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Exactly one week until Sbob (formally named Rambot but the whole "bot' part isn't well liked by the TA's, so it's changed to the short form of Senor Bob, being a Spanish bull and all) is due. I have it detecting red and moving about and running into my "sheet" (a red folder) so now all that is left is programming in a bunch of complex behaviors. I'll post tons of pictures and video once everything is 100% complete, but until then it's going to be a very very busy next few days.
And now on to some stuff I wrote a while back but didn't update with...
I may not like the man very much most of the time, but every once in a while, when he's not screwing up the enviroment, restricting civil rights, or racking up huge deficits, Bush manages to do something right. In this case it was signing the Unborn Victims of Violence Act which makes it a seperate crime harm a fetus, an issue which gained a lot of attention with the whole Laci Peterson thing. Of course abortion advocates are decrying it as eroding reproductive rights. But as I've written on here before, the issue of abortion is not about reproductive and women's rights, or religion. But about the basic human right to live. You can reproduce or not reproduce all you want and a woman can do whatever she feels like to her body. I don't care and the government should have no say in that. But when a person's actions affects another human being in a negative way, in this case the murder of an innocent person, that is when it becomes a basic human rights issue. This bill just says that a fetus isn't a "blob" of nothing, but a person that deserves to be protected. Which is the entire crux of the whole abortion debate: Is it a human? I say yes, and therefore that's why I'm so strongly pro-life. Which in an age when abortions are ending the lives of the exact same babies age-wise that hospitals try to save when they come out pre-mature, how can someone say it isn't a human being?
These are great ideas for eating a little bit better without going to something stupid like the Atkins diet craze. Eating a huge steak and tub of butter is not better than eating a slice of bread. But of course people will lose weight on it since you'd lose weight if all you ate was ice cream, but it doesn't mean it's good for you. I've always maintained that if we could see 100 years in the future, the best diet advice you could get was "Don't eat too many fried foods or red meat, and eat a lot of fruits and vegetables." which is exactly the same now. Anyways, I've stopped eating fries (mostly), so the next step is to not drink so much coke. It's so freaking good though!
Thanks to the Internet, you can find out where a zipcode is mapped to in the US. Pretty cool application.
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