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Robert B on April 23rd, 2012

I haven’t written in quite a while, almost a year! So, some updates: I completed my Latin studies. I am currently attempting to read Erasmus’s 1528 work De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione (On the correct pronunciation of Latin and Greek speech). That acrylic cage thing I built for the Logical Engine? Not practical. I’m working [...]

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Robert B on July 12th, 2011

Absinthe, La Fée Verte, The Green Fairy. So-called because late Victorians drank this stuff and claimed to have hallucinations. In truth, it was likely that the hallucinations, if any, were caused by toxic chemicals put in the drink to turn it as green as possible. Thujone was thought to be a psychoactive compound found in [...]

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Robert B on March 24th, 2011

Quickie link: Turing machine build from wood and scrap metal

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