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Survival Research Labs at ZeroOne in San Jose on August 11th, 2006

August 17, 2006



(Click for images in gallery…)

Ahh. My photos (photo gallery retired) from this weekend’s SRL show GHOSTLY SCENES of INFERNAL DESECRATION have been uploaded. I didn’t caption any of those of the show itself, but some of the pre-show ones are described.

The small photos above don’t really do the set justice, so all I can really recommend is that you take a look at the album itself. And yes, the show was incredible. There’s something mindblowing about seeing people who have spent time building fairly incredible machines demonstrating them. And truely incredible machines at that. Tesla coils, oxyacetylene cannons, devices for throwing pieces of wood at incredible speeds, jet engines, hovercrafts, and more.

Also, be sure to watch ‘s video clips which have been posted to YouTube here: Short · Longer

His photos can also be seen here.

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SRL

August 13, 2006

Here is a video which took at the SRL show on Friday. It’s pretty much the same perspective I had, as we were right next to each other. I’m wishing I had brought a small video camera along as well.

His video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuON82gN0mg

I’ll (hopefully) have my photos up once I get home. Need to convert them from RAW with a decent tool and stuff.

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GHOSTLY SCENES of INFERNAL DESECRATION

August 12, 2006


Tesla coil running as the pitching machine strikes a walking building with animal skull heads…
(Click for full size…)

Well, yeah. I don’t have much more to say about the SRL show except that it was incredible. Absolutely incredible.

From having a V1 buzz bomb engine pointed at us and fired up to seeing a device which shoots 2×4’s at a few hundred miles per hour shooting a small vehicle which someone is driving… yeah. I’m still blown away.

More pictures will come later. I don’t have all my photo tools here right now, so that’s just a quick one processed on the server. But… yeah. Wow. Definitely worth it.

Oh, and we got to meet and hang out with and his girlie for whom I (unfortunately) can’t remember her LJ username. :\

Yes. More later. Definitely. And if you should somehow find the chance to see SRL one day, do it. Do not hesitate. Just… Yeah.

Click that image up above for a full rez photo. There’s a ridiculous amount to see there, and it’s only a narrow view of the whole event. Photos don’t do it justice.

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NA Numbers for iPod

July 23, 2006

In case any of you are interested, I just finished producing an iPod Notes file containing all the NA numbers in the DOT’s ERG 2004.

Through the use of these Notes files, anyone can use their iPod to look up the number on the placards on hazardous shipping containers to see what they are carrying.

Please see this post for more information: NA Numbers for iPod

(Note, some of this data only applies to North America. The UN numbers are also included, but since they encompass a subset of the NA numbers, this will be more information than non-NA people need.)

Oh, and please, digg this story!

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YouTube

July 20, 2006

Well, it seems that YouTube has matched MySpace‘s level of suck.

Quoting from the YouTube Terms of Use, section 5.B:

“…by submitting the User Submissions to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube’s (and its successor’s) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels.”

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RAID

May 8, 2006

Oh, when at Gibralter Trade Center’s ‘Computer Show’ (to get the aforementioned DB25 cable) I was walking past a table of $25 laptops (old Zeniths and such) I heard the guy there saying to someone else “…oh, then you need a RAID. R-A-I-D. It’s what companies use. Have you ever heard of it?”

Yeah, it’s that kind of place.

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Canon Life-Size Converter EF

March 1, 2006

A contest for you: Guess what this is a photo of, and reply.

So, have you guessed what that is? Here is another, different angle, photo of the same item… See if you can get it without looking at the caption first, though. Yes, both of these were somewhat hard to capture as the object is curved in all three visible dimensions.

If you want some other macro photos taken tonight to look at, this is a close-up of part of the controller out of an old 2x CD-R. And this one here is… Well… I’ll let it be a surprise, too.

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