tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66009502024-03-18T20:19:41.602-07:00Nathan LaredoI hit this little orange button in the Google toolbar and this got created...Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-57478777455024004982019-09-09T13:46:00.000-07:002019-09-09T13:46:04.228-07:00Calculating the 12th root of 2 with bc...Since I keep looking this up...<div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>e(l(2)/12)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>1.05946309435929526455</b></span></div>
nilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11428959151789889969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-74011607993845755322012-05-22T18:14:00.001-07:002012-05-22T18:14:50.305-07:00Bob Moog Doodle<div><p><a href="http://m.wired.com/geekdad/2012/05/moog-google-doodle/">Google Doodle Honors the Father of the Modern Synthesizer - Bob Moog | </a><a href="http://m.wired.com/geekdad/2012/05/moog-google-doodle/">GeekDad</a><a href="http://m.wired.com/geekdad/2012/05/moog-google-doodle/"> | </a><a href="http://m.wired.com/geekdad/2012/05/moog-google-doodle/">Wired.com</a><br>
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This evening I came up with a challenge for myself that took far too much of my time:
Spell words with all the letters and leave as few as possible left over. The blocks can't be twisted to represent letters that have already been used.
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My best so far is 5 blocks left over. Two hours before this post, my best was 6 left over, so obviously not the best use of my time.nilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11428959151789889969noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-18463709249384318462010-04-21T10:30:00.000-07:002010-04-21T10:32:07.808-07:00New $100 billI'm always a fan of money redesigns... I'm looking forward to getting one of these new $100 bills in my hands:
<table style="width:auto;"><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZnUhhk6ItJnxt8Z082XMcg?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_c0csrJf6QzI/S881j8LqD0I/AAAAAAAADmg/k4NbMplIb6M/s400/2010new100.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:11px; text-align:right">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/nlaredo/NewMoney?feat=embedwebsite">NewMoney</a></td></tr></table>
Above image is a full screen capture of: http://www.youtube.com/uscurrencyNathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-47424198083822449512009-08-17T23:02:00.001-07:002009-08-17T23:02:14.960-07:00Sesame Street: Soliloquy On B<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p><object height='350' width='425'><param value='http://youtube.com/v/hA7lv1SDzno' name='movie'/><embed height='350' width='425' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' src='http://youtube.com/v/hA7lv1SDzno'/></object></p><p>Patrick Stewart at his finest.</p></div>Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-39423638881215605782009-01-23T12:09:00.000-08:002009-01-23T12:16:16.501-08:00Inaguration Gigapan<a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/debate08/bigscreengrab.png"><img src="http://nathanlaredo.com/debate08/screengrab.jpg" alt="gigapan screengrab"></a>
<p>Click on the image for a large screen capture of a small part of the gigantic 1474 megapixel stitched gigapan photo created by <a href="http://www.davidbergman.net/blog/2009/01/22/how-i-made-a-1474-megapixel-photo-during-president-obamas-inaugural-address/">David Bergman</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/gigaiphone">Jump right to Yo Yo Ma taking an iPhone photo</a> on the gigapan site...</p>Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-25664625271206997352008-10-16T14:39:00.000-07:002008-12-06T20:35:18.974-08:00No, it really wasn't photoshopped...Turns out the photos I thought were fake really showed up in the live video of the debate:
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<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://nathanlaredo.com/debate08/vlcsnap-00002.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://nathanlaredo.com/debate08/vlcsnap-00002.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-32748683464424096952008-08-31T14:00:00.000-07:002008-08-31T14:35:54.258-07:00Using a laptop from bed...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ouJTMn3ILlFczyqot8xoMS8ZbxiPAQ4hFnP1x9MpQ3KXwjA_OP2KicuZhciZSi-yRu30-D5FX9lRtP2hfTd-q6mu1ZRGIXDdTuTzPzU2yUTbJXu_USi-yv29T3vWjbM6VZ64uA/s1600-h/laptop-in-bed-rev2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9ouJTMn3ILlFczyqot8xoMS8ZbxiPAQ4hFnP1x9MpQ3KXwjA_OP2KicuZhciZSi-yRu30-D5FX9lRtP2hfTd-q6mu1ZRGIXDdTuTzPzU2yUTbJXu_USi-yv29T3vWjbM6VZ64uA/s400/laptop-in-bed-rev2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240790293871546802" /></a>
I've been wanting to build something like this for a while, and thanks to some tools I got as a gift and a bit of inspiration from the price of the product at lapdawg.com and its apparent inability to secure a laptop at this angle, I created an earlier stand with an inverted T shape that wasn't quite as stable as this newer version where I moved the attachment point to form a nice stable A frame without any bolts anywhere near the bed...Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-38400784316554265432008-05-12T13:47:00.001-07:002008-05-12T13:51:38.196-07:00Bobby Ore Beginner Stunt Driving Class<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px; height:350px;" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/YAuIVqmP54s"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YAuIVqmP54s" /></object>
