all posts on November 9th, 2004


They deserve it!

So we’ve had this problem at USC with people getting mugged on and around campus. It’s not a recent problem, it’s a known side effect of where we reside. USC has enlarged DPS, had security bulletins, etc., to try to resolve this problem. But I realized this morning, they’ve overlooked one large cause: stupid fucking […]

Da Vinci strikes again

I don’t want this to be a “slashdot-of-the-day” blog, but this story just really caught my eye: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.11/davinci.html?tw=wn_tophead_8 “Leonardo’s automobile,” a three-wheeled cart that has never been able to be recreated, it turns out, is actually a robot with programmable instructions! For those of you keeping up with Da Vinci, this isn’t as far fetched […]