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Updating the Three Laws

(I wanted my 1400th post to be on a geeky science subject, so here it is!) How do you program regret, guilt, or remorse? How do you build a conscience? Read this article in Wired: Robo-Ethicists Want to Revamp Asimov’s 3 Laws Two years ago, a military robot used

Dying for some tea (part 3)

The yarn sat in its tea bath overnight Sunday and most of Monday to maximise the dye effect. Then it was rinsed off in cold water and hung up to dry. Drying took another day, and the end result on Tuesday was this: There's some colour variation across

Tour de Fleece - Are we there yet?

Reached the "trudging through knee-deep mud" part of spinning on Sunday, I want to get to the plying! No ideas on what to use the pink skein for, I just want it off my wheel. This Tour de Fleece has been exclusively wheel-spinning, I love my Majacraft Rose.

Dying for some tea (part 2)

Before dying the yarn, I soaked it in cool water with a smidge of Eucalan. I brewed tea for 30 minutes in a pyrex bowl with five plain black tea bags and boiling water. If you were drinking this, it would be strong and bitter from the tannins. The tea

Dying for some tea (part 1)

When I was a child, I had a cotton sweater I loved to wear. It was bright white, short sleeved, and every time I wore it, I spilled something on it. Tea, Coke, orange juice, ketchup, more tea, I never wore the thing for a full day. We called it

Alternative fuels

Wired: Power your car with pee A scientist at Ohio University has developed a catalyst capable of extracting hydrogen from urine. That’s right. Urine. Now you can fill one tank while draining another. Gerardine Botte claims the device uses significantly less energy than is needed to extract hydrogen from

Tour de Fleece - All pink, all the time

Decided to re-skein the suri/icelandic yarn, I might have felted it a little when I washed it. The mohair yarn will be dyed in black tea next week, and re-skeined after that. Thursday 15th July Spun more of the pink merino/bamboo. The colouring is interesting, it looks as

Tweets for the week of July 17th

<li>Since when did ad-blocking get equated to stealing? I decide what I download, not you! <a href="http://twitter.com/QuantumTea/statuses/2566771837">#</a></li> <li>Completed a Java coding exercise, and put JUnit tests around it.

Tour de Fleece - One goal met!

Made my goal of two well-plied skeins on Tuesday 14th, one of mohair, one of suri/icelandic. Both are small skeins, 102yds and 117yds, and both are two ply. The skeins are balanced and the plying is even, I'm very happy with these. My other goal is spinning

Tour de Fleece - spinning along

Getting close to my "two well-plied skeins" goal now, still spinning every weekday. I'm spinning on Tour de France rest days because my goal is not to follow them exactly. Friday 10th July Working on the second bobbin of suri/icelandic, probably about halfway through. Pleasantly

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