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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Friday, January 30, 2015

Desk Racers Part Five

An interesting day of work with some fun near the end. Our work list included figuring out why the control system of one of our racers was...

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Scamps and Rascals

I am continuing my mid winter exploration of medieval insults persisting to the modern age. I just feel like it. But I thought it would b...

Monday, January 26, 2015

The Abe Vigoda Awards

Premature obituaries are hardly a new phenomena. As soon as it became fashionable to have a printed announcement of someone's demise hu...

Friday, January 23, 2015

Robotic Desk Racers - Part 4.2

Racer C actually might teach the kids a few useful things. It is a more complicated design, and one that has more potential failure points....

Robotic Desk Racers - Part 4.1

Today we left Racer A off to one side as work progressed on B and C. It turns out that I was mistaken on the gearboxes we had installed on...

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Elementary, Mr. Bill

My stuffed squirrel mascot, Mr. Bill, always gets a nice Christmas present. He brings nothing but happiness into the world so the chances o...

Monday, January 19, 2015

Japes, Jabs and Jibes

I am continuing my mid winter series on medieval insults surviving into the modern era. Why? Not sure really. Perhaps just because being c...

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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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