DIY WInd Turbine

Awwww... A British student made a 20 sterling pound DIY wind turbine made from scraps that include an old bike frame (gotta love it), a magneto from a Vespa (plus 1 for cool factor) and other rubbish (ahmm, a little minus on that one). What the device lacks in purrttyyness, it makes up for in ingenuity, and balls, ahmmm, bearings i mean. I'd love to build one of these for myself. I imagine going to the carpark near a McDonalds restaurant (for the wifi) then propping up this 20 foot pole with a turbine stuck in the end to juice my laptop X-D. Clicky this linky for the news item....

Commander Spaz FTW!!!!!

I solved the 4x4x4!!!! I didn't need to follow the monstrous algorithm that pogoboy taught, I had to solve the bottom part (the one with the parity) as if it was the top part, then pray to God that the NEW bottom part would not have parity. Luckily enough, it didn't have one harharhar!!!! Commander Spaz FTW!!!!!

13th post

13th post of the month, so I should not post anything substantial here... I'm cooky that way :P

4x4x4 Rubik's Cube

My girlfriend gave me a 4x4x4 Rubik's Cube... because she knows how addicted I got to solving the 3x3x3 one :D. My friend Ralph taught me how to solve the 3x3x3 cube and from then on I was hooked, well, not hooked hooked but I spent a lot of time playing with it after I learned how to solve it. Since I got the 4x4x4 cube I spent the whole day after Christmas looking at Pogobat's how to solve the 4x4x4 tutorial on youtube... It's pretty effective, I was able to solve the puzzle up until the last part where I met monsieur parity... Yeah, that bastard parity... I tried to follow pogobat's instructions but it was just too fast for my poor widdle brain. See my parity Riiiight doown here..... See, the two opposite corners are not in the right position. Sucks... I wish I could solve it before new year hehehe

Hypokalemia, the day after

I just posted the events of my Christmas day spent eating Bananas to regain my potassium to "cure" my hypokalemia. I eat bananas since this is high in potassium, other good sources of potassium are raisins, and uhmmm, soybeans if i remember right. If I may describe the symptoms of hypokalemia, usually, it starts with the slight inability to move my feet or my shoulders, if I'm lucky, I'll find a banana in the kitchen and eat some when I start to notice the symptoms. Sometimes it's a creeping bitch, like when the first time that I didn't know I had IT. I was DRIVING my whole family home from the province and I was feeling weak, but I thought it was just cramps. We stopped for food at a restaurant but when I tried to stand up after my meals, I fell to the floor unable to get up... (embarassing geesh). So what I do to prevent it (but lately I haven't followed this) I eat bananas, (how many times do i have to say i eat em?) even if I don't feel the symptoms. I HATE being hypokalemic, if you think scratching your back is impossible, try POOPING and washing up afterwards! If any of you unicorns have it please lemme know in the comments, again, I'd hate to think I'm the only one with the darn thing. :P Merry Christmas guys :P

