The Arduino shield for 3G/GPRS from Cooking Hacks arrived today! Time to finish the whale sound recording buoy. Didier will provide the recording rig while we build the radio transmission and web parts. Fun!

It's amazing coffee. If you're into coffee you have to try this. The pound we brought back with us is already gone.

Atlanta certainly isn't a bookstore paradise like Boston, but I still managed to find some interesting reading material:

• "The Better Angels of Our Nature" by Steven Pinker
• "The Quiet War" by Paul McAuley
• "How the Hippies Saved Physics" by David Kaiser
• "Paradox" by John Meaney
• "Use of Weapons" by Iain M. Banks
• "This is Your Brain on Music" by Daniel J. Levitin
• "The Last Lingua Franca" by Nicholas Ostler
• "Liars and Outliers" by Bruce Schneier
• "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal

While I was on the road a couple of books arrived by mail:

• "Turing's Cathedral" by George Dyson
• "KaeLF Skin" by John Jurek
• "A Life of Philip K. Dick" by Lawrence Sutin

We deployed two new undersea recording rigs today. 

We are cooperating with Didier Mauuary from cyberio-dsi.com in Grenoble who is developing a new broadband submarine recorder for cetacean sounds. He needs to benchmark his new recorder against the existing products. The three recorders we deployed today using two rigs will record the same cetacean sounds over a three week period. 

Published in 1984 this book is still a red flag to economists, who believe in a "rational actor" with no memory of previous transactions.

An entertaining introduction to the world of symbolic computation. Lambda calculus, nice example programs, fun excercises and it's all Common Lisp.

The uCurrent combined with a multimeter will give me more accurate current measurements. Thanks Dave!

My new early morning book. It's intense, puzzling, opaque and strange, just like Dick during his 15 years of exegesis and hypergraphia.