<p>It only took me five years to post the video of the stunt driving class I took....</p>Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-86957010665093873642008-05-03T21:53:00.001-07:002008-05-10T13:05:27.463-07:00Unboxing the Roland Fantom G8<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:425px; height:350px;" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/gYFSq9M5RDo"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gYFSq9M5RDo" /></object>
</p><p>Raw footage of my first ten minutes with the Roland Fantom G8. The background music at the start is the demo song loaded when the keyboard is first turned on.</p>
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Power on is 4 minutes in. The first sound that comes out is a bit unusual. I would have expected a piano like the A90EX this replaced.</p>
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I'm learning how to use this thing as you watch, sorry it's so boring, but since there is so little other info on the new Fantom G, I thought others might be interested in the learning curve.</p>Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-53680743478933172612008-04-30T10:30:00.000-07:002008-04-30T10:37:25.904-07:00Why doesn't work my PC?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkglYgabMJa20heACN1HbYEf2M2JjU6qnTVW9lj6uQ3EzxYHNhpX9gwV-jQrA1i-qLwFXVEtse7aO2Q-PeuQwMIVirWvhy3XHOIlk8K4Tf4XllLrXGqnmQUcuOqHxFZLyuKwpY2w/s1600-h/wtf2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkglYgabMJa20heACN1HbYEf2M2JjU6qnTVW9lj6uQ3EzxYHNhpX9gwV-jQrA1i-qLwFXVEtse7aO2Q-PeuQwMIVirWvhy3XHOIlk8K4Tf4XllLrXGqnmQUcuOqHxFZLyuKwpY2w/s400/wtf2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5195093400640215570" /></a>
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Wow.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-11156751632000116412008-02-28T19:43:00.000-08:002008-03-01T09:17:47.855-08:00Remote control iTunes with a web browser<a href="http://code.google.com/p/itunesweb"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; width:140px; height:69px" src="http://itunesweb.googlecode.com/files/iTunesWeb.png" border="0" alt="screenshot" /></a>If like me, you happen to share an office and have speakers hooked up to one computer playing music all day, it helps if everyone else in your office can skip songs, pause, control volume, etc, so I wrote a quick little app. It's still pretty rough around the edges, but it lets you connect to port 8080 of the machine running itunes and acts as a web server that lets you control it.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-75189598231878506612007-10-15T19:56:00.000-07:002007-10-16T08:02:50.957-07:00Wriststrong Bracelet and the Environment<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/1583868830_6e21b6b34a.jpg?v=0"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/1583868830_6e21b6b34a.jpg?v=0" border="0" alt="" /></a>
I guess viacom doesn't care much about the environment...Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-80178740053184628992007-06-29T21:06:00.000-07:002007-06-30T18:27:23.135-07:00iPhone vs N95<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://nathanlaredo.com/photos/iphone-vs-n95.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://nathanlaredo.com/photos/iphone-vs-n95.JPG" alt="" border="0" /></a>I arrived at the AT&T store in Mountain View to find about 15-20 people in line, so I thought I'd check out the Apple store at Valley Fair mall that Woz was supposed to be waiting in line at... It had hundreds of people waiting, so I left to check out the AT&T store in San Jose. I was probably number 54 in line when I arrived sometime between 3pm and 4pm. As it turned out, I was the last person to walk out of the store with an iPhone, and had I gotten there 8 people earlier -- which would have been possible had I not made the other two stops to check out the situation at the other locations, I would have even got my first choice model. I suspect most of the 4GB models that Apple sold were sold after stores ran out of the 8GB models.
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Anyway, this is the first side-by-side comparison that I know of of these two phones, so I thought I'd share it and the story of the "drama" of getting an iPhone that fortunately only lasted about four hours total for me. Apple could have sold at least 100 more opening day had they shipped enough product to the AT&T store nearest their headquarters. At least one Apple employee was observed criticizing the entire operation at the AT&T store, giving the manager a hard time.
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Update: At 4PM Saturday, it was possible to walk into the Apple store at Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara and walk out with a 4GB iPhone at 4:04PM. The iPhone launch is clearly not another Wii launch.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-41113281012526226612007-03-12T23:50:00.000-07:002007-03-12T23:54:34.458-07:00Ten Years of Kernel.orgI just finished making the <a href="http://kernel.org/images/korg10yr.pdf">logo</a> to mark 10 years since kernel.org was announced...