Hypokalemia is a bitch

There are times when I suddenly wake up unable to FULLY move either my arms or my legs, when that happens i KNOW i'm hypokalemic AGAIN. Yep, it's a bitch. And it happened to me last night AGAIN. For those who don't know, hypokalemia is when your body lacks potassium. Potassium is actually purty important to your muscles, so when your potassium level goes below normal (normal is 3.5 to 5.5 mmol/L whatever that means) then you're screwed. When this happens, i usually cry like a little girl, ahmm, i mean i limp around the house looking for a banana.... Yes, a friggin banana. Or, if I'm in a hurry to get well (when i need to drive or need to travel) I take Kalium Durules which isn't so easy to buy here in my widdle Asian country. Back to my story, it's Christmas morning... Yes the 25th of December and it's 6:45 AM I wake up with an urge to scratch my back... I lift my left arm over my head to my back... FAIL... try it again... FAIL... ho crap, hypokalemia you are such a bitch... I wake up my girlfriend who is sleeping beside me... Honey,... Honey,... I'm hypokalemic again.... please get me a banana... or Kalium... so it's 6:45 AM and there's no store open, i tell her to mix me oral salts for the mean time, (glucolyte was the brand i took yesterday) coz that also has potassium in it. I drink a whole mixture then go back to sleep hoping my Potassium level will be ok when i wake up. I wake up at 11, i try to lift my arms..... FAIL.... i wiggle like a worm and I try to stand up... Look for my bananas... Where's my girlfriend? Did she get me Kalium? Grrr... Fail... She comes in the room, I'm grumpy as hell, (hey, you would be grumpy too if you can't scratch your back) Here, I got you bananas... She says,... I take some... I'm still angry coz I still dont have Kalium, she knows I'm pissed off, she wears her pants, and says she's going to town to buy me Kalium... I said, fuhgeddabout it, I'll just eat more bananas till I get well... SO there, I spent Christmas day eating bananas (six to be exact) until I got well, my GF's sister was kind enough to drop by the pharmacy to get me two caps of the now useless Kaliums since the Bananas already worked for me. Merry Christmas everybody, if anyone also has Hypokalemia, lemme know, please I'd hate to be the only person who suddenly goes limp :P

Adelle, hometown glory

I wanted to share Adelle's "Hometown Glory", the song sounds so sad, and she sings very nice

Oh the weather outside is frightful...

Merry Christmas to everyone, i'll be at my girlfriend's house for zee big holiday season, stuffing myself with her aunt's muy delicioso meatballs. So what do you guys plan to do for Christmas? :) I'll end this post with a quote from Gandhi... "The World can sustain all of man's needs, but not man's greed" or something like that :D so just a thought for your Christmas feasts, buy just enough, dont buy a carfull of food just because its a holiday. Instead, buy QUALITY food, i dunno, something gourmet perhaps, or go organic, or something exotic from a different cuisine, try something Asian. or better yet, try AN ASIAN, for all deh single leheydees out there, drop me a line, hehehe :D

Year end parteh!

Hahaha! I won a DVD player at our office year end parteh and I'm selling it for 300 Dollars to any unicorn that leaves a comment and their credit card information.... bwahahaha.... i also won an award at the office called "special citation for overall performance" who looks good baby? I do baby, I do.... hehehe, so the changes afoot that i mentioned in my last post did not happen thankfully so my jolly self is returning :D

Gaahhh, some major changes are afoot

I sense a major shift in my love life since my girlfriend read some uhmmm, text messages on my phone that made her jealous. Danger Will Robinson! Danger! Hmmm, i hope disaster gets averted, i'll know soon enough.

Google Hot Rocks

Whatever happened to Google's funding of a Hot Rocks research project? The big G (no not Gates) donated almost $11 million for research into this enhanced geothermal energy source. Basically, the idea behind it is if you dig deep enough, you'll reach hot rocks where you could pour water then generate steam. Sounds promising eh? Last I heard of it was August, check this link if you need more info.

Manny Pacquiao FTW \m/

Fine, Fine, Fine, I know this isn't breaking news but Gahdammit Manny Pacquiao is da bomb! Dela Hoya looked really tired in the final rounds of his 8 round ahmm, murder, under the hands of the pac. The point is "Pacquiao numbah one"!!! Woohooo!!!

shmantashtik!

Christmas is some weeks away and my 9 to 5 job is buzzing with anticipation for the Christmas party. Newp, scratch that everyone hates having to work extra for the group presentations. And by golly i don't want to dance to Britneh's (yep, it's Britneh) new song, that i keep forgetting the title of. We call it the Year end party to accomodate different faiths and of course there's a theme. For this year it will be a cosplay, yep, costume play for those who dont know it. I'm looking forward to seeing deh leheydees in my office in hentai costumes. damn right. In other news, i got my bonus yesterday so that will probably go to fixing the gahdamn gypsum boards in my "new" dig. If you're ever building a new HOUSE, NEVER i mean NEVER consider gahdamn gypsum boards. They're a bitch to clean and some of the boards already fell after these warped out of shape. I mean my parents could've been hurt if that fell on them geebuz krayps! Yeah, so there, NEVER install gypsum boards for your house's ceiling, plus it looks like an office so double crap on that. (Thanks for choosing gypsum for my ceiling Dad! You're the B*E*S*T)

