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I went into the city to pick up the final artistic results of a modeling session I did with PPG a few months ago. The show is going to open in Buenos Aries in August. It’s quite a stunning piece. I’m happy and honored to be a part of it.

I’m buying a used mountain bike for Burning Man through the Want Ad Press. So much for the miracle of eBay. Actually, the problem with eBay here is: 1 – It’s hard to examine the merchandise online. 2 – shipping for a bike is like $50… 1/2 the selling price of the bike!

Caution: This Sign Has Sharp Edges

This sign and more here. Many of the others gave me a big smile too.

My reservation is booked, flying Continental Airlines
(all times local)
CO5653 leaving Newark at 6:05am, Aug 28th for Detroit (DTW)
CO6639 leaving Detroit at 9:00am
arriving Reno 10:32am

CO6510 leaving Reno (RNO) at 12:10pm, Sept 8th for Minneapolis (MSP)
CO5208 leaving Minneapolis at 6:53pm
arriving Newark 10:33pm

See my flying journal

The Burning Man…….. burning. From Steve’s Fotografik Rephlux – Burning Man 2003

Run potential spams through a grammar checker…. like MS Word’s grammar checker. That will surely differentiate the gibberish spammers insert into their emails from legitimate emails that use real sentences. It might be computationally expensive but not THAT expensive…

Cool snippet of the day:

Rail guns require a pulse power system to convert prime electrical power to the instantaneous current pulse necessary for electromechanical launch. The most advanced pulsed power systems use rotating alternating current machines, called pulsed alternators, to supply electromagnetic current pulses to the rails

“I’d like a phased plasma rifle in the forty watt range”

Escape velocity from earth is about 11 km/sec. This doc says 2.5 km/sec is being done right now experimentally and could be in the field, firing on targets 250 miles away. 6 km/sec is doable, not enough to break orbit but still pretty darn cool. To power one of these rail guns and fire it at 6 rounds/minute, you need something like 40-80 megawatts. Just the dissipated kinetic energy of the impact of one of these mach 7 projectiles is enough to….. it’s enough; no explosives needed.

The email I sent Chansonette Connolly on the 22nd bounced. I’m going to send a paper letter shortly…. and start pirating Symantec software as prolifically as I can.

They let me use my username of choice :-)