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.