Side burn action.

Originally uploaded by tehf0x

This only happens once in a blue moon. Yes it was a joke. No they didn’t stay much longer than 24 hours. Yes you will hopefully see this again someday. No I don’t think it looks good. Yes I did go out drinking. No I did not get beat up. Yes it looked better live.

Fact checking, proper citations, context-sensitive quoting, man I wish people took Journalism 101 (I know I haven’t ).  This is especially true with these ‘political campaigns’, I think both for Reps and Dems, but it would seem especially true for those GOP sock monsters.  I fell across this site with a seemingly good article on the GOP Convention’s ‘facts’ here.
Worth a gander.

I could just not pass up on this.  I’m watching the GOP Convention Live, and Palin just finished her speech (it’s all live here.  All this talk about taxes!  Man, *I* wish I didn’t pay taxes, and that the government just had a big money volcano full of bling.  That would be awesome.  Anyhow, here’s this credible tax breakdown source from the Tax Policy Center (currently down) on the left.  This article at CNN seems to sum it up pretty well.  All I gotta say is: fucking. shitshow.

<strike>Also, as I’m watching righ now, what is the deal with Arizona abstaining?</strike> I guess they were nominating VP, I admittedly wasn’t watching very intensely at this point.

So, in case anyone actually reads/stumbles upon/is misled to this page, I thought I might as well mention what I’m up to nowadays:  I’m currently on the end of a 3.5 month stint in the *cough* wonderful city of San Francisco (ok, I just hate the weather).  I’m interning at Yahoo! down in Sunnyvale, and I do actually enjoy the commute back and forth ever day: it gives me a time where I have to sit down and sort photos, or read a book, or learn about new things.  So yeah, I work in Operations there writing some backend tools.  I enjoy it quite a bit, and it’s cool to see how the real big boys do their stuff.

I’m heading back to Lyon on September 20th, and I’ll be there for at least another year going to school at INSA.  If you’re in the area definitely ping me and we’ll go drink.

You should probably also check out my FlickR page, because that *actually* shows you what I’m up to here.

Criss Cross

Originally uploaded by tehf0x

So I’m trying to actually post to this a bit more often (please, don’t look at the dates). Anyhow, I got a chance to fly over San Francisco in a small Cesna the other day, and was able to get some pretty cool pictures. I took like 300, but I’m left with only 40 or so after mucho sorting. Enjoy.

(23:11:06) Me: and didn’t get let into a bar because….
(23:11:31) Me: we went the wrong way down a one way street, taxis swerving around us, in a dumptster on wheels, and parked the dumpster in front of the bar
(23:11:36) Me: and the doorman was like
(23:11:40) Me: “You can’t come in”
(23:11:43) Me: and we were like “why”
(23:11:50) Me: and he was like “…because you came here in a dumpster”

My rocketry club has a door, and this door has 2 keys. There are 30 members. Needless to say this is a mess.

The answer? RFID reader (based on the RC500) + NSLU2 + Python + SQLLite + 50 MiFare Light RFID cards from Hong Kong! I christen thee Ellegua.

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Finally we return from a one year hiatus of laziness and lack of time. I’m going to be posting mainly project here, but perhaps various musings as well. Stay posted.