I’ve always heard the rumor or urban legend about powerlining rigs.  Powerlining is essentially launching a high test fishing line out with an anchor and several baited hooks.  Pitching a line out with several other smaller lines allows you to achieve distances (and in turn depths) that would be hard to achieve using the traditional rod and reel.

There are three main ways to pitch this monster line out into the water:

1. Throwing the anchor/weight by hand
2. Using a water balloon sling shot
3. Using the pressure of a CO2 tank (think potato gun)

Guess which one I’m interested in…. you guessed it… CO2 tank.

After perusing several messaging boards I’ve come up with the following bill of materials:

1. CO2 Fire extinguisher
2. 5ft of 1″ pipe
3. some sort of pipe adapter (I’ll figure that out once at home depot)
4. 12 oz 1″ x 2.5″ weight
5. 70′ of rubber band/cord
6. A couple hundred yards of 10-12 lb test
7. Reel
8. two large swivels
9. 10 smaller swivels
10. hooks
11. beads

Then my additonail ideas:

1. Door stopper spring
2. Dowel rod
3. Bell
4. Screweyes

The plan I’m working on… still need to add snelled hooks.

Resources:

• Homebrewtalk Forum

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Simple java syslog server: http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.12/12.10/JavaNetClasses/index.html

• Got a job at a media giant, that is somewhat sinking.
• Got enganged
• Picked up ruby and python (python is winning)
• Built a CCNA lab
• Got into microprocessors
• Started to brew beer
• Got more networking experience than ever before
• xbox with netflix changed my life.

Best Tech Things of the Year / Found Out About this Year (to me.. in all seriousness)

1. Adafruit Industries ( actually useful kits)
2. Ponoko ( next best thing to owning a laser cutter)
3. SlugPower (seriously my favorite hack of the year, it’s not hard to control a relay over serial.. but the integration and thought is awesome)
4. Netgate (for the diy router/firewall maker)
5. Drobo ( I’m allowed to say that.. I’ve built almost a dozen different NAS’s)

Here’s some stuff I got:

“We’re all mushroom men, … We’re all in the dark eatin our own shit -LLL”

“It’s a sacrifice to Murphy -LLL”

“Silence is agreement -LLL”

To list all files without extension:
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To sum the first column of values:
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awk ‘{tot=tot+$1} END {print tot}’

Today’s name abbreviated:
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Send an email message:
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mail -s “subject line” blah@blah.com < /path/to/file

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#Get Kilobytes for Today’s files into <date>daily with full path
find -f /data/ | grep -v “\.” | grep -e [Wed]/[0-9][0-9]$ | \
xargs du -k  > /home/staff/akonkol/scripts/$filename

• “find -f” will list the all the files/directorie’s full path
• “grep -v “\.” will find everything that is not a directory
• “grep -e” will find all paths that end with today’s abbreviation slash num num
• “xargs  du -k” will perform a “du -k” on every path that is piped in.

The imac kind of goes against everything I’ve ever wanted. I haven’t bought a put-together PC let alone an “all-in-one” machine in over 10 years. I’ve built dozens maybe even hundreds of machines at this point in my life. So… Why? Whenever I move it seems like I’ve collected more machines than the last time I moved. There is always (and almost overwhelming) collection of hardware which I have kept for the last few years.

I have less and less time to muck around with multiple machines and keep things for the sake of “oh thats going to be part of project z.” I had to consolidate… I got rid of my Pentium II machine I was using as a pf firewall and local dns, an other machine that was a frankenpix, and two micro-itx machines which were once a car computer, and a mythtv set top box.

Although I never thought I would buy a all-in-once machine ever, like ever… I really enjoy it. If I want to accomplish a task I can write a bash script and run it with cron, but if I want to watch movies and need a nice UI.. I have it.

Software I think is good… (many suggestions via decavolt)

• Quicksilver
• Little Snitch
• Griffin powermate
• KeePassX
• MarsEdit is not as good as Windows Live Writer
• Vmware Fusion

I hate the trash can… simple bash script to run in cron (runs on the 59th minute of every hour everyday:

59 * * * 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 /bin/rm -rf /Users/akonkol/.Trash/*

I’ve found there isn’t a lot of good freeware for Mac, useful programs you would find in a Windows environment for free are usually about $30-$40 in the mac world. Because of my current environment and a bet at work.. I’ve started learning ruby on rails… I’m also making a mouse.