Soya Milk and Exercise

I just found out that during my early childhood I drank soy milk because I was allergic to cow milk. A lot of things have now made more sense. Sigh. This means I do have a lot more work to do to slim down. It's been almost a month since I recovered from a 5 month respiratory something and vomiting phlegm and acid reflux.

I have started exercising again. Before I got sick I was fat but during my sickness I got a lot fatter because I couldn't exercise and I ate 3 square meals a day while my work only entailed sitting in front of a computer. I've started exercising again right when I realized I have stopped coughing those small coughs from the mucusy drip at the back of my throat. I now jogg every weekday I can. Now I can finish 5 rounds around the block without the last 3 in excruciating pain and side stiches. I do pushups. A year ago I could do 20 at a time. When I started again I could only do 10 and it took me 3 days to recover. Now I can do 130-140 a day split into 4 20-rep sets in the morning and 3 20 reps at night. I can do the same number of bicep curls (too bad I couldn't take my dumbbells with me on vacation.) I can do 3 30-rep crunch sets although I can only do them when no one is in the staff house living room where I stay (but I'm hoping to catch up during my vacation.) I'm still fat but I don't have that really bad bloated feeling. Here's hoping I can sustain this streak indefinitely.

In order to have the energy to exercise in the morning I have cut back on my pc gaming time. I sleep at 10 in the evening so I can wake up early for my jog. I also try to eat only at breakfast and a cupcake sometime in the afternoon. I succeed maybe 80% of the time. I've felt great. I'm thinking I can do this but some days there's a wall. A wall where I can only do two sets of pushups and maybe just part of the second set. I step back and relax then try again tomorrow. Usually I can get back on the number of sets I usually do.

Not to be cheesy or anything but: Yes I can.

Side note. Cebu pacific charges Php 100 for every kilogram over the 15Kg alloted. WTF.

TiddlyWiki

I got it from here. http://eriwen.com/tools/wikify-yourself/

At first I'm wary of using this page because I didn't understand how it worked. I thought it would upload to a database somewhere but when I tried it out I found that it just overwrote itself. It's Javascript based. Or something. Anyway. It has revolutionized how I keep notes. I've been using it for 4 days since I read about it in reddit. It's beautiful. I can create daily journals and edit the menu to display quick items for ToDo lists or pending research items or even just copy paste stuff from emails. I tried using the Windows Calendar for keeping track of stuff but I didn't like the interface. I tried using ToDoList by AbstractSpoon but now I just use that for keeping track of work. With the GTD flavor of TiddlyWiki I add stuff, links, images or whatever for what I'm supposed to be doing. For a person who can't remember to finish a can of Coke I am really enjoying this Wiki.

By the way, I tried adding the checkbox addon but couldn't figure out how to work it. No matter. It's still awesome.

I you want to try it out for yourself open http://checkettsweb.com/tw/gtd_tiddlywiki.htm and save the page on your machine. Open the saved htm file in a compatible web browser and voila! Awesomeness at your fingertips. You may have to customize a lot but it's worth it.

There's an option for uploading the data you create using the page somewhere but I haven't tried it.

EDIT: After a month of writing journal entries and exercise tracking stuff I'm still enjoying TiddlyWiki. Eric pointed out how to work with the checkbox plugin but I guess the real problem I had with installing it was that I never got the confirmation message that the plugin was indeed installed. I was just digging through the various tiddlers when I noticed the Plugin Checkbox tiddler. WTF. I didn't even noticed I ever installed it properly. I might have also parsed Eric's comment wrongly (or misread) when he said to create a checkbox all you have to do is type [(space)]. Or maybe I just spaced out. The internet does that to me sometimes. XD.

Again. I can't remember installing this plugin properly. I don't touch drugs. Or alcohol.

Thanks, Eric!

EDIT: Aww. Checkbox thingy doesn't work on Chrome. Works on Firefox, though.
EDIT: Stupid. I edited the Checkbox Plugin Tiddler by adding [ ] and [X] at the beginning to test for it. It stopped working after a browser restart. Anyway, it works on Chrome. Woot!

