Recently, the Labs broke into teams and spent two days doing projects entirely of our own devising, given free rein. Our team consisted of two developers, a designer, and Sunlight's prized sysadmin. So for our project, we wanted to do something for the office, that blended software and design with the physical world. Inspired by some recent internal work in inventorying items using QR codes, we thought it'd be fun to make a system that lets Sunlighters print out QR codes for anything they wanted.

we did a thing my team did not win the overall prize but we did get the coolest effects.

--timball

Labs Olympics: Sunlight 2D - Sunlight Labs: Blog

so dc has a "hack" inspector.... sweet.

--timball

Random D.C. - Dan Blah - Picasa Web Albums

ORIGINAL POST: Connecticut Ave NW just south of Dupont Circle is the site of a major police and rescue operation after a woman riding a small motorbike was hit by an SUV, leaving a gruesome scene at the crowded intersection and what one witness described as "lots of blood."

Northbound Connecticut Avenue is closed between 18th Street, near its intersection with M St, and the circle; southbound traffic is able to crawl through.

"It was a horror scene. A motorbike was cut in half. We were there literally moments after," said Timothy Ball, who came across the scene with his girlfriend, Honey Smith.

"It looked like the motorcycle was headed north, the SUV had made a hard left and came to an abrupt stop. The front of the SUV was compressed, with a huge gash in the windshield where the motorcyclist's head would have gone through," said Smith, who said the bike was resting entirely underneath the truck.

walking back from the shrink going to the tabard inn honey's flip camera caught a some footage of the aftermath of an accident.

--timball

Get There - Grisly scene snarls Connecticut

HacDC's lab occupancy sensor is now operational.

Key features include:

1. Real-time and historical occupancy data is available for your projects. Perhaps a twitter bot, data visualization heat map or remote occupancy indicator?
2. The underlying architecture demonstrates an approach allowing bidirectional communications between many microcontrollers and many application
3. The Google Calendar "hacdcdoorman@gmail.com" is updated every five minutes with current occupancy data

w00T! hacDC now has an occupancy sensor WITH TWITTER FEED! http://twitter.com/hacdcdoorman. also a google calendar feed for you api enabled. Next I tie all of this into an openambi orb!

--timball

Occupancy Sensor - HacDC Wiki

blacktop basketball.

The BF Coliseum is now open. Be sure to check out the All Daz crew. The best ballers in all of DC. Double Header games are Mon-Thur @6pm. Fridays are the rain/alternate days.

Vendors available.

The Good Man League plays at the Barry Farm Recreational Center:
1230 Sumner Rd., SE
Washington, DC 20020
(202) 645-3896

--timball

TheGoodManLeague.com - Home

This event was to commemorate that on 1/20/09 President G.W. Bush makes like a tree and falls out of the white house.

Shelby from the band frodus did the razzle dazzle.

The evening was tres cool.

--timball

end of an era 1/20/08

co-worker said "I'm in a band come see the gig." I did. they rocked out.

--timball

bottles and cans -- r&r hotel 2/21/08

I gave a talk at roots camp DC on the following things:

nginx. The nginx wiki

varnish

memcached. The memecached wiki

pound

stunnel

Billy's Book

DBpedia

The title of the talk was "Speed Kills: How to make your webpage load in 500ms or less, ask me how!"

The talk consisted of seven yellow note cards and one physical copy of Ajax Security.

--timball

RootsCamp wiki - The password has been reset.

CAP's '07 holiday party rocked the park at fourteenth. The club/restaurant wasn't yet open to the public so it was an intimate evening amongst friends, colleagues, significant others and general do-gooders.

Excellent vittles and fine spirits were enjoyed by all. Happy Holidays!

--timball

CAP x-mas '07

What is the Solar Decathlon?

Twenty teams have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to compete in the 2007 Solar Decathlon. (The request for proposals for the 2009 Solar Decathlon will be released during the 2007 event.) The teams, from colleges and universities around the globe, participate in an unparalleled solar competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy-efficient solar-powered home. In fall 2007, the teams transport their solar houses to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., where they form a solar village. The teams compete in 10 contests to determine an overall winner. Using only energy from the sun, the teams generate enough electricity to run a modern household. With an eye on energy efficiency, the students carefully choose the systems, products, and appliances used in their houses.

The decathlon is gonna be on the National Mall October 12 - 20, 2007. It should be awesome.

Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Home Page