my days lately:

aforementioned bear suits...yup.

pretty sailboats.

sand on the beach.

rehearsals in the forum.

trying on found necklaces.

packing.

being incredibly, incredibly sad about leaving chicago.

sigh.

I wrote about the GNU Radio project a long time ago, but my efforts were probably fairly incomprehensible . Today Wired has an excellent story that profiles the project, explains why it's so cool — and does so in more lucid terms.

The signal processing applications that are opened by this project are truly mind-boggling. The linked article mentions that some folks are already using it to track which department store window displays are the most popular by triangulating the cellular keepalive signals emitted by shoppers' cell phones. That's just astoundingly awesome.