1) Develop three rolls of film
2) Print contact sheets
3) Print three photos
4) Take the truck in for servicing (like hell I'm pulling the engine apart myself!)
5) Buy Adam a drink on his 21st
6) Find all the captured episodes of shows, podcast them
7) Vacuum the house
8) Log the two new Repo! Interview tapes
9) Transcribe Repo! Interviews and highly rated clips
10) Take a crapload more pictures
11) Pick up film from Sarah/Frances
12) Repay Frances and Sarah for the film
13) Go to the store for vitamins, etc
Things that could be done, but aren't on a deadline for this week:
1) Capture highly rated Repo! Clips
2) Third phase of TV Doc Techniques proposal
3) Letters for the troops (LPH)
4) Whit Article (LPH)
5) Sacrifice a goat to Apophis in the hopes he doesn't cause me trouble
6) Eating
7) Sleeping
Things Held Over (low priority tasks):
1) Clean my room
2) Create DoK character sheet
3) Buy plane ticket home
4) Reset the clock radio in my bed room
5) Find the Car DC-to-USB adapter I've misplaced
6) Mail in checks for my mom to cash (not low priority, but definitely held over)
7) Mail in my Sony Reader PRS-500 for the firmware upgrade that Sony believes I'm too stupid to install myself
8) Clean off my hard disks
Things cancelled:
1) NaNoWriMo (I only have 1,500 words down. No way in hell I'm catching up without sacrificing my classwork and class attendance)
2) Watching an episode of House air live (possible resumption with the next season)
3) Social Life and all related things (From now until about Dec 19, and from about Jan 12 until mid-late May)
Things still in progress:
1) Not dying
2) Not being a dick (invoking Wheaton's Law)
3) Novembeard (not strictly speaking, personal measurement)
4) Come up with concepts for Venue articles
5) RTN Website relaunch
6) Coming up with excuses to not be asleep, then regretting it in the morning
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Brilliant Idea 1: Integrate a QR Code reader into BBOS. It's simple enough. You've got the code in BlackBerry Messenger 5. The advantage is that you'll be making a big push forward to bring QR Codes into the US. They've been a hit in Japan, and if you start to make QR Codes mainstream in the US, you could corner a market, much like the movie 9 has done with the people of this thread: http://forums.crackberry.com/f83/bbm-5-b
Brilliant Idea 2: Integrate an FRS/GMRS radios into a do-it-all BlackBerry. Naturally, it'd have to be a bit fatter and have a bigger battery, but in workplace situations where people are carrying around ruggedized Nextels and FRS/GMRS radios anyway, it wouldn't be that big a deal. It'd be one more technology to extend into, and would be a great asset to people in event management, radio-based workplaces (businesses like Borders have taken advantage of FRS technology), and so on. It certainly would be advantageous to have.
Brilliant Idea 3: Come up with some cool ideas and actually use them. Srsly, RIM, you're falling behind a LOT these days. Pick up the slack.
My first thought is to fire up the Bluetooth Transfer Tool and send the file. This whole process is a bit of a pain, actually, because you start the program, find your file, find your device, and hit send. I think "well, it has to be in the context menu!" Well, it is... two layers deep. Very un-Apple like. I'd expect this from a Windows Mobile or Symbian phone, perhaps even my BlackBerry, but not OS X.
Well, I found it. After some tweaking, I got Saratoga to appear in the context menu for future convenience. But there's still one more flaw. So I click the "Send To" and then "Saratoga" menus, but this happens:
I still have to select my destination! This is so very screwed up. Come on, Apple. You make doing anything except connecting a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse (and then only your own) less convenient than it ought to be. On the up shot, though, I STILL don't know how to send files off of my MacBook Pro when running in Windows XP.
This might just be the most awesome day where I've had an 8 A.M. class in my entire life. Here's my justification for that:
I did the whole up-and-out-of-the-house-in-40-minutes thing totally successfully. Even though I slept in 35 minutes past my alarm (7:05 A.M. EST is when I woke up... or thereabouts), I was able to get up, get dressed, clean up, and make an English Muffin to eat. Bonus props: I wasted time to watch NASA hit the moon with a probe/rocket, and STILL had time to get out. Sweet!
Still hungry, I was able to get to WaWa, where my morning only improved further. "We Didn't Start The Fire" came up on ye olde truck's randomizer, I fixed me up some coffee (so I dodged a bullet with the WaWa Mach W rot-gut), and by the time I was done preparing it, the line at the check-out was totally gone, they had Sizzlis, and I had exact change.
My awesome morning didn't stop there. I get into Physics, on time, and I have 10's on all of my make-up work, and 91% on my test (which, according to my professor, is the hardest test we'll have all semester). Punched all those maths into Schoolhouse, came up with a 97% grade for the class.
Bonus Points: I ended up parking next to a Jag. Don't know why, but that made me chuckle. Convenient parking spot too.
Double Bonus Points: Seems like most everyone else this morning isn't doing too bad either.
Triple Bonus Points: This class won't be happening next Wednesday, or (I think, I need to confirm this) next Friday!
I was never alone on my walk home. Overhead, Orion kept watch. The thunderstorm ahead lit my way, and the moon watched my back, while the blinking red light beckoned me home.
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Since I've been going to school, I've had the problem of my room being in the attic. My walls is the roof, so I have to work with this 45º angle, which means if anything is taller than a foot has to be out in the middle of the floor. This means no bookcases, no shelves, no desks.
So a blessing in disguise happened over the summer: my aunt and uncle's TV bit the dust. And it was baseball season. So naturaly, they cannibalized the TV in my room for their needs. They had managed to, in the past, fit the TV in my room by putting it on a coffee table. With the TV gone, this left a lot of room.
