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I wanted one of those 3d controllers for a LONG time coming, so I can use it in my graphics programs, my carputer, and other apps (I’m sure I can think up a few new uses for the controller, including 3d games of course). But it was always insanely priced at around $200 to $600 . At $59, the price point is a lot more palatable, and it looks super sleek in the uber-geek way.
A new world record. Dominos.
A video about underground protesters in modern day China.
Didn’t update this for awhile but I finally got done with all my food today (except cereal, etc). 11/17
Eggs 2.99
Bread 2.99
There are these vegetable packs that you can steam… pretty good portions in these plastic bags you stick in the microwave for 5 minutes and they come out great. Anyway, I got 10 of them for 1 buck each. Things like melted broccoli cheese, steamed vegetables, creamed corn, etc.
10.00
Hormel Beef Roast: 10.99 (Lasts 3 meals. microwaveable)
Pork chops 7.11
banana: 1.30
apples: 1.99
pineapple: 3.99
cantaloupe: 1.95
2 ready-go salad packs: 3.99 x 2: 7.98
My sister sent it to me.
Kind of a game, more of a cool adventure story supplemented by clicking.
Hint: Click everywhere. Sometimes you need to click on a thing more than once. Sometimes if repeatly clicking doesn’t do anything you need to wait for some other action to happen. Don’t give up, everything makes sense eventually.
If you are like me and wish that your bookmarks are available whereever you go, but you really like the convience of having it available not just on google homepages of delicious or whatever and just want it on Firefox, without a lot of hassle and thinking…. You are in luck. Foxmarks.com is da shiznit.
I know I’ve been writing like an accountant when it comes to food lately– my 3 month experiment comes to mind– but I’m actually quite knowledgeble in terms of food. Here is a slate.com article about steaks you can order (apparently you can order Kobe style beef made right here in the US) on the net. Being the good souls they are, they used rib-eyes (my most fav cut).
Finally ran out of fruit. 6 days after my grocery run. Apples had a tinge of caramel color to it, but the refrigerator basically did its job.
I stupidly put the bananas in the refrigerator. It ripened unevenly. With literally half of a banana being black, the other half being green. I only got to eat like 2 of them. Next time I’ll leave it outside and put it back inside after 2-3 days. Or just hurry up and eat it all quickly. It’s actually quite difficult to eat everything without spoilage for the young single guy.
Half a carton of milk left. I better hurry up and drink it. With my weekly basketball sessions on Tuesday (not to mention voting!), I think I’ll be on target to drink it all without spoilage. I put the pork sausage patties in the freezer so it won’t rot.
Note: Spam is rather … not bad… for you, asides from the high saltiness of it. Fat content to protein content is relatively favorable, and when sliced extremely thinly and grilled til it turns a crispy maroon color it’s almost like a cross between bacon and pork chops. I shoudl try getting turkey spam (actually saw that while flipping through the men’s health mag the other day).
I go through eggs a lot faster than I realized. After today, I will have gone through a dozen. I really need to cut down on the eggs, but I really love em.
I think the next thing I should try in terms of saving money on food is good ol’ pasta. Just like how mom uses to make em.
I’ve been pretty addicted to both Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us in the last few years. Stumbleupon uses a simple thumbs up or thumbs down symbol to rate websites. You click on the “stumble” button and it automatically takes you to a website in that category. If you like it, you get a thumbs up. If you hate it, you get a thumbs down. You can add web sites to its system by simply rating it, so boring, neutral, sites hardly ever get any kind of action. After awhile, with enough ratings from your own, it’ll show similar stumblers who have similar tastes as yours, and you can go and see what web sites they have rated. It’s not just a great time-waster, but it can also be a productive time waster, as it’ll quickly show you some websites in a field and cross connections you may not have thought about. Think of it a sitting on a couch and mindlessly going through the channels. Except it kind of knows what you want to see after awhile, and only shows you stuff other people like too. Only sites you rate become available for public review, so it’s not as creepy as it sounds.
