AirFish

A fish-shaped airship!

It's an Air Swimmers shark to which I've added a microcontroller, radio, and inertial sensors.

Manresa

For no special occasion in particular, just in a general celebratory mood, we decided to get the tasting menu at Manresa! They're a restaurant in Los Gatos with two Michelin stars.

We got all dressed up and I borrowed a fancy digital camera and we had the most epic dinner ever!

Strawberry Hill, Golden Gate Park

I think this picture came out really well:

SSH keys

If you would like not to type in your password every time you connect to a remote server (and it really does make a difference), this is what you want:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen
and if you want multiple private keys:
http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/08/25/multiple-ssh-private-keys

Prevent mouse from waking computer from sleep

On Windows 7:

Control panel → Mouse → Hardware tab → Properties → Change Settings → Power Management tab → uncheck "Allow this device to wake the computer"

Convoluted much?

Medium-format photography adventures!

Developing 120 black-and-white film

Revision history

2012/04/23: Initial release.
Notes from development: Increase duration of continuous wash. Consider switching to 1+3 developer dilution with 22 min. development time. Also consider reducing development time. Also, developer ended at 22°C.

2012/05/01: Increased continuous wash duration to 5 minutes. Added note to minimize handling of developer tank.
Notes from development: Started developer temp at 19.5° to allow for heating; ended at 21°C. Some artifacts along top edge of film ("top" relative to coiled cylinder inside the developing tank), see this example.

Strawberry rhubarb pie

Recipe and notes below:

Southern California adventures

Lots of adventures over the last two weeks!

Fish relocation

Yesterday we moved the fish down to my apartment in LA.