Sep 13
links for 2006-09-14
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create packaging for them
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Sep 12
Toilet Themed Restaurant
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This is filed under the WTF category. This restaurant serves food and stuff with toilet themes…its kinda gross, yet intriguing. Check out the pics on this site.
Toilet Themes
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Sep 12
iTunes Store and iPods updated
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If you haven’t already heard, Steve & Co. launched the iTunes Store, which now offers movies from $9.99 - 19.99.
Along with the updated store, they have updated the iPod nano, with multiple colors and made them even smaller, and updated the shuffle, to an impossibly small size. They also showed the iTv which lets you wirelessly stream movies from your mac to your tv. This is still in production and no word on when it will be released. Suffice it to say, it looks badass!
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Sep 11
links for 2006-09-12
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Sep 08
links for 2006-09-09
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how to take pictures of moving objects
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open wine bottle with string
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Sep 08
Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
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Guy Kawasaki has an interesting post about why smart people do dumb things. His macbook died and he didn’t have a backup of it. He makes some great points in his post.
Truly, the book answers much deeper questions than why I was too dumb to backup my MacBook, but the concepts are the same. The authors list four reasons why smart, famous, powerful, and rich people who should obviously know better end up crashing and burning:
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Hubris. Pride to the point that you no longer feel shame, no longer believe that you are subject to public opinion, and no longer need to fear “the gods.” Examples: Gary Hart’s involvement with Donna Rice that ended his run for the presidency and the Dennis Kozlowski’s (Tyco) $2 million toga party.
*Arrogance. From the Latin word arrogare: “to claim for oneself.” Arrogant people believe they have claim to anything and everything they want–they are “entitled” to it. King David, for example, felt entitled to the wife (Bathsheba) of one of his soldiers. Modern day King Davids feel entitled to corporate jets and an entourage to tell them that their keynote speech rocked.
*Narcissism. Self absorption to the point that you are blind to reality. The world only exists to provide you gratification. Examples: Richard Nixon and Watergate; the Clintons and Whitewater—really just about every politician and CEO who falls from grace.
*Unconscious need to fail. If you think failing is hard, try winning. The questions that go through people’s minds when they they are on the doorstep of success are: Do I really deserve to win? Do I want the pressure of constantly having to win in the future? Can I really handle success? Perhaps this explains why professional athletes still take performance enchancement drugs even after watching their colleagues get busted.
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Sep 08
If you’re looking for a multi function remote, this is one to go after. Amazon.com is selling this programmable remote for $32 with Free Shipping. Pick one up for yourself and another for your loved one. This one is great because it also has an RF link that allows you to control things by as far as 100 feet! Be outside and control your music with this remote.
From the Manufacturer
The URC 9910 upgradeable universal remote control with RF Link provides radio frequency operation with up to 100 feet of range through floors, walls, and doors, both indoors and outdoors. No matter how you upgrade or change your home entertainment components, the URC 8910 will stay on top of your technology through One For All’s Customer Service. It consolidates up to eight devices at one time including TV, VCR, DVD, Cable, Satellite, CD, Receiver or Amplifier, plus an Auxiliary device. With truly advanced features, like the commercial skip function and an LCD display with real-time clock, you’ll be ready to throw away all your old remotes. Changing from many remotes to one is easy with the URC 9910’s full learning capability. It’s amazing, this remote quickly and easily learns codes from your existing remotes. Plus, with the Home Theater configure key - a programmable key for powering all devices on/off simultaneously - you’re ready to start-up or shut down with the click of a button. Of course the features don’t end here, it also comes with a backlit keypad, picture-in-picture, surround sound and a macro functions.
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Sep 07
My new Reality
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If you’ve been reading this, you know that a couple of weeks ago, I lost my hearing in my left ear. Yesterday, I had gone to another specialist and he basically told me that a viral infection had torn through my ear and destroyed my hearing nerves and balance nerves, which is why I can’t hear and why I am constantly dizzy. And there’s no cure. What does this mean? Well…it means that I have to retrain myself to not be dizzy, which will take some time and get used to the buzzing sound in my ear which is annoying as shit.
This has totally changed my life. I haven’t been able to work for the past few weeks, I wish I could say I was on vacation, or it was like a vacation, but it just plain ole sucked balls. Not being able to do much of anything.
What sucks is that I keep hoping to wake up from this bad dream or that tomorrow, my hearing will magically come back and I won’t be dizzy and stuff anymore, but it’s now just a fact of life for me. It’s still unreal that this happened.
Will I ever get used to the dizziness and nausea and the buzzing sound in my ear?
I’ve already experienced the suckiness part when talking to people. For instance, yesterday after my dr’s appointment, my brother and I went to have lunch at Manna, an all you can eat bbq place, which is really good btw. We were actually talking about stuff other than work, probably b/c I haven’t done anything yet, but I noticed that each time I turned my head down to eat, I couldnt hear him talking because of the way he was positioned. That really spooked me. And then the same thing in the car. He’d be talking and if I was looking out of the window, I couldn’t hear him, I’d hear mumbling and i’d have to ask him to repeat what he was saying.
Am I frustrated? Yup. Does this suck? Yup. But it’s life. This is just another hurdle to get over and I plan on conquering this crap soon.
It’s been 3 weeks and I am still not used to it. It may take a month or two, but I will eventually get used to it. One thing I’m concerned about is my job, because I work so freegin far. Could I handle the drive still? I mean, they have all been great, letting me do as much as I can from home, which sadly ain’t much, and letting me come back to work. But how much can I realistically do?
We’ll see what happens.
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Sep 07
links for 2006-09-08
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