Category: Miscellaneous

“Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the human mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.”

Neato.

I’m an idiot. While goofing around on Saturday, I decided to do a comedic jump through the air in the living room to make Chrissy laugh, and when I did, I accidentally full-force kicked the ottoman. In doing so, I broke my 2 littlest toes on my left foot. They’re now a great swollen shade of purple. Awesome. You gotta love walking with a limp because you’re an idiot.

I had intended to write about how good sci-fi movies are hard to come by but instead I found an excerpt from an Isaac Asimov essay that I think says it best…

“ […] Eye-sci-fi has an audience that is fundamentally different from that of science fiction. In order for eye-sci-fi to be profitable it must be seen by tens of millions of people; in order for science fiction to be profitable it need be read by only tens of thousands of people. This means that some ninety percent (perhaps as much as ninety-nine percent) of the people who go to see eye-sci-fi are likely never to have read science fiction.

The purveyors of eye-sci-fi cannot assume that their audience knows anything about science, has any experience with the scientific imagination, or even has any interest in science fiction.

But, in that case, why should the purveyors of eye-sci-fi expect anyone to see the pictures? Because they intend to supply something that has no essential connection with science fiction, but that tens of millions of people are willing to pay money to see. What is that? Why, scenes of destruction.

You can have spaceships destroying spaceships, monsters destroying cities, comets destroying the Earth. These are called ‘special effects’ and it is what people go for. A piece of eye-sci-fi without destruction is, I think, almost unheard of. If such a thing were made, no one would go to see it; or, if it were so good that it would indeed pull a small audience, it would not be thought of as science fiction of any kind.”

This is another video where the audio has been replaced. Again, I find it hillarious. Unlike the others, the drums, keyboard, and saxaphone have been replaced along with the guitar.

This is friggin HILLARIOUS…

The Steve Vai one is also funny. Click below…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wsXS5fCq4LU

I could be crazy, but I think this is an indication as to how good the operating system must be : Windows Help

Hear ye, hear ye!

The product review section of online stores is not for asking your support questions!

I always love it when I see entries like :

“4 stars, a great product!”
“2 stars, I didn’t like it.”
“I can’t get it to work, has anybody seen this error before?”

Way to go Einstein. Yeah, I’d think that a link labeled “Reviews” actually means “Ask your dumb question here when you should actually RTFM” too. 😉

Oh how I love insomnia. I’m writing this blog entry at 2:30 in the morning. Since I have to get up at 7:30, you can guess how much this sucks. I really need to go the doctor about this. I just don’t get enough sleep any more. This probably happens at least once a week now.

On a more pleasant note, I got a new digital camera on Saturday! It’s a 7.1MP Canon Powershot SD1000. It’s a really great camera. It’s pocket sized, and has a really fast auto focus, and image processing speed. My favorite feature however is the red eye removal. After you’ve taken a picture, and notice that there’s really bad red eye (like I’ve got right now) you can view the picture on the camera’s playback mode, and use the thumb pad to draw a box around the red eye area of the image and remove the red eye. This way, I can remove the red eye while I take the pictures, and not later in bulk when I upload the images to iPhoto. Take a look at the latest pictures in my Flickr library to see some of the SD1000’s handiwork.

Sweet dreams everyone!