Song Of The Day
5 for 5
Had a good weekend of geocaching. Found 5 of 5. Took Jay along.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=151730&id=705579767&l=3d861508b6
China Man!
The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
Getting The Hang Of It
Found 2 out of 4 caches tonite. Still can’t find the one at Heritage Park and tried a new one behind Meijer that I couldn’t find. Found “Orton Hears A Who” and “On The Way To School“. Here’s the pics.
Got Some Cache
Went back for the 3rd time today at lunch with 2 co-workers. There was a pipe in the middle of the trail that had a cap on it. I was sure this was it, but no amount of tugging would let it loose. Finally one of my co-workers spotted the geocache. It was disguised as part of the stairs. This was located at Indian Run in Dublin. Beautiful area. Check out the pics.
Geocaching
Today I picked up a Garmin GPS handheld unit (picture to the left — cheapy $90 one). I’ve been reading about geocaching and thought it would be fun to pick a target each weekend and go find it. For those of you that don’t know what geocaching is, here’s the wikipedia definition:
Geocaching is an outdoor activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container (usually a tupperware or ammo box) containing a logbook. Larger containers can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little value. Geocaching is most often described as a “game of high-tech hide and seek”, sharing many aspects with orienteering, treasure-hunting, and waymarking.
I signed up for an account on geocaching.com and have picked a few targets to try this weekend. I’ll let ya know how it goes.
I Cashed Mine!
I got a check for$27.68 the other day as part of a lawsuit settlement. I know a few other people got one as well. They were suspicious. Mine’s already cashed. Did you get one? Know why?
Check out the link:
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto
I went to this
http://feh.osu.edu/competition.htm
tonight. Quite fun! My girlfriend’s son was participating. Lessons learned… don’t change your environment on the last day of testing. They had a robot built that was working great and they had been downloading the software via one of the campus machines. Today, all the sudden it started misbehaving? Why? Not sure, but they started using one of their own personal laptops and the thinking is one of the libraries in their environment that it downloaded to the robot was outta synch. Their robot stalled after driving forward about 2 inches (the GPS data got all whacked). We were sorry to see that happen, since his robot had performed quite well in the preliminaries.
I use to participate in a Lego Robotics League with a bunch of guys at AOL. I kind of miss those days. We had some great competitions and some great innovation. Sometimes I wish I had gone into robotics, since whenever I play with it, I seem to do pretty well and really enjoy it.
Super Busy
I haven’t written for a while. Been super busy at work with this new project, and home with various house projects. I’ve also released a new version of Jiggle Balls.
I saw “Angels & Demons” a week ago. It was pretty good (despite the sound level of the theatre being louder than a jet airplane). I loved that they changed the ending from the book. The ending in the book always bothered me. Looking forward to Terminator (although terribly bummed SCC got canned on TV). Even Land Of The Lost looks pretty cool (loved that show as a kid).
Have a great Memorial Day weekend!
Never Shake A Baby
I posted this in the Apple Forums this morning:
Why is Apple approving this stuff?
Apr 22, 2009 8:36 AM
Baby Shaker:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=312345678&mt=8
that’s just wrong IMHO.
Tonight this showed up on MSNBC. I hope my message had something to do with it, but I suspect A LOT of people were complaining.
