tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36403294460538996092024-02-19T02:17:00.951-04:00On Everything and NothingBecause that was the most general title we could come up withAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06560207325078554227noreply@blogger.comBlogger169125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-43061046840567286762014-06-05T15:08:00.002-03:002014-06-05T15:08:38.378-03:00Reset The Net<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-6355578313515385222014-02-14T01:57:00.000-04:002014-02-14T02:05:42.751-04:00An Open Letter to Justin Trudeau<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Dear Mr. Trudeau,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Stop Waffling. I attended my first political meeting the other day to see you speak. Your speech was good, I was genuinely inspired. I respected what you had to say about Internet privacy, and your stance on the charter of rights. But then someone asked you about your seemingly conflicting stances on the tar sands and positive environmental action. I wanted to crawl in a hole and die. I recognise that it's in the politicians job description to fill air with buzz words when asked something you don't have an answer for. As an environmentalist who's come to terms with the tar sands, *I* could have come up with a better response to those questions. Saying "I don't have a good answer, but I'm committed to finding one" is far better answer than speaking gibberish for 3 minutes. But that's what politicians have to do right? Well, that leads me to my next point.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I felt initially, that you were bringing something new to the table. A new wave of politics free of the jargon and usual camera-to-face small talk that sounds good but says nothing. I thought you'd discovered a new kind of politics where every fifth sentence Wasn't a jab at the opposition. During your speech about inclusion I thought this meant that you were going to try and work with the conservatives you're inevitably going to have to work with. So why disrespect them at every opportunity? I know they have bad policies and have underperformed, guess what? We all know that! But that's why I didn't vote for them! It's not a reason to make jabs so that people cheer. It's a waste. A waste of good 'ol Canadian friendliness, a waste of energy, and a waste of every one's time. Yeah the conservatives made fun of you, turn the other devilishly handsome cheek! You can take a hit, so let them jab and you can be the bigger man!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I thought you were a new kind of politician, that maybe, magically your youth had come with unshakable idealism. I'm disappointed. Be honest, we don't mind if you don't have all the answers. Don't fault others who are in a different position from you, it hurts everyone and makes you look worse than them. Don't make them enemies even if they declare themselves as such. Keep the moral high ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I'm watching your twitter feed, I'm following the news. My vote, the vote's of my friends, fellow students, and the votes of my community depend on your attitude. It's a simple thing.<span style="color: #888888;"><br /></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-89705776506597312882013-11-09T03:09:00.000-04:002013-11-09T03:09:03.695-04:00Autonomous Learning, a Prezintation, in which student's produce something unusual<br />
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Let's talk about learning resources. We're in the 2013, and if there is something you want to learn, and you have even the most thin connection to the Internet, you have no excuse not to be learning. I'll get back to this point. For starters, here is a a presentation put together with the online software <a href="http://prezi.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prezi</a>:<br />
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Things to know about this presentation, while this is an effective presentation, the accompanying notes are largely digested information from the scholarly articles listed on the "That's All Folks!" Circle. Pictures have links to their origins at the bottom of the circle. Except for the brains, those are MRI scans of my brain as interpreted through the open source brain imaging software <a href="http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/community/sites/" target="_blank">Afni</a>.</div>
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<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Khan Academy</a> is good for almost all intro level courses, many higher level courses, and even for experts, offers good review and practice in the form of sample problems in fields ranging from maths to history and more. </div>
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<a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Investopedia</a> succinctly and expertly explains even the most complex economic concepts with the use of simple and captivating visual aids. While mostly for business students, there are very few people in the world who wouldn't benefit from knowing a few money related concepts.</div>
