It’s been some time since I’ve posted, but I have been busy with life and such.  However, here I am again with some cool site updates!  First off, I’ve finally finished my series on the GT Theremin with the remaining circuit details, lots of information and photos about construction, and some results and final comments.  This series of pages basically represents how I would have written the final reports for the project if I had the time and were granted total creative discretion.  Please let me know if I have made any errors or omissions or if any of my explanations are unclear.  Or you may just contact me to say hello; that’s fine too.

In the process of writing all these pages on the GT Theremin, I realized that my site layout afforded horizontal insufficient space for text given my penchant for verbosity.  Therefore I’ve updated the style sheets to give me some breathing room and hopefully make longer pages less tedious for you to read.

2000 Suzuki SV 650 (source)

Lately I’ve been hunting hard for a motorcycle, but I haven’t had much luck as yet.  I had an appointment to buy a Suzuki GS500 which I confirmed twice with the seller.  When the scheduled day came and I called the seller again, he informed me that he had sold it two days earlier.  Thanks a lot for letting me know!  It’s not like I had taken time out of my schedule and a friend’s to meet the appointment!  Sakes alive…

I really have my heart set on finding a Suzuki SV 650 (I love naked bikes), but it’s proving extremely difficult.  I found one in Atlanta but couldn’t manage to pull together the necessary arrangements to purchase it and store it for a few days.  I’ve seen two in this area, but they were both sold within a single day of being posted on Craigslist.  One was posted Sunday afternoon, I called about it this morning, and the seller had apparently sold it before he even got my message.  Oh well, the search goes on.

For even more excitement, my spider problem is still ongoing.  Apartment management has been accommodating thus far, but I haven’t yet seen a reduction in the number of recluses.  On the bright side, I caught a big live one over the weekend and took some pretty good photos of it.  I’m going to be sending some of the specimens I’ve preserved to the entomology department (under which arachnology is typically paradoxically lumped) at NCSU for a positive identification.

Update: The entomology department at NCSU confirmed that the spiders I sent are brown recluses.  Well, no surprises there.