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I may have to try this on my busted Roomba

My roomba lost a fight with a protest my cat made in the corner. The roomba now only goes backwards. I may have to try this fix for the roomba circle dance.

Don Imus

Someone attempting to spur an ethics debate about ethnic slurs and the measure of reasonable versus unreasonable response to their use - accepted or not - by participating audience and third parties after the fact seemed to me to have missed a key factor.  Firing someone in Don Imus’ position is completely unrelated to how offensive a particular comment was, the audience that was or was not offended by it, the outside parties that heard about it and took offense, or even cultural ambiguities that may surround a given slur that might make it inoffensive language when used in context between cooperating social groups.  Firing is a business decision. Continue reading Don Imus…

I think I want to build an RC car

I want to build a radio controlled car, or rather a truck, for an interesting robotics experiment. Self contained digital video recorders and wireless video cameras have progressed to the point that individually, their use on RC cars is relatively common as evidenced by a robust collection of bumper-view, hood-view, and zip-tied-to-the-roof view videos of RC cars tooling around in houses, parking lots, race tracks, dirt tracks, and populated streets complete with real vehicle traffic.

The questions this presents:

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