TITLE: the fire pit is back at teh nerdery AUTHOR: david DATE: 3/11/2007 03:08:00 PM ----- BODY: And you know what that means. More of Beau jumping over the fire pit! Not only that, but it's the nerdery, so we have pictures, and videos from 2 angles... take a look: beau vs fire pit Don't tell the landlord! *EDIT* Here's Arlen's photoset on flickr *EDIT 2* In which Beau finds out he's on fire:

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BLOGGERID: 3431595549301905087 -------- TITLE: A Picture Share! AUTHOR: david DATE: 2/28/2007 05:47:00 PM ----- BODY: Ouch.

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BLOGGERID: 148158758420640371 -------- TITLE: nerdery + jeopardy = nerdardy? AUTHOR: david DATE: 2/15/2007 11:01:00 PM ----- BODY: Nearly 2 weeks ago, Nerdery honorary guest Mandy debuted the Nerdery version of the popular syndicated game show, Jeopardy. It consisted of a powerpoint presentation hooked up to a LCD TV with contestants yelling out when they wanted to answer a question. The following week brought another game with a similar buzz-in system. But those days are over. Introducing... The Nerdardy Buzzer System 0.9b! It consists of a few bucks of radio shack parts thrown together with a Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller linked via cat5 to home-made buttons housed in PVC pipe. Ghetto? Yes. Hacked? Yes. Utterly useless outside of this house? Probably. Completely awesome? Definitely. I will post code, written in PBASIC of course, as it is finalized and debugged during live gameplay tomorrow. Read on for pics. The plug-in panel at the top of the unit for buttons Wires! Note the 4 LEDs on the front to see who buzzed in first, as well as the BS2 microcontroller that provides what little brains this device has. Aren't serial ports on the side of homebrew projects just cool? I think so. It also doubles as a working computer interface for easy re-programming. One of the hacked-together buttons. Radio Shack SPST button: $.99; 4" PVC pipe: $.55; PVC Cap: $.21; Kicking your roommates ass at Jeopardy: Priceless :) As you might guess, this is still a WIP, but it should see it's first real usage tomorrow. Maybe I'll take a video and youtube it or something. Oh, to live at the nerdery. Our forum passed 1500 posts today. It was started on December 19th. Oh, the nerdery is more than just a house, it's a way of life. With lots of beer.

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BLOGGERID: 4627889810378930774 -------- TITLE: A Picture Share! AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/14/2007 02:08:00 PM ----- BODY: Wtf? They caught it!

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BLOGGERID: 6910147473840641805 -------- TITLE: midnight friend AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/04/2007 12:27:00 AM ----- BODY: I have this extraordinary sense of knowing when there's someone in my house when I'm alone... just ask Jack about the time he broke in and I caught him in the act ;) So I'm home alone tonight (save Arlen, who went to bed hours ago), it's just after midnight. I hear a sound from the kitchen. I'm not usually too worried about mystery sounds and their origins, especially in this old piece-of-shit house I live in currently, but this sound was different. This sounded more like someone going through some plastic bags, but very quietly as if not to get caught. I grabbed my flashlight, but my roommates stole the batteries from it to put in the Wii controllers. Can't say I blame 'em. I walked out in to the kitchen, lit only by a single red party bulb in the entryway. I hear the noise continue from behind the peninsula (think island, only attached to the wall) and out of my sight. Armed only with my boxer shorts and a kitchen knife, I sneak around the corner to find... ...absolutely nothing. That is, until I looked under the table where I was met with some black beady eyes. mouse Damned little critter scared the shit out of me! Anyway, I chased him around the kitchen for a while until he fled into the darkness of... well, into the darkness. Roommates, if you're reading this, I made a valiant effort to capture him and take him outside, but I failed miserably. I'm sorry if you wake up to something gnawing on your computer cables :( That was my idea of a good time at 12:30 when I have to be at work at 8am tomorrow :( I don't know if I'll even sleep tonight, my nerves are so wound up!

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BLOGGERID: 1706501707326243411 -------- TITLE: New Year, First post! (Score:-1, Troll) AUTHOR: david DATE: 1/01/2007 05:05:00 PM ----- BODY: Sorry for the slashdot joke, but I figured it was appropriate. At the nerdery, we rung in the new year with style! We had a classy party with all the usuals who hadn't skipped town for the holidays; I'm sure the pictures will surface on the internet shortly :) It's still a small world I guess, because Jay (see previous post) was in town and stopped by with a few people including Jeff Shoffner and Eric Williams. What a weird mix of seeing old friends it has been lately! Happy New Year Everybody! ***EDIT*** from Router Dave's Gallery from Lauren Chang's Album

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BLOGGERID: 9196257803645904192 -------- TITLE: wii-tacular? AUTHOR: david DATE: 11/19/2006 10:00:00 PM ----- BODY: My roommate spent the night at Toys-R-Us a couple weeks ago to get one of ten pre-orders for the Wii. Well, this morning he cashed in on his wait and picked it up. I've been out all day, but I've finally gotten back to be able to play on it a bit. From what I see, it's pretty slick. The controllers are a bit awkward at first, just like everyone else says, but quite simple to use and get used to after a few games of tennis. Here's a cameraphone-snapshot of Lauren playing on it: wii! It has a little SD card slot in it which we used to watch a wii-generated slideshow of our party last night set to Beck's "Hell Yes"; it was pretty cool. I think the worst part about him getting a wii (other than, of course, it's not a ps3) are all the Wii-words. Wii have been going on all Wiikend with these wiitarded jokes - it's getting wiidiculous around here. Honestwii, I'm going crazy just knowing the game industwii has embraced a product with such a siwwi name. Anyway, I'm historwii. ***EDIT*** I just found out Arlen named it "teh nerderwii". Will the madness ever wiiduce?

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