Well, my aunt mentioned this at one point, and I realized: use the damn coffee table as a desk! Go all Japanese style. So I'm now sitting in front of the floor, with a perfectly servicable desk. And it's set up better than I could have expected. To my left is my auxiarly screen, and I've got my TV tuner hooked up to the FiOS line (my antenna doesn't pick up WHYY over where I've put it now, and Ioves me some Nova). For a little more fun, and because Verizon doesn't let me have any fun, I took the video out of the FiOS box and piped it into my tuner, so now I can actually watch non-broadcast channels now (yay! MythBusters!).
I've got a big working surface, though it does have grooves in it (I might want to get something to cover that), and space to put things (like my tablet), a second screen, and a lot of opportunities. Now I just need to find a floor-level chair that's comfortable. My back hurts.
I'm sitting down, "Mask of Zorro" is on TV (we managed to avoid "Ghost Rider" by VoDing "I Escaped From Devil Island" where we watched a man having his nipples twisted by an English prison guard), and someone is imparting his revelations to three other in the space behind my chair. But the music is so loud that I can't make out what they're saying anyway.
I feel like a cultural anthropologist, observing that which is alien to me. I'm observing a culture that I barely understand in the hopes of learning. Only the girl on the couch next to me is joining me in staring deeply into her BlackBerry. Me on my 8900, she on her 8220. I take note of what I see, constructing a model of rules and laws, one of which includes shouting "OOOOOOaaaaaAAAAAHHHHH!" Whenever "Dayman" is mentioned. I have taken prodigious advantage of this rule, solely for my own amusement. I observe, report, ponder, and consider, all while trapped within the constructs of my own society.
Screw it, I'm getting a shot.
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See and download the full gallery on posterous
It seems they haven't changed the layout from a couple years ago.
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
You populate your own #lounge channel with the people you find interesting. For the most part, most of the really cool people idle, and every once in a while someone mentions something interesting. You can even change Nicks.
Sometimes you join a #channel on a certain topic, typically with a search, or in the old days with a Track (apparently the new Search API is bringing it back, in a way). The typical /list is just the Trending Topics, but there's more out there.
Both Twitter and IRC are plaintext, and have no image support. Where Twitter differs is that DCC file transfers are gone (I never could DCC files anyhow), and message limits are strictly enforced. However, neither Twitter nor IRC have a proper conversation threading system, so conversations tend to intertwine and overflow one another. Lagging still leads to multiple parallel conversations with the same person. You've still got DMs/PMs, and your client influences your experience with its own features (context highlighting, alerts, link expansion, search, etc), the only difference is that the conversations are slower, still better with a human (but Bots are useful), and the conversation can follow you around with SMS (or mobile apps). Typically newer users use the website, and power users use apps (or FireFox add-ons). And some things never change. Spam is spam, flooding is discouraged, and Laconi.ca let's you join other servers. Put your crash log in a pastebin, and no stealing other people's nicks.
For one, Republicans. Shut up about the deficite! You certainly haven't cared about it for the past eight years, but now that it's a convenient excuse to torpedo the President's proposed health care plan, it's a valid concern? Uh uh, you don't get to do that, not after wasting hundreds of millions on a missile defense system that doesn't work. Not after investing in inadequate protection for our ports eight years ago and forgetting to fix it later. I'm sure we could find plenty of other pork barrel spending too. You don't get to turn coat just because it's politically convenient. I believe you guys coined the phrase "flip flopping" to describe this. Also, it's not economically sound to worry about this now. Keep the economy alive, and go talk to some real economists, not the witch doctors you hired because they agree with your opinions.
News Media: shut up about Michael Jackson! He's dead. Don't make a big deal over the DEA investigating someone: make a big deal when they find something. And I don't care about the custody battle over his kids, or videos of his last practice, or other things like that. If I cared, I'd visit Hollywood gossip pages and watch Hollywood gossip shows. Also, shut up about inconsequential deaths. The Taco Bell dog died? The one from like ten years ago? Ok, how does this impact my world? It doesn't. I care more that the inventor of WD40 died. I use that intention. I think the government buys that stuff by the Barrel. Also, Twitter can shut up about Michael Jackson too. Except @radiocolin. The stories he links to are often interesting. You get a free pass on everything because you're smart.
Sarah Palin needs to shut up about the news media. As someone working in television I felt personally offended when you suggested that the news "stop makin' stuff up." I'm sorry, but last I checked, no major news outlet was fabricating news stories outright, and most of the news outlets you're complaining about are covering upset Alaskans and people pressing charges against you for ethics violations. This all seems very legitimate media coverage, and is critical to the functioning of the government and justice department. Please don't make me start listing how many parallels there are between you and the Nixon White house prior to Nixon's resignation. Also, weren't you just railing against the Obama Health Plan, and now you're not-so-against that? Isn't that kind of decision making the reason John Kerry was unworthy to be President?
And conservatives! You ought to be ashamed of yourself for starting all these fights in town hall meetings. You're adults for God's sake! Act your age, not your shoe size! You think liberals are brainwashed? Look at yourselves! You're having a knee-jerk reaction to talk show hosts who have pointed out a heading on "end of life care," and told you the government was going to demand euthanasia! For crying out loud, read beyond that! Do some research! It's services like living wills, hospice care, and preventative care! if you look at your own health insurance policy they also include a section on "end of life care" too, even using that exact phrase. While you're at it, look at the rest of the concept. We're not socializing health care, the Government is going to offer low-cost health insurance to people who can't afford private care. In case you haven't noticed, health care is REALLY expensive. Have you ever seen the price of common diagnostic services these days? And what makes a government more likely to deny you care than a private company? If anything, a private company is more likely to deny you coverage because it effects their profit margin. Act like adults! I know teenagers in public schools who demonstrate better critical thinking skills than you agent provectours do.
