May 2004 Archives
Loyola University has received approval to investigate PolyHeme's use as a blood substitute for critically injured and bleeding trauma patients at accident scenes. Blood has a very short shelf life, requires refrigeration, and matching types takes too much time too carry blood in ambulances. The blood substitute has a long shelf life and is compatible with all blood types. It's designed to furnish oxygen which will "prevent organ damage in the brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys," until a transfusion can be done at the hospital.
This shits pretty damn cool. I hope it works.
"But they don't know about us, and they've never heard of love..."
a new mp3 blog hoping to list them all. Songs stay active for a week, and you can contribute too. So far, they're ranging from Tracey Ullman to Britney to Take That to Eddie Fisher to the Supremes and Abba. Da Freaks!
Well, the woman has some pictures from camping/geocaching this weekend, hopefully she'll get them posted soon.
Pretty busy life this past week or so. Between camping in Fundy, some super hard geocaches, and some decent biking, I didnt have time to update properlly. Well, ta-da, and update.
Jenn's doing great with her biking, glad I could get a decent bike for her to offroad on, I'm amazed she's ok with the trails we've been doing, some are pretty advanced.
Geocaching has made a good change in our lifestyles, geocaching on bike, camping, etc, great shit if you ask me.
I'll update more later, got a meeting in 5 minutes.
Or does he?
A new blog set up a few days ago, claims to be written by Kaufman. I wonder. I think this is just about the low level he'd like, make people wonder, create a stir, and then disappear for good. We.ll have Kaufman sightings all over the place now.
If it is Andy, great idea, a full-blown media appearance would be too Hollywood; an underground idea like this is way more his style.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"
-Keyser Soze
23 emails asking where I got the cool avatar, I got it here, now stop asking. hah.
The link to email it to you, yeah, that won't work. The orginal site it was on a few months ago went under, and with it their email app that the swf called. Oh well, suck it up and do a screen capture and use mspaint/photoshop.
As a five-year-old child, Dokaka hummed along with melodies on television, but one day plugged headphones into the TV, discovering that the sounds in his head matched those piping through the headphones. He quickly realized that songs consist of many parts like bass, drums, etc. Within a year, he began to record himself humming. Best part of this site? Angel of Death (Slayer); 4.5 MB .
One of the down sides of having a right hand side bar, is that images which pass 600px in width, push your sidebar off the screen, and to the bottom of the page. So I removed the wide ones, I'll post links to them in a little bit
This post was set as a draft, so it didn.t get posted when Jenn got her bike, so I figured I'd update the date and let it go out fresh today
So, originally Jenn didn't care what kind of bike she got, she'd have been happy with anything. So before picking her bike up, we shopped around so I could show her why she should care.
I planned the trip to go something like this; First stop, to show her how a bike shouldn.t be made, Toys R' Us, then Wal-Mart, then Canadian Tire. The second step was to then go onto Bungays to buy a decent bike.
After showing her the multitude of problems and poor workmanship with crap they had at Toys R Us, we went right to Bungays. Haha, I pointed out the shitty messy weld job, bubbles in the paint, the garbage parts, and the fact that they wanted 149 for something that would break in no time.
Yeah.. Hah, seriously, a dude I know bought one of their "tech trek" bikes as a joke, he rode it for 3 weeks till one of the welded seams that held his fork to his bike came undone. Haha, yeah, to say they're unsafe is to say Dan Breannan might like the occasional sip of the old firewater.
Bungays didn.t really have anything that fit her right though, Jenn is a little short, so we went up to Canadian Tire, their stock isn.t that bad if you.re just looking for a bike that wont fall apart on you in the first month. Luckily we managed to pick up a decent CCM that they had just marked down, due to the fact it was last years model. The cool part was, it was 1/2 off, and wasn.t mentioned in the flier yet, so we managed to get one before the general public bought them all and left us with a rain check.
So lessons learnt from this trip? Never buy a bike in a mall, unless you are inbreed, too cheap to care, or too stupid to care.
But, the first action to take incase you have bought a bike at the mall and realize what a lemon you got suckered into buying by a 16 year old "salesman", is to NOT tell anybody, or to brag about it. It's like saying "Hi, I'm a cheap sucker, please, take me for what I'm worth, and leave me bleeding in the street"
There is one exception to the rule though. You can buy any bike you want at the mall, if your plan is to throw it/yourself off a high cliff. That shits just funny.
So Rob's too (not to, as jenn would lead you to belive) lazy to get off his behind and move the whole foot and a half to his computer to make an entry, so he wants me to do it for him. ANd he's sitting there giving me grammar corrections, or trying to, since he just admitted that I was right about the use of "too'! HA
{ hi, this is rob, the word Jenn had used "to" is the wrong word, the word she was looking for is "too" which means, I'm right, and shes a mainlander. (aka Wrong) }
He wants me to talk about the cables he got tonight for the GPS, which, if you read my site, you knew already! www.alljenn.com. <---shameless plug! Ok, so now back to the GPS cables. We got a GPS to serial cable, and a car power adapter! With the serial adapter, Rob can link the GPS to the PC/Palm for navigation and data transfer. Speaking of data, I'd best be getting paid for this little data entry via dictation I'm doing! ;) Now he's crabbing about my ad-libbing. The GPS now contains the coordinates for all caches within 500 miles that we haven't yet found.
Now he's blabbing about Germans. And now I must go kick his ass!
Are you on drugs without even knowing it? Take the quiz and find out! I scored high! .. get it.. high... hahaha
w00t, chicks flashing me rock.
Hey, Hey, 16K! What does that get you today?