Fuck you, Globe Telecom

I get these spam Globe Svcs+ messages every 5 minutes. I think they started a only a few days ago. They don't show up on my inbox but they pop up on my phone's screen uninvited and very intrusive. They disappear after about 2 minutes on their own but that's 2 minutes too long. If I get my hands on the person responsible for this I wish him the hell of eternal waking. (Sandman Vol 1 I think.)

There's another one! Fuck you GLOBE!

EDIT: I am switching to Smart.
EDIT: Thank you, Ralph. I'll try what you said.

Bolt (Movie)

Awesome!

I love the hamster. :) I miss having pets. :(

"Ring ring. Who's there? Destiny. I've been expecting your call. *INSANE CACKLING*" Mwahahahaha I can totally see myself doing this. In fact, I drove my girlfriend crazy when I cackled insanely every five minutes on the long drive home.

Nvidia Problem

Curse you Nvidia!!! I was playing Fallout 3 and the scariest thing happened: pixels were randomly changing color! I could barely make out the game and I immediately restarted my laptop. How am I supposed to play now?! If my video card breaks then how am I supposed to use my laptop? It's not like I can go out and easily buy a replacement video card. Curse you Nvidia! May the people responsible have their eyes rot out of their skulls at their happiest moment and may their love ones turn and scorn them away.

Curse you Nvidia for selling poor quality cards. I curse you a billion times. I have always used Nvidia cards since the first time I bought one six years ago. I have always enjoyed the stunning graphics of the games I have played on my beloved cards. No more. Curse you Nvidia. I curse you.

Honey and Calamansi

Eherm. Test results have confirmed that Honey and Calamansi together has a powerful laxative effect. Subsequent testing to determine which parts and in what concentration of the solution have been vehemently denied.

M3U Playlist Export Thingy

I have favorite mp3s scattered over many different locations/albums and I want to listen to them on my psp. I wanted to have winamp copy them from the playlist directly to my mp3 but I couldn't find anything on the net. I also didn't want to go to each mp3's folder and copy paste them into my psp. After scouring the net for a winamp plugin and finding no success I decided to write my own app. Sadly, I don't have time to play around with making a winamp plugin so the best I could do in a few hours was to write an app that would export mp3 entries found in a M3U playlist file and copy them into a specified directory.

Here it is! It's a java .jar file so you need to have Java installed and double click on it. I think this will only work on Windows because of the SWT stuff I used but I really don't know.

This was made using the jigloo eclipse plugin as well as the SWT library. I had fun learning SWT.

Here is the source in case anyone wants to modify it for their own uses.

It looks ugly and would give any coder nightmares to decipher the generic variable names and haphazard placing of functions.

Java AI book

Here's a new Java book on Artificial Programming by Mark Watson. I wish this came out a few years earlier.

Special Problem

Woot! Someone noticed my vid on the robots and he/she wants to try and do something similar. I'm posting my special problem here for him/her to see.

*English should have non-gender-specific pronouns or whatever they're called like Tagalog has.

Special Problem

Great Music for Coding

Wow. Man. The soundtrack to the movie The Fountain is awesome. Sounds kinda like Smashing Pumpkins' The end is the beginning is the end but more... awesome. It doesn't distract me with vocals and it's easy to tune out when I have to really concentrate and then when I need a mood boost it's great to listen to. 

I So Agree

http://peoplemakelifeawful.blogspot.com/2008/10/sorry-i-didnt-know-this-was-one-way.html

I'm looking at you students from UPLB. I have to either walk on the street or on the grass just to go my way. Even groups of two don't form a single file. Bastards.

Blues Traveller - Run Around

I'm looking for their new(ish) single. I think it's titled I Get Wild. Or something. Help me out here?

Programmable robots

This here's a programmable robot I spotted in a bookstore or something convention at SMX Mall of Asia. I soooo badly want one but this one costs 150,000 pesos. That's right. It's a monetary equivalent of 3 motorcycles. Or a second-hand car. There are cheaper versions. One module with one body segment and 4 wheels costs 15,000 pesos. Oh wait, I'm not sure about the 150,000 pesos for the puppy-bot above. I think the 150K is for the snake-bot. Anyway. I want. For what possible purpose you might ask. For world domination, of course. Von Neumann machines!

