this thing on?

[Gert van Santen]

Jay Vaughan schreef:
>> So what about you, Jay?
> 
> 
> Friday night, after the boy and his lovely mother went to bed, I went  
> to MetaLab for the evening, hacking away on things .. there's a newly  
> completed RepRap in the 'lab these days, and Marius, one of the uber- 
> hackers in the hardware side of things at the lab, programmed it to  
> play melodies, and we got it hooked up to MIDI, tee hee .. some video  
> of that is around about somewhere.  Very fun to hear the RepRap play  
> the Imperial March as it prints 3D models of cups and things .. ;)   
> And even more fun to turn the whole thing into a keyboard-friendly  
> sound-making machine.  God I love Metalab.
> 
> Saturday I spent the day taking care of the lovelies, and then on  
> Saturday night, off for a jam with Stan, which wasn't nearly as fun as  
> the Free Party that was going on in the streets outside - was a *huge*  
> night for parties in Vienna, Saturday - so we checked that out and had  
> a blast following the sound-trucks around the city, eventually parking  
> under the Votiv church and blasting hard techno into the Vienna  
> night .. also, there's gotta be photos' of that around somewhere, but  
> I dunno ..
> 
> Sunday was all-family, all-day, and after some hiccups with our car  
> (darn battery), we finally got on the road around lunch time and found  
> a lovely spot on the Donau to set up camp and have a day-long picnic  
> in the glorious Austrian sunshine, and man .. that was great fun.  We  
> even saw a snake, it crawled inches away from the boy, who took great  
> delight in throwing rocks at it, and that was hilarious believe me!   
> Swam, enjoyed the day, and took the boy on many grand adventures,  
> skinned knees and all, around the water front ..
> 
> And now I'm back at work, running conformance tests on my new ethernet  
> driver for Tolapai, and dreaming of doing a little hacking on my new  
> Freerunner as soon as I get the chance ..

Nice story - felt as if I was there :-)

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