Wesley R. Elsberry

David Frum Follows Akin into Idiocy

2012/08/202012/08/21 Wesley R. Elsberry

The breaking news story yesterday was Missouri Republican candidate for US Senate Todd Akin’s discussion of abortion and rape. On

Raspberry Pi

Pairing Raspberry Pi with Teensy++

2012/08/10 Wesley R. Elsberry

I am looking forward to getting a Teensy++ 2.0 microcontroller board. Teensy is a low-cost, small microcontroller based on Atmel

Law and Politics

Welfare and Lying with Statistics

2012/08/09 Wesley R. Elsberry

On Facebook, I ran across a graphic posted by “Things Liberals Hate” and shared by a Facebook friend. (The “share”

Computation Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi: More About Sound Recording

2012/07/24 Wesley R. Elsberry

I’ve moved on to the official Raspbian release. This OS image using the hardware floating-point capabilities on board the RasPi

Acoustics Computation Pocket PC Wildlife

Getting to an Inexpensive Audio Datalogger

2012/07/02 Wesley R. Elsberry

Well, I spent my Saturday morning programming a C# application for Windows Mobile 5 to periodically record audio. I was

Computation General

Discretion is a Corporate Bad Word

2012/06/23 Wesley R. Elsberry

Mike Dunford of “The Questionable Authority” blog relates an on-going negative experience with United Airlines. His wife is in the

Computation FreeBSD

FreeBSD: Good-bye, md5crypt

2012/06/21 Wesley R. Elsberry

The author of “md5crypt” considers it no longer safe for use in password encryption. This affects various *BSD systems, including

Acoustics Computation Electronics Raspberry Pi Science Wildlife

Not Everything is Easy in the Land of Raspberry Pi

2012/06/022012/06/02 Wesley R. Elsberry

I had the chance to work with my Raspberry Pi some more late last night and this morning. Quite a

Acoustics Computation Science Wildlife

Raspberry Pi First Run

2012/05/31 Wesley R. Elsberry

I checked the UPS tracking number periodically today. My Raspberry Pi was marked as delivered at about 2:30 today. When

Florida Law and Politics Science Wildlife

Official Interference in Biology

2012/05/30 Wesley R. Elsberry

We’ve heard tales of officialdom greasing the way for people to profit over the consideration of species and ecosystems. Now

Computation Electronics Science

Raspberry Pi On Its Way

2012/05/29 Wesley R. Elsberry

I got email from Newark today saying that they had shipped my Raspberry Pi. I should get it this week.

Acoustics Science Wildlife

Personal Research and the Budget

2012/05/14 Wesley R. Elsberry

Diane and I are working on a personal project to put together an acoustic sampling system that could yield information

Law and Politics

WWJBD?

2012/04/19 Wesley R. Elsberry

I see from the news that our armed forces have had another bad encounter with dead combatants, this latest kerfluffle

Florida General

Florida: Idiots Driving

2012/04/112014/09/22 Wesley R. Elsberry

Here’s another way the acronym “ID” could be instantiated: idiots driving. I commute to work, and yesterday morning I was

Acoustics Computation Science

Python and the STFT

2012/03/31 Wesley R. Elsberry

I’ve been going through biosonar data and while the SciPy specgram method is serviceable, I was interested in a short-time

Law and Politics Wildlife

The Cattleman’s Sage Grouse Rant

2012/03/26 Wesley R. Elsberry

An op-ed piece by Mike Deering, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association Director of Communications, lays out an argument to let

Antievolution Law and Politics

Time Article on Coppedge v. JPL

2012/03/19 Wesley R. Elsberry

Time’s web page has an article up by Jeffrey Kluger. Kluger is a lawyer and relates his reaction to the

Computation

Raspberry Pi: The Shopping List

2012/03/112012/03/11 Wesley R. Elsberry

I ordered a Raspberry Pi Model B computer from Newark, so now I’m waiting for stock to catch up with