Evolved Robot vs Tracker

Here's a sample video of my robot controller that I built with a neural network attached to the scannedRobot event and used genetic algorithm to evolve the weights of its neural network. The opponent is a sample robot that came with Robocode. It's a homing and tracking robot.

The Man Who Can't Be Moved

by The Script

The Joker

Macro Photography Attempt

Olympics Weightlifting (Women)

non-chinese weightlifter: *grunt scream lift teeter balance tada!*

chinese small girl: *looks disdainfully at weights. lifts to chest then up above head. notices dust on shoulder. brushes it off. drops weights daintily.*

Olympics

Go Team Philippines! We're proud of you!

Congratulations to those who have already won Gold medals especially the Judokas.

Password Panic

I turned my laptop on at work today. I entered my password. *Invalid username or password.* Huh? I tried my password again and again. Same. I start to panic. I open my workstation and start downloading ophcrack livecd to crack my password. I shit my pants. It's gotta be a virus. I try all my online passwords. None work. I try them again. Damn. Then I pay closer attention to what I type. Turns out pressing the '5' key doesn't input a character. I think how the hell I'm going to get my laptop keyboard fixed. It's still brand new! Then I hope it's just something stuck underneath the key. I get out my trusty swiss knife and the toothpick in it. I try to pick underneath the key. Yay! It was a freaking rice grain. How the hell did that get there? I'm happy again.

Free books!

Neil Gaiman's free book thingy has got me thinking. I started reading when I was in elementary school. Everything was free for me. I didn't have squat to my name. I had to wheedle my mom, aunts or grandparents to buy me books. I don't remember what started me off to science fiction. Maybe my older cousins left a book around and I started reading it. I only bought my first book in high school from the living allowance I got from my scholarship. It was expensive for me but I felt it was worth it. Now that I'm working I have bought lots more books and many of them second hand so I can get more for my money. My point is: you have to start people reading and that's by making those books available for free. When they can, they will buy more.

Please forgive the drawing. I feel that a blogpost without a picture is a featureless post and I couldn't think of a picture I look for from teh tubes.

PS: I'm currently reading West of Eden by Harry Harrison. Great read. Not much new concepts but Harrison writes well and I don't get stuck or bored.

Freddie Highmore

I just started watching this movie and I believe the chance to make Ender's Game into a movie is too far gone. Freddie Highmore in Spiderwick Chronicles played twins of differing temperaments and pulls it off. Freddie could have easily played Ender and Peter. I'm so sad. I want to watch Ender's Game while I'm still young! Even if they started filming now, Freddie would be too old to play Ender. :(

Kung Fu Panda

I've seen it twice. Awesome Kung Fu plus awesome comedy equals ARRGH! I'm blinded by the awesomeness!

Looking for bamboo

... to build a booth for the Fair.

SEAGames Paralympics

These guys are amazing. They compete in Judo and they're BLIND! One (not in pic) races down stairwells. Sheesh. Most of them work as massagers. (Not masseuses because I just learned that that term only refers to female massagers.) Their livelihood is dependent on their hands and fingers working properly and yet they continue to compete in a punishing sport.

Juzie in a Judo Match

Juzie's on the right, wearing the blue belt. I wish I had a fast camera during college. It's hard to take pictures that happen in a blink of an eye.

Judo Tournament

Goofballs as well. Great times.

College Arnis Team

Goofballs, the lot of us. Great times.

Yes. That's an archery target in our home.

My Grandfather In His Shop

DIYer. When given any gift he will reply: "You shouldn't have bought me that. I could have made it myself."

Manila Smog

Gross.

Kylie Minogue - Wow

I'm listening to Kylie's Wow song from her X album and the intro blows my mind away. I could never in a million years imagine such sounds are possible and yet playable on a piano. The day before I surprised myself by writing a solution to a google sponsored "treasure hunt" question in 20 minutes. I imagine a programming equivalent to the intro on the Wow song would be instantly visualizing the solution, running it in your head then generating the correct answer right then. It's so creative and yet so simple. I don't know if you will feel the same, however, but that's what I think.

