getting lost in that hopeless little screen

A hacker project feed I watch posted about a beautiful steam-powered vibrator today. The comments are largely split between ugly misogyny, complaints about NSFW content, and arguments over rather or not it counts as steampunk.

Like Leonard Cohen's America, the internet really is the cradle of the best and of the worst. Maybe that's how all amazing things have to be? I just don't know somtimes.

In nicer news, I bought a bunch of electronics components today for a new, very silly project. Hopefully I'll have some pics tomorrow of the prototype circuit, if I can get it working.

Jedi Day

May the Fourth be with you!

I get the stupidest grin whenever I say that. And I've been saying it a lot today.

Also, watching a room filled with AI profs and grads discuss the Single Transferable Vote referendum here in BC was much fun. Encouragingly, they were almost unanimously in favor of it, they just had a lot of interesting implications and boundary conditions to pick apart. I don't think anyone with BC voting privileges who reads this journal isn't already a supporter, but in case I'm missing someone, please let me proselytize at you in person! It's killing me that I can't vote for it myself.