Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
And the winner is...
It's better for the whole wide world. If you have it, use it! It pays to be lazy!
Click here for the full article.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Need one of these....
Mission: Invisible
Shizuo Kambayashi
Last year, scientists demonstrated the first visible-light metamaterial, a metal-semiconductor hybrid, paving the way to an “invisibility cloak.” Meanwhile, metamaterials that work with radio frequencies could improve cellphone reception.
More on invisibleness stuff here
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
The awesomeness starts at :53
Thanks NLcast!
James is from the Nobody's Listening podcast, he is the MAN!!! Checkout his site/blog/webcomic and everything else at www.nlcast.com, the one of the best podcasts out there... and it's clean too!
I am honored that he would post on my humble site.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
BSG Awesomeness!
Some awesome Battlestar Galactica conceptual art. Check it out here!
I can't wait for January!
Thanks Extralife for the link.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
I take it all back!
Forget everything else, THIS is what y'all should be getting me for my birthday!
Check it out!
Thanks for the link Andy and for offering to get me one! :)
64 on a stick!
64 gig thumb drive! You can get it for me for my birthday here
(Note: My birthday is January 22, just in case you were wondering, plenty of time to save up for it for me.)
Funniest thing in a long time...
My brother in-law wrote this many years ago, I just found a copy of it and it still makes me laugh out loud, and I thought it was appropriate for the holidays! Enjoy!
Three Levels of Fullness
By Abraham Park
If you are a Berklander, inevitably you get extremely full, very often. The usual conversation after an over-eaten dinner is that eating too much is very bad for your health, and that you are starting on a diet next week so this week is a preparation week. Of course, within a couple of days you find yourself once again uncomfortable in your seat, moving about desperately in futile efforts to relieve pressure off of that one button that is holding back inordinate amounts of pressure.
After an extensive survey, I noticed that overeating is very common among brothers and sisters alike. I also noticed that there are three general stages of fullness, of which brothers achieve the second stage much more frequently than the sisters.
I was sitting around a table once, talking to some people, and each of them described his or her most horrible experience of gluttony.
Person 1: “I could feel that my pants were too tight. I was very uncomfortable in my seat, and no matter how I adjusted my seating position, I couldn’t get comfortable. That must be about LEVEL TWO in your scale.”
Are you kidding? I told her that what she experienced is below LEVEL ONE. I would categorize that as “CONTENT” or “HAVE ROOM FOR DESSERT” level. Then one brother told me about the symptoms he experienced when he was very full.
Person 2: “I hadn’t had Korean food for a long time, and that curry rice and kimchee looked really good. Afterwards, I felt like I was going to burst. Food looked disgusting, and I could feel food inside of my esophagus. There was no way I could eat any more. Occasionally, food would come back up, and I tried to burp but couldn’t. I was sweating profusely, and my pants were riding up my ____. I think I experienced LEVEL THREE. There is no way that a person could feel any fuller than I was.”
I told him to be quiet because the symptoms he described were very common among those experiencing the LEVEL ONE. Only the chosen few have reached LEVEL TWO, and symptoms are as follows, described by a very foolish brother, “I just couldn’t breathe anymore. I had to sit at a 45 degree angle on a sofa just to continue my existence. People asked me some questions, but I couldn’t answer them. The food must have expanded in my stomach, because I got more and more full as the time went by. I felt dizzy, and I couldn’t get up. Finally, I tried the bathroom, but it didn’t help at all. When I barely got up, I couldn’t see my feet. If I had fallen at that moment, I am positive that I would have thrown up.”
I don’t know whether I should be embarrassed or be proud about this, but so far, out of everyone that I’ve talked to, I am the only one who has reached LEVEL THREE. Let me describe to you what happened. I still have nightmares about that day.
It was during one of the summers in my college days when I visited my grandmother in Korea. As is with all other grandmothers, food was her life. Her greetings are not Hi’s or Hello’s but rather “Did you eat?” It doesn’t matter what time of the day it is, when I see her, she wants me to eat her food. Korean grandmothers are all alike. If you eat a lot of their food, you instantly become a “very good boy.” If not, they go on and on about how America has corrupted young Koreans and that it is a shame that they don’t eat Korean food. Anyway, I was one of these “very good boys.”
One day, I came home to find three other grandmothers talking with my grandmother. And when I entered the door, they screamed, “He’s here!” Soon I found out that they had come to watch me eat. My grandma had bragged to them about me, how much I ate, and how good a boy I was. Incredible.
Within half an hour, I found myself sitting in front of a very huge bowl (one of those shiny, metal, half-gallon type bowls) filled with rice and a whole table full of various dishes. I couldn’t let my grandma down so I ate the whole bowl of rice. I was extremely full and I was very proud of what I had accomplished, By then, all of her friends were exclaiming, “Wow! He eats a lot! He is such a good boy!”
