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.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Machines Behaving Badly - 2016 Edition

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And so another Machines Behaving Badly tournament is in the books. It was a good one. It may have been our best one ever. It started on t...

Friday, November 11, 2016

My Dad's New Neighbors

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It had been a while since I had gone to see my dad. His funeral was in January. This was my first visit since then. It was an odd experi...

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Tree Shaped Tombstones - New Lisbon, Wisconsin

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A nice example from New Lisbon Wisconsin. Liking that owl on top. With a common name such as this - H. King - it is hard to say a lot ...

Monday, November 7, 2016

Fish Wrapper Blues

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I am showing my age here but I still have a smidgen of nostalgia for authentic, dead tree, delivered to your front door newspapers. Ther...

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Perfection in an Imperfect World

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I rarely venture into political discussions here. I have my opinions, others have theirs and the Internet hardly seems a place where though...

Friday, November 4, 2016

Solid Work on the Beach

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I have had fun learning Solidworks, the high powered 3D modeling program that enables you to virtually create almost anything. I have dabbl...

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

80/20 Plus a Bumper Crop of Good Ideas

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In the "pre-season" before FIRST Robotics really gets going we do get the team together once in a while. On a recent Saturday we...

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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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