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Apparently a lot of people liked my dru....er uh sleep deprevation induced
update last night. Admazing what you can do when you aren't thinking straight
isn't it? Anywho, perhaps I should only start updating the site right before I
go to bed, which being the night owl I am, is 2-4 in the morning (ie when old
people (hi mom!) are waking up). Plus staying up has it's disadvantages. I eat
supper at like 6 or 7 or so's, and then that means I become a starving maniac at
around midnight or 1. And there just isn't much to eat in my dorm since I have
no fridge. Luckly goldfish crackers are "The one snack it's ok to get
hooked on!" (it's on the box, it must be true!) and peanut butter crackers are
tasty. But if any of my UF friends reads this, and ever gets the munchies around
midnight or so and wants a pizza, give me a call cause I WILL be hungry. I'm
always hungry for pizza anyways :)
Being one of the world's first cyborg's can be really tough on a person,
especially when they're trying to get on
a plane. University of Toronto professor Steve Mann has electrodes attached to his
body, constantly wears special glasses that have a computer display in them, and
has other wires all over his body in a research experiment on wearable
computers. He's written two books about it, and has a discription of what he's
done on his website
He sees the world as images imprinted onto his retina by rays of laser light.
This allows him to transmit his viewpoint live to the Internet, block out
billboards and other unwanted visual stimuli, and turn his world into a series
of hyperlinks. Constantly connected to the WearComp system, Mann has all the
capabilities of a standard office at his disposal, even as he utilizes shrinking
technologies to turn himself into a portable movie studio. The first person to
live in total constant intimate contact with the computer, Steve Mann exists at
once in the real and virtual worlds, living an entirely videographic existence,
seeing everything around him, including himself, through a wearable computer.
Over the past twenty years, Steve Mann has been his own human guinea pig,
testing his various wearable computer prototypes on himself.
Is that cool or what? Someday all (or
most) humans have computers inside us, but it starts with guys like him wearing
it outside of his body. But due to unusually stringent airport security, they
wouldn't let him get on a plane until he was strip searched and had his very
senstive equipment ruined by scanning it with X-Rays. Airport
security made me give up my pair of scissors in my backpack that I
always have with me, but disconnecting wires attached to your body? For shame!
A little late but still good, ThinkGeek has some products only
avaliable on April 1st. My personal fav is Duke Nukem
Forever, the game that has finally come out now that previously "will come
out really soon now" for the past 4 years (or at least it seems like
it).
Walking in the rain is great fun. The pitter patter of the raindrops on your
umbrella, and the clean smell it brings. Awwwwwww
Ok, moment over.
Heheheh, Microsoft is at it again. First the put up a website about how Windows is superior to Unix,
and the computer they serve the webpages from is running FreeBSD (A Unix
operating system)! Then they quickly switch it over to Windows 2000 when people
relieze Microsoft isn't running a Microsoft operating system, and ever since
then the website's been
down. Microsoft: Where do you want to crash today?
And in the tradition of the geek test, there is now the nerd test. I am 42% nerd, which
I find far too inadequete. I must work on my nerdity. Or if 100 question's isn't
enough, go for the 500
question version. It pegged me as 43% nerd. And yes, as one of the
questions asked, I have joined a chess/math/trivia team in order to meet girls.
Nerds are just too sexy! And while doing these tests, I found a website with math tshirts. Awwwwwww
yea!
And that's that for tonight's sleep deprived bout of fun. Gosh these updates are
getting long now. Not sure how much longer I can keep this up. But strive on I
shall, for all the little (and tall) people out there!
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