GM, you're not getting a lot of praise from me for the 230 MPG Volt. You've had crazy-high efficiency cars for years that you're sat on for a hell of a long time. I remember you had a prototype car in the late '90s that got 88 MPG. Then there was the EV-1. Hell, you made it impossible to get that car, despite demand that existed. Mel Freaking Gibson had to write a letter to prove he was worthy to own a car. Then you ripped it from the owners hands with no reason or explanation and cubed them out in the desert in secret. Now you've been run into the ground and you want praise for the Volt? At $40,000 after government rebates, too little too late. At least Ford had the smarts to stay afloat during this economic downturn. It's beyond me how Ford has managed to turn a profit these days, even before Cash for Clunkers started up. Let's hear it for Ford: the company who has management with a brain!
I'd tell the Internet to shut up about FriendFeed and FaceBook, except that's actually news, and things are actually happening (and quickly I might add!)
Sorry for the rant, but some things have just gotten way too far out of hand.
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Props to Microsoft for including an FM transmitter, HD playback, and an HD Radio in the Zune HD, but it's not enough. In my opinion, here's how Microsoft can make a real competitor out of the Zune.
First, they need Mac software. And it has to be able to read/write the iTunes Library. A lot of your Opinion Leaders (as they're called in advertising) are Mac users. If they need to boot into Windows to use this thing, they won't even look at it. Apple learned this lesson with the first generation iPod. They got something that worked, and eventually ported iTunes to Windows. Platform exclusivity is out: get all the sales you can. No one is going to switch to Windows because of the Zune.
Second, get your shit together. All Microsoft products should speak Zune. The XBox should be able to read a Zune, and probably even write custom playlists to the Zune. Why not even let it use the HD Radio? It should be one big, happy, Microsoft ecosystem with features you can't find anywhere else.
Third, the Zune should not be a piece of hardware, it ought to be an environment. iTunes is not just a piece of software: it exists on multiple platforms. The iPod and iPhone are just extensions of iTunes (much like your failed Media Center Mobile was supposed to be). So the Zune should basically me Microsoft Media (if you will). Windows Media Player is gone, and Zune takes over. Zune software (and basic environment) should replace Windows Media Player on mobile devices, and provide a hook so users can easily access media playback controls (like they do on the iPod Touch). This extends the Zune brand to other platforms. It gives people an idea of what to expect on a dedicated piece of hardware.
On the Zune, let the Windows Mobile show a little bit. Give us a Browser, and not crappy Pocket Internet Explorer, but license a real mobile browser (like Opera or something) and let us use that. Also, give us an application-driven environment. Have your Zune-approved app environment, but let Power Users have some fun too (it's what you're good at!). It should give you the best of both worlds in users eyes: a guaranteed safe-and-stable world with the option to take some risks.
Fourth, Keep the Interface fresh. Apple's products do so well because they're easy to work with. The Zune's got a good interface, but there are always improvements that can be made. Remember that the goal is to get where the user wants to go, as quickly as possible, with as little effort as possible. This means the buttons on my Zune will do the exact same thing, no matter what I'm doing.
Last, but not least, fifth: keep innovating. I don't mean keep slapping on stuff, because feature creep is bad, but keep coming up with new ways for us to interact with our Zune. For example, give us a Zune Messenger, which looks for other Zune users in WiFi range. Let me share my library over WiFi so other Zune users in range can see what I have in my library, can stream the song, then download it if they like it. Match Apple on features: buy music on the go, download Podcasts on the fly, things like that. Take the Microsoft ecosystem everywhere. Make Live Everywhere work, so people on XBox Live can see I'm online and listening to music on my Zune, let 'em send me messages, and let me reply. Integrate components of the XBox into the Zune: let me buy stuff from the XBox Live Marketplace on my Zune, and have my XBox download them when it comes online, or let me use it Zune as a remote for other devices, similar in the way Apple's remote app for iPhone works. There's a lot of cool stuff that can be done, just make it happen!
If Microsoft can do all of that, it should put serious pressure on Apple's sales. Remember, outside of Tech circles, Microsoft isn't a dirty word. There are a ton of Microsoft mice and keyboards on PCs, and let's not forget the success of the XBox. What needs to happen is that the Zune division does as Microsoft Games has done, and leave the Windows corporate climate behind. This isn't a Microsoft product, it's a product that is made by Microsoft.
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So what about this is news? Every other week Fox News runs a story about some teacher accused of having an affair with a student, so it's not like this is unheard of. And when you have about one adult in contact with about 30-40 kids on a daily basis, it makes sense that, statistically speaking, a number of those adults would be accused of having an affair with one of those kids. It also makes sense that a number of those accusations would be incorrect.
So why are we potentially ruining this woman's life on national television? And how is this news if it's a statistical inevitability? Why not report on something that's actually news, like the events in Iran? Or the civil unrest in South Africa. Come on, do some real work. I know you're just The Early Show, but that's no reason to slack.
I'm quite bored right now. I figured this was the best time to test Posterous. I've really got nothing better to do right now than trash my BlackBerry's batter (I've been using it pretty hard core today).
While I'm bored, I'm considering what to eat for dinner... Ravioli, mac and cheese, or should I go out for some pizza from the local pizza place?
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So, say hello to Old Fraud. Old Fraud (named after the House character) is a Macintosh Classic II, with a build date of October 1992. Old Fraud has Macintosh System Software 7.5.3 (revision 2) on a Motorola 68030 processor (It’s closest cousin can be found in the Palm III) with 4 MB of RAM (you will typically find flash drives with about 512 times that much storage on them today), a black-and-white screen with a resolution of about 512x342 (very odd resolution, though higher than your typical smartphone).So I’m sure you’re wondering at this point, what can a seventeen year old computer be good for these days? After all, I own an early 2008-era MacBook Pro (named Ayanami) with enough computing power to emulate about a thousand Mac Classic II’s, and has 1,024 times as much RAM, a much bigger screen, with more colors, is more capable, has WiFi (Old Fraud doesn’t even have a built-in modem), and is significantly more portable (though Old Fraud has a carrying handle and requires only two plugs, it is significantly heavier). What’s the point? Perhaps it's an exploration of retrocomputing, maybe it's an attempt to get back to basics, to get into the habbit of writing (tinged with shades of my technolust), a study of history, or an attempt to understand (probably revel in) retrocomputing. Either way, it's certainly out of the ordinary (and that's how I like things).
