kanzure | I'm trying to figure out if I should post my digital textbook sources | 22:57 |
| kanzure | if I'd link to you, that just makes you more of a target :) | 22:57 |
| kanzure | for a while I was being targetted on some boards | 22:57 |
| kanzure | http://heybryan.org/docs/screwed.html (search for heybryan.org on the page) | 22:57 |
| shogunx | so you guys want to turn all that data into indexable data. | 22:58 |
| kanzure | sort of | 22:58 |
| kanzure | it's more like "apt-get install <automobile>" ;-) | 22:58 |
| kanzure | where automobile is just a specific implementation of some general manufacturing tools working together | 22:58 |
| shogunx | i dig it. | 22:59 |
| fenn | but realistically more like apt-get install wireless-router because they're much easier to make | 22:59 |
| kanzure | I dunno, cars came before semiconductors | 23:00 |
| * fenn mumbles something about vacuum tubes | 23:00 | |
| * kanzure mumbles something about how hard it is to inhale vigorously without mechanical pressure and explosive setups | 23:01 | |
| kanzure | by explosive I mean your pressure tanks and mechanical pistons etc. | 23:01 |
| shogunx | so what ahppened, did someone make you take your books down? | 23:02 |
| fenn | actually you can make a vacuum pump out of a rubber tube | 23:02 |
| kanzure | shogunx: No, it's just that I'm on a residential connection, had zero bandwidth, etc. | 23:03 |
| kanzure | fenn: hm? describe? | 23:03 |
| shogunx | ahh. yes. 2megabit up with burst to 5, no transfer cap. 1000's of people have ran wget across the whole site. | 23:05 |
| kanzure | heh | 23:05 |
| kanzure | I've had 6 sec ping lags to Google. | 23:05 |
| kanzure | shogunx: maybe I'll run wget on your site soon too :) | 23:06 |
| kanzure | or at least a scheduled job for it, so that I can avoid your waking hours | 23:06 |
| shogunx | i do not actually USE that machine. it sits in a rack. it has a dedicated circuit. the only time it would annoy me is if the redundant circuit was down, and i had to route the rest of the network through sleekfreak. | 23:07 |
| kanzure | ah, okay | 23:07 |
| fenn | kanzure: basically a peristaltic pump, you get two 'ink brayers' and squeeze out the air, always keeping one brayer held on the tube | 23:07 |
| kanzure | why haven't I seen any homemade vacuum tube computers up on the web ? | 23:08 |
| fenn | because you need a lot of tubes | 23:08 |
| kanzure | it was only within the last year that the diy vacuum tube stuff showed up on Slashdot | 23:08 |
| kanzure | sure | 23:08 |
| kanzure | but a small circuit, for example | 23:08 |
| shogunx | lots and lots of tubes. | 23:08 |
| kanzure | a flip flop :) | 23:08 |
| fenn | and a lot of power to run them | 23:08 |
| kanzure | shogunx: heh | 23:08 |
| shogunx | you can make a pretty good sounding amplifier with them though. | 23:08 |
| * kanzure was looking into making his own stompbox a few years ago | 23:09 | |
| kanzure | I had this ridiculously flimsy circuitboard wired up to an amp and a guitar | 23:09 |
| kanzure | a few resistors wired up too, didn't do much | 23:09 |
| kanzure | how many vacuum tubes would it have taken to do anything? | 23:10 |
| shogunx | the same number of transistors it would take:) | 23:10 |
| fenn | only like 4 | 23:10 |
| fenn | http://www.tinkerhack.com/vac6.htm <- silicone hose vacuum pump | 23:11 |
| kanzure | thank you | 23:12 |
| * kanzure needs to go do a bookmarking session soon | 23:12 | |
| kanzure | it's been a while since I've done a bookmark dump into Opera's ADR file. | 23:12 |
| kanzure | maybe I'll hack pidgin to autopopup upon new link, force me to bookmark it immediately | 23:13 |
| kanzure | dunno about autosynching with the open proc of Opera though | 23:13 |
| kanzure | http://heybryan.org/scans/2008-05-23_2.png <-- got xsane and the epson scanner working again, so I'm uploading some of my more recent pencilings/pennings when not near a terminal. | 23:26 |
| fenn | heh gonna need more resolution than that | 23:27 |
| fenn | i've been doing some scanning too, not sure it's worth sharing though | 23:30 |
| kanzure | mine's not really worth sharing either, since handwritten stuff sucks anyway | 23:30 |
| kanzure | I do stuff like that all day on paper | 23:30 |
| kanzure | so I have these unseemly, large stacks that I know are completely useless | 23:30 |
| kanzure | can't just randomly pop out the laptop though, that'd get suspicous since I'm only using it for school work blah blah blah :) | 23:31 |
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