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<a href="https://www.beeminder.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beeminder</a>. HOLY CRAP. THERE ARE NO WORDS. Have you ever had a problem motivating yourself to exercise? Do your homework? Perhaps you do them but you don't make progress on the time scale you want. Use Beeminder. Not convinced? Watch the video on thier web site for a better sumary and sales pitch.</div>
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<a href="https://www.coursera.org/" target="_blank">Coursera</a>. I can either spend 3 days listing for you all the universities that publish their professional grade learning material, like MIT open course-ware, or Stanford's competing project... Or I can point you to Coursera. The place where all they do is compile that in a simple to search database. Now go learn yourselves some biochemistry.</div>
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<a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stumble-upon</a> is usually viewed as a waste of time, and honestly it's usually used for that. What people generally don't think about, is that it has a search engine format. Think about it. Hundreds of thousands of people, day in day out, crawling across the entire Internet separating the chaff from the wheat. At worst, you'll be entertained, at best, you'll find academic level material that is fascinating and useful. </div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>. Normally I'd say "DUH", but most people don't use wikipedia to it's maximum potential, even when they think they are. Don't be a tourist, go behind the curtain and have a look what's really going on, read the discussion page every article has one, and if it doesn't, <b>you</b> need to start it. </div>
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While "<a href="http://unplugthetv.com/" target="_blank">Instead of TV</a>" isn't exactly going to help you in a specific course, stimulating learning in different fields is always a good idea. You can't know too much and learning in one field helps in every other field.</div>
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-Help the world and get smarter with <a href="http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1550" target="_blank">Free Rice</a>.</div>
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-Want to harness the worlds strongest, smartest collective intelligence for personal learning? Well... if you insist. <a href="http://ureddit.com/" target="_blank">UREDDIT</a>.</div>
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-"Remember that website?", "where did I see that?", "I read it online back when I was a teenager..." sound like a problem you're having? Don't worry. The internet never actually deletes ANYTHING EVER. Find that thing with this thing: <a href="http://archive.org/web/" target="_blank">The Way Back Machine</a></div>
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Here's a traffic light I built during the summer. Here's the code for it on <a href="https://github.com/tahnok/Statbox">github</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06560207325078554227noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-15195245507291161642012-08-10T14:30:00.000-03:002012-08-10T14:30:11.786-03:00Screen rotation for Ubuntu on the MK802 (Allwinner A10)<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At work, we bought an <a href="http://www.aliexpress.com/product-fm/563764893-New-arrival-Rikomagic-MK802II-Mini-PC-Mini-Android4-0-dongle-android-IPTV-google-tv-smart-android-wholesalers.html">MK802</a> which is this 70$ ARM device that runs Android or Linux. It includes wifi, hdmi out, and a few usb ports which is pretty crazy! </span><br />
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I'm a big fan of the <a href="http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/" target="_blank">Pomodoro</a> technique for getting shit done. The idea is simple: work for 25 minutes then take a 5 minute break. After four 25 minute blocks, take a longer break. Pretty simple right? You can start using it with just a simple timer... OR you could use an app! My two favourites are <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.artifix.pomodroido.free&hl=en" target="_blank">pomodroido</a>, which adds an achievement system and <a href="http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato/" target="_blank">CherryTomato</a>, which asks you to rate your pomodoros when they are completed.</div>
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The batman follows the MVC architecture, so to get started we need a model, a controller and a view. I started off using batman's built in generator, but it created a much to complicated layout for me so I took out all the un-important bits. <a href="http://todomvc.com/labs/architecture-examples/batman/index.html">Alfred</a> was what I based my design off of as the source is <a href="https://github.com/Shopify/batman/tree/master/examples/alfred">on github</a>. After much rm'ing I was left with:</div>
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Pomobat.coffee app contains the code to initialize a batman app, the controller and the model. The view is defined WITHIN the HTML (which took me a while to figure out). You need to enclose EVERYTHING within a view div (<div data-defineview="pomodoros/all" >) otherwise none of the batman magic will happen.<br />
