Protocol 7

I think we can all agree that magnetic coupling is pretty cool. But in popular culture, when you say ‘transformer’, people automatically think of robots that turn into cars or dinosaurs and battle each other for control of the universe (which is also pretty cool). In an effort to bring the other kind of transformer some pop-culture recognition I drafted up a t-shirt and submitted it to threadless but it was, not surprisingly, rejected. I’ll probably silkscreen this by hand, unless more people might be interested in the shirt. Here is the current concept:

Along the same lines, I think bunnyhero should put his Snakes On A… design on a t-shirt as well.

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Andy is our resident batcow who also doubles as small demon in our tabletop Vampire sessions (he even has his own stat sheet). I first stumbled across Andy sitting on a table in an innocuous homegoods store in downtown Hamamatsu. The moment I saw him I knew he was coming home with me, that cute little belly and expressive little face were just irresistible. He generally wanders around the house being cute, enjoys movies, and sometimes goes a little ballistic if chocolate is around. Oh, and he likes margaritas.

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A little over a month ago I made a quickie-post on my Free Speech blog that made brief mention of a wiki for direct action, and a torrent site curated specifically for the activist crowd. In this post I’d like to flesh out those ideas more in as non-technical a way as possible. Where specific technologies are involved, I’ll do my best to offer an explanation of why the technology is important to the fundamental ideas of what I’m brainstorming. I’d like to emphasize that I’m at the brainstorming stage, so you might run into some half-baked (or not baked at all) ideas, inconsistencies and the like, so please don’t flame me if x doesn’t exactly make sense in light of y. Without further ado, let’s delve into the world of wikis, torrents, and useful content.

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Now that I have Debian unstable running beautifully on my g3 laptop I figured it was time to resuscitate the ipod. A couple months back the battery just stopped holding any kind of sloppy charge, rendering the device rather useless. I bought azarashi (the name of my ipod, and will be referred to as such henceforth unless otherwise specified) used about a year and a half ago - it is of the older generation of ipods that exist sans cradle, but not of the first generation (it has a touchpad instead of a rotating dial).

Sending azarashi back to apple for repairs and spending more than I care to was not an option (is it ever?), so I ordered a battery replacement from ipod battery. It arrived this afternoon and I happily bounced home, ready to have azarashi part of my life again.

Certain steps were *not* as easy as various websites claim them to be. This might be because azarashi was a different model than the ones used in the instructions. Or maybe because I’m a weakling. The biggest problem I had was wedging the fucking case open. Not an easy task, and I inflicted a small amount of scratches on the case trying to unhook the case clips.

The second hinderance I encounted was separating the back casing of the ipod from the “meat”. The headphone jack presents a slight difficulty in sliding the thing out, but nothing compared to opening the case.

Other than that, the process went smoothly, and I’m anxiously charging azarashi to see if the new battery will hold a proper charge.

*** linux for the ipod, of course