When I bought my MacBook Pro I bought it with a near-excessive amount of power because I knew I was going to use that power for video editing. Indeed, I have used that impressive 2.8 GHz Core 2 Duo to do more than a few edits, including a light smattering of work in Motion and AfterEffects. But outside of that, do I really need the excessive power of Ayanami for the rest of the stuff I do? No, not really. Most of the stuff I do is web browsing, Twitter, and writing papers. For all of this, a netbook would have done the job. I find all of the power at my disposal to be distracting. Every few minutes, I’m checking my Twitter feed, popping over to FaceBook or Spymaster, watching videos, things of that nature. The Classic II was something like the netbook of it’s time (well, closer related to nettops): it did most of the common every day stuff. It let you run a card file, a a spreadsheet, databases, word processing, those kinds of things. this made me wonder: why not do the same thing now? I’ve already got the machine and all the hardware I need to make it work. I was given a USB disk drive, so I can move data to and from it. It has a copy of Word 5 (and copies of 5.1 aren’t hard to find). It’s relatively stable, and most of all: distraction free.
At the moment, I’m writing this entire essay on Old Fraud (though pictures and posting is going to be handled by Ayanami, mostly because the JPGs for the images are big enough to fill a large portion of a 3.5” disk) while Ayanami makes itself useful by testing out Hulu Desktop. While writing this, I’ve gotten a quizzical look from my sister who is younger than this computer (though only by a month), who doesn’t understand my attachment to the machine.
Anyone who knows me will confirm that I’ve got quite a lust for information. A lot of my interest is historical. I know almost everything there is to know about modern computers, except there are big holes in how we got here. Why did we decide to implement a short messaging service into the GSM specification? What was the inspiration for USB’s four-pin design when its predecessor had nine? It also answers mysteries of the present: how does a Serial-to-USB adaptor work? How can we use these old printers on a modern computer? In this case, it’s the history of the computer that is currently feeding me a decent dose of Babylon 5. From using this computer I can gleam a look into the history behind the Command button, the Apple menu, and bits and pieces like Aliases.
All of this is retrocomputing. It’s the geek equivalent to buying an old car and maintaing it. Since it’s not my main production machine I can afford to play around with it. I have the curiously entertaining task of hunting down legacy parts in odd and different places. I make contacts with other retrocomputing enthusiasts with whom I swap anectodes and tips. I get to engage in dubious repairs such as hitting the hard disk with the butt of a screwdriver to fix an unreadable disk (and it worked!).
Like being an old car enthusaist, retrocomputing has to face with the problems of lack of documentation (especially with Macintoshes), hard-to-find parts, and the limitations of the original device. Perhaps, however, that those are the appealing sides of retrocomputing. Dealing with problems that seem otherwise insurrmountable. Working within limits. No, pushing limits. Seeing how far you can take this old, tiny, limited machine go. Seeing what you can make it do. Taking it beyond it’s expected operating parameters and creating something wholly new from it all. Limits make for challenges, the make us be inventive and ingenious, to get around them, or make something work in spite of them.
A perfect example of what I'm talking about is multitasking. In truth, it began on UNIX systems, but for most users it began with the Macintosh. Not the original Macintosh, but 1988 with Macintosh System 5 as "MultiFinder" on the Mac Plus (http://bit.ly/chSfm). It became the first consumer system to allow simultaneous execution of program on a processor that could only handle one task at a time. This is something we currently take for granted (except for iPhone owners) as everything in our lives multitask, from our cell phones to our cable boxes. Once consumers started running multiple programs, the race was on to develope more efficient ways of multitasking. It started with cooperative multitasking, and this lead to pre-emptive multitasking in operating systems, and the development of computers with more RAM to support simultaneous programs, and eventually to technologies like HyperThreading and multi-core technology, which actually puts two separate and distinct processors into a single chip. It all started with a computer that ran an operating system sold in 1987, working with less than a meg of RAM. For comparison, your average digital photograph these days takes up around 1MB (unless it's taken with a cell phone).
So that's what this is. It's an attempt to develop good habbits, with a wild goose chase down history, wrapped in a challenge, within limits that are to be pushed, draped in a juicy bit of knowledgesauce.