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Most of the view stuff is done through bindings, which are pretty damn fantastic. I have a pretty simple model, so most of the code I've written goes into my controller. It's pretty ugly at present, but it works.</div>
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I'm no designer so I went with the amazingly pretty and easy to use <a href="http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/">Bootstrap</a> framework. It means my app looks a lot like twitter, but I think it's rather pretty.</div>
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Deploying my app to heroku was somewhat of a challenge. For those of you who don't know, Heroku is a service that will host web apps for you and it's as simple as pushing to a remote git repo! It's very much worth checking out. I needed to get batman serving the right stuff. I tried making local copies of all the batman files, but that meant I had to compile the coffeescript manually. It took me a while, but eventually I got my Procfile (used by heroku to determine what to run) to do what I wanted with the following:<br />
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This is release v0.0.1 because it's still missing quite a few features. I haven't implemented the rating system yet and there are no long breaks, but you do get to see how many pomodoros you've finished! Expect another couple of releases soon as I add the features I want. Please, follow my progress on github! <a href="https://github.com/tahnok/Pomobat">https://github.com/tahnok/Pomobat</a> or even better, submit a pull request!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06560207325078554227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-24940819429090953512012-06-28T21:21:00.000-03:002012-08-02T14:37:08.243-03:00On BitCoins, and The Value of a CPU CycleA Primer on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo" target="_blank">BitCoins</a> first. Bitcoins are a relatively new form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money" target="_blank">Fiat Currency</a>. As you may know Fiat currency provides us with a medium such as paper, with a value, decided by group consensus. Since our currency is (mostly) hard to counterfeit, the incentive to do so is low, and the currency is thus made and controlled by the state. Bit coins on the other hand can be produced by anyone, however the incentive to make bit-coins is still low, because it's still quite difficult. What is a bitcoin? A very unique, specific and complex number. How is it produced? An equally complex mathematical process that I can't even pretend to understand yet. Can I profit from it? Well, in the broad sense of "this may be good for society", then yes, and if I were to put some investment into number-crunching hardware to make bitcoins, maybe even for myself.<br />
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Bitcoin controversy: Ladies and gentleman, this is the Perfect way to launder money. It could be used by criminal organizations to great advantage. But you know what? I believe this is outweighed by the possibility that it will come in handy to fight oppression, from banks, and from governments.<br />
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People are currently making money off this currency by being clever, as it should be. Some however are being profitable by ripping off those who may not have looked into bit coins sufficiently. For instance <a href="http://www.bitcoinplus.com/generate?for=15042847" target="_blank">BitCoin Plus</a>. It has it's legitimate uses: if your CPU cycles are free (you've hooked free internet and electricity) you can make bit-coins with close to 0 effort (and a LOT of time). Most people however don't do the math, and it's unfortunate. Calling this evil however would be hypocritical, because check this out; there is a script on this page allowing You to do BitCoin calculations for me!<br />
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<b>THE SCRIPT IS BETWEEN HERE</b><br />
<b>Update! The script is no longer here because bitcoinplus has been added to googles malware sites list. I guess the idea of secretly using someone else's computer to mine coins is bad for them to warrant it.</b><br />
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<b>AND HERE.</b><br />
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Honestly, I'd rather be doing this for a cause like <a href="http://folding.stanford.edu/">Folding@Home</a>, or any of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects">these</a>. It's distributed computing for stuff like analyzing telescope data, curing cancer and such... so science. Sadly I'm not Yet aware of any that I can embed in this web-site. Let me know if you find any.<br />
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-<i>The Baron & Tahnok</i><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-58696898316076572972012-06-27T11:51:00.003-03:002012-06-27T11:53:17.784-03:00On the Greatest Game of Risk Ever PlayedFun story about last Friday: my mate and I decide that we absolutely needed a copy of Lord of the Rings risk. 2 hours, 6 game stores and a failed quest later, still no <a href="http://www.gamersalliance.com/Spring2003/RiskLOTRb.jpg">LOTR Risk</a>. We give up. Not ten minutes later, one of our leads (a <a href="http://www.kijiji.ca/">kijiji</a> ad for LOTR collectibles) emails us back, and can deliver it before 21h00.<br />
