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craft: magazine <3 craft chi

08-Oct-08

the craft: magazine blog put up a post yesterday declaring that they love my wife!  well, they love her blog anyway…  (unless they wanna see a jealous irishman in action, that’d better be all they’re talkin’ about!)
(*ahem*… sorry…) not only that, but she’s been asked to write an article for the next issue of craft: [...]

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craft chi at the bazaar bizarre, maker faire austin 2008!

04-Sep-08

so make:’s… er… craftier cousin, craft: just announced that the vendors for the bazaar bizarre at maker faire austin 2008 have been posted, and craft chi — a.k.a. my lady — is on the list!  (she posted about this earlier.)
so come say hi and buy some awesome stuff.  also, maker faire is just generally cool. [...]

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austin, tx – now with more petaflops and petawatts [update: and cyanobacteria]

16-Apr-08

mmm… my new* home town’s got the new geek hotness.
ut has two new toys.  a half-petaflop super computer named “ranger“, and a petawatt laser named simply “the texas petawatt.”
how fast is a half-petaflop computer?  I have no freaking idea, but it consists of a metric butt-load of linux machines totalling 62,976 processor cores (there are [...]

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austin >= warm

11-May-07

ok, so this post is about 2.5 months behind, but check out the following picture:

now look at the temperature; it reads 89º F. i took this picture on february 26th!!
my point: it gets way too f-ing hot here!
sorry it’s been so long and this is all i post, but i’m swamped here, people. [...]

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