2 Feb
1999
2 Feb
'99
4:50 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Ward D. Griffiths III wrote:
My name is mine (well, it was also my father's and
grandfather's, as
there wasn't much originality in my family for a while), and I've never
written anything I'm ashamed of in over fifteen years on Usenet and
mailing lists. (There are some things I'm _embarrassed_ by, but that's
a different category).
Who said anything about shame? The fact is that this list is comprised of
casual conversations. I don't like having my casual conversations
recorded, but I do like having perls of wisdom archived (and these
inevitably come from other list members).
So, I compromise. A pseudonym frees you, to some extent, from worries
about having your casual conversations recorded or otherwise monitored. On
the internet, nobody know's you're really a Dalmatian. Don't let your
spots show. Arf.
ObCC: I just picked up an old mag with a cover story about Squee, a simple
Berkeley robot from the early 1950's. There wasn't enough detail in the
article to replicate Squee, but I think I can mimic the look and behavior
pretty well with my MindStorms kit. Squee follows a steady light, scoops
up a "nut" and then follows a strobe light back to the "nest" to drop
off
the nut.
-- Doug