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Updated for a less civilized age

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	[[Image:rob.jpeg\|right]]My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.		[[Image:rob.jpeg\|right]]My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.

	By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.		By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally. My work involves building devices and capacity to build devices in support of international development projects.

	I have a ~~lot of interests and focus~~ is ~~not my strong suit, so~~ I ~~tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 3 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and computer-controlled spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a good place~~ to ~~be dangerous~~.		I have been a platonic amateur radio operator (WR2S) since 2006 -- I know where the PTT button is but I don't find much cause to interact with it.

	I ~~have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006 -- I know the PTT button but we~~ aren't ~~intimate~~. ~~I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined~~ that ~~I've been to Tokyo 17 times~~, ~~each for~~ about ~~24 hours~~, ~~which is a weird way to get~~ to ~~know~~ a ~~place~~.		I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't very good, though. (Did you know that when Kim Jong-Un was being groomed for the succession, there was a major propaganda campaign in the DPRK about CNC technology? The idea, never explicitly stated, was that Jong-Un's youth was actually an advantage, in that he had new ideas that were going to bring North Korea a technological edge. The result was some pretty extravagant material about CNC. To wit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpupc4zxlTo video] )

	~~I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't very good, though.~~		There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/rryansilva following me on Twitter].

	(Did you know that when Kim Jong-Un was being groomed for the succession, there was a major propaganda campaign in the DPRK about CNC technology? The idea, never explicitly stated, was that Jong-Un's youth was actually an advantage, in that he had new ideas that were going to bring North Korea a technological edge. The result was some pretty extravagant material about CNC. To wit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpupc4zxlTo video] )

	I speak Arabic and just enough Japanese to get into trouble, but only if it's fairly formal trouble. I like to think that if I was parachuted into Central America for two weeks that enough Spanish would come back to me that I could talk my way out of the terrible situation I would have gotten into with a major gang and/or political faction by that time, but I am OK with that remaining a hypothesis.

	~~I also speak fax, which has made it really difficult to edit this page.~~

	My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm currently working on an [http://openrov.org OpenROV].I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still very much at the window-shopping stage. I'm slowly trying to teach myself GNU Radio with an RTL-SDR dongle. I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.

	There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/~~migugnom~~ following me on Twitter].
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Rob at 01:45, 30 December 2013

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	I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 3 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and computer-controlled spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a good place to be dangerous.		I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 3 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and computer-controlled spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a good place to be dangerous.

	I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006. I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each for about 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place.		I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006 -- I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each for about 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place.

	I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't ~~much~~ good, though.		I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't very good, though.

	(Did you know that when Kim Jong-Un was being groomed for the succession, there was a major propaganda campaign in the DPRK about CNC technology? The idea, never explicitly stated, was that Jong-Un's youth was actually an advantage, in that he had new ideas that were going to bring North Korea a technological edge. The result was some pretty extravagant material about CNC. To wit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpupc4zxlTo video] )		(Did you know that when Kim Jong-Un was being groomed for the succession, there was a major propaganda campaign in the DPRK about CNC technology? The idea, never explicitly stated, was that Jong-Un's youth was actually an advantage, in that he had new ideas that were going to bring North Korea a technological edge. The result was some pretty extravagant material about CNC. To wit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpupc4zxlTo video] )
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	I also speak fax, which has made it really difficult to edit this page.		I also speak fax, which has made it really difficult to edit this page.

	My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still very much at the window-shopping stage. I'm slowly trying to teach myself GNU Radio with an RTL-SDR dongle. I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.		My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm currently working on an [http://openrov.org OpenROV].I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still very much at the window-shopping stage. I'm slowly trying to teach myself GNU Radio with an RTL-SDR dongle. I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.

	There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].		There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].
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64.124.62.188 at 14:47, 22 August 2013

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	By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.		By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.

	I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 4 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a good place to be dangerous.		I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 3 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and computer-controlled spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a good place to be dangerous.

	I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006. I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each ~~never~~ for ~~much more than~~ 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place~~. I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't much good, though~~.		I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006. I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each for about 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place.

	I speak Arabic and just enough Japanese to get into trouble, but only if it's fairly formal trouble. I like to think that if I was parachuted into Central America for two weeks that enough Spanish would come back to me to talk my way out of the terrible situation I would have gotten into with a major gang and/or political faction by that time.		I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't much good, though.

			(Did you know that when Kim Jong-Un was being groomed for the succession, there was a major propaganda campaign in the DPRK about CNC technology? The idea, never explicitly stated, was that Jong-Un's youth was actually an advantage, in that he had new ideas that were going to bring North Korea a technological edge. The result was some pretty extravagant material about CNC. To wit: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpupc4zxlTo video] )

			I speak Arabic and just enough Japanese to get into trouble, but only if it's fairly formal trouble. I like to think that if I was parachuted into Central America for two weeks that enough Spanish would come back to me that I could talk my way out of the terrible situation I would have gotten into with a major gang and/or political faction by that time, but I am OK with that remaining a hypothesis.

	I also speak fax, which has made it really difficult to edit this page.		I also speak fax, which has made it really difficult to edit this page.

