Dir of Technology at the MIT Museum • Writing about emerging tech's impact on your life • Speculative insights on the intersection of humanity and technology 🤖
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Go read everything here: EFF Then read everything here: EFF-austin If you care about your rights to create and innovate freely, then it is incumbant on you to learn everything you can about the way our government and its deep pocketed lobbyists are assaulting your ability to access the free
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Tonight, my brothers and I are eating doubledave's pizza rolls and watching Lord of the Rings on DVD. Yea.
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Make sure to watch Junkyard Wars on TLC (and it's kid version, Operation Junkyard on NBC Saturday Morning). Teams are given 12 hours to build some crazy contraption out of stuff they find in the junkyard. The one I most recently saw had the teams building death traps.
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I was on the hunt for some robot parts this morning. Much to my chagrin, I've discovered that Radio Shack has lost all touch with its roots. It was like walking into a watered down circuit city with off-brand consumer electronics (an RCA sound system... yeah... no thanks)
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Whoa! Austin scored a coup: Cirque du Soleil is bringing Alegria to Austin Spring 2003! Tour Schedule Austin tends to get passed over in favor of Houston and Dallas (bigger markets, I suppose), so I'm hoping this is going to be a trend! I'll need to
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Yep, that'll do it. Evolution Robot (link via Xeni Jardin via boingboing)
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I spoke on the phone tonight with Mike and I promised I would add an entry tonight. I don't what it is about the past few days that's causing me to neglect my blog. I definitely feel a little worn down. Between my job (once the
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This is by no means a comprehensive list and it especially leaves out performances like Battlebots which are a whole lot more about sports and gladiator entertainment rather than theatre. And do a google search for "animitronics" for other robot performances and robot puppets, of course. Omnicircus -
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So behind… so little time… even less energy…
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Just for kicks, here are the search queries people have used when stumbling across my site. (ex. they typed "www.christopherlowell.com" in google and got my site as a response) What's sad is that I can give an explanation for each of them. 1. www.
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I've set up the corner of the workshop with the easel and workbench. I applied gesso to a raw canvas. I have to wait 24 hours for the white goo to dry and then I'll have to see if I should sand it and apply another
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I woke up in utter, physical pain this morning. This weekend/upcoming week’s project is to get my workshop/studio set up in the garage. Before yesterday, my part of the three-car garage was filled with junk and boxes, tools, and about 200 extra bricks from the builders.I