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- 17:38 @gruber Nokia N95. The N82, E71, N96 and N97 support it too, but the N95 is the most popular. #
- 18:00 Oh God, just heard Picard deliver the "A Starfleet officer's first duty is to the truth!" speech. First thing came to my mind: Picard Song. #
- 18:13 @grantimahara Probably not. If I'm immune to all human frailties and flaws, how can I truly have the human experience? #
- 18:17 @playspymaster So any plans on EVER explaining the details on Safehouses? OK, the revenue is ÂŁ3k, but how often/over how long? #
- 18:34 @wilw To a degree, that's true. In our lives, there is a lot of relativity. TV news overdoes it, but it's important to remember this is temp #
- 18:41 Oh my God! Cream of Chicken soup! I haven't had this since I was like 10 or something! #
- 20:15 @i_am_becoming Well, at least you can still incapacitate someone with a touch, be smart, and influence people through walls. #
- 21:04 @gruber Apparently SkyFire has full Flash support. It runs on S60 and WinMo phones. #
- 21:17 @sphereEversion "House Lite"? I just can't get into USA Originals these days. They seem too two dimensional. #
- 21:25 @sphereEversion It wouldn't surprise me. The shows all seem too plastic, too lightweight. Monk is the best, but Burn Notice et al, nuh uh. #
- 21:30 @sphereEversion I dunno. I can see how people like it, but it doesn't work for me. Is it me, or do all USA shows take place in the same area #
- 21:36 @sphereEversion Yeah, I've been ignoring Tosh.0. We're watching shows off of DVDs right now. I recommend Hulu. #
- 21:51 Lore, what an asshole. #STTNG #
- 22:05 @aheartofstars Huh, so they do have a Get Satisfaction thingy. #
- 23:38 I found this adorable thing on my bed. twitgoo.com/nz2h Not quite what most guys hope for in their bed, but I'll take it. #
- 23:39 @donttrythis Awww! Who wants a Granty Snack? #
- 23:49 @aheartofstars I think she's exceptionally lazy and spends her time in my room because no one looks for her here. I <3 her anyway. :3 #
- 00:41 @xistentialprof Take it as a compliment. #
- 08:07 Ok, this is weird. Yesterday I wake up at 9 w/o outside interference (people, alarms, etc). Today I wake up at 8? I normally sleep in! #
- 08:13 @Authentick That's a lie! No one "chills" with a PS3: it gets hot enough to cook their food! #
- 09:29 Oh look! Our phones arrived, three work days early. Damn you UPS and your highly efficient delivery system! This is early! EARLY! #
- 11:03 @MontyMime LOL. What kind of dog are they riding? A Newfie? #
- 11:32 Now I know why @NushKo hates shopping with our mom. #
- 12:11 @Producerman87 reading about you twittering about updating your FaceBook status ;) #
- 12:11 @xistentialprof I miss Rock Band. :( #
- 12:25 Getting my lingon berry juice fix. tinyurl.com/leasb8 #
- 14:13 @i_am_becoming Score! #
- 14:16 @radiocolin You know, I thought it looked OK. Since there's a White Castle up near me, next time I feel like punishing myself I'll try it. #
- 14:38 @i_am_becoming Why not just record yourself with an audio recorder? There are transcribing programs you can get to transcribe afterwards. #
- 14:38 @i_am_becoming And even if you don't get the transcription software/it doesn't work, at least you've saved your ideas. #
- 16:26 @donttrythis how meta! #
- 16:37 @i_am_becoming Aww! What's wrong? #
- 16:52 twitgoo.com/o6qg - My new desk! Very Ikean. #
- 17:03 @radiocolin At the moment, not much. I'm planning to do writing with it (about all it's good for right now). I even have a USB floppy drive. #
- 19:34 Listening to Goomba talk about teaching autistic kids and his troubles with curriculums. He and my mom can go for hours. #
- 19:42 Oh, thank you, Phone, for just randomly up and dying. Not even shutting down, just *¤blink!¤* Off! #
- 20:55 Srsly? Did I just roll a pair of D10's a get double-0s? Epic fail. :( #
- 20:56 IT JUST HAPPENED AGAIN! #
- 21:16 Playing Munchkin with Goomba not smart. He won't help unless I give him all the treasures. "You've never played this with a Jew, have you?" #
- 21:19 Aaaaaand my dad just shanghai'd the game by talking to Goomba about his conservative political books. Can we go back to playing now? #
- 21:48 @xistentialprof At least you still have a free trial. #
- 21:52 Goomba talking about kosher alcohols, and @i_am_becoming talking about fanfics. Fun conversations, good times. #
- 21:56 Me and my kitty! tinyurl.com/ogdeva #
- 21:57 I just wounded @xistentialprof in an assassination attempt. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
- 23:03 @Whspr2AScrm13 That's not the cute one, that's the trouble maker. But we love him regardless. I'll show you the cute one later. #
- 00:06 RT @BrentSpiner: twitgoo.com/n4ac #
- 00:24 @i_am_becoming Ooh, I hear the animated show was quite bad at times. Where the hell did you find that? #
- 00:32 @i_am_becoming Oh I see. Could be worse, at least you're not keyboard smashing all your tweets. #
- 00:42 I like the new Intel ad with Ajay Abaht. Nerd rock stars FTW. #
- 01:11 @MrMadsen Me too. Too bad SqEnix made it impossible to solo the game & partying takes forever. If they fix it & make a Mac ver, I'm so there #
- 01:59 @MrMadsen Well, I still wish they had a Mac version. Rebooting into Windows is such a pain. #
- 02:00 @sphereEversion I dunno, I think later DS9 was pretty damn good. The Dominion War and stuff. Final episode sucked, though. #
- 02:15 @sphereEversion Early TNG was beyond cheesy. I liked season 4 and later. Enterprise had some good moments, mostly mediocre. VOY not so good. #
- 02:15 @sphereEversion DS9 basically got good right around the 3rd season or so, right before Worf shows up and Ron D. Moore starts writing more. #
- 09:20 @Whspr2AScrm13 No kidding. First we had Watchmen, then Twitter hit mainstream, Star Trek, Wolverine. The Geeks are taking over. #
