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8bit

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm sometimes a workaholic, sometimes a slacker, occasionally artistic, and definitely not someone who you can easily describe. I'm creative though most of my creativity comes out in a technical manner. I sometimes make kinetic art. I've been known to build robots on occasion. I am excited about energy conservation and alternatives to getting our energy from large corporations. I am currently working on an electrically assisted bicycle that will hopefully have a top speed of 40 miles per hour and a range of 30 miles or so between charges.

My Interests

Art,indie music, robots, old cars, motorcycles, hanging out, judo, painting, photography, kinetic art

I'd like to meet:

I'd love to meet cool artistic people. If you do underground art shows, go to burning man or don't take marching orders from anyone then we'll get along fine. I also like nerdy people. If you get excited about the solar system or things like robots we'll probably get along well too.

Music:

Joanna Newsome, Bjork, Pixies, Aphex twin, The Breeders, James Brown, Jim Croce, PJ Harvey, Rondelles, Pink Floyd, Phish, Beastie Boys, Radio Head, Morcheeba,Johnny Cash, Bella Fleck, Rachmaninoff, Square Pusher, Boards of Canada, Squarepusher, The Beatles

Movies:

City of the lost Children, Dark City, Amélie, Dancer in the Dark, Les Triplettes de Belleville, Star Wars

Television:

Huh? ... OK, actually I go over to friends' places to watch Battlestar Galactica

Books:

Issac Asimov, Phillip K Dick, Arthur C Clark, Douglass Adams, Piers Anthony

My Blog

Clown Meat

My friend David found this one.
Posted by 8bit on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 11:23:00 PST

California fires

You might be aware of the fires that are burning in California at this point.   They have talked a lot about Malibu but that is a relatively small fire compared to the others.    The lo...
Posted by 8bit on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:52:00 PST

Another interesting 404 error page

Usually when you try to access a page that is no longer there you get a pretty boring page that starts with "404 Error"   Sometimes you run across interesting ones.   I found this one today:...
Posted by 8bit on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:44:00 PST

Another lifelike robot

Here is a robot that someone built that moves in a pretty lifelike manner.    I can see this one giving some people the creeps since it looks like a spider and actually looks at you! ...
Posted by 8bit on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:10:00 PST

Armor

Here is a video of a guy wearing  some clothing  that  has a layer of  some sort of gel that is really flexiable normally but which hardens up when it is impacted.  That is so...
Posted by 8bit on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:03:00 PST

Can you spot a robot when you see one?

    As some of you know, I sometimes build robots pofessionally.  That gives me an unique perspective on these sorts of things.   Here is a video of some guy who is probably a...
Posted by 8bit on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:09:00 PST

Air ray

    A few days ago I posted about a robotic arm that was pretty lifelike.   If I had poked around the company's website a bit more I would have found this, which is also pretty coo...
Posted by 8bit on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:42:00 PST

The robots are coming

The robots will soon be coming for you...   Please have your ID card and a battery available to hopefully keep them from eating your children.   Seriously... This is the most organic robot t...
Posted by 8bit on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 12:28:00 PST

Image resizing.

Be warned, this is a nerdy art thing...   This group of people came up with a new way to resize images dynamically that preserves critiical parts of the image.  It is difficult to explain th...
Posted by 8bit on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:27:00 PST

Deer

I drive a motorcycle and have had some nervous moments around deer.   When you are in a car they don't think of the car as an animal.  When you are on a motorcycle they see you as another an...
Posted by 8bit on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:11:00 PST