Oh, don't bother listening to it on low-fidelity speakers or earphones. I hate those tinny sounds they make.

Extraordinary

Extra ordinary. Hmmmmmm.

Racing Model

:p

Religious Book

C++. Found it at Booksale in Mall of Asia. I concur.

MPPA vs TorrentSpy

MPPA awarded $100 million vs TorrentSpy. This is so sad. Please scroll down to the comments. The commenters tried to put the $100 million into perspective by saying that the USA gave $3 million in aid to Burma. And that's like 24 minutes in Iraq.

I am against Piracy. I pay for movies I watch in cinemas but do I get a refund if the movie or experience was awful? No. I am against crappy movies.

The commenters' comments regarding indexing copyrighted material being illegal and how it relates to Google made me chuckle. I am interested in how this will turn out.

How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days:

These guys are impressive! I totally agree with their graph describing group and individual development over the development process against time. I like to code individually with all the decisions made beforehand. I like to create solutions that are only software problems like how to make this field display this while the user moves from these other fields. I don't want to decide how the whole software is going to function on my own but I do like to make it work as long as how it works is already decided.

Chuck (TV Series)

It's pretty cool. I've watched two episodes and I'm surprised how suspenseful and exciting it is for a tv series about a normal geek infused with government secrets and having two agents watch over him. I like Chuck. He's normal. He's geeky - scratch that, he's nerdy and he's totally normal. He's like the anti-anti-hero. Nerd Herd. Lolz. Geek Squad was already taken.

Google Reader

... has a notes/comments section for shared items! Woot! I've been waiting for this for months.

The Forbidden Kingdom

Awesome fight scenes! Fast moves! The movie premise is a bit shaky but Jet Li and Jackie Chan sure do make fighting look easy.

Movie: Street Kings

The movie was good. I mean really good. Not awesome or mind blowing but it was a very good movie to watch. I could almost foresee the plot then something else would happen; the twists were surprising and interesting. This movie, as many great works before it, brought to mind the phrase, "Who watches the watchmen?" I highly recommend everyone to watch this.

I can't wait for Indiana Jones, Iron Man, and Speed Racer. Please do not associate Street Kings with the aforementioned movies. I also like blockbusters as well as the next man.

Card's Lost Boys

I just finished reading it. I couldn't stop. Spoiler ahead.




WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Which Superhero Are You?

Your results:
You are Hulk

Hulk 80% Spider-Man 65% Supergirl 55% Superman 55% Wonder Woman 50% Green Lantern 50% Iron Man 50% Batman 45% The Flash 40% Robin 38% Catwoman 5%

You are a wanderer with amazing strength.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

Kinda spot on. The temper, I mean.

Litany Against Fear

I will not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

I will face my fear and let it pass through me.

(an abridged version)

WoW Bard [reply]

World of Warcraft's new bard class.

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Celsus Kintanar <obscured> wrote:
They have a bard now.

LOLZ. I sure would like to see it happen. Ripping those frets while killing monsters would be awesome. Click on the link to see screenshots.

*yes, yes I know it's an April Fool's joke but it would be awesome!!! Somebody contact Blizzard and tell them to make it for real. Hacking away at monsters would be so much more fun if you added ripping riffs and melting faces!

My Rig

You might be an redneck geek if...

The Big Bang Theory sitcom

I LOVE IT!!! Watch it! It's smart and fun!!! It should win an award for best delivery of scientific principles in mundane conversation.

Random Kindness and Cruelty

Jobless Japanese finds $10,000 in mailbox

Boy shoves stranger to death at Japan train station

The Tubes, They Are French

FOR PRIVACY BREACH

French court fines user-generated website

Kukri Knives

http://www.torablades.com/

Want. But I hate the way they're spelling Filipino as Philipino.

I wrote to the site for them to correct it and Simon Hengle simonhengle@blueyonder.co.uk writes back:

Hello Mike,

There are about three or four spellings, that are all correct Mike,

Cheers Simon

Is he right? Are we Philippinos?

I emailed him again to check wikipedia. There's a nice note there where it clearly says that the use of 'Philippinos' is a mistake.