- 09:22 @BBwerner It's the new OS. Palm OS is finally dead. I don't get the draw of deving for Web OS. Ppl complained when iPhone only did web apps. #
- 10:16 @Whspr2AScrm13 Not yet. We're the vocal (and growing) minority. I say BRING IT! NERD POWER! #
- 10:17 @BBwerner I know, I don't get it. I suppose at least WebOS apps run locally, don't req web access. Or maybe just the UI is designed w/ web. #
- 10:29 @radiocolin Notifications as in how it notifies you of stuff, or how an application can actually notify you? #
- 10:31 @gregory_house I found someone who disagrees with your diagnosis: bit.ly/eGZvy #
- 10:45 @radiocolin Yeah, the pop-ups are pretty annoying. Can't it just beep & put an icon on the top of the screen like S60/BB/WM/Everything else? #
- 10:55 @radiocolin The Springboard is OK, for like one or two pages, four or more becomes a pain. Hopefully 3.0's search should make that easier #
- 11:12 ROFL: NetZero's plan for Broadband users to save $300/yr: Switch to dial-up. If I didn't care about broadband, I wouldn't have bought it. #
- 11:25 @radiocolin No. Jocks still rule elementary and high schools. So long as we nerds concede that, we'll have (some) peace. #
- 11:26 @radiocolin Jocks like their cell phones, computers, wifi, HDTVs, bluetooth headsets, 7.1 sound systems, biomed tech too much. #
- 12:09 Oh wow. I thought Airport was bad, Airport 1975 is worse! Oh the misogyny and sexism! #
- 12:21 @billamend So? Manually generate power! I remember finding a guy who drove to campus with NO belts in his car at all. No biggie! ;) #
- 12:36 @billwolff Nuh uh, tinnyarro.ws is shorter. http://âžą.ws/ä…¬ #
- 12:39 @aharcharek With my freeze ray I will stop... the pain! #
- 12:46 Oh man, Airplane! has Airport 1975's number! Sick girl, singing nun, jive talking kids, chatty kids, the works! #
- 13:52 Crunching the numbers on my internship. #
- 13:58 @radiocolin WTF was that!? He laid down, got run over, and walked away!? #
- 13:59 @Whspr2AScrm13 I've seen Airplane! before, but I hadn't seen Airport 1975 before. #
- 14:42 One thing that amazes me is that modern smartphones can do TTY, Text messages, email with attachments, tethering, but can't do faxes! Srsly #
- 14:45 @radiocolin No, but at some point on the line the cell goes into the standard phone net. Just put a data-to-fax translator there and done! #
- 15:06 @janole Perhaps an "insert hashtag" thing might be helpful, like how #Twibble has an "insert location" thing. #
- 16:05 @sphereEversion I dunno, man. There's a LOT of faxing still going on in corporate America. I was thinking it'd be a "why not!" feature #
- 16:10 @sphereEversion Maybe the guy who can answer your question isn't in until 8 tomorrow? Maybe he's out sick, or day off, early day? #
- 16:29 @Authentick That's wickety-wickety-wickety-wack yo. #
- 16:43 I just attempted to assassinate @NiaNaia, but failed. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
- 16:53 Just tried a Babybel cheese piece. Took a bite out of it, and *then* noticed the string to remove the wax with. D'oh! #
- 18:34 Look out! This is the Tetris hammock biznitches! tinyurl.com/oz7rwx #
- 18:51 twitpic.com/6hz2j - Alright! Level 13! I still got it! (bring it on, @aheartofstars! Wanna try WiFi connect?) #Tetris #
- 19:20 @aheartofstars If you have a DS, do it. So many cool new play modes, including puzzles. Best Tetris since Tetris DX. #
- 19:43 Bam, just ordered the T-Mo equipment. Switch is official. #
- 20:32 @i_am_becoming Did he attempt to catch a falling cannon ball or something? #
- 20:50 The moment my dad is in 100% agreement with the LDS (like gays) anyone who challenges it is immediately wrong. Even if they're an insider. #
- 21:06 @jesslandolfi How you holding up? Surprising tiring, isn't it? #
- 21:08 Note to self: write a letter to the LDS asking them to NEVER baptise me after I'm dead. If I want it, I'll come to you. #
- 21:25 @xistentialprof Well, at least they're never going to give you up. #
- 21:48 New thing learned today: My dad likes The Office. #
- 21:57 @jesslandolfi You're riding on a DC-9, right? That's a biggun. #
- 22:13 @sphereEversion Was a good show. I think it's waning these days. But then again, so is the way of most shows. #
- 23:01 OK, Bravo. We're officially drawing the line at NYC Prep. Actually, I drew the line at The Real Housewives of XXX. My mom & sis just woke up #
- 23:04 "I treat my clothing like my kids." I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. #
- 23:36 Ooohhhh crap! I need to get two people to sign a form, neither of which are near. I can fax this to people, but I can't *receive* faxes. #
- 12:46 Phone: check. Wallet: check. Money: check. Spine: check. Orange Crush: uncheck. Verdict: don't follow me. #
- 13:05 @CasualVader Nope, just relaxing a bit. #
- 13:05 Oh, thank you phone for telling me that I missed a phone call and got a voice mail AN HOUR AGO. #
- 13:06 @StarterArm Aww man! That sucks! What happened? #
- 13:13 twitgoo.com/mygx - Back at Gerten's. #
- 13:42 twitgoo.com/myog - One of the things I love about going flower shopping is all the vivid colors you never see anywhere else these day #
- 13:51 Don't mess with me, or I'll sic my snapdragons on you! tinyurl.com/qlwrld #
- 14:24 @BBwerner haba ti avee ana ba? (I speak fluent Sim) #
- 15:07 @StarterArm Oh, a resume stain? Well, still sucks that you're unemployed. #
- 15:14 Mountain Dew "Game Fuel?" WTF is this? Just an excuse for Blizzard to peddle Warcrack? #
- 17:53 @billwolff Thanks for the offer. As far as internship, it's all paperwork. As far as RTN, we buy/own our stuff. #
- 17:54 @billwolff We are looking into doing streaming, but we need to talk to IT/NSS ourselves to see if it's viable first. #
- 19:29 twitpic.com/6foqp - Ominous clouds over the river. #
- 19:30 @i_am_becoming Visit a nearby coffee house and borrow their Internet? #
