Oh my. Y’all touched my soul. Two and a half months have flown since our pivotal tale of downsizing from Mighty Hogfish to a pair of micro-trimarans, and we have a lot of ground to cover in this issue… but first, I want to profoundly thank the 75 or so of you who took the…

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During the decade-long Microship project, I published 138 Status Reports as well as a few more general pieces in the old Nomadness series, and for years those were squirreled away in a rather obscure corner of my website as clunky text pages without any images. This one was pivotal, marking the transition from a frustrating…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California March 14, 1997 Arggggh! You called it a SINK! You have sealed your doom. David Berkstresser, referring to my foolish error in Issue #117 in describing the place where I’ll wash the dishes. One must never refer to a “sink” in a boat. We have…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California January 21, 1997 A whim, once watered with imagination, becomes a dream, and the best time to take your first step toward a dream is always yesterday; the worst time: tomorrow. Our best compromise is today. Alvah Simon, aboard Roger Henry Since this is the…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California December 22, 1996 Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress. Thomas A. Edison It has been a busy month in the Microship lab, and this date marks the approximate halfway point of our two-year tenancy here. I’d like to open this issue with…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California October 29, 1996 Five-year goal: Build the biggest computer in the world. One-year goal: Achieve one-fifth of the above. Seymour Cray, while at CDC in the early 1960’s Microship Photos At Last! In response to a growing volume of requests for images to go with…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California October 14, 1996 Those who fail do so because they wait for things to happen… Those who succeed do so because they make things happen …author unknown The Epic Bulkhead Project The structural bulkheads are almost done! This is one of those cases that clearly…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California September 19, 1996 There has been an alarming increase in the number of things I know nothing about. paraphrased (by Anomalous) from Anonymous Gizmology Attack The above quote, which brought an amused smile to my lips when I first saw it on Henry Cate’s humor…

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Microship Status Report #111 by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California September 6, 1996 “Nothin’ too strong ever broke.” — Maine proverb Rig Arrival And Glasswork Yikes! This is scary. There is now a 40-foot aluminum mast, with matching 16-foot boom, lying here in the Microship lab, poised for installation. One of…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs Santa Clara, California August 12, 1996 Law Number XLVIII: The more time you spend talking about what you have been doing, the less time you have to spend doing what you have been talking about. Eventually, you spend more and more time talking about less and less until…

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