Hello Mike,

I applaud your enthusiasm, [sic]however when I was in the Philippines I checked with John John Mac and Anton St James, regarding the use of the different words, and the language used on the site was again cross checked in the Philippines, [sic]by the above [sic]pr-eminent [sic]Philippino Martial Artists already [sic]mentioned, as well as a friend of theirs that is a [sic]currator to a [sic]museam in the [sic]Philppines.

Cheers Simon

Well if you're up against that kind of person there is just no talking to him.

Inside Cebu Pacific

Don't worry. I took it before take off.

Grave Plaques Stolen

Thieves stole most of the grave markers/plaques in our local cemetery. The divide between rich and poor is so staggering that the poor have no qualms about defacing treasured memories.

The picture above was taken last month when I went home in Dumaguete. The graves in the picture are, I think, of my uncle, cousin, and grandmother.

My cousin doing a song and dance number

ROFL

There Will Be Blood

I recently stumbled on some reviews of this movie on rottentomatoes.com and I still don't understand the movie. I loved No Country For Old Men because the movie was cool; hitmen, psychopaths and a shotgun with a silencer. I didn't understand There Will Be Blood. It didn't feel like a movie to me. I understood Daniel more than you know so I don't understand what was so remarkable about a film about him. It didn't have a point. I already understood the guy so why a movie about him?

Maybe I'm a little bit different. I emphasize with Hannibal Lecter's penchant for elevating rudeness as a faux pas punishable by death. I emphasize with Daniel's ruthlessness and disdain for that preacher. I am afraid of turning into a fundamentalist but with fanaticism for elitism instead of an outdated rulebook.

August Rush

Please, don't read my comments before watching this movie. Just watch it then get back to me. I'm going to hide the comments below. Just know that I highly recommend it for you to enjoy.

The movie was amazing. I don't know why critics gave it such a low score. I loved it! Everything about it was beautiful! Of course it's a fairytale, a fairytale of a child gifted with music and using it to find his parents. It's supposed to be emotional. It's supposed to be sappy. I watched this movie without any preconceptions and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

5 Rangers

Please. Please! Just watch this http://youtube.com/watch?v=xPZ1b1HcJjI&feature=related. I promise you it won't be a waste of time. Just try not to laugh too loud. :D

ACClarke

"How inappropriate to call this planet Earth, when clearly it is Ocean."

I loved Childhood's End better than all his other works.

Violence Everywhere.

Why does China want to suppress Tibet? I call for a boycott of the Olympics.

Why does the United States keep on supporting a policy of foreign intervention when all they promote is more violence and desctruction in favor of profit? I call for an end to apathy.

Why does our country continue to decline into incompetence disguised by greed?


Here's a view from my office. Please disregard the timestamp; new camera and haven't changed the default settings, yet. I intended to post a picture of a homeless man sleeping on top of a cage used to protect water meters from thieves but the reflection of the flash on the van window spoiled the shot.

Pending books

Just a sample of books on hold just because I got my hands on WoW.

My Room

That's my room. And my roommate rifling through my stuff. That's my bed she's sitting on.

License Plate

If you click for the larger version, you'll see this Eclipse sports a XXX 143 license plate.

What is your...

... short term goal? omg I don't know. Play WoW, and God of War at any possible time during work week. (During commute; before sleeping; after waking)

... mid term goal? Get certified as a Sun Java Programmer. I study during toilet time at work.

... long term goal? Immortality and transcendence (not like Buddha but like awesome super sci-fi star beings).

From JAm and Nikki.

Farewell Dungeon Master

Gary Gygax is dead. Long live the dungeon master.

Wil Wheaton says it nicely. I miss playing AD&D.

Friendly Linux

IMAX

That's me, EK, and Eunice in SM's IMAX Theatre. Juzie took the picture.

Currently Reading

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel by Susanna Clarke.

Sorry, I hotlinked to Amazon's image for the book. That's why there's a "look inside" thingy.

Back to the book; if you love the English language and it's various idiosyncrasies coupled with the love of the mysterious and fantastic then you'd love this book. It's beautiful. It's about magic, by the way. Magic and mystery.