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So we play and it's fun.... a few days later we have a few friends over and the idea hits us for an epic game of Risk. Having access to the "classic" risk game, and not being able to decide between the classic or LOTR, we combine them. Two boards. 5 armies. 1 winner.<br />
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We connected the games via 4 portals represented by unused "leader tokens" from the LOTR addition. One was between the forests of Fangorn Forrest, connecting to Ireland, in Great Britan. We connected eastern Australia to it's equivalent tactical stronghold in middle earth. We connected Florida (representing the Bermuda triangle) to the Grey Havens, the elvish port to the undying lands (apartently Bermuda). Mongolia had a portal to the Mines of Moria. Territory cards were interchangeable from each of the games and rather then rolling with 3 attack dice and 2 defense dice, we used all 6 attack dice and all 4 defense dice. Lols ensued.<br />
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-Tahnok & The BaronAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-61693361076101044592012-06-20T21:34:00.000-03:002012-06-20T21:34:32.776-03:00On Hedgehogs, Arduinos, and Projects from the future<b id="internal-source-marker_0.10909303254447877" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So today I loaded my first program onto an Arduino! I have been meaning to play with microcontrollers for a while now but I never got around to it because I never knew what I kind of project I would do. Last week that changed when my new pet arrived. Meet Sonic</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><object height="300" width="400"> <param name="flashvars" value="offsite=true&lang=en-us&page_show_url=%2Fphotos%2F25025297%40N07%2Fsets%2F72157630163905008%2Fshow%2F&page_show_back_url=%2Fphotos%2F25025297%40N07%2Fsets%2F72157630163905008%2F&set_id=72157630163905008&jump_to=">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It cost me about 130$ including shipping and taxes and stuff from <a href="http://www.robotshop.com/">robotshop.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">My first project was to make an LED blink. From what I can gather LED blinking is to </span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">micro-controllers</span><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> as “Hello World” is to computer programming. Setting up the arduino editor/compiler/manager tool is stupidly simple and I’ve done it on all 3 operating systems. Linux was easiest, Windows required me to install a driver and Mac OS X didn’t seem to want to guess device to use. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10174"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">blink tutorial</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was stupendously simple. Here is the code:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can also use an LED. I was a little hesitant to plug an LED directly to the board because this tutorial claimed I needed a 220 ohm resistor, another said 330 ohm and a final place didn’t even mention resistors! I decided to just plug it in and... it didn’t explode! Huzzah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">(this is the bottom of a bread board, with the back cover plastic shaved off)</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span>After the HEMS? Who knows. But the following is a l<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ist of the Baron's projects, or at least, the ones that could make use of an arduino:</span><br />
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<p>Givewell is a great critical view on donations. And I agree with the last point of the article <br>
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This is a go board on a towel, written in fabric marker for larger pieces 2.4cm or less. Given some creativity you can find game pieces pretty much anywhere, be they coins, or stones of different types or colours or with sharpie markings to distinguish them.</div>
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I've been known for the use of towels for just about everything: bedding, a martial arts weapon, a climbing aid, clothing, bandages, packing material, the list goes on and on forever. Know where your towel is, at all times.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-4525097251444081662012-01-12T17:36:00.000-04:002012-01-12T17:36:43.308-04:00<p>So up until recently I had been using <a href="http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/new-moinmoin-latex">MoinMoin Latex</a> to render my math formulae but it didn't run very well on <a href="tahnok.me">tahnok.me</a> and it was dependent on a really old version of tetex or texlive that I don't quite recall how I got working...</p>
<p>Now I have (MathJax)[http://www.mathjax.org/] working! It kinda eats my browser for a little while because pages like <a href="http://tahnok.me/Math240">Math240</a> have more formula than is strictly reasonable but oh well.</p>
<p>Here's how I got it running!</p>
<h2>Method 1: Using the MathJax CDN</h2>
<p>This is the easiest way but it requires a request to an external server.</p>
