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altima hybrid

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 

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Posted at 11:54:54 GMT-0700

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“Secure” Fliight

Sunday, June 21, 2009 

UAL notified me that Secure Flight is about to be rolled out by the TSA. EFF has had a lot to say about this program, which is worth reviewing (donate to EFF, help them defend your rights!).

Practical issues to watch out for:

– You need to present your full name exactly as it appears on your ID. – You will need to give your birthdate and gender while making a reservation – Do you have a redress number?

There is now a mechanism to apply for redress when you have been penalized by bureaucratic mixup and have been flagged for special scrutiny or denied the right to fly without due processes or judicial oversight.

Posted at 22:34:58 GMT-0700

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“Monument”

Friday, June 5, 2009 

Rainy washington day on the way out to IAD.

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Posted at 04:10:31 GMT-0700

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United pod ports

Sunday, May 24, 2009 

The pod ports include usb (power only, I think), a network connection (!), a 110V outlet as well as the wacky proprietary iPod connector that they still don’t have the cable for.

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Posted at 13:26:42 GMT-0700

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All Shoes On The Belt

Wednesday, May 20, 2009 

Ever since Richard Reid’s failed attempt to light his shoes on fire on a plane, we’ve all gotten used to being forced to pad through the airport in our stocking feet and hopefully not pick up any flesh eating fungus or anything.

But slowly the public became good at stripping down and unpacking their computers, and then their cameras, and then all their major electronics for the TSA staff that apparently has more trouble than the security in the rest of the world in differentiating benign from naughty in a packed bag.

The latest threat to national security: your gym shoes. So as of yesterday afternoon (19-May-09) we are all now obliged to unpack our shoes from our carry on luggage and put them on the belt separately. Too bad you just bought that new TSA compliant computer bag as it is now obsolete.

I suspect lines were getting a little short and we needed something else to confuse us and make air travel less efficient because otherwise the terrorists would win.

Posted at 19:52:20 GMT-0700

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Monitor fail

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 

Uh oh. Don’t poke the schedule!

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Posted at 17:36:45 GMT-0700

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LAX Edition

Wednesday, May 13, 2009 

Another sighting of the Eat Vulva meme, this time at the LAX RCC.

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Posted at 16:17:52 GMT-0700

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Apple wins

Tuesday, May 5, 2009 

The battle of the hipster bay area cafe laptop has been decisively won by Apple.

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Posted at 15:18:06 GMT-0700

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wind i h8 it

Sunday, March 29, 2009 

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Posted at 16:00:12 GMT-0700

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Coffee Science Update

Wednesday, March 18, 2009 

Magnetically stirred coffee seems to be a success, but still tuning the parameters. I have a surplus temperature control module connected to a thermocouple probe to monitor the temperature.
My first attempt was confounded by not programming the controller to read a K-type thermocouple, it came set for a J-type and so the water never got over 88C even boiling… which it did for a while and that’s not good. Not good at all.
Today I let the water temp get up to 80C and the coffee was very good, smooth and not bitter at all. Perhaps a bit too smooth, a bit like the cold-brew taste but warm and much faster thanks to the stirring action. I will try 90C tomorrow and if success continues, modify the hotplate to add a direct thermal element bypass to the outside so the temp controller can control the heater directly (now I just watch and turn off the heater at the target temp.)
The theory is that by continuously stirring the coffee, a lot of flavor is extracted without relying on heat, and that the stirring also ensures uniform heating through the entire volume and thus the temperature can be set fairly precisely (to about a degree C, +/- 1 degree or so) to optimize differential extraction of the organics in the grounds.

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Posted at 16:00:26 GMT-0700

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