	My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still at the window-shopping stage ~~(anybody want~~ to ~~go halfsies on a PCB batch for this?)~~. I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.		My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still very much at the window-shopping stage. I'm slowly trying to teach myself GNU Radio with an RTL-SDR dongle. I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.

	There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].		There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].
	[[Category:Members]]		[[Category:Members]]

Rob at 03:10, 18 August 2013

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	[[Image:rob.jpeg\|~~left~~]]My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.		[[Image:rob.jpeg\|right]]My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.

	By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.		By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.
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	I speak Arabic and just enough Japanese to get into trouble, but only if it's fairly formal trouble. I like to think that if I was parachuted into Central America for two weeks that enough Spanish would come back to me to talk my way out of the terrible situation I would have gotten into with a major gang and/or political faction by that time.		I speak Arabic and just enough Japanese to get into trouble, but only if it's fairly formal trouble. I like to think that if I was parachuted into Central America for two weeks that enough Spanish would come back to me to talk my way out of the terrible situation I would have gotten into with a major gang and/or political faction by that time.

			I also speak fax, which has made it really difficult to edit this page.

	My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still at the window-shopping stage (anybody want to go halfsies on a PCB batch for this?). I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.		My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still at the window-shopping stage (anybody want to go halfsies on a PCB batch for this?). I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.

Rob at 03:09, 18 August 2013

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	My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.		[[Image:rob.jpeg\|left]]My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.

	By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.		By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.

	I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 4 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a ~~really~~ good place to be dangerous.		I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 4 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a good place to be dangerous.

	I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006: I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each never for much more than 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place. I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't ~~very~~ good, though.		I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006. I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each never for much more than 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place. I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't much good, though.

	I speak Arabic and enough Japanese to ~~confirm for Japanese people I speak to that foreigners are barbarians. Sorry about that~~. I ~~also~~ like to think that if I was ~~dropped in~~ Central America for two weeks enough Spanish would come back to me to ~~be useful~~, ~~and it might even~~ be ~~true~~.		I speak Arabic and just enough Japanese to get into trouble, but only if it's fairly formal trouble. I like to think that if I was parachuted into Central America for two weeks that enough Spanish would come back to me to talk my way out of the terrible situation I would have gotten into with a major gang and/or political faction by that time.

			My latest hacky-type project was building a [http://blog.safecast.org/2013/03/the-bgeigie-nano-kit/ bGeigie nano kit]. I'm intrigued by the [http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2182 DIY cell phone] project, but I'm still at the window-shopping stage (anybody want to go halfsies on a PCB batch for this?). I'm keen to get my [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mossmann/hackrf-an-open-source-sdr-platform?ref=search HackRF] so I have another thing to be totally over my head in.

	There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].		There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].

	[[Category:Members]]		[[Category:Members]]

Rob at 13:26, 17 August 2013

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	By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.		By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.

	I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 4 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a really good place to be dangerous.		I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 4 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a really good place to be dangerous.

	I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006: I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each never for much more than 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place.		I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006: I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each never for much more than 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place. I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. The conventions aren't very good, though.

	I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. ~~When I post to Facebook about North Korea -- which is pretty frequently -- my friends don't tell me it's tedious; they don't have to. But that doesn~~'t ~~stop me~~, ~~hence the Trekkie analogy~~.

	I speak Arabic and enough Japanese to confirm for Japanese people I speak to that foreigners are barbarians. Sorry about that. I also like to think that if I was dropped in Central America for two weeks enough Spanish would come back to me to be useful, and it might even be true.		I speak Arabic and enough Japanese to confirm for Japanese people I speak to that foreigners are barbarians. Sorry about that. I also like to think that if I was dropped in Central America for two weeks enough Spanish would come back to me to be useful, and it might even be true.

Rob at 03:03, 17 August 2013

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	My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.		My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.

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	There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].		There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].

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Rob at 03:02, 17 August 2013

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	My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.		My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.

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My first choice, Sidfoqbix, was taken, so I'm Rob. Hi.

By day I'm a mild-mannered USAID contractor. By night I'm a mild-mannered father of two living in Silver Spring. I'm pretty mild-mannered generally.

I have a lot of interests and focus is not my strong suit, so I tend to know just enough about a lot of things to be dangerous. With a class 4 laser, nozzles extruding hot plastic, and spinny cutty things, HacDC seemed like a really good place to be dangerous.

I have been a platonic amateur radio operator since 2006: I know the PTT button but we aren't intimate. I dig bikes. And Japan. I recently counted my passport stamps and determined that I've been to Tokyo 17 times, each never for much more than 24 hours, which is a weird way to get to know a place.

I follow North Korea like some people follow Star Trek. When I post to Facebook about North Korea -- which is pretty frequently -- my friends don't tell me it's tedious; they don't have to. But that doesn't stop me, hence the Trekkie analogy.

I speak Arabic and enough Japanese to confirm for Japanese people I speak to that foreigners are barbarians. Sorry about that. I also like to think that if I was dropped in Central America for two weeks enough Spanish would come back to me to be useful, and it might even be true.

There is still time to get in on the ground floor of [http://twitter.com/migugnom following me on Twitter].