- 19:39 twitgoo.com/mhyw - And that's the sky we had earlier today. #
- 20:00 @i_am_becoming You're... supervising. Someone's gotta do it. #
- 20:01 Ooohhhh snap! Yesterday's Enterprise is on Sci-Fi! #
- 20:24 @i_am_becoming K/S is OK (good ground work, next movie should flesh it out quite well), I still don't get Spock/Uhura. #
- 20:30 @StarterArm I know. It's one of favorites. #
- 20:31 @xistentialprof Yeah, that's what I thought. I think it cheapened Uhura as a character. #
- 20:56 @grantimahara Wow, talk about high security! #
- 21:00 @thegizwiz That's lame! How the hell did they usurp your phone number!? #
- 21:10 Alright! Iron Chef Japan! And it's Iron Chef Sakai (French) vs. Iron Chef Morimoto (Japanese)! 2nd Semi-Finals, bring it on! #
- 21:21 @trent_reznor No, you forgot that Twitter is better at disseminating paranoia and disinformation than it is at truth. #
- 21:35 Oh, the tragic story of Lal. #
- 22:08 @sims ROFL #
- 22:38 @radiocolin Exciting. #
- 23:20 LOL, everyone just Twittered the line I thought about twittering, but didn't (that was about Twitter). #thatisall #
- 00:07 I don't think I'll never have a more enjoyable experience than stabbing my own tonsils with my toothbrush. Aack #
- 08:50 Awesome. Internet is still down from last night. I'll have to go get my fixin' hammer once I have coffee. There is precision work to be done #
- 09:09 @CasualVader I don't think they have a specific #E3 feed, but they do have an account where they are covering #E3. They're @IGNcom #
- 09:38 @CasualVader No problem man. #
- 09:39 @grantimahara Are you even legally allowed to take pictures of that sign? #
- 09:41 Anyone know how to insert an #RSS feed (like, say, a #Twitter feed?) into a #PowerPoint presentation? Or an OO.o #Impress presenation? #
- 09:43 @poll Dogs #
- 09:45 @BillWolff This ought to be fun to play with in class: Twitter-powered polls for use in PowerPoint: bit.ly/8M737 #
- 09:58 @aharcharek Tell me about it. I really need to get back into that. #
- 10:33 @donttrythis Yep, that's a #cutebomb alright. #
- 10:37 I swear, sometimes I don't get Twitter Trends. I'm not your average nerd who has #goodsex, plays Nintendo, watching Conan and using Bing. #
- 10:41 I guess not all trends are worthless. See: China blocks Twitter (apparently other social media too) before the Tiananmen Square anniversary #
- 11:10 @xistentialprof I know, but the fact that it made it into Twitter Trends shows hope for Trends. #
- 11:10 @Authentick "walks" or "pukes." #
- 12:35 Screw dressing nicely, or fixing my hair. I got an internship! I'm tinyurl.com/owhkfw #
- 12:39 @wilw Damn you and the Fibonacci! (no, I didn't need to use Google to figure that one out). #
- 13:47 Just tried playing the Guitar Hero Metalica demo. Sucked so hard, made no sense. Couldn't explain how it worked to my sister. #
- 14:13 @CasualVader Well World Tour makes no sense then. When beginner can't be explained by me, it's too complex. They messed w/ it too much. #
- 14:17 @sphereEversion No, Best Buy demo version. Maybe it's because I never played it before. I think Activision messed w/ it too much. #
- 14:20 twitgoo.com/moft - What a beautiful sky we have today. #
- 14:23 @CasualVader That's lame. No wonder we couldn't figure it out. Why is beginner mode so unlike the actual game? #
- 14:31 @aheartofstars I wasn't going for "bum" I was going for relaxed, but thank you! #
- 14:35 @jesslandolfi Have fun! #
- 14:37 @aheartofstars I try. #
- 14:39 @CasualVader If you can't play easy then you can't play! Should Halo have an accurate auto-aim-and-fire for ppl who find Easy too hard? #
- 15:02 @CasualVader Mostly it was the "I'm sorry, sister, I said this game was fun, neither of us can figure out how to make it work" factor. #
- 15:04 @CasualVader I just think Guitar Hero has become an inferior product compared to Rock Band. It doesn't have any polish, looks too busy. #
- 15:05 @boygenius Check, check 1, 2; Check 1, 2. #
- 15:26 @CasualVader Agreed on how bland it seems. And I wouldn't expect you to ever be allowed to be late on strumming. #
- 15:36 @Authentick I'm making a note here, "huge success." #
- 15:39 @Authentick I mean, on the up shot, at least you get to go to @xistentialprof's part. #
- 15:46 @CasualVader The Rock Band strum bar is very mushy, but I like it. The frets are VERY clicky, though. Easy for 4-finger sliding, though. #
- 16:26 twitpic.com/6hn0d - Bear has made some new friends today. #
- 16:47 @Authentick The new one or the old one? #
- 16:50 @Authentick Feels pretty OK, man. #
- 18:01 @radiocolin Err, d'oh, clicked on the wrong reply. #
- 18:01 @sphereEversion You must drive the WoWomen wild. #
- 18:05 Does anyone know if Student Advantage is actually worth it? Still good with T-Mobile? Any other services in South Jersey? #
- 18:40 The things that come out of my dad's mouth just blow my mind sometimes. I can't believe he just put together the answer he just uttered. #
- 18:42 @aheartofstars That's what I said too! They never answer their tweets from what I can tell, though. #
- 18:50 @aheartofstars Do you think they have a GetSatisfaction page? #
- 19:28 @sphereEversion I'm not exactly in favor of rebroadcasting it. #
- 19:29 @aheartofstars Agreed. I'll go get my automatic knife, let's have some fun! #
- 19:51 @xistentialprof yvan eht noij! #
- 20:15 @xistentialprof You accept the referral, you get 10 days free, then the subscription kicks in. #
- 20:26 @xistentialprof What about that Ozzy Osbourne music video from a few years back? That was horrible, nearly ruined the song. #
- 20:32 @xistentialprof I forget the name. "All my life I've been over the top. I don't know what I'm doing but I know that I don't wanna stop." #
- 20:49 Man, when you kill Firefox, it goes out in a blaze of glory, eating as much RAM and CPU as it can get. #