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Open up <code>wikiconfig.py</code> or whatever your config file is called and add:</p>
<p><code>html_head = u"""
<br> <script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
<br> MathJax.Hub.Config({
<br> extensions: ["tex2jax.js"],
<br> jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
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<p><b>Step 2</b></p>
<p>Restart moinmoin and enjoy!</p>
<h2>Method 2: Local installation of MathJax</h2>
<p>I had to use this method for my local install of moinmoin and I don't always have laptop but I still want to see equations.</p>
<p><b>Step 1</b></p>
<p>Open a terminal to your <code>htdocs/common</code> folder. For me it was in <code><b><i>wikidir</i></b>/MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs/common</code></p>
<p>Then I ran <code>git clone git://github.com/mathjax/MathJax.git MathJax</code></p>
<p><b>Step 2</b></p>
<p>Add the following to your <code>wikiconfig.py</code> file:</p>
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html_head = u"""<script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
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<br> extensions: ["tex2jax.js"],
<br> jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"],
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<p>Restart moinmoin and enjoy!</p>
<h2>Using MathJax</h2>
<p>The current config treats anything between a pair of $'s as an inline formula and a pair of $$' as a formula to display centered in the page. So to get </p>
<p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/YoPBj.png" alt="Beautiful beautiful latex" title="Beatiful Latex" /></p>
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<code>$\sum_{v \in V} \deg (v)= 2 e \leq 2(3n-6) \leq 6n -12$</code></p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06560207325078554227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-66441199689743802222012-01-09T15:55:00.000-04:002012-01-09T15:55:51.517-04:00On Go, and ongoingGo is an ancient oriental board game. I recommend everyone should <a href="http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/learning_go/learning_go_1.html" target="_blank">learn how to play </a>because it's amazing. I decided to make the vcr/dvd player on my floor multipurpose, and put a go board on top<br />
Materials to make a go board: 1. Flat surface 2. Sharpie 3. Ruler<br />
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Part of the Christmas loot I received was a dremel head set. I hadn't used it yet so I thought "wouldn't it be awesome if all the lines were slightly engraved? 3/38 lines and 20 minutes later I decided that my dremel wasn't ideal. But at least 3 of the lines are engraved!<br />
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If You have a short attention span, stop reading here, the rest is fluff.<br />
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Reasons you should learn to play go:<br />
-it's relaxing<br />
-it builds your mental faculties<br />
-in feudal japan, any samurai worth his steel was trained to play go like a master<br />
-kung fu movies start making slightly more sense<br />
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-<i>The Baron</i><br />
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Things you need:<br />
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<li>A computer running windows</li>
<li>The Samsung <a href="http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/mobilesoftwaremanual/mobilesoftwaremanual.do?page=MOBILE.SOFTWARE.MANUAL">Kies</a> <s>software</s> bloatware purely for the USB drivers</li>
<li>A copy of the latest <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=803682">SuperOneClick</a> rooting program, which is currently at v2.3.1</li>
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<strong>Step 1</strong><br />
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Download <a href="http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=UNI_CA&CDCttType=SW&ModelType=N&ModelName=FM_UPDATE&idyn=N&VPath=SW/201105/20110512115717796/Kies_2.1.0.11112_41_7.exe">Kies</a> and install it on your machine.<br />
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Download <a href="http://www.multiupload.com/VGCN3ZTFM8">SuperOneClick</a> and launch the program.<br />
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Plug in your phone and wait for the drivers to finish installing<br />
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Click the button labeled "Root" in the SuperOneClick app.<br />
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Wait! When I ran it, the program seemed to freeze, but this is normal and should be ignored.<br />
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Enjoy some root-y goodness!<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06560207325078554227noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-76653200796534247112011-12-03T10:24:00.001-04:002011-12-03T11:00:38.460-04:00On Creating a Voltaic CellBaron here. Shame. That's what I feel about how poorly this particular experiment went. The goal was to make a voltaic cell that didn't suck. I failed. Twice actually. The first time I used pop cans. I figured "oh, well these things are made of tin right? *<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverage_can" target="_blank">first mistake</a>* I'll just polish them with steel wool *<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_wool" target="_blank">second mistake</a>* then use nails as the other electrode *<a href="http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-galvanized-nails.htm" target="_blank">third mistake</a>*. I guess I should go to the kitchen to try and mix up the most acidic solution I can *<a href="http://www.pickyourown.org/food_acidity_ph_list.htm" target="_blank">fourth mistake</a>*.<br />
