Johnathan Nightingale

Because ownership and configurability are the milk in my cornflakes, my blog is moving to its own site, to become one with the rest of my web persona. And yes, there are actually posts there. Well, post. Please direct future inquiries to:

http://blog.johnath.com/

Hugs and Kisses, and of course I'll still be reading my friends page

--J

PS - For those who refuse to leave their LJ friends page, I'm told that this will replicate my presence: http://syndicated.livejournal.com/johnath_rss/

• I recently finished a project in the garage involving the gross disassembly and butchery of a common household toaster. I used Dremel cutting wheels to cut the metal. I de-soldered and re-soldered. I converted the electronics to run off a 9V battery. I cut, sanded, stained and poly'd a wooden casing for the new frankenstein apparatus. I documented my progress assiduously, and now I've written a magazine article to describe the process. I did all this so that the machine would make my tea for me. And it does.


• I read with great aplomb and usually have several books on the go. Not dorky enough, you say? Some of the more recent titles then: Freakonomics, A Theory of Fun, Sibley's Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America and The Secret Life of Lobsters.


• I just finished a 5 day course through work titled "Ethical Hacking and Advanced Penetration Testing." By day 3 I was co-teaching it.


• To my left when I sit in the office is the "Tech books" bookshelf -- 4 shelves of tech books and text books. That's not the geeky part. On top of that shelf are a basically random assortment of things that required a place to rest. They include, in no particular order: A Brother label maker, a Garmin eTrex Legend handheld GPS unit with data cable, an 8-bulb LED flashlight with the new Luxeon super-bright white LEDs, a pair of 2-way GMRS radios on their charger, a homemade cutaway-view Schlage lock cylinder (with mushroom pins!) and my set of homemade lockpicks and torsion wrenches. To my right is the clock, which has the numbers printed in the opposite order, and runs in reverse.


• I can't write a 5th one right now, because I have to go watch MythBusters

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Thing the First

How many people here RSS aggregate? I've been thinking for a while that my blog should live on johnath.com, and be movable type or something else equally fun to tinker with, instead of LJ. However I recognize that to whatever extent I write in here to reach friends instead of just record thoughts for my own re-reading, that purpose will not be served if I take my journal off into the wide open web. UNLESS, that is, my friends are all grooving on the RSS tip, in which case those who care can just agg. me and problem solved.

Thing the Second (and far more important)

DJ Format -- pretty cool guy, and hangs with other cool guys and produces cool stuff. But by FAR the coolest is this independently-made music video -- DDR fans in particular take note. This is just awesome stuff in general though, I must share it on the off chance someone here has not seen it:

http://www.keithschofield.com/djformat-video/