It was then that my grandmother put a smirk on her face. “Calm down, that’s nothing.” And then she filled the whole bowl with rice again!! What is this? Does she think that I am an animal. There was silence in the room. I somehow managed to eat the bowl of rice, with everyone watching me in silence until there was just a little bit of rice left. There was no room left in my esophagus. All the symptoms of the LEVEL TWO were already showing and I was leaning to my right to continue my breathing. It was physically impossible for any more food to go inside. It was there that I decided to put water in the bowl to mix with rice, so that I could drink the last portion. In my past experiences, I always had room to drink even though I was full. I managed to gulp some down. Finally, I was confronted with the very last swallow.
I do not know what made me swallow that last gulp, but at that moment, I knew I had entered LEVEL THREE. My vision became blurry. My head was full of food. I saw a vision. I experienced the signature characteristic of LEVEL THREE, in that I actually, physically felt my stomach stretch, like when you squeeze a balloon. “Bwhoop.”
I do not want to explain what tribulation I went through to survive that afternoon. Anyway, if you think you also achieved LEVEL THREE, please tell me. Until then, I still am the one and only one. Well, maybe some have reached LEVEL FOUR which must be death. Then I guess they wouldn’t be able to tell me about it.
Three Levels of Fullness
By Abraham Park
If you are a Berklander, inevitably you get extremely full, very often. The usual conversation after an over-eaten dinner is that eating too much is very bad for your health, and that you are starting on a diet next week so this week is a preparation week. Of course, within a couple of days you find yourself once again uncomfortable in your seat, moving about desperately in futile efforts to relieve pressure off of that one button that is holding back inordinate amounts of pressure.
After an extensive survey, I noticed that overeating is very common among brothers and sisters alike. I also noticed that there are three general stages of fullness, of which brothers achieve the second stage much more frequently than the sisters.
I was sitting around a table once, talking to some people, and each of them described his or her most horrible experience of gluttony.
Person 1: “I could feel that my pants were too tight. I was very uncomfortable in my seat, and no matter how I adjusted my seating position, I couldn’t get comfortable. That must be about LEVEL TWO in your scale.”
Are you kidding? I told her that what she experienced is below LEVEL ONE. I would categorize that as “CONTENT” or “HAVE ROOM FOR DESSERT” level. Then one brother told me about the symptoms he experienced when he was very full.
Person 2: “I hadn’t had Korean food for a long time, and that curry rice and kimchee looked really good. Afterwards, I felt like I was going to burst. Food looked disgusting, and I could feel food inside of my esophagus. There was no way I could eat any more. Occasionally, food would come back up, and I tried to burp but couldn’t. I was sweating profusely, and my pants were riding up my ____. I think I experienced LEVEL THREE. There is no way that a person could feel any fuller than I was.”
I told him to be quiet because the symptoms he described were very common among those experiencing the LEVEL ONE. Only the chosen few have reached LEVEL TWO, and symptoms are as follows, described by a very foolish brother, “I just couldn’t breathe anymore. I had to sit at a 45 degree angle on a sofa just to continue my existence. People asked me some questions, but I couldn’t answer them. The food must have expanded in my stomach, because I got more and more full as the time went by. I felt dizzy, and I couldn’t get up. Finally, I tried the bathroom, but it didn’t help at all. When I barely got up, I couldn’t see my feet. If I had fallen at that moment, I am positive that I would have thrown up.”
I don’t know whether I should be embarrassed or be proud about this, but so far, out of everyone that I’ve talked to, I am the only one who has reached LEVEL THREE. Let me describe to you what happened. I still have nightmares about that day.
It was during one of the summers in my college days when I visited my grandmother in Korea. As is with all other grandmothers, food was her life. Her greetings are not Hi’s or Hello’s but rather “Did you eat?” It doesn’t matter what time of the day it is, when I see her, she wants me to eat her food. Korean grandmothers are all alike. If you eat a lot of their food, you instantly become a “very good boy.” If not, they go on and on about how America has corrupted young Koreans and that it is a shame that they don’t eat Korean food. Anyway, I was one of these “very good boys.”
One day, I came home to find three other grandmothers talking with my grandmother. And when I entered the door, they screamed, “He’s here!” Soon I found out that they had come to watch me eat. My grandma had bragged to them about me, how much I ate, and how good a boy I was. Incredible.
Within half an hour, I found myself sitting in front of a very huge bowl (one of those shiny, metal, half-gallon type bowls) filled with rice and a whole table full of various dishes. I couldn’t let my grandma down so I ate the whole bowl of rice. I was extremely full and I was very proud of what I had accomplished, By then, all of her friends were exclaiming, “Wow! He eats a lot! He is such a good boy!”
It was then that my grandmother put a smirk on her face. “Calm down, that’s nothing.” And then she filled the whole bowl with rice again!! What is this? Does she think that I am an animal. There was silence in the room. I somehow managed to eat the bowl of rice, with everyone watching me in silence until there was just a little bit of rice left. There was no room left in my esophagus. All the symptoms of the LEVEL TWO were already showing and I was leaning to my right to continue my breathing. It was physically impossible for any more food to go inside. It was there that I decided to put water in the bowl to mix with rice, so that I could drink the last portion. In my past experiences, I always had room to drink even though I was full. I managed to gulp some down. Finally, I was confronted with the very last swallow.