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It turns out pop cans, as you<br />
probably know, are usually a<br />
steel-aluminum alloy <i>coated</i> in<br />
tin. Not surprisingly, not only<br />
did the steel wool rub off this<br />
tin, it introduced two new<br />
types of electrodes (Fe & Al).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This abomination is onion and balsamic vinegar, blended. It smells worse then it looks, and it looks worse then troll blood.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thought it would be a good idea to grind the rust off the nails first. turns out that was a waste of time too.</td></tr>
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0.11 volts Max. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8Te9fcZ-kGf3E-91b9Al_icSrK_dmEeWaqLY8ef-ggCMgzopBfNZBCPnbf0Vs2BrogLpShZ2yYH1U-vBETiucFaszVJOxScpbszEZIr3YqQdpIWZDvw9Z_76eZTRJkmQ9VsqmMnYI_4/s1600/2011-11-30_19-27-27_219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_8Te9fcZ-kGf3E-91b9Al_icSrK_dmEeWaqLY8ef-ggCMgzopBfNZBCPnbf0Vs2BrogLpShZ2yYH1U-vBETiucFaszVJOxScpbszEZIr3YqQdpIWZDvw9Z_76eZTRJkmQ9VsqmMnYI_4/s320/2011-11-30_19-27-27_219.jpg" width="239" /></a><br />
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Later that evening, feeling mildly pleased with myself for actually getting a voltage I though, "lets see what voltage a "spit cell" (a spit soaked wad of paper between two different coins) makes. That's when I felt depressed about my wasted hour, because then I made a voltage of 0.28 in about 20 seconds. This is what I made the next day:<br />
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It's 3 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaic_pile" target="_blank">voltaic piles</a>, same idea as a spit cell except multiplied a couple times over. This one also took me about an hour, and again I felt depressed that I'd wasted a lot of time because this puppy cranked only 0.5 volts at maximum. In hind sight, I've learned a lot. And gained a new appreciation for the batteries re-charging on my wall, powering my phone, laptop, electric shaver, wireless headphones, car starter, remotes... it's impressive.<br />
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<i><br /></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-43948918009300196052011-11-29T01:24:00.001-04:002011-11-29T01:41:50.577-04:00On An Disappearance (mine)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You may have noticed that I haven't stuck to my "post-a-day" plan at all. Reasons are multi-fold. To start with, I have been letting my <a href="http://tahnok.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-dresden-codak-laptop-mod.html">last post</a> soak up some publicity before I post something that will hit readers first. Second, I've been very productive in my own little world: I <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Overclock-a-PC">overclocked</a> a computer for the first time, I set up another ssh server in an <a href="http://crunchbanglinux.org/">operating system other</a> then <a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/">ubuntu</a>, I've started another <a href="http://tahnok.blogspot.com/2011/03/qr-codes.html">QR code marketing campaign</a>. That being said, there are 2 more days left of this month and that's approximately the amount of original content I can provide from the stock pile of experience from the past week and a half. In other words, I'll write a post tomorrow documenting some things that make me stranger then your average bear, plus one more <a href="http://tahnok.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-new-weekly-e-contest.html">Friday Free stuff</a> question ( by the way people, come on, there is hilarity and free stuff you can sell on ebay just waiting to be sent to you!).<br />
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All for now,<br />
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-<i>The Baron</i><br />
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ps- check out <a href="http://bob-rz.deviantart.com/">Bob-rz</a> on deviant art. The man is Hilarious, and quiet possibly next Sundays artist in focus if the person I've been waiting on doesn't have their art digitized yet.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-48278332321955889192011-11-22T17:51:00.001-04:002011-11-22T19:11:11.953-04:00On A Dresden Codak Laptop ModHere is a project I did a while ago, while I attempt to catch up on my list of awesome stuff to do. I thought to myself one day while sitting in <a href="http://foulab.org/en/wiki/Index_Page">foulab</a>, "wow! I have all the materials And tools to do an awesome laptop mod, AND 24 hours of free time. Maybe there is a god..." after having a quick conversation with all my renegade personalities, we decided the only thing awesome enough to dedicate this laptop mod would be Aaron Diaz's <a href="http://dresdencodak.com/">Dresden Codak</a> (not the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aar%C3%B3n_D%C3%ADaz">mexican pop star</a>, his laptop mod will look like <a href="http://images.pictureshunt.com/pics/s/six_pack-2758.jpg">this</a>). This Mod went through two iterations because the first time I didn't have time to smooth the edges. Observe:<br />
