tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540325683099363086Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:06:57 +0000SeagullsBeachHuntingLifeguardingProgrammingSimulatorPDKPortable Dog KillerThe weird ideas and methods of seagull hunting.http://seagullhunting.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Travis Edrington)Blogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540325683099363086.post-8404177671977743191Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:23:00 +00002011-08-28T11:23:45.107-05:00HuntingPDKPortable Dog KillerSeagullsOk, first off, this does NOT kill or harm dogs.  Just annoys them.  The device was created by Steve Gibson, one of my idols, when he was 12 or 14.  He is a computer security expert and programmer, host of the Security Now podcast from TWiT and developer of the hard drive repair program Spinrite as well as many other awesome stuff.In short, the Portable Dog Killer, or PDK, was made http://seagullhunting.blogspot.com/2011/08/portable-dog-killer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Travis Edrington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540325683099363086.post-8068559029737512569Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:36:00 +00002011-08-16T08:42:17.408-05:00ProgrammingSeagullsSimulatorThe other day I did the first step of the seagull simulator by making a mind map.  A mind map is a map of ideas using a hierarchy format.  It allows me to create ideas and list what goes with those ideas.There are two maps I made; one is what variables and methods are going into each object (seagull, people, so on).  An object is something I just need to create once, then can http://seagullhunting.blogspot.com/2011/08/mind-mapping-seagull-mind.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Travis Edrington)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540325683099363086.post-7200282528792693059Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:54:00 +00002011-08-15T23:56:02.627-05:00BeachLifeguardingProgrammingSimulatorSeagull HuntingBack between my junior and senior year, I spent about 10 days at a camp called Lead America. I took the engineering camp, and we had a lead instructor who is a physics professor who went to MIT.  One day he told us about an underground group he was in at MIT, which performed pranks on campus.  Multiple pranks involved disassembling cars and reassembling them in offices http://seagullhunting.blogspot.com/2011/08/seagull-hunting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Travis Edrington)0Ashland, WI, USA46.602914060306979 -90.86444791817018546.560505560306979 -90.917733418170187 46.64532256030698 -90.811162418170184tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5540325683099363086.post-679307149848997011Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:52:00 +00002011-08-15T23:55:43.823-05:00BeachHuntingLifeguardingSeagullsLast week or so, the beach I lifeguard at, Bayview Beach in Ashland, Wi, was closed due to high e-coli levels.  Part of the reason the e-coli levels were so high was due to seagulls and their poop.  When it rains, their poop, and everything that is in it gets washed into Lake Superior and can raise the e-coli.They tend to hang out near Bayview Beach as we have wood pilings that they canhttp://seagullhunting.blogspot.com/2011/08/lets-go-hunting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Travis Edrington)0Ashland, Wisconsin, USA46.605417158830356 -90.85856397758789245.940758658830354 -91.34418347758789 47.270075658830358 -90.3729444775879