Signature

The image above was created with the help of MyLiveSignature (discovered via LifeHacker).

Banjo and Bluegrass [Update]

I was organizing my old files on my external drive when I found an old clip of Steve Martin and his band playing some bluegrass with Steve on a banjo. That clip inspired me to look for some more bluegrass and I searched youtube for "banjo". This is the first result: YouTube - 'Deliverance' - 'Dueling banjos' scene. Cool.

To echo one commenter: Vince Diesel would look like a wuss next to Burt Reynolds in that scene.

I have no idea how I messed up that html link. I swear I pointed it to youtube last time. I revisited this post because I wanted to hear the dueling banjos again.

Evolution vs Creationism

Rofl. Taken from SMBC Comic. Although I disagree. There is no evidence to support that smarter people reproduce more than dumb people. I suppose it's rather the opposite. Survival and subsistence is very different from living and contributing to society.

Robert Heinlein's "We Believe"

Not as catchy as Obama's "Yes We Can," but I like it better. Link.

HD DVD vs Blu-ray

My two cents on how Blu-ray won the format war: it's easier to say "blue ray" than "eitch dee dee vee dee."

[Update] Conmen

Cracked's Five Ballsiest Con Artists of All Time. I knew about Ponzi and his pyramid schemes as well as Abagnale's exploits from the movie Catch Me If You Can but I never heard of these others. I did spot some Benny Hinn advertisements a while back here in Manila that he would be practicing some "miracles" here. What I didn't know was how profitable his "ministry" was.

ROFL. Here's psyche's comment on the article:

the ballsiest person i can think of is a woman! she ran for presidency, cheated and the entire nation heard a RECORDED CONVERSATION of her with someone from commission on elections, prooving her guilt! of course at first she denied it was she on the tape but hell, the voice - the distinction of her voice will haunt your dreams and is impossible not to recognize, anywhere by anyone who knows her! when she can't deny it no longer, she made a public apology. it popped during TVCs, her expression forced to look sorry (she's usually a big snob)while saying in her most sincere tone that it was "mere mental lapse of judgement" on her part and that she's sorry to the people of that country. and yeah, nobody bought it but it doesn't mean she wasn't able to get away with it. she duped people big time and simply apologized! insane...or brilliant?!

Fever Broke

... last night. Whew. I FEEL GREAT! I'm now ready to slay a few dragons.

Fever

Stomach doesn't cramp up anymore. Have fever now, though. Urgh. Feels tingly on my skin and I feel weak.

Into The Wild

This movie is unimaginably good. I rate it along with No Country For Old Men.

Stayed Home From Work

I woke up early before light and had to take a dump. I've been doing that for quite a few times now. Every twenty minutes my stomach cramps up so bad and I have to go again. Lesson learned: do not eat microwaved hotdogs. I'm going to burn them to a crisp before I touch one of those cursed hotdogs.

Between visits to the toilet, I've been watching Into The Wild. How I envy Alex's freedom. I'd love to go and live his adventures but for a different reason.

Ugh. Hurts.

I'd love to feel the different sensations from water breaking and running over me to grasping loamy earth and digging through to find awesome secrets. Alex, on the other hand, feels the desire to break away from the deceit and fights he grew up with. I have always felt distant from my parents so there is nothing for me to break away from.

I'd love to lie awake on the grass at night and see the multitude of stars twinkling overhead again.

The Fountain image and LCD Monitors

I use a Samsung SyncMaster 932B(plus) at work and I was browsing through some images. Can you see Hugh Jackman in the image from The Fountain above? He's only a silhouette. Open the original image by clicking on it. Enlarge it as much as you can. My monitor at home cannot display enough contrast and brightness so that I can see Hugh Jackman completely. On the LCD monitor I can differentiate his lighter colored shirt from his hair and trousers but on my home monitor I can only see a dark brownish silhouette. I can even see detail on the tree using the LCD monitor.

*On a side note, my office keyboard sucks. It's a Lenovo keyboard. I try to type: hold shift + 'L', 'C', 'D'; but the letter 'D' never shows up on screen. It takes a small delay between my keystrokes for the letter 'D' to appear after I type.

