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Laundry Rack, Part 2
Submitted by pirateguillermo on January 1, 2010 - 5:40pmIt took about a week to apply the three coats of spar varnish to the laundry rack, between my day job and the cold weather. I did get it done, though, as I really wanted the garage back before the rains came. The tools required for the mounting step were a ladder, a stud finder, a pencil, a drill, a screwdriver, a tape measure, a pair of pliers, and a pair of scissors. The parts were eight eye bolts, four "S" hooks, two single pulleys, two double pulleys, a cleat, two screws, and a spool of light rope.
Laundry rack
Submitted by pirateguillermo on November 29, 2009 - 8:24pmWe were looking in a recent Lehman's catalog and saw this swell laundry rack. The cool thing about it is that it hangs from the ceiling from ropes that run through pulleys. You lower the rack to put clothes on it, then you raise it up to let everything dry while it's up and out of the way. At about the same time, I saw this story from Ode Magazine about people around the world line-drying their clothes instead of using dryers.
Productive Weekend
Submitted by pirateguillermo on November 23, 2009 - 9:53amOver the weekend I started working on writing a simulation environment. On Saturday morning, I had an empty project. This morning, I have a couple of sample components that I can link together (programmatically, it's true). I can tell them that time is passing and have messages flow and computation occur correctly. And I've got unit tests for all this, so I can tell when I break it in the future. Not bad for a day and a half!
BIAJ - Debugging the Script
Submitted by pirateguillermo on June 27, 2009 - 7:38pmBefore I twiddle too much with the response script, I want to have a way to dump it out and therefore be sure that the thing I'm typing in is the same as the thing that the chatbot is using. It also occurred to me that it could be fun to have multiple chat windows open. It would totally be possible because each ConversationWindow has its own ElizaMain.
The Brain Speaks
Submitted by pirateguillermo on June 22, 2009 - 11:35amTo make the BIAJ talk, we wanted some kind of chatbot to respond to typed comments. My first thought was of the classic ELIZA program, but I wondered if there might be something more appropriate.
See the full description and download the source from my repository.
Brain in a Jar - Creating the Mind
Submitted by pirateguillermo on June 22, 2009 - 11:30amTo make the BIAJ talk, we wanted some kind of chatbot to respond to typed comments. My first thought was of the classic ELIZA program, but I wondered if there might be something more appropriate.
