My CT-90 not only looks awesome… …My CT-90 is good on the ol’ pocketbook 100 MPG (Miles Per Gallon) 200 MPA (Miles Per Awesome)

I know of one thing more annoying than table tennis…table tennis players. Oddly aggressive, hollering, talking shit, and most bizarre…striking athletic stances? Nope. Not buying into it. Pretty sure the best thing that has ever happened to ping pong tables was the invention of beer pong. That is, until right crapping now. Take a (high end (citation needed)) table tennis table: Knock that self righteous assface down to size with a little yellow, polka-dotted dress: Much better. Enjoy your sport, chaps.

Nice late summer day… Playing cowboy w/ D Rock… Trick time… (-1 off topic) (-1 spelled “muffin” “m-u-f-l-i-n”) (+1 muflin sounds sort of funny) __________________________________ (-1 total score FTL)

srsly sry srsly sry to the point of making an apologetic, aggressive, lightening-bolts-out-the-ass, image to show my deep, deep regret for my laziness. I realized that I have approximately nine posts sitting in my figurative TO DO box. Including the much anticipated stuff regarding soldering the Arduino Motor Shield. Much anticipated may be a gross overstatement. It will be there, and we can judge at that point. Srsly.

+1 BLURRY +1 FLASHY ANTENNAE —————————————— 2, FTW

I’d like to post the details of my latest one-on-one with my Arduino…but, I’m not going to. Suffice to say, it was sweet. Anything (non work related) involving multiple command lines is plus one awesome.

Let’s talk gambing, yes? I may or may not be the worst gambler west of the Rio Grande. Or is that North of the Rio Grande? Both maybe. Quite likely both, due to my track record. Cards are not my bag, baby. Odds are odds. I find myself thinking about math when I play, and that is that. You can pick one of the two to be good at…or rather one must suspend belief in one or the other when gambling. I guess I’m all math. Good news for you gamblers, though. Times have changed…move over smokey, blue-hair filled, lounge singer, watered-down whiskey havin’ casinos. Your run at the top was impressive, but now the good casinos are online. Think about it for a bit. If you can play the same games online as you can at a traditional casino, without keeping the lights on a big, bright, loud building, why wouldn’t you do so. It is all about the overhead. Better payouts online, since it takes far, far less to maintain something virtual. You don’t even have to go through the trouble of putting on pants…gamble in your boxer shorts. Easy easy chicken greasy. Either way, you will not catch me plugging those machines any time soon. The one-armed bandit and I are foes. Three arms of unadulterated hatred for one another. He wins…he always does.

Index of refraction. End of story? You wish…I’m going to pontificate for a while. Where did I set that soapbox… I dig optics. The coolest class I took was my graduate level optics class at the old alma mater, Montana State. I missed my calling as a physicist. Or rather, I missed my calling as someone who gets paid to play with lasers in a laboratory. Lasers lasing all over the place. Plenty of fiber optic cables around the lab, you can be sure of that, Jack. Spools and spools of fiber optical cable is a pipe dream, though. That stuff isn’t exactly free, due to the nature of the beast. As pictured above, fiber optic cable is multi layered, and as I mentioned, is all made possible due to refraction. Index of refraction, to be more specific. See the above picture…the layer around the core is of a different index, keeping the photons bouncing towards the finish line (in a huge nutshell.) The reason these things work so well is that the core (usually a glass of some nature) deals with photons instead of electrons. Massless and charge-free, photons are not crushed and or distorted by elecromagnetic noise. They can be setup to carry tons of data…aka very high bandwidth…thustly making fiber optic cables a perfect choice for high quality, large connections. Jack. Hit one of those links to see some sweet home uses. Hit wikipedia to see the physics behind the scenes. The main reason to push signal through fiber instead of copper is reliability. You really can’t wear out glass.

I knuckled up on my heavy bag again last night… Pretty sure I need to procure some bag gloves.