How To Use VI google error

dunno why.

Robot Jox

Why? Why isn't there anyone seeding a copy of Robot Jox? *huhuhu*

Beowulf in IMAX 3D

I never saw the movie when it first came out so everything was new for me. The IMAX screen was big, maybe twice as tall as an ordinary theater screen and the seats were set on a really angled slope so as to give all the viewers a good chance to see a hundred percent of it. The 3D effects were awesome; the stuff that roll, fly, move towards you really look as if they are going to hit you.

Beowulf as a movie was worth watching. Beowulf in 3D was awesome.

Mobius Strip

This is freaking amazing!!!

Original link.

Ultimate Keyboard

We were talking about emacs when I had this curious idea. Why not create a keyboard that instead of generating signals based on what keys were pressed, generates signals based on the depth of the button pressed? Randell was quick to suggest speed of typing as another basis.

Jeepney Accident

I was driving from Los Banos this morning on my way to work when I saw this. Two jeepneys look to be in a serious accident. The second is obscured behind the first; I couldn't get another shot off my camera because the police were urging me to go faster. The second jeep's rear chassis was kinda ripped out.

MoA Marching Band

Mall of Asia's marching band. Happened upon them when I exited Fully Booked. Saw "In The Name Of The King" afterward. The fight scenes rocked. The story was meh. The directing was awful. How the hell did Uwe Boll get the job?

13 things that do not make sense

I am fascinated by scientific mumbo jumbo. I love logic and reasoning and then finding stuff that contradict them. Here are thirteen contradictions presented by NewScientist.

From bash.org

#832919 +(1730)- [X]

CDSBIGSBY: at work, on the like, 'keyboard' for the cash registers, there are two buttons that don't do anything
CDSBIGSBY: and it's like, the button, a little slip of paper that says what the button does, and a plastic cover that holds the paper in
CDSBIGSBY: and this dude at work figured that out, 'cause he popped the plastic cover off
CDSBIGSBY: and so we made labels for the two 'empty' buttons on the registers we were on that day
CDSBIGSBY: he didn't utilize the full potential of the opportunity though, as one of his buttons is a happy face and the other a sad face
CDSBIGSBY: but i feel i did mine justice.
CDSBIGSBY: Lane 14 at Meijer's has a Self-Destruct button and a Bat Signal button.

CloverField; No Country For Old Men

Cloverfield was AWESOME. No Country For Old Men was AWESOME.

If you watch both films, you can understand why it brought to my mind Stephen King's answer to the question "Why do bad things happen to good people?" His answer was:

"Because they can."

Wings

My Dream Home

... according to http://www.directhomefind.com/dream-home. Discovered on necramirez.blogspot.com.

Your home is a Gamer's Hideout Your kitchen is stocked with chips, dips, and assorted caffeinated beverages. There's a pantry with emergency backup caffeinated beverages. You also have some breakfast cereals in there, but you haven't had breakfast since last Spring. Your master bedroom has blankets printed with images of Mario and Link. Your study includes unread copies of various gamer magazines, each purchased for the free demo CDs. One of your garages houses your Hummer, and others contain your H2, and H3... with room for an H4, if they ever invent one. Your home also includes a roost for griffons. You've never actually seen a griffon, but you keep the roost ready anyway. Your guests enjoy your collection of every console and associated game ever made. Except the Intellivision -- those controllers drive them NUTS. Outside is the moat that protects your home from goblin invaders and extended family. Below is a snippet of the blueprints:

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Vista Sucks

I have a new workstation at the office and it came pre-installed with Windows Vista. It was working fine for a few days but now I've seen what a stupid piece of flaming shit vista is. I had 75 Gb of free space last night. Today, I have 1.55Gb free. I used FreeCommander's nifty feature of displaying the folder sizes so I could easily track where the culprit was. Lo and behold. It's in

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Projects\SystemIndex\SystemIndex.Crwl14.gthr

The little bugger needs 70Gb to index a 160Gb drive? Useless. When I finish my current critical tasks, I'm going to have to go back to XP and maybe Linux.

Carillion. UPLB.