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| 10:28am 12/06/2009 |
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Despite losing my job, I'm actually quite happy with life right now. I met a girl named Mary and that is looking like it is going to be a long term relationship. I joined a roller derby team as a ref which is lots of fun. C-Ville is a great place to live. |
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| Job |
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| 07:11pm 08/06/2009 |
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After close to 3.5 years, I'm done with Perrone Robotics. |
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| Europe - Part 1 (Brussels) |
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| 10:43pm 25/12/2008 |
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Here are some Europe pics... A couple from NY and then a bunch from Brussels - mainly Mini Europe (a park with a bunch of miniture buildings that are all popular places in Europe).
NY+Brussels
I figured I'd upload them in batches as I sort through them. |
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| 11:28am 13/12/2008 |
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Happy b-day linus52 |
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| Oh yeah, btw I'm in Europe... |
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| 05:02pm 30/11/2008 |
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I'm half way through the 2 week trip! Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Fussen (Germany), and Rome are all done. I'm currently in a hotel in Rome, leaving tomorrow. Up next, Pisa, Marseille (Southern France), Barcelona, and Madrid.
I'm having fun and took TONS of pics... will sift through them and post along with more details after I get back to the states. |
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| Halloween Party |
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| 03:59pm 19/10/2008 |
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If anyone is looking for something to do on Halloween and is going to be in the Charlottesville area, I am helping plan a party at the IX Building (a cool creapy building) that should be pretty fun. We got Mass Sabbath (they do Black Sabbath songs and only play once a year - always on Halloween), derby dames, a local DJ (DJ Dalivah), there will be a silent auction, and a some other stuff. There are a limited number of tickets, which are only $15, so you may want to buy tickets sooner than later. You can get tickets through me. We're expecting somewhere between 400 and 500 people to show up. If you need a place to crash for the night, you can do so at my place.
http://www.charlottesvillederbydames.com/masquerade-brawl/ |
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| For all you motor heads out there... |
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| 10:52am 01/10/2008 |
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Neil Young and his team has started to do video updates of the Lincvolt project (which we are helping out with here at Perrone Robotics). Check out the "State of Linc Volt" videos if you're interested in hearing what he is doing - it's interesting even though he doesn't go into too much detail.
http://www.lincvolt.com/
The video update links are near the top, under the first picture. |
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| CLAW |
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| 06:03pm 30/09/2008 |
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Derby dames know of all the best events in town! The Charlottesville Ladies Arm Wrestling group puts on a competition once a month as a fundraiser for a charity that changes every month. I helped out with security at the last event and will be helping again in future competitions. It's a lot of fun to watch. You can even bribe the ref to make a call one way or another. |
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| The longer, less vague, but not as cool sounding version of what happened that night |
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| 12:24pm 28/09/2008 |
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I was at a friend’s house for dinner and we were all relaxing afterwards. They happen to have a pitbull (the bitch) that makes noises like Chewie from Star Wars. I was sitting on the ground petting the dog along with another friend. We were both making Chewie noises because that’s how you get the dog to make the noise too. They had done this lots of times in the past and I had done it one other time when I was there. For whatever reason, the dog didn’t like me doing that this time or I did something else wrong and she just decided to jump at my face. The bite almost went all the way through my lip despite it looking like a small cut. That side of the lip is all black and blue now, but it doesn’t really hurt that much anymore. The chipped teeth look a little funny, but whatever. Stuff happens. I’m not mad at the dog or the owners or anything, but they decided to send the dog to “anger management classes” since she growls at a lot of people and will snip at people’s feet, but this is the first time that she injured anyone. |
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| The funny explaination of what happened last night |
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| 05:27pm 26/09/2008 |
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So there I was minding my own business, sipping on my scotch, making Chewie growling sounds, when some bitch comes up to me and bites me in the lip. She almost made it all the way through and she also managed to chip my front two teeth in the process. I'll have pics up eventually. |
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| 08:38am 07/09/2008 |
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Derby is going good. I got to be a ref for my first bout (game) yesterday. I wasn’t making any calls - I was doing scorekeeping. This is good since I’m still learning when to make certain calls and all the hand signals. Also it wasn’t a full game, it was an expo bout as a sort of fundraiser / community service which took off all the pressure of the whole first time thing. It was a lot of fun.
The team is considering putting me in charge of one of the committees already in addition to being a ref, which is a lot like a coach for practices. They want me to head the financial side of things, which would let me sit in on and have a voice in their management meetings. Derby teams are owned and ran by the players and they have to keep a certain percentage of their top people as players (ie women) so having a position that is essentially equal to the vp is a big thing for them since they can only have so many men that are that involved. Refs don’t count as players. It would be the highest I could go up the chain. I’m pretty sure I’ll do it, I just want to make sure I have the time to devote to it before I run (probably unopposed) for the position. |
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| Chimera wire |
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| 12:47pm 06/09/2008 |
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I was looking through my bin-o-wires today looking for a power cord when I cam across a dongle that looked a little odd to me. On one end the wire Y-ed out into two plugs - the first being a yellow video cable for composite video, the other a round power plug that you might plug into a pair of cheap speakers or other relatively small device. The other end of the cable is a ps/2 end. At first I thought it was s-video, but upon trying to plug it in I discovered the true identity. It even has a picture of a mouse on it so you know which ps/2 port to use...
Not only do I not know what this goes to, but I have no clue how it even works. |
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| 10:26pm 07/08/2008 |
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Stolen from Linus...
Answer these questions using only song titles from one artist
( meme ) |
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| Lincvolt |
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| 01:20pm 22/07/2008 |
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It doesn’t feel weird to be on TV, but it feels a little weird coding late at night while watching tv and then randomly having Neil Young appear on The Tonight Show and start talking about the project you are working on at that moment. |
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| Discovery Channel - Robocars |
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| 01:12am 15/07/2008 |
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We are SO the redneck comic relief of the show, complete with our own theme music and everything. It's great! I thought they did a good job of keeping it interesting without going into too much technical detail. I can’t wait to see what they do for the next five episodes. I had a good amount of screen time, but no shots of the mustache yet. I had a beard up until the semifinals, so that should crop up in future episodes - probably around episode 3. |
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