eric’s extremeboredom

Due to intense fog at the launch site, we weren’t able to launch as planned. After a lot of consideration, we decided to do a tethered launch to test everything out. This was a huge success, and proved very valuable. The balloon got to around 250 feet and took lots of pictures. All of our [...]

Over this past week, I’ve been involved in an amazing project to build a weather balloon carrying a bunch of cameras and launch it into the edge of space. We’re just finishing up some last minute details right now, and plan to head out to middle of nowhere eastern washington very soon. We’re going to [...]

Earlier this month I had the great opportunity to become the first person to join the growing team at BillMonk.com! BillMonk is a free service that makes it easy to track expenses between friends, and to settle them up instantly online. Particularly popular with roommates, young professionals, and college students, it has been used for [...]

A photoshop developer named Chris Cox over at Adobe had this to say (Bugmenot Required) about the linux desktop, in response to a user’s request for a linux port: Is the time approaching when Linux has standards for fonts, color management, printing, etc.? What’s all this then? Fonts: Freetype Color Manaegment: OpenIcc Printing: CUPS Is [...]

Tuesday was the official Day Against DRM. I met up with a few people downtown at pike place market and handed out lots of stickers and flyers.

I’m slowing getting all of my stuff moved over to my shiny new server (SuperServer 5015M-MT, 3ghz Pentium D, 2GB RAM). I’ve taken this as an opportunity to finally upgrade to WordPress 2.x and clear out the 2,931 bogus comments that I had sitting in the moderation queue (I had to temporarily increase php’s memory [...]

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You can now get a 3D view of the SeattleWireless network using Google Earth! Assuming you have it installed, just click the link at the bottom of the map. Thank you Google (Keyhole) for providing documentation on how to create feeds.

What kind of crap is this? Fitzgibbons [the defending lawyer] said in July that plea negotiations had broken off because prosecutors insisted on prison time, which he said would be too dangerous for someone as attractive as Lafave. I really hope that didn’t have anything to do with the judge’s desicion… would be a very [...]

I spent a little bit of time today and got my documentation system running again. I also updated it with the very latest GTK# 2.7.1 and Mono 1.1.10 class library documentation. Announcing: http://docs.gotmono.net/ ! Thanks to the AJAX.net library, you will never see the entire page reload, yet the contents tree will always stay in [...]