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Month: September 2012
SnoutCast #136: Gamer Profile – Richard Malena
A conversation with Portland’s own @rmalena, a.k.a. “Nice Math Teacher!” [ Download mp3 – 26 MB ] 00:00 – promo: BANG 33 rerun +online!01:30 – “mathematical”01:48 – cats: better than math?02:34 – getting mixed up with Puzzled Pint05:10 – teaching…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Dying on Mars”
Speaking of Mars: http://youtu.be/-lsKEE78Izg If you think about it, just about every piece of unmanned exploration equipment we’ve sent into space–every rover, every probe, every satellite–has been sent out there to die. But that’s okay. Because it’s what they did…
Food Robot Redux
Today is Ignite Portland 11 Eve, and I just realized that I never followed up my IP10 blog posts with the promised video of my “Cat Feeding Robot” talk. Oops! To rectify that, below are not one, but two recordings…
SnoutCast #135: Calibration
In which we discuss the usual, plus Norse mythology. [ Download mp3 – 25 MB ] 00:00 – teaser: a horse is a horse01:29 – “precise”02:37 – the PAX Prime 2012 XP quest04:14 – cheating?09:15 – backsolving!11:26 – prize valuation16:20…