It's been a long week. Everyone (even Alex) is OK. I wanted to thank everyone who's helped out and everyone's who's offered. We have amazing friends.

I got one of them Drink Shields and assembled it today. It uses a Alcohol Gas Sensor MQ-3 to take readings and displays them on a light bar that goes up to 11. No idea how to convert this to BAC but one beer didn't even push one led a few minutes after drinking. The datasheet says it needs a 20 hour burn in before the sensor becomes reliable so we'll have to see.

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It's been 10 years since I first purchased roborooter.com. =)

My new job has me tired but excited. It's got me up at 6am and and working all day long. It's a wonderful feeling.

Of course it doesn't have me posting on my blog during the day either.

I was recently asked for some podcast recomendations. I listen to a bunch of them.

This Week in Tech
http://twit.tv/ (You might also like This week in Google)

Planet Money
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/

All Songs Considered
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/

You can listen on the website or just search on iTunes. There’s also Google’s “Listen” app for the droid that auto downloads podcasts on your droid. Search for it in the market place or scan…

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I went looking for balsa wood planes but Neargaurd pharmacy's toy shop only had Gayla styrofoam and sticker planes. As much as I love the powered balsa wing gliders these are top notch!

I stumbled upon this discussion today where someone brings up the difference between people raised in an "Ask Culture" or a "Guess Culture". I like this thought it explains behavior that cause most roommate fights. I also think that regardless of if a person is an asker or a guesser, people will be in different places in their personality and will be more or less amenable to the two different forms of behavior.

It was written in response to someo…

I was reading this and got inspired to try it out on my own code. This is me (and my laptop who didn't have the user correctly set) working on a project for work here and there for a few weeks.

Le Technicien by Simon Olivier Fecteau

You must be the change you want to see in this world. -(often atteributed to) Gandhi

I found a video worthy of updating my very popular post on the White Stripes song,The Union Forever.

This originally started as an email to some coworkers, but I think people here might find it more interesting.

If you have an amex online account they limit your password to 8 characters and you can only use numbers and letters. That’s not very secure (I could write a program to guess every password in those restraints in a matter of minutes.). So someone complained. (Note: I’ve complained by phone myself and got no response.)

I wish that I coul…

I hate the feeling of being sold.

I've been getting a lot of emails and letters in the mail from my Alumni Association asking for me to update my info. Let me correct that.

I've been getting a lot of emails and letters from a book company that my Alumni Association has sold my information to. If you're a Brooklyn Technical High School alumni you've probably been getting them too. So I called them up, give them my info they so desperately needed.

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I found my original post from two years ago on this subject. I didn't tell the story then, so consider this an update. ;-)

This is an old one, we used ettercap to sniff the wifi at h2k2.

A lot of fun was had in those few days.

A few years later, I found this video and checked the user/pass reading from the video. They worked! I contacted him to change his password. He was shocked about the event, and I was shocked nobody has seen the video and me…