Catchy song, fucking stupid animation, and the disembodied floating head of Clive Sinclair... what more could you ask for? well, other than your old C64 back...
Pimpin, truely pimpin. At $15, this belt-buckle made from an old NES controller is a pretty cool gift-idea.
Red Sky Mobile is launching a GPS unit for the Game Boy Advance next week at E3. It includes a set of APIs to enable "GPS Gaming."
I'm hyped, I don't care what it costs, I'm buying it ASAP.
Dude, I so want one.
"The FroggyBox is a sensor-pack in a plasitc frog with a serial interface (a wireless USB adapter is available), containing a thermometer, a barometer and an hygrometer -- basically everything you need to turn a PC into a weather station, especially when you add their forthcoming wireless plastic rooster, which contains an anemometer, weathercock, and heliograph."
Has it been 20 years already? "Andy himself stated that were he to fake his death, he would return 20 years later to the day. May 16th is that day."
You can now enjoy an old school NES game as "volumetric isometric 3d graphics using a Voxel Sculpting tool," which means it's 3D now, and more confusing.
In other Metroid news, a brand new speed run of Super Metroid was released a while back, 58 minutes with 100 percent completion. And unlike those "time attack" videos that have come with some controversy, this speed run was played on a SNES console and recorded the old fashion way. For more speed runs and time attacks, please see here.
Warning: this is possibly the worst story ever told. Ever wanted to know what it's like to have a beef tapeworm? (Fun fact: they're the kind that fills your whole intestinal tract!) A storyteller on The Fray helpfully clues us in to the experience of living with, and eventually destroying, his li'l parasite buddy. Don't read it if you don't want to wish for death at the end. (Blessedly, there are no photographs, though there are some toon-like illustrations.)
Too bad about TechTv, I actually liked the screen savers. Why do networks always kill the popular things?
Thinking of picking up a new car in a bit, possibly one very similar to this one. Rockin eh?
Ring ring ring ring bananaphone. Warning: contains badgers.
Amazing interview with one of my idols (available as a text transcript or audio file) security guru Bruce Schneier, who really should be hired to run the United States Homeland Security dept.
Doug Kaye: Now a recurring concept in your book is probably typified by this example: .A terrorist who wants to create havoc will not be deterred by airline security; he will simply switch to another attack and bomb a shopping mall..
Bruce Schneier: This is, I think, really important. I just did a hearing two days ago on Capitol Hill about CAPS II, about airline profiling, and one of the things I.m always struck with is how good we are at defending against what the terrorists did last year. We.re spending a lot of money shoring up our airlines, we.re now talking about shoring up trains. And money that we spend that simply causes the bad guys to change their tactics is money wasted.
You have a red and a blue door, and the terrorists go through the red door, and you say, .We must secure the red door,. so they go through the blue door the next time. What did you actually buy?
Yay, lost that extra 15 lbs I've been carrying around since Infiknowledge, now to pick back up the musscle weight I lost. Heh. I do all this work to get lighter, and now, I'm planning on adding 15 lbs of musscle.. haha. Yeah, sorta counter-productive, oh well.
It's nice being a big strong guy, I love being able to help my wench out, she's tiny, and still not quite used to the fact I'll help with all the things she'd have to get on a chair for.
We went to the dinner theatre thing that the OAOT Social Committee set up for us. Nice shindig, I was tired as hell and sunburnt to shit, and me and Jenn even thought about bailing, but the tickets were paid for a month or so in advance, so tough luck for us if we missed it. And they way I figure it since oaot's social committee paid for half of the tickets, it was too good of a deal to pass up.
But yeah, it was a blast, great food, and cool tunes/acting. Not bad at all especially for Moncton.
There's a petition against Canada's proposed DMCA-like copyright law up at Digital Copyright Canada:
We, the undersigned residents of Canada draw attention of the House to the following:
THAT the Copyright Act is properly recognised as being a careful balance between the rights of creators and the rights of the public (including viewers, readers and listeners);
THAT the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously affirmed this view in CCH Canadian Ltd v Law Society of Upper Canada;
THAT digital technologies have recently given copyright holders the ability to upset the balance in the Copyright Act by preventing Canadians from accessing works for purposes that have been legally granted to them;
THAT the creation of original works is nourished by wide accessibility of earlier works, including a vibrant public domain;
THAT dissemination of cultural ideas requires that they be preserved in a form that is accessible to future generations; and
THAT historically, consultations regarding changes to the Copyright Act have mostly taken place with creators, intermediaries and only some special users (such as educators and librarians)
THEREFORE, your petitioners call upon Parliament to ensure generally that users are recognised as interested parties and are meaningfully consulted about proposed changes to the Copyright Act and to ensure in particular that any changes at least preserve all existing users' rights, including the right to use copyrighted materials under Fair Dealing and the right to make private copies of audio recordings. We further call upon Parliament not to extend the term of copyright; and to recognise the right of citizens to personally control their own communication devices.
CSS Pencils is probably the most hardcore use of CSS I've seen - no images at all, but hey - what's that? A picture? And you can manipulate it? Live? Yep - all with the power of CSS.
I use css on my page a lot, but damn. This is just wacked out to the point of a near PaulFirlotte.com level
Ford Motor Co. is pissed at ad agency Ogilvy & Mather after O&M leaked a viral marketing ad for the Ford Sportka depicting "a realistic-looking orange cat climbing on top of the car and curiously poking its head into the open moon roof...The roof slides closed and the cat struggles briefly to escape before its headless body slides to the ground." Apparently Ford never authorized the commercial's (.mpg) release.