Del.icio.us is a bit more precise in that it’s a persistent (it stays the same, since it’s not relegated to just one computer, so you can access it from anywhere) bookmarking system. Kind of like what gmail did for email, it is doing for bookmarking (I have del.icio.us on my google homepages now, on every tab, separated out by section). But that’s not quite an accurate description as it’s strength is more social (but does describe the kind of effect it’s having). You can tag my site, glowsticking.com, with the tags, rave, glowstick, glowsticking, and if you want, you can see other bookmarks that other people have also tagged with. It’s great if you want to quickly learn more about Photoshop, for instance. You can quickly see the most popular links, as well as related links.
In short, Stumbleupon is a broad based way of interacting with the internet, while Del.icio.us is a bit more razer sharp in terms of interacting with the internet, but if you don’t use these now and then, I really advise you to start. It can easily raise your perceived IQ point by about 15. Just like what google did for searching for precise bits of info, both of these sites are awesome for a more broadbased interaction with information, kind of like browsing books at a library or bookstore. Except faster and you don’t need a library card or gas money.
Even better than the normal google maps, since it has real time traffic info. Man I love my Treo. I just wish Palm got off their ass and produced a real slim version.
Google just came out with a downloable mobile app for PDAs and Treos so you can check your gmail MUCH faster than using your standard web browser in your phone. This is different than going to m.google.com, which is quick and fast as well. but this is more of a full screen app. it also converts word documents and attachments (and strips down the file size). so in many ways, this is better than a blackberry solution.
If you have a treo, you need 2 items.
and the actual google mobile app which you can download by going to gmail.com/app on your mobile browser.
If you need help, google has a help section.
You might also receive a stupid message that asks for gmail to have permission to check your mail. Just do what I do and set the J2EE settings to give full permission. YOU HAVE TO REBOOT YOUR TREO after you make those settings. It never tells you to do so but that’s what you have to do.
Breakfast/lunch
Some fruit (pineapple, apple, cantaloupe. banana still green so i didn’t eat that)
2 eggs with 1 slice cheese
2 sausage patties all cut up and mixed with the eggs
1 slice of bread with some butter on top
Dinner (while watching the lakers beat the warriors, hah)
Some fruit
1 salad package
2 slices of bread with some butter
1/2 pack of creamy alfredo with portebello mushrooms and chicken (i got this almost 5 months ago and it’s been sitting in my fridge. basically the whole thing comes in a frozen package and you throw it into a skillet. if my memory serves me correct it’s about 5 bucks for this and it has 2 servings.)
2 cups of almonds. - i think my archilles heel are snack food type items. if it comes in a bag i tend to eat it all regardless of the healthiness of it. i won’t get this again.
I finally broke down and justified the purchase of the QNAP TS-101 by telling myself it would save a lot electricity since I would basically replace a computer I had running full time in my closet. Tom’s Hardware had a so-so review since it focused way too much on read-write speeds and not enough on other intangibles and gets a few things incorrect.
I chose this device over the Synology DS-106e for a variety of reasons, but one of the biggest reasons was the fan-less design. The QNAP TS-101 just looks rock solid (actually brushed aluminum, including the legs) and feels that way. It feels like it can take quite a pounding. Having some bad experience with external hard drives practically melting itself when the fan gave-out, as well as the noise level (this device is about 10 feet away from my head, and it’s silent). Anyhow, one of the major selling points was the inclusion of both a Torrent server and a print server.
The web interface has some flaws, in that it needs Internet explorer to browse the Torrent server section, but I installed an IE page renderer for Firefox and that took care of that. The Torrent performance is actually quite good and requires the same amount of configuring of your home router to get good results (namely forwarding some ports). I had some doubts whether downloading torrents at the same time I’m taking advantage of other features would slow down performance noticibly, but as of this moment, I’m downloading some *cough* legal movies, printing out some emails, and backing up my computer files all at the same time. The gigabit interface helps, as I have a gigabit switch and my computer and this device are both capable of blazing fast speeds.
One other point to add is that this device just looks pretty, which was quite a relief since the box it came in frankly looked like one of those ugly taiwanese motherboard cases from the 90s before those motherboard companies decided to hire a real graphics guy to design their stuff.
There are a lot more features to this device but I have a feeling I’ll be using most of it. Read more about it on their official product web site.
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