"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

San Pedro Garza Garcia

Day: September 14, 2009

World’s oldest person dies

World’s oldest person dies in Los Angeles at 115.  File under “The title is cursed”.

Internet accessible cat provocation tools

This week, Christian and I are going to start programming our new little robotic controller.  Our buddy, Jeff, is way ahead of us on that.  He needs a way to control some stuff from the internet and it is our job to figure out how to do that.  So, Christian brought up the idea of programming a cat tower web cam.  Christian checked it out and it seems like cat tower web cams are a dime a dozen.  They are not that exciting as most of the time all you see is an empty tower or an image of  a sleeping cat.  Christian’s idea was to make a cat poker–a stick hooked up to a solenoid or a motor or something to poke the cat when somebody clicks a button on our web page.  That way, you could at least see a little bit of movement.  Well, after Dad nixed that idea, we decided we need to do something else like put the camera on a motor to change the view, or feed the cat a morsel, or move a laser pointer around for the cat to try to get, or something like that.  We are working on that idea right now.  We will keep you posted.

Yesterday afternoon we went to Troy’s and Youngin’s house for dinner after Sunday morning meeting.  Beside the fact that we ate fabulous Korean food complete with Kimchee, we got the chance to marvel at their new kitchen.  The pictures do not do it justice.  The thing that amazed us most was how much bigger the kitchen feels.  We did not realize that the whole process, from start to end, including the week or two wait for the granite to be installed, only took six weeks or so.  Congratulations!

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