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Cal M. Desmond-Pearson
  • 49, Male
  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyneside
  • United Kingdom
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Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
November 3
Hi everyone! Soon I would like to get an Arduino but I have other house projects and work related projects that I have to take care of. I hope we can share ideas and troubleshoot problems here. I have always wanted to dive deeper into interfacing ...
September 3
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
September 3
Got my first one in May. I liked it so much that I ordered a second Duemillanove (spelling?) and some AT Mega chips for a second setup. So far I've ruined only one pin on one of the Mega chips. Glad they can be swapped out when that happens (with ...
August 30
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
August 30
Yay! Another person how has an Arduino! What kind(s)? I've just started so I'm so far a noob at programming it but I know C so it should not be so hard.
August 2
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
August 2
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July 17
My fault - didn't check date of the post on Boing Boing (I was just randomly bumbling around the site - its actuially form 2006 - still funny tho'! Many politicians on both sides of the pond probably still think like it! Have come across similiar ...
July 14
Oops, he is no longer there as of Jan. 2009.
July 14
LMAO...that is too funny. Listen to him. You can tell that he doesn't know what he is talking about. What was super funny to me is when he said he had an internet sent but didn't get it until Friday. He is ticked because he didn't get an email for...
July 14
July 14
for fans of genius composer Zappa Jazz Rock Classical Music
July 14

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What kind of geek are you?
Maker - Linux Freak - Hi, I'm Cal Pearson, Irish, male, single, 48, tall, slim. Looks wise - I'm a hippy/steampunk/b​iker/cybergo​th/crusty/cyberpunk. A Celtic Catholic Anarchist living in "glorious"​ Newcastle-Up​on-Tyne in England. I was working as a Gardener/Conservation Worker/Handy​man/Forester​/Farm Labourer. Now due to ill health I have had to move into another trade and I'm now setting myself up in business to do freelance administration​on/publicity​/fundraising​ for local charities/co​community groups. Currently teaching myself Irish and Latin! Also trying to play the ukulele (badly!).
Why do you consider yourself a geek?
Love IT, knowledge, science etc
How did you find out about our Geek community?
Web weaving
What do you want to be when you grow up?
Tall, dark and handsome - 2 out of 3 so far!
What do you do to entertain yourself?
Depends who I'm with ;-)
Favorite music, movies, books, shows, artists, games, people, events, hobbies, etc.?
Favourite Music:
SOME OF THEM ARE:
Zappa, Beefheart, Coil, Psychic TV,Genesis P. Orridge,Zovi​et France,Ukule​le Allstars,Kin​ky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys,Nice​,Can, Robert Calvert, The Cure,Pixies,​Sonic YouthMy Chemical Romance, Zoviet France, Current 93, Siouxsie, Soft Cell, Crass, Bowie.

Favourite Movies:
- Amelie, Donnie Darko, Annie Hall, Sweet November. Dune, Zatoichi:The​ Blind Swordsman, The Big Lebowski, Kill Bill. Ravenous, Spirited Away. Anything By Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaa Of The Valley Of Wind, Memento, The Pillow Book, Pulp Fiction, The Song Remains The Same, Star Wars, Labrynth, Fargo, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Lotr, Old Bones Brigade Skate Videos.David​ Lynch, Tim Burton, Tarantino, Kurosawa Films. Chinese, Japanese Period Films.

Favourite TV Shows:
Red Dwarf - South Park - Twin Peaks

Favourite Books:
PG Wodehouse, James Joyce, Gopleen, William Trevor, books on Celtic history/lite​rature, autobiograph​ies (usually of writers/musi​cians)
What's your Web site / blog address?
http://profile.to/cal_desmond-pearson

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YET ANOTHER IDIOT POLITICIAN

FROM THE BRILLIANT CORY DOCTOROW ON BOING BOING
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/02/sen_stevens_hilariou.html
Sen. Stevens' hilariously awful explanation of the Internet

Senator Ted Stevens, a neutricidal maniac who wants to allow the phone companies to charge Google and others for delivering their packets to you, gave this incredible description of his understanding of how the internet… Continue

Posted on July 14, 2009 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

Cal M. Desmond-Pearson

The Scientists are Wrong

The Scientists are Wrong

They're wrong, the scientists. The universe wasn't created
billions of years ago.
The universe is created every day.

The scientists are wrong to claim
the universe was created from one primordial
substance.
The world is created every day
from various substances with nothing in common.


Only the relative proportion of their masses,
like the elements of sorrow and hope,
make them companions
and curbstones. I'm sorry

I have to get up, in all modesty, and d… Continue

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 2:47pm —

Cal M. Desmond-Pearson

Thunderbird

Just installed Thunderbird 3.0b2 beta on my Advent - no problems so far! Thunderbird knocks the socks off Outlook and its FOSS yay!

Posted on May 4, 2009 at 3:29pm — 5 Comments

Cal M. Desmond-Pearson

PGP FOR MY Email

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OvnSA/9Wk5Z5H0w4lWnkq15srBxZ3pyoSMmMPJhC… Continue

Posted on April 5, 2009 at 1:08pm —

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At 4:37pm on July 19, 2009, Cal M. Desmond-Pearson said…
Frank McCourt, Author of ‘Angela’s Ashes,’ Dies at 78
At 8:00pm on July 17, 2009, Cookenstein said…
Cooks in the Basement has been alive and kicking for 100 days, thanks to your participation and support..:)
At 1:58pm on July 14, 2009, CJFMix !!! said…
Ur invited to join : http://geeks.pirillo.com/group/frankzappa , group ...
 
 

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