[emerg*ent misbeh@vior]

Personal blog of Shiloh Curtis. Fiber arts, keyboards, DIY, robotics.

Food Is Hard

The buying, making, and consuming of food is a very complex cognitive task. To my unrelenting annoyance, I still have to eat multiple times, per day, if I want to continue being alive and functional. Read more...

Yes, I Could Be Punctual If I Tried, But I Just Love Inconveniencing Others!

This post is making the rounds of some blogs I read, who have linked to it with approval. To be fair, it is pretty funny. Read more...

Visualize Everything

One of the best things you can do for yourself, debugging-wise, is visualization – this is especially true in robotics, where we deal nearly exclusively with things like: Read more...

You Should Learn To Sew

What are the most important General Life Skills that everyone should know? Or, to put it another way, if you could design the ideal Home Ec class, and Home Ec classes existed anymore, what would you teach? Read more...

Legibility and MIT's Mandatory Meal Plans

Update 22-Aug-2020: i fuckin' called it MIT’s policy for allowing students back on campus in the fall is upsetting a lot of students for a lot of reasons. Read more...

Living with Chronic Fatigue

I was diagnosed with my chronic illness (being a bit vague for the sake of privacy) in the fall of 2015. I’m still not great at coping with it, but I have learned some things. Read more...

Handle Detector

Last fall, I took 6.881 Intelligent Robot Manipulation (well, actually 6.881 is a “Special Subjects” course number, and when this course is offered again it’ll probably be renumbered, but that was the number I took it under). Read more...

You Are Not Immune To Amigurumi Crab

This free crochet pattern for an amigurumi crab is one of the cutest little guys I’ve ever seen. His little face is a delight! So, of course, I’ve made three of them (one for me and two as gifts). Read more...

Headphone Hooks

I did not set out in life to be an audiophile, but at some point in life you look around and realize that you’ve spent hundreds of dollars on headphones and developed strong opinions on their quality, and at that point it seems kind of silly to deny that you’re an audophile. Read more...

The Robot Is A Sweet Boy, Doing His Best

I see so many videos on social media of robots (usually from Boston Dynamics), with a flood of comments along the lines of “haha wow can’t wait for this thing to kill us all”. Read more...