Duckon 2012 prototype finished

The 3D printer figured big in this year's blinkie design. Not only is the battery holder printed, but I used a gerber-to-gcode conversion script to enable me to use the RepRap to lay down the ink on the blank PCB to make the prototype, and by the time June rolls around I may have a printed sleeve to go on it that diffuses the LED light.

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Book roundup July-December 2011

Not a record year but not bad. I've been pretty busy the last 3 months or so with 3D printing and a few other things so I dropped back a bit, or I think I might have come close to 100. I may set myself that as a goal this year. I'll have to get back into audio books to do it, I simply don't have time to read 2 books a week in print. In fact with my reading speed that might not actually be possible unless I read 8 hours a day, or read a bunch of < 300 page books.

2007 was the year that I realized that I had not read a book for pleasure in probably 5 years, and decided I didn't want to be that kind of person. This happened rather late in the year.

2007: 11
2008: 76
2009: 66
2010: 40
2011: 68

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