- 20:57 @sphereEversion I'm thinking about moving away from it. It uses ~40% CPU and a ton of RAM w/ one tab. Safari 4 uses 0.3%-14% CPU, <256MB RAM #
- 21:51 @i_am_becoming Which was the one you showed me? I remember the song, but not the name. #
- 21:52 I don't know why, but poor deinterlacing drives me insane. It's such a small thing, but it's like visual fingers on a chalkboard for me. #
- 22:01 @i_am_becoming ok, I thought so. #
- 22:02 @i_am_becoming Interlacing is used in TV. You take 1 frame of video, separate it into 2 half frames, using every other line. Show each... #
- 22:04 @i_am_becoming ... Half picture for a 60th of a second. You can't perceive it except when using high quality screens (monitors or HDTVs). #
- 22:05 @i_am_becoming If you remove interlacing and do it wrong, you can see the picture break up a little. It's a tool set wrong. Make it again! #
- 22:13 @i_am_becoming Example: bit.ly/10gHMG Wikipedia has an article on it: bit.ly/pyBQS #
- 22:14 @NushKo You mean LDS. I don't think they're a drug church. #
- 22:19 @sphereEversion Because they don't have necrotic boobs? #
- 22:19 Just finished watching the first part of a very interesting American Experience/Frontline on Mormonism/Church of Later Day Saints. #
- 22:22 This documentary reminds me why I <3 #PBS and #WGBH. #
- 22:22 @xistentialprof WASD moves, mouse controls your camera. Right click attacks w/ weapon, put spells in your bar, so number keys = abilities. #
- 22:24 I just reached level 6. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
- 22:31 @xistentialprof That you find the whole thing amazingly complex? #
- 22:38 @xistentialprof @i_am_becoming is right. Once you learn the lingo, you'll be rolling a shadow priest belf in UC. #
- 22:38 @xistentialprof Err, belf on the way to UC. #
- 23:00 @sphereEversion CREEEEEEEEPPPYYYYYYY! You should have played it up until they got you an epic mount. Then you tell 'em you're a man. #
- 23:11 @xistentialprof What can I offer for your soul? I might have a third party interested in it. #
- 23:46 @sphereEversion Congratulations! #
- 23:46 Oh, vaguely every slightly but plucky cancer girl is on House. #
- 00:26 @boygenius WTF is that? An ice cream shot?! #
- 01:10 @xistentialprof GET OVER HERE!!! #
- 01:30 @Scobleizer I'd say it's more a sign of bleed-over from Facebook #
- 09:27 Early morning car retrieval antics! A-he! #
- 10:01 I can't believe we're still having court cases to decide who is our representative. This is so embarassing. #
- 10:03 God, Norm Coleman's lawyer is such a weasel! #SNAFU #
- 10:39 @CasualVader Me before coffee = Early Morning. Me after coffee = Late morning. I don't listen to the bourgeoise clock time! #
- 10:41 @i_am_becoming When you jump his car, leave the cables hooked up for like 15-20 min. Trust me, makes a difference, esp w/ big engine cars. #
- 10:46 @Ihnatko No! At least we still have the Ideapad S10 and the MSI U100. #
- 11:26 @xistentialprof WTF!? #
- 11:26 @Authentick Don't forget your flippy floppies. #
- 11:49 @Authentick No, but I'll play wifflegolf. #
- 11:49 Man, GM declared bankruptcy this morning too. Awesome. bit.ly/7H6LP #
- 12:01 @THErealDVORAK Selling things through social media, or advertising on social media sites? #
- 12:19 I just reached level 7. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
- 12:20 Just secured a safe house in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. #spymaster bit.ly/playspy #
- 13:07 @StarterArm How South Jersey! My friends yell at me for saying "soda." (it's pop out here) #
- 13:11 Off to the Super Store for a jug of Gatorade, and then OfficeMax to kill time/check out a Zip Drive for Old Fraud/1.44MB disks for Old Fraud #
- 13:26 @StarterArm Il is scary as hell. Nuclear war isn't what we need to worry about, it's him selling the tech. Iran or Chechnia w/ nuke = v bad #
- 13:40 Man, I haven't actually paid for a box me diskettes in like ten years. I'm surprised OfficeMax still sells them, let alone three varieties! #
- 13:41 Paid for a box OF diskettes. Stupid predictive text. #
- 13:45 Found one of my dad's hats in the van. Doesn't look too shabby. tinyurl.com/m5j8mw #
- 13:55 @sphereEversion As opposed to "me diskettes" #
- 14:06 @sphereEversion That's what she said? #
- 14:15 @StudentAdv But does my name need to be on the acct? And the $100 discount on phone, does it apply to BlackBerries? #
- 14:16 @BBwerner You can thank Sony for that. Remember the eyeToy? #
- 14:19 @BBwerner No, but they invented standing up and waving your hands around like an idiot, before Nintendo or Microsoft. #
- 14:22 @theonlycow I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more! #
- 14:38 @denise_bee It's illegal in Minnesota too. I think Best Buy has cassettes, 8mm, and VHS. #
- 14:38 RT @playspymaster: Please RT: If you wish to OPT OUT from #spymaster invites click here: playspymaster.com/optout #
- 14:41 @billwolff You can probably build a filter in TweetDeck. turned off about half the notifications, probably killing the rest when I get home #
- 14:58 @StudentAdv OK, but if we have a family plan, and the name on the account is my mother, do we still get the discount? #
- 15:12 @StarterArm Congratulations! Glad you found a job! #
- 15:28 @StudentAdv According to the store I just called, I'm supposed to get the handset discount through you, they don't do it. #
- 15:40 Oh, awesome. Old Fraud's screen is malfunctioning again. #
- 15:43 Why is it that all the problems I've ever had with All-In-Ones (desktops and laptops) is that their displays stop working? #
- 16:31 FUCK YEAH! KEYC has accepted my application for an internship! Now I just need to get Rowan to approve it, and I'm set! #
- 16:41 @i_am_becoming Good luck! It's pretty crappy out there. #
- 16:58 @StarterArm @aheartofstars Thank you! #
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