Saw a commercial over the weekend for Sears with a device just like this:
The CarveWright Woodworking System
Can you say hobby-wood-CNC? This could be a lot of fun. I need to look at the dimensions of stuff I’d wanna do.
A friend pointed this game out. Looks interesting.
Here’s a solution for altering your video display without cracking the case in case you’re on a laptop, suffer security and compliance locked down desktops at the office, and just want more space for peer review of code, documents, or images.
I’d be more into when the resolution gets a little higher… but 1024 is OK.
Recently I noticed that my inbound email volume has dropped so at first I thought I’ve just been offline so much lately that people stopped writing. I’m beginning to realize that somebody changed something on the corporate mail server that is freaking Thunderbird out. It looked like the parent folders weren’t always indicating new messages in child folders. I started clicking through all the child folders and a ton of them lit up with all the messages unread. Not sure why that’s happening but I did find some new messages, one to a party I’ve now missed and a very cool one from Richard. Here’s something he pointed out I should probably get:
Here’s what I want next, a Sony Reader! Now people will just think I’m playing with my computer gadget, not reading a book. Maybe I’ll get a digital highlighter while I’m at it.
Sony Electronics Learning Center
You can sign up to be notified via email when it is shipping, later this year in the US.
Can anyone say Phat Cock shoe fetish line?
To help fuel my insatiable word addiction and hopefully find a two syllable word beginning with a hard consonant to name my other dog that fits with “Kosmo”….I bring you:
What do you get when you stay in a hotel room, remove a picture from the wall, create some art, and then put the picture back?
I’ve some Sharpies and some frequent flyer miles to burn. TSIC.
I came here to check out the Space Invaders inspired gadgets…
…but the interface design deserved being blogged. Remember concentration? That’s their nav in flash. It is disconcerting and not good for the user, but novel.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Our company rented out theaters for us to all go see the final Star Wars which is very cool except I haven’t been up at nine in the morning in years! Mmmm…popcorn for breakfast!
This was definately worth seeing! Early on R2D2 pulls the old oil slick ignited by tiny booster rockets trick on some unsuspecting droids. R2 busts out his built-in Tazer gun from time to time and is generally oddly endearing for a robot.
The droids all seem to have much more personality and senses of humor, and one of them when we first see C3PO looks hot in a mini-skirt but I’ll have to confirm on the DVD since she is only shown for a second.
Speaking of hot, there is some nice cleavage in this one that are always very brief, conselor escort on the stairs, and even a Jedi night, think I saw a belly ring. Can never get enough exposed midriffs alien or not.
The special effects are excellent as to be expected from the ILM crew. One trooper Obi Wan talks to was a very convincing CGI pushing us closer to virtual actors.
Much of the space battles do have some annoyinng physics like crippled ships falling with no visible gravity source and things catching on fire or blowing up. Fine, I’ll bow to suspension of disbelief paradigm and the detail on all the technology is impressive except the controls of the Emperial Detroyer which they probably were trying to duplicate the contros to be seen in the same destryoers in earlier the Stars Wars (Episode 4 wil always be Star Wars to me). Just seemed so obvious when you compare it to the curved, translucent control panels of General Grevious’s first ship that Anakin meteors into a planet below.
Finally, who in their right mind can’t possibly want to wield a light saber? Mine would be purple and it would be very useful in some of my meetings. A samarai sword is lethal but the light saber is so much faster, lighter, cauterizes the wound to reduce the mess, and cuts through metal.
Although I always use the force, my new guiding principle has become “What Would Yoda Do?”
