Sweet! Seems a movie based on Babylon 5 will start filming in April.
Can’t wait to hear more about it.
Heads up from Slashdot
Roomba in infrared
Just for kicks and giggles, I dug out my Sony video camera and used it to take some video of Roomba. It’s one of those Sony cameras that does the ‘Nightshot’ thing letting you see in low-light conditions by illuminating the area with an IR emitting diode. It also lets you see the IR lights that Roomba and its various components use. The pictures are posted over in the gallery.
This is a picture of Roomba in infrared. You can clearly see the 4 floor-directed IR lights.
This is Roomba’s base station. The IR signal it broadcasts out the top is what Roomba uses to find it’s way home. It comes on automatically when Roomba is turned on or is removed from the base station.
This is the light pattern broadcast by Roomba’s Virtual Wall. It’s actually a circular beam. It just looks like that because I have it pointed obliquely at the wall. The VW has 3 range settings which simply controls the intensity of the IR beam that is broadcast.
I just thought it would be a fun geeky thing to do.
Glowing holiday fun
I have my little Christmas tree glowing happily away on my desk at work now. With just under 4 weeks to go till Christmas, I figure it’s probably time to start getting into the spirit of the season. I’m thinking one of these might also look cute sitting next to my tree. I still think $12.99 is a little pricey though.
How Canadian are you?
Take the test and see how Canadian you are.
I scored 92, which makes me a
Member of Parliament
Congratulations! You scored 92!
You may very well be one of the Founder’s of Confederation. You’re proud of the True North Strong and Free, you can drink beer with the best of ’em! You follow hockey like a religion and may actually have your name etched on Lord Stanley’s grail. You can tell the difference between a moose and a caribou at 100 metres and if we looked we’d probably find a maple leaf tattooed somewhere on your body.
The questions are pretty easy. If you really are Canadian, you ought to be pretty embarassed if you score less than 90.
Geek toys
Oh, I like this. Still planning on getting the binary clock from ThinkGeek one of these days, but a binary watch would be even geekier. I want one…
Found via peetm.