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Similar to the <a href="http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=DC-CYBORG-HOOD&Category_Code=DC">hoody</a> (my favorite article of clothing) on the table next to it, the design in the laptop glows (thanks to the backlight).<br />
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This is what it looks like at the moment:<br />
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Sadly, I need to do it a third time, but I'm holding off until I have the art of silk screening mastered, the above was done with tape, a razor blade and a printout.<br />
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<i>ps. materials list:</i><br />
<i>-plexiglass</i><br />
<i>-epoxy</i><br />
<i>-car body putty</i><br />
<i>-lots of black spray paint</i><br />
<i>Don't hesitate to ask me anything.</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-44507839756649707992011-11-21T23:25:00.001-04:002011-11-22T21:34:36.826-04:00On The First Media Laptop, and it's EndI needed a diffusion sheet. I don't know what they're actually called but they are a part of an lcd screen that defuses light. I found it and a lot of other cool stuff which I lost the photos for mostly. Here's what I do have:<br />
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Taking this apart was literally funny. "1.7 gigabytes? HAHAHAA!!! do they even call it a hard drive when its that big?" and "Holy crap! its only got a modem card! but by god, its got a serial port AND a parallel port! HAH!<br />
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This was the only part I was really after, but I found a LOT of very awesome parts that with any luck I'll be able to make into something cool and present to all.<br />
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-<i>The Baron</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-68061721314404572532011-11-19T10:30:00.001-04:002011-11-19T10:50:16.180-04:00GGGI know i'm going to regret this. *sigh* Geronimo.<br />
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I found this image on <a href="http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=gadget">deviant art</a> by searching "gadget". I recommend you do the same because there is a lot of good stuff there. I was inspired to write a fanfic that happened in the dystopian world where dr. claw has taken over the world set about 10 years after the original series. Before you read what's in the link I'm about to post I recommend you que up a couple songs on you tube, Namely <a href="http://youtu.be/EKGclWTpww8">This</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj_u_fTEAWA&feature=related">This</a>. Also google and watch about 1 random episode of inspector gadget. THEN you actually be in the right mood to read <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1nwkF_aC1EcLP57hAcAD4PzsdUG3Bbha3o5eaqkwpYz4">THIS</a><br />
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-<i>The Baron</i><br />
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Reminder to self: don't post stuff that takes people more then 2 minutes to read... (total reading time is estimated at 3 minutes)<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-20156906301838207902011-11-17T17:59:00.001-04:002011-11-17T19:12:59.429-04:00In Which The Hero Doesn't DieBaron here. Did you know I could fit a fire extinguisher in at least one of the pockets in every jacket I own? (not a coincidence)<br />
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It's official. I can fire dance. Not well, but I'm told there is a "practice" step that comes in between beginner and awesome. (I'm sceptical)<br />
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I'm also told you're supposed to be good at poi before you light them on fire. Might have been a good plan, but what the heck, I'm not dead, and I'm pleased with the way this video turned out:<br />
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-<i>The Burning Baron</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-69181529997689952712011-11-16T21:46:00.001-04:002014-06-05T18:13:51.696-03:00On Installing Aircrack-ng in CrunchBang<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Baron Here. Doing a google search "how to <a href="http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=install_aircrack">install aircrack-ng</a> in <a href="http://crunchbanglinux.org/">crunch bang</a>"? Long ago I'd have sold my left kidney for someone to have an answer to "How do I install aircrack-ng in crunch bang?". I have learned many things I would like to share. I've now updated this post for 2014, as some things did change. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: serif;">DISCLAIMER: If you break something using this method there is little or nothing I can do to help, also, not my fault. So without further adieu:</span><br />
