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I’m making progress towards being able to program a PIC microcontroller with my Mac, as you can read about on the robot arm page. It’s been a little frustrating, but I’m close.
I had some fantastic sushi tonight at Chiso. I’m not sure if it topped Kirala overall, but it came close, and the unagi was hands-down the best eel I’ve ever tasted. Also, inspired by It Must Have Been Something I Ate, I tried toro for the first time – heaven!
For the first time in my life, I sang a song at a karaoke bar last night. And it wasn’t even horrible, I think (I really don’t sing too well, so it coulda been real bad). It was Jeff’s birthday, and he said what he wanted for his birthday was for me to sing. How could I say no?
The light machine will make some sort of debut tomorrow night at dorkbot – I think folks there will have some good ideas of how to finish it off.
I had an entirely enjoyable day visiting with Rif in Vancouver yesterday, in spite of the snow. The border crossing coming back took a little longer than I wanted, but I’ll definitely head back up there sometime for a longer visit. It’s really only 2 and a half hours away.
I’m about to order a PIC Kit to start playing with microcontrollers for the robot arm. My goal is to have it working by birthday in March.
Jared & Chika came over for dinner tonight, and Chika delivered my new, custom messenger bag that she’d made:
I’m off to Vancouver tomorrow morning for the day to meet Rif and show off the new bag.
I spent Thanksgiving in Seattle with friends rather than in New York with family, but it was nice none the less. I made a couple ducks instead of a turkey, which went over well, and there was plenty of food to go ’round. Thanks to Andy & Ying for hosting.
I played in a frisbee tournament yesterday and had a blast. It was a hat tourney – you sign up on your own and they put together somewhat random teams. I ended up on a team with a guy from the champion US men’s team, a woman from the champion US women’s team, and a guy who’d represented the US at Junior World’s. Though we won in the finals, it was only by a point, and we had stiff competition the whole day – says a lot about the ultimate scene in Seattle!