I do not know what made me swallow that last gulp, but at that moment, I knew I had entered LEVEL THREE. My vision became blurry. My head was full of food. I saw a vision. I experienced the signature characteristic of LEVEL THREE, in that I actually, physically felt my stomach stretch, like when you squeeze a balloon. “Bwhoop.”
I do not want to explain what tribulation I went through to survive that afternoon. Anyway, if you think you also achieved LEVEL THREE, please tell me. Until then, I still am the one and only one. Well, maybe some have reached LEVEL FOUR which must be death. Then I guess they wouldn’t be able to tell me about it.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Yay!
As some of you may know, I have been employed as a "casual" (temp-to-hire)employee at Bio-Rad. Well, yesterday I got the verbal offer for full-time permanent!
What a GREAT Christmas present! I'll be official as of January 2nd 2009.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
For the big kids
Jellio's website says it best, "Remember Revell models?" Click here for more details.Thanks to Steve for the link!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Scary stuff...
They can get your keystrokes from a WIRED keyboard up to 20 meters away! That's scary stuff.
"We found 4 different ways (including the Kuhn attack) to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. We tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all vulnerable to at least one of our 4 attacks"
For the full article and some videos.
"We found 4 different ways (including the Kuhn attack) to fully or partially recover keystrokes from wired keyboards at a distance up to 20 meters, even through walls. We tested 11 different wired keyboard models bought between 2001 and 2008 (PS/2, USB and laptop). They are all vulnerable to at least one of our 4 attacks"
For the full article and some videos.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Your input requested
Hey all...
I don't know how many of you have been following this blog, but please chime in and let me know if you want me to keep this going or not.
I apologize that I haven't posting recently, but i didn't know if i was just doing this for me or for anyone else... let me know...
The Geek
I don't know how many of you have been following this blog, but please chime in and let me know if you want me to keep this going or not.
I apologize that I haven't posting recently, but i didn't know if i was just doing this for me or for anyone else... let me know...
The Geek
Friday, October 3, 2008
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Welcome home!
We haven't even been back in the Bay Area for a week and..
Sep 5, 2008 9:21 pm US/Pacific
Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Shakes East Bay
CBS 5 Earthquake Section
DANVILLE (CBS 5 / BCN) ― The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 struck at 9 p.m. Friday near Danville.
According to the USGS, the earthquake had a depth of 10.1 miles and was centered 4 miles north northwest of Danville and 7 miles south of Concord.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injury resulting from the earthquake.
source
Sep 5, 2008 9:21 pm US/Pacific
Magnitude 4.0 Earthquake Shakes East Bay
CBS 5 Earthquake Section
DANVILLE (CBS 5 / BCN) ― The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 struck at 9 p.m. Friday near Danville.
According to the USGS, the earthquake had a depth of 10.1 miles and was centered 4 miles north northwest of Danville and 7 miles south of Concord.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injury resulting from the earthquake.
source
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Chrome is shiny!
Ok, I'll admit that when I heard about Google's Chrome browser, I was a bit wary. Especially since Mozilla just released the much anticipated Firefox 3. But being the geek that I am, I downloaded it and I love it. It's simple and much faster than IE or Firefox. You can get it here.Sorry you Mac and Linux people, you are going to have to wait a couple months to experience awesomeness!
Monday, September 1, 2008
Gaffers tape is rad
Disclaimer: These are not my kids, I don't know whose they are, it's just a random pic I found on the Interweb.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Monday, August 11, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Some say "baby torture" I say genius
Here's an interesting list: 20 Nightmarish Baby Products. My favorite? The baby mop:
"Inventors in Japan are fed up with babies constantly making messes and never cleaning up after themselves. Introducing the baby mop, this leverages the all natural cleaning power of drool to buff your floors to a high shine. Please note that extended wear on carpet may build a static charge equivalent to licking a car battery."
See the whole chilling list here.
Upcoming Pixar movies
June 27, 2008 – WALL•E
May 29, 2009 – Up
October 2, 2009 – Toy Story in 3-D
February 12, 2010 – Toy Story 2 in 3-D
June 18, 2010 – Toy Story 3 in 3-D
Summer 2011 – Newt
Christmas 2011, The Bear and the Bow
Summer 2012 – Cars 2
Click here for more info on the movies
May 29, 2009 – Up
October 2, 2009 – Toy Story in 3-D
February 12, 2010 – Toy Story 2 in 3-D
June 18, 2010 – Toy Story 3 in 3-D
Summer 2011 – Newt
Christmas 2011, The Bear and the Bow
Summer 2012 – Cars 2
Click here for more info on the movies
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Do you Hulu?
If you have broadband you have to check out hulu.com. It has full length movies, tv shows, clips and it's all FREE! check it out here
Monday, July 28, 2008
Come get some!
The other day my 4 year old son got a 140, a 166 and then a 179 on Wii Bowling! Come get some!
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