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Boxcar Online Inventory: Sent e-mail to the httpunit-development mailing list to see if changing the form action with javascript is supported. If it’s not, I guess the next thing to do will be to rewrite the checkout script so that the validation will be done in the PHP script instead of with the javascript.

• RLY1 (NTE NTE R40-11D2-5) http://www.weisd.com/store2/nterly/nterlyfulllst10.html
  or 125VDC/5A DPDT Mini Relay (275-249)
  http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F011%5F002%5F013%5F000&product%5Fid=275%2D249
  or any mechanical relay that will operate with a 5 volt trigger and can switch 120 volts

• U2 (78L05 = NTE977) http://www.weisd.com/store2/NTE977.html
  or +5V Fixed-Voltage Regulator 7805 (276-1770) http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=276-1770

• U1 (555 = NTE955) http://www.weisd.com/store2/NTE955M.html
  or LM555 Precision Timer – 8 Pin DIP (276-1723) http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&category%5Fname=CTLG%5F011%5F002%5F017%5F000&product%5Fid=276%2D1723

• Q1 (2N2222A = NTE123A) http://www.weisd.com/store2/NTE123A.html
  or 276-2009 http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=276-2009

• R1 (NTE EW311)
  or 10k resistor (271-1126 ) + 1k resistor (271-1118 )

• R2 (NTE EW468) http://www.weisd.com/store2/NTERES/EW468.html
  or resistors adding up to 640k

• R3 (NTE QW522) http://www.weisd.com/store2/NTERES/QW522.html
  or resistors adding up to 2.2M

• C1 (272-1065) http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=272-1065
• C2 (272-1025) http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=272-1025
• D1, D2 some diodes

World Changing
D4PA-Design for Political Action
Bureau of Inverse Technology

From Cradle to Cradle by McDonough & Braungart:

It may be tempting to try to turn back the clock. Yet the next industrial revolution will not be about returning to some idealized, preindustrial state in which, for example, all textiles are made from natural fibers. Certainly at one time fabrics were biodegradable and unwanted pieces could be tossed on the ground to decompose or even be safely burned as fuel. But the natural materials to meet the needs of our current population do not and cannot exist. If serveral billion people want natural-fiber blue jeans dyed with natural dyes, humnanity will have to dedicate millions of acres to the cultivation of indigo and cotton plants just to satisfy the demand–acres that are needed to produce food. In addition, even “natural” products are not neccessarily healthy for humans and the environment. Indigo contains mutagens and, as typically grown in monocultural practices, depletes genetic diversity. You want to change your jeans, not your genes. Substances created by nature can be extremely toxic; they were not specifically designed by evolution for our use.

I think, when it comes to punk kids, there is a tendency to assume a position of moral superiority when it comes to environmental issues. I don’t own a car, I ride my bike. I don’t buy things, I re-use old ones. I recycle, I compost, I am part of the solution, not part of the problem. That is awesome. People should try to consume less. They should try to seperate their real desires and needs from those craftily cultivated by the capitalist media. It is still really, really unconscionable to drive a Hummer around. People should try to live their lives differently and try to minimize the negative effects that their existence produces. This weekend I spent some time on a farm where people had no sewage system, where they were trying to re-use materials, and to grow there own food. That’s great. My friends read about greywater systems and veggie-oil vehicles. Awesome.

But when it comes down to it, those solutions, those improvements, are viable and real because they are difficult and only adopted by a few people. I question whether some of the practices that make sense in our lives or the life of a small community would be possible or even desireable at a macro level.

As much as we want to seperate ourselves from the irresponsibility of the world at large, we are part of it. Our very existence is part of a trend of massive overpopulation that, in itself, is taking a horrible toll on the planet. With mass suicide or war or other catastrophe being unviable, and in my oppion, undesireable, we have to look at other options. Every job we have ever worked, every dollar we have spent, every dollar that has been spent on us by the government our our parents has had a fraction of it cycled into the social machinary that is quickly destroying the planet. The point is, however “good” we live our lives, it might not be enough to outweigh the toll of our existence.

To take a few steps from the consumption and pollution of our world and then wash our hands of it all is to ignore the part that we continue to play in the destruction of the natural world. It is fair to say that negligence is as great a sin as gluttony. We can’t be satisfied by being one step better than society at large, or two steps better – we must be always better as much as we can be. And it is not enough to live our lives better but we must struggle to try to make everything better. That means that we must acknowledge some of our impotence as (non) consumers or micro-producers and look to the need to engage and challenge large producers or governments or communities to do things differently. We must ackwnowledge that in order to do things differently, we cannot prioritize a result of destruction or change but must always struggle for what is possible and what is rational. We are not settling for one solution or another because we are not settling. period. ever.

