Archive for November, 2005
Finally got round to hand-making a shirt (Lots of time, masking tape, xacto cutting, and patience!). "
Feed me" is a fun play on the whole RSS / XML feed thing I've been figuring out lately. Seems like every site has a feed and at least 2 feed buttons, sometimes 5, maybe more! Kinda ridiculous if y'ask me (Though I know you aren't) I'm gonna set up a feed from my friggin toilet so everyone can (not bother) subscribing to my bowel movement status.
November 18th, 2005
Mythbusters
Dirty Jobs
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen
Good Eats
I Love the 80s
CSI - guilty pleasure
November 17th, 2005
Me and my better half have been chatting of late about the security of
shredding documents. My stance was that it shouldn't be impossible to digitally reassemble shredded docs - though it might be time consuming. Cross-cutting would make things much more difficult. A quick search turned up this
New York Times article that makes it clear unshredding is not only feasible, but already offered as a service (for a pretty penny) Now, I would be interested if there is a market for an open-source/freeware unshredder software. One obstacle would be the best method to scan in the strips, or bits. What about those biz card scanners? I guess no matter how you set it up, there's some serious scanning grunt-work in store.
November 17th, 2005
The USGS answers the question
Is there earthquake weather? in their Earthquake FAQ. I recently heard about the term from a coworker, and according to her, earthquake weather is when it get really hot, the air is still and there is a weird 'mood' to the weather. Ok, Ok, sounds pretty vague to me! I have yet to experience any quakes here in California, but I'll be sure to keep my feet tuned to the ground on hot, still days. Other indicators of lore are the behaviors of animals. Apparently pets will freak out, birds will get the hell out of the area, etc etc. Not exactly scientific observations, but it makes for a good story.
November 17th, 2005
Moggling. How often does one use boggling when not with mind before it? I would argue never. Well, unless you like to play Boggle. But that doesn't count, it just means you're a werd nerd. So I've just been putting the two words together whenever things are beyond comprehension. "That Verizon commercial was mogglingly bad."
November 17th, 2005
Next in my microwave "Nuclear" series :
Nuclear Egg.
November 17th, 2005
I have just been born and I form part of a new single race of intelligent and communicating objects. I measurement 23 cm, I move my ears, I sing, I speak and my body is illuminated and palpitated in hundreds of colors... Who am I?
Who is
Nabaztag indeed?
November 16th, 2005
If you like dressing up in a weird outfit from a comic strip and running around getting really hot and sweaty, the
Run to the Far Side in SF is the place for you. I will not be participating (but I might go and observe)
November 16th, 2005
I've added a few snapshots to my
typosnaps album on Flickr. I've got to get some new batteries for the digital camera that I'm using since they die after 10 minutes, and they aren't even that old. I have still to buy a decent long lasting digital device battery.
November 16th, 2005
Cooking For Engineers has some good information on
Scoville Units, the measurement for how hot (spicy hot) food gets. Maybe I should ork my way up the scale through the use of hotter and hotter peppers.
November 16th, 2005
Sometimes I like to eat nuclear hot dogs. Technically they are not nuclear. Anyway. I overcook them in the microwave till they are a bit shrivelled and slighty crisp. Most people regard this as pretty disgusting, which I suppose is true. Hot dogs are fairly nasty by themselves. I decided to
document making a nuclear hot dog, and also what would happen if I extended the concept and pushed the hot dog into meltdown. Stay tuned for more Experiments in the near future.
November 15th, 2005
Although the
heated bra has good intentions (Saving the Earth), this might be a bit of misguided marketing. Someone over there in Japan seems to think that wearing fluffy bras and not wearing ties will help the country save energy. Which makes some sort of weird sense with regards to air conditioning/heating. Why don't we just sell something like power strips with a remote that makes sure all our devices are truly OFF instead of them sucking power slowly but surely... But hey, it's a good start, and from Japan. In which case it's forgivable.
"The fluffy creation contains special pads filled with an eco-friendly gel that can be easily heated in a microwave or with a hot water bottle. The design also includes a furry boa designed to double as a winter scarf.
We hope this will not only help prevent global warming but also provide a little fashion chic to the office."
November 14th, 2005
MasaMania documents the lifestyle of a
Japanese business man. From MasaMania:
"I want to tell you how much Japanese business man is tired.
I have experience to work in other countries. So I know how hard Japanese business man work comparing with American people, Chinese people and Thailand people.
I never say that all foreign people is lazy. But I never hesitate to say that Jap is fucking hard worker.
Our priority is not to live, but to work.. It’s true. Every year lots of Japanese businss man tired to death while working."
November 14th, 2005
Heated gloves powered by USB. From
Thanko in Japan, this only goes to show that if it can be done, people will do it. At least this makes more sense than the usb ashtray. It would seem like a more elegant solution energy-wise, to take the excess heat from the CPU/unit and use that to heat the gloves.
November 14th, 2005
I spotted a dude wearing some sort of kilt at Combots. It was some weird genetically engineered hybrid of a utility belt and a kilt, call
Utilikilt. From their site : 'We are committed to pioneer a comfortable alternative to trousers by producing "Men's Unbifurcated Garments" (MUG's)' Hmmm, unbifurcated. I'll have to remember that one. The guy who will wear a utilikilt is a braver man than I - I can just imagine some rough n tuff construction worker clambering up a ladder wearing his unbifurcated garment, and all the worker buddies cringing when they accidentally glance up his kilt at his bifurcated under garment of choice.
November 14th, 2005
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Finally got round to hand-making a shirt (Lots of time, masking tape, xacto cutting, and patience!). "Feed me" is a fun play on the whole RSS / XML feed thing I've been figuring out lately. Seems like every site has a feed and at least 2 feed buttons, sometimes 5, maybe more! Kinda ridiculous if y'ask me (Though I know you aren't) I'm gonna set up a feed from my friggin toilet so everyone can (not bother) subscribing to my bowel movement status.
