A Million Useless Thoughts

Sometimes the world makes you feel helpless. You think you can change the world and the harder you push the more it pushes back. Sometimes it moves a little, sometimes the little bits add up and you find you CAN move mountains. You just have to keep your attitude high as that IS the thing you can change. No matter bad things look just keep the attitude up and things will begin to get better, slowly, but surely. Heads up, stay positive, we're all in this together!

As always life is preserves some sick twisted sense of balance. About two weeks ago an old knee injury showed and caused me to have to zombie walk up and down stairs. Spoke with cousin Emily, a P.T., and she recommended some exercises to help out with the knee. This somehow has started cascading into a full workout for the whole body. Well that leads back to the "the one pack" as being a play on "the six pack", representing my current state of not quite being in top form. We are going to continue to push this exercising and add 5 to the 1 pack.

Just an odd thought on life itself, and how basically all life tries to create more life. Because of this life changes and adapts how it creates life. Starting first from cooperation of amino acids to create cells, cells dividing sharing dna, then sex for a new form of reproduction. All levels simply trying to survive and produce more life. Well, what I can foresee is a rather radical next jump the forms of life. What if, as great as humanity is, we were never meant to mingle among the stars. That instead we are to create that next form of life that will populate the stars. Imagine if you will large ships with automated controls and vast stores of genetic seeds. The ships are designed to run using nuclear fusion, feed on hydrogen and stars using the fused material to repair any damage they have sustained while they wander the stars. "Living" for millions of years, like days to them, traveling to find more planets to populate with life forms that will convert the raw ...

A while back I was attempting, with my friend Jason, to make a working robot, with tracks. One day I got ambitious and got one whole side finished, mounted, and ready to go. Then powered it on to a glorious first run of about 20 seconds before the rivets busted the wood used for the tracks and the whole shredded to stop. Disappointed I moved on to other projects for a bit. I came back to an older idea of just using wheels and a caster, a simpler idea but proven and sound. Now, I have completed the first step and just maybe the whole thing is starting to take shape again. Now we can being again to get something up and running, the first of the robot army.

My wife does Improv, and was playing a location that did not have stage lights. Mostly they have disco lights and a good sounds system. Basically just a club. So I was tasked with creating a portable light system that we could go in and setup quickly. Oh yeah, it had to be cheap and done in under 24 hours. To the hardware store! First thing I think of is work lights, well because had a pair, but they did not provide quite the right light. Fortunately, Jen come up the correct type of mountable flood lighting and a couple of lamps with adjustable light positions. Excellent, things are going well, now all that we need is a light board. With the current setup everything was AC, not the 12VDC used by most lighting systems. Good thing they make light dimmers, with a quick calculation determine that with one AC outlet we can use up to 3 dimmers with 600 max watt loads each before blowing a typical circuit ( 120 V x 15 A = 1800 Watts ). We grab 3 outlets to go with the dimmers, allow...