acer aspire one first gen

So i'm at the mall checking out the price for acer aspire one the first generation but two out of two clerks told me the downside of this particular model. Numero uno is how slow the damn thing is when you upgrade it to windows xp ( i kinda need it since my 9 to 5 work is a slave of Bill G) and how crappy uploading drivers is to the device. Linux works good on the machine though since they do recommend keeping the original OS on the machine. So, no Yahoo Messenger on the machine, crappy windows upgrade, but a heck of a lot better looking than the usual asus eee. So i guess I'll go get the asus eee just because the same price gets me a windows xp version with roughly the same specs (but crappier looks)

blind sailor can kick your nuts

There is a story in the November 2008 issue of the BoatU.S. Magazine about a blind sailor named Matt Chao who competes with other blind sailors in the SailBlind Program of the Carroll Center for the Blind in Massachusetts. Chao "sees" the wind through the feel of the wind on his face so it's not strange (or absolufucking strange) to see him face the wrong direction when sailing. So there, an inspiring tale of one person who can kick an ordinary person's nuts because he has more balls than most of us.

ohoowoohoowow!!! It's the Taxman!!!

There are government efforts underway to tax economic activity within virtual worlds and games. China is working on one such rule, while Sweden and South Korea have clarified the tax rules in these realms. This just proves that death and taxes are the two things you can't avoid in life... Uhmm that and syphilis... what? you don't have syphilis? I caught mine from eating at a fast food restaurant... coz i ate off a woman's vajayjay...

NASA tests interplanetary internet

NASA successfully conducted the first deep-space test of a communication protocol that could serve as the basis for an interplanetary Internet. This is awesome! Now even martians can tune into the "Spirit of Truth" on Youtube and see enlightenment. Say it with me martians.... "I come in the name of Jesus! By the Power of the Holy Spirit!" Beeyotch!!! either that or surf for porn like everybody else. They win either way.

Movin out

Hmmkay, so I will be sleeping over at my new abode officially by tonight. I've already done some "heavy" lifting last saturday to move my "heavy" stuff. i.e. pillows, clothes, and a single mattress to my new cave so all i have to worry about is what I'll be eating and how to wake up early in the morning... hmmm... so wish me luck (talking to my invisible readers) My office also assigned me to a new project, I mean WTF, as if moving out of the house for the first time in 27 years was not a big shift already now i have to train for a new project... anyhoo, wish me luck magical unicorns!

Happiness

Ok, so an EU study found that the Danes and the Finns are the happiest villagers in zee Old continent. Good for them, why can't countries AIM to increase their people's happiness instead of their GDP for example? Everyone knows money is not the key to happiness so why can't governments just aim to make their citizens happy instead of richer? Maybe North Korea can start the ball rolling... "Hey you! (comrade Kim poking a gun at hapless citizen) sign this form that you're happy!!!" Now!!! I'm due for a stroke in the next hour so hurry up!!!" Oh BTW, Ol' Happy Hair Kim Jong Illest of North of the DMZizzle had a stroke and his minions are denying it... I guess he has to transfer his powerizzle to his ahmmm son..iz..le... (hmmm... I'm writing like this coz Kim was once part of Wu Tang Clan, you don't believe me? Google IT!!!!)

Yahoo Messenger on Netbooks

The only thing keeping me from TOTALLY buying a netbook (aside from the lack of money) is the fact that there seems to be NO yahoo messenger program for those little machines. I happen to NEED the webcam features of the Yahoo messenger so I don't think pidgin is going to cut it for me. I'm sure those netbooks are great