Detritus of Empire

Wandering unsupervised in various real and imaginary places. Detritus reflects my interests in robotics, travel, history and the odder aspects of the world around me.

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Monday, March 31, 2025

FIRST Robotics 2025 - End of Season Left Overs

I take a lot of pictures during the robotics campaign. Some are good, some lousy, some I can't even remember why I took 'em. Here...

Friday, March 28, 2025

History Underfoot

A fun talk for the local community ed program. History Underfoot looks at how archaeology can help us fill in the gaps in historical inform...

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Oxymoron

Put this in the category of words that surprise me. Oxymoron is a term somewhat in decline. It is in some ways a more polite age. Referri...

Monday, March 24, 2025

FIRST Robotics 2025 - End of Season

As I've mentioned, our robotics season has had some challenges. The kids probably bit off more than they could chew regards mechanical ...

Friday, March 21, 2025

FIRST Robotics 2025 - Going pretty well...

A full day of field reset duties at the FIRST robotics tournament. I learned some things from my previous arena side gig up at Duluth....th...

Tournament Time. Again.

Just finished up our practice day at the second robotics tournament. We are down in Lacrosse, one of our favorite places to compete. The ro...

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Multifunctional Robot

Just a day or so before it is robot tournament time again. Complicating things is a blizzard that will roar through right in the time windo...

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Tacitus: Having over the many years of my medical career seen too many hard working folks post pone retirement and tip over shortly after their farewell party I have adopted a Carpe Diem policy. Retire at 60. And don't let 'em throw you a party. Its working so far.

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