The idea of punk as sub-culture or counter-culture, as somehow being isolated and distinct from mainstream culture, I am coming to believe, is a naive one. The ease with which punk iconography and culture is assimilated into mainstream, capitalist culture should be a constant and unfortunate reminder of this. We are a product of culture-at-large and we are subject to its same flaws. We are apathetic, we are greedy, we are short-sighted, we are irrational, we are ignorant, we are unwilling to confront our mistakes.

If there is something, however, that distinguishes us punk kids from the rest of the world we live in, it is that we are able to make things, even if for a short while, that reflect a greater sincerity, and that we can, perhaps, respond to these ideas with a greater compassion, or greater reason, or a greater willingness to change our lives.

With all the flaws we have in ourselves, and in effect, our politics, projects, and institutions, it is every bit as reasonable to level criticism against ourselves as it is to attack the corporation or the government or the church. Certainly, I would not say that these things should not be challenged. They are so large, so powerful, and often so corrupt that for the survival of any, even miniscule, alternative, it is neccessary for there to be some continued challenge, some continued conflict. However, I would strongly disagree that any self-critique is somehow less legitimate or comes at the expense of this struggle. At best, it fortifies such struggles by grounding them in more reason and better , more clear intententions.

For many reasons I have chosen to live my life surrounded by punk rock music and culture and other people who have made similar choices. I’m glad of this and I don’t really care for the alternatives. So, it makes sense that in trying to challenge myself and ideas that might be negative, I would look first to my own community and my own friends, and to myself. I think that the idea of the failure of preaching to the choir comes not from the redundancy of the audience, but from that of the message.

PDF of Indiana Driver’s Manual

Bureau of Motor Vehicles License Branch

1612 LIBERTY WAY #A
(812) 336-3018

1.	Start at 830 W 7TH ST, BLOOMINGTON – go mi
2.	Turn Right on MAPLE ST – go 0.5 mi
3.	Turn Right on W 2ND ST – go 0.5 mi
4.	Continue on W BLOOMFIELD RD – go 1.5 mi
5.	W BLOOMFIELD RD becomes IN-45 SOUTH – go 0.3 mi
6.	Turn Right on LIBERTY DR – go mi
7.	Arrive at 1612 S LIBERTY DR # A, BLOOMINGTON, on the Right

Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Wednesday: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Saturday: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Birth Certificate (original not a copy) or Passport
State Driver’s License
Social Security Card
Proof of Indiana Residece (e.g checkbook, Indiana Car Registration, bank statement, utility bill)

To get license:
50 Question Test
Eye Exam (so bring glasses)

boxcar online inventory: I upgraded the replication software so the version on the boxcar computer now will e-mail me when there is a replication error. I had to implement this in a somewhat roundabout way since Python’s SMTP logging module wasn’t appropriate since it required a direct connection to an SMTP sever. Instead, I modified the replication program to use the HTTP logging module and then wrote a simple PHP program that receives the error log and then dispatches the mail message.

I added an administrative password to the router in the shop (can’t believe there wasn’t one before), and also changed the SSID and set up a WEP key.

boxcar online inventory: Due to concerns about disk usage, I reworked the backup script so it backs-up to my PC via ssh.

I also sent an e-mail to the jwebunit-users mailing list about the document.form.action = “checkout2.php” problem I’m having with the tests. I found this page that seems to indicate that it should work.

I was thinking of trying to project “what happened?” on a public wall using an old overhead projector powered by an inverter and a car battery.

Maybe look at the IU surplus store for the projector.

6 dozen cookies slideshow: I found a page that talked about how the size of CD audio in MB for calculating how big I can make the slideshow. This page says:

Every 1 Minute of Digital Audio or Video equals 8.75MB’s of Data

So, since Jad says that the audio is about 50 mins, then it would take up about 50 * 8.75M = 437.5 MB leaving me either 650 MB – 437.5 MB = 212.5 M or 700 – 437.5 M = 262.5 M (I’m not sure how much data can fit on a hybrid CD). This page has some info but I haven’t really interpretted it yet.

I also e-mailed Mary to ask how Bellweather wanted the enhanced CD to be submitted.