Philibuster

Ok I’ve been having some really really weird dreams lately. Anyone that has ever talked to me about my dreams knows that when I dream they are extremely vivid. I have all my senses except for smell, but I can feel stuff just like when I’m awake (except for pain thankfully) I can hear things fully not like that sort of voice in your head type stuff but what seems like a true reproduction of sound. Oh and of course everything is in true wonderful color. There have been dreams that I have honestly not been able to tell the difference from being awake and even a couple that worked their way into what feel like actual memories instead of just dreams. (more…)

Two things. One I will never ever look at an office chair the same way again. I have a newly acquired fear of dying from a bleeding anus caused by an office chair exploding upwards.

The story goes that a 14 year old boy got his ass blown off by the gas cylinder in the chair exploding. The picture looks pretty grim but hey what? Don’t you think if anyone had been sitting on that chair it would be uh, a little bit messier. That’s a pretty big chunk taken out of the seat. I’m sure that a comparable chunk would have gone missing from boy in question. So while the story makes my butt cringe just thinking about it I’m going to go ahead and call bullshit.

Second a guy named Dirk proved that strong magnets are not to be taken lightly. He lost the tip of his finger and his finger nail when one of the magnets flew 20 inches to smack into the other one. Guess where his finger was.

Well that’s a dammit if I ever saw one. Oh yeah can’t figure out what the white thing is. It’s his finger nail.

I’m sorry where you eating lunch?

NASA is having a vote for the name of Node 3. Node 3 will be a new addition to the ISS later this year. It has a pretty freaking awesome viewing area for looking at the earth. There is only one real choice for the name. Serenity. All the Firefly geeks and out in full force and we are winning by a long shot. Still go out and vote.

Click here to vote.

So Yay! I can file my taxes this year and expect to get a cool 8 grand back. Even though I didn’t buy a house last year because I’m buying one this year I can still claim it on my tax and get the credit. I don’t have to pay it back if I stay in the house for three years. Great. Now I just need a house. I’m still working on that. In fact I have an offer in on a place right now but who knows it might not go through. There are two offers on the house right now and it looks like my offer is the lower one. I’m not getting excited but I would really like to have that house. Never easy.

I found this on the BBC. It is the sound of neurons firing that has been processed to make it audible to our human ears. Sound pretty cool and the idea that the researcher has is that the cells themselves has some measure of intelligence and that the “communities” they form result in our higher intelligence. Much like colonies of ants seem to exhibit quite a smart intelligence if you look at the whole colony. However they seem pretty dumb if you look at the individuals. It is an interesting concept but honestly, the way they report how he came to this conclusion is a bit disconcerting. He says that this sound, sounds like birds calling to each other. I think there should be just a little bit more evidence than someone comparing a sound byte to birds on a sea cliff. They also mention that single cell organism  can go hunt for food, repair themselves, and build houses but last I checked neurons did none of those things.

Here’s a cool link I found on Nasa twitter feed. It’s a site that has a walkthrough of the ISS and a bunch of info on how the astronauts live. Pretty cool stuff. Looks like they really cleaned up for the photos. Almost unrecognizable from the youtube tours a month ago.

I found a very well put together fan film of half life 2. They did an excellent job on it esp since this was  a no money shoot.

I can’t wait for part two.

This also makes me want to do some video editing again. Either that or make an HEV suit for halloween. 

Bah, Valentines day. A day to celebrate consumer sheepism and corporate greed. It’s mostly a useless day because hey if you have someone special you already have a set day to celebrate your love, It’s called your anniversary. No need to put out another day and broadcast everything to everyone and damn need require the purchasing of candy.

All that aside if I had a girlfriend I would probably still do something nice for her. I’m sweet like that. In the past though I have tried to do things that didn’t involve mass consumerism.

I’ve compiled a list of interesting odd valentines crap for your amusement.

Nothing says “I love you” like pork. Esp when it’s in a heart form. Thanks Gizmodo.

And we can’t ever forget bacon.

Yes, there is someone in the world that is receiving this card at this very moment and they are loving it. In fact there will probably be very wrong and weird fetish sex after the exchange of cards. Thank you BaconBaconBacon.

Ten bacon goodness gift for the bacon lover, from Yes but no but Yes. There are bacon flavored bubbles on that page. Yes that’s right Bacon Flavored Bubbles.

If you are late on your gift and running out of time why not get rid of that gun you’ve got lying around. The police of Columbia South Carolina are running a “Guns for Roses” trade in program. You bring a gun you get some roses. I’ve heard about gun trade in programs before and this one sort of blows. You aren’t really getting anything of value. I mean come on a gun for, what, a dozen roses. Screw that there have been guns for xbox or other cool stuff. Plus it’s not an amnesty program so don’t turn in that gun you used to kill that hooker or you’ll be receiving a whole other kind of loving from your new cell mate.

Everyone who went to school in the 90s remembers Oregon trail. And just about everyone loves it. The highlight of the week/month/whatever was when everyone headed down to the computer lab to play Oregon trail. For such a simple game it was widely loved and a huge amount of fun. There have been several different version of the game but the first one was the best. Now you can play it anytime. Someone uploaded it to the web. In fact there are a ton of other apple games from way back. Go check them out and relive shooting those super fast rabbits and trying to ford the river.

Found via Make.

I found this link via darkroastedblend. It’s really easy to understand. It talks about extra dimensions in a down to earth simple manner. I found it super interesting and helped me understand a few concepts that I kind of understood but was just missing a couple pieces. It also backed up a couple of my “guesses” about how some of this stuff works. Which is cool.

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