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You may have noticed that<br />
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<pre class="code" style="background-color: #f7f9fa; border-bottom-color: rgb(140, 172, 187); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(140, 172, 187); border-left-style: dashed; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(140, 172, 187); border-right-style: dashed; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(140, 172, 187); border-top-style: dashed; border-top-width: 1px; color: black; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 1em; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: auto; padding-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f7f9fa;"># </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #f7f9fa; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">sudo apt-get <span class="search_hit" style="background-color: #ffff99; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">install</span> aircrack-ng</span></span></pre>
Didn't really work like it did in good ol' Ubuntu. I just did this instead:<br />
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tar -zxvf <span class="search_hit" style="background-color: #ffff99; color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">aircrack-ng</span>-1.1.tar.gz
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After doing sudo make install, update like the instructions tell you to. Beautiful! But oh wait, I'm trying to follow the tutorial and it can't find airmon-ng as a command... did I just install that? Yup! You've got to add /usr/local/sbin to the $PATH environment variable. Easier then it sounds.<br />
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This will open a file, and after<br />
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ctrl+x will give you the option at the bottom to save, do so (assuming you put the code in correctly)<br />
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airmon-ng should run properly after a system reboot. Good luck.<br />
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Getting the programs to actually work takes some more tinkering. If you have any questions feel free to ask in the comments.<br />
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-<i>The Baron</i><br />
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ps. cracking someone else's wireless password is illegal. I don't recommend it.<br />
PPS. if something isn't working let me now, I'll try to assist<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-60473460064749561792011-11-15T21:21:00.001-04:002011-11-15T21:30:09.065-04:00On A Serious FillerBaron here. I regret to inform you that my antics of late have been sedate. SO, rather then explain how I've increased my technomancy abilities considerably, I'll just tell you to go <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/v2/content/themes.html?fq=|cb01_themeName_ms%3AWomen%20and%20Girls|country:India&rows=10&sort=score%20desc&hl=true&vo=true&q=shelter&profileId=theme.browse&country=&themeName=Women%20and%20Girls&region=&la=drilldown&documentType=project">HERE.</a> "Here" is a list of sex trafficking victim shelters in India looking for support. <br />
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I'm going to make this as clear as possible. Two things make me truly angry; rape, and corporations. Human trafficking takes the worst elements of both.<br />
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I've often considered joining interpol to track down the monsters that do this. Still do. In the mean time, giving every spare dime I have to <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/v2/content/themes.html?fq=|cb01_themeName_ms%3AWomen%20and%20Girls|country:India&rows=10&sort=score%20desc&hl=true&vo=true&q=shelter&profileId=theme.browse&country=&themeName=Women%20and%20Girls&region=&la=drilldown&documentType=project">these groups</a> is the best I can do.<br />
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<i>ps. I'll have something a little more light hearted and happy tomorrow. pinky swear.</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3640329446053899609.post-14271548129029982002011-11-09T23:52:00.002-04:002011-11-14T20:00:39.110-04:00On an Ancient Printer Cartridge Tear Down<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Baron Here. This was going to be thrown out:</div>
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I objected, as it is a piece of history, and something I could take apart. It's an old ink cartridge to old school computer printers. Colour specifically.<br />
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What were the spoils? What did it look like? was I tackled by leprechauns?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a spring, some plastic, and two shiny, colourful rollers! (useless)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">417cm of rainbow ribbon. I have no idea what to do with it.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">plastic case of interesting shape. (useless)</td></tr>
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-<i>The Baron</i><br />
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ps. post suggestions of what to do with this stuff in the comments.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17784219305354409531noreply@blogger.com0