Happy birthday kernel.org!Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-65250029555880470452007-02-17T00:07:00.000-08:002007-02-23T20:17:11.641-08:00What's up Googlerz?And then after a long silence, there was more change... on 11 September 2006, I accepted a position at Google... after a quarter working at Google, I've still not made it to all of the cafes, but the least-often-mentioned benefit is that I finally work somewhere that requires no explanation to non-technical friends and family.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1135455925275414052005-08-29T12:22:00.000-07:002007-02-23T20:19:57.422-08:00No relation to Villa MontalvoI started a new job today at a startup more secretive than Transmeta was when I started there. Basically the whole point of this post is that you shouldn't use my Orion Multisystems email address anymore.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1115742518681078022005-05-10T09:28:00.000-07:002007-02-23T20:27:55.257-08:00Illegal AliensI put the coordinates of Area 51 into <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.2333,-115.81667&z=15&spn=0.018451,0.048366&t=k">Google Maps</a> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>for "Groom Lake Base, Bldg 170"
I found the July 2003 space imaging <a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/area51-over.jpg">overview</a> and <a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/area51.jpg">detail</a> images of Area 51 and created an <a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/area51-over.kml">overview</a> and <a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/area51.kml">detail</a> overlay for Keyhole 2.
I'm also noticing that <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?z=19&q=38.897661,-77.036565&spn=0.001127,0.003023&t=k&om=1">maps.google.com</a> has certain areas intentionally pixelated or colored over (like the roof of the white house or the capitol building).Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1106427062153067892004-10-29T21:43:00.000-07:002007-02-23T20:32:01.957-08:00Moog VoyageSaw <a href="http://moogmusic.com/">Bob Moog</a> at <a href="http://robotspeak.com/">robotspeak.com</a> in San Francisco today. He demonstrated the <a href="http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=109">Minimoog Voyager Anniversary Edition</a>. I purchased the one he demonstrated on, and Bob was nice enough to sign it. I also got an <a href="http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=110">Etherwave Pro Theremin</a> the same day which Bob also signed for me. Bob told all sorts of stories of the history of electronic music. I put an mp3 of the event and a review of the Etherwave Pro on <a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/theremin/">my website</a>.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1106426555010605302004-10-15T13:39:00.000-07:002007-02-23T20:37:41.541-08:00Cold FusionPurchased the <a href="http://shop3.outpost.com/product/4078992">cold heat soldering tool</a> from Fry's and used it to add a FM transmitter to the pitch preview of my theremin. It's not very easy to solder with since you need to complete a circuit at the tip with the solder, but it did live up to its promise of not burning a hole in my carpet. I put photos of the operation on <a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/theremin">my website</a>.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1085886813314181652004-05-29T20:13:00.000-07:002007-02-23T20:39:32.564-08:00Solder without burning holes in the carpet?I just saw this <a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/tools/69d3/">Cold Heat Soldering Tool</a> on tv while watching the secret life of machines, and it reminded me of how I used to burn holes in carpet (on accident) in my younger years. I'm so glad I work somewhere with professional soldering setups.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1085783512784799392004-05-28T15:31:00.000-07:002007-02-23T20:40:34.600-08:00Kernel.org got faster...I finally finished updating everything on <a href="http://kernel.org/">The Linux Kernel Archives</a> so that it now uses vsftpd instead of proftpd, a 2.6 linux kernel, a more modern distribution than Red Hat 7.2 and I fixed up various graphics on the web pages to be more "modern" versions. We went from serving 150mbps at a load average of 200 to well over 300mbps with a load average of about 20. *whew* glad that's done.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1079977260986507032004-03-22T09:41:00.000-08:002007-02-23T20:43:08.382-08:00Can you take a bad photo at Yosemite?Well my trip to <a href="http://www.nps.gov/yose/">Yosemite National Park</a> is coming up Wednesday and I'm just noticing that today's weather forcast shows a 40% chance of snow Friday and Saturday, and the park service says that the recent warm weather has caused a lot of snow to melt and make nice waterfalls earlier this year, so I'm looking forward to my first trip there. I'll be taking all my camera equipment, so with any luck <a href="http://nathanlaredo.com/photos/">my photo page</a> will be bursting with new images of everything I see. I plan to take 2.5GB of compact flash with me.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6600950.post-1079159051860773262004-03-12T22:24:00.000-08:002007-02-23T20:47:17.859-08:00What would the smell-o-scope say?My new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00013RBX0/wwwnathanlare-20">Futurama, Vol. 3 (1999)</a> dvd arrived today, though amazon originally shipped it on the 5th. It was worth the wait... This is a show that should never have been cancelled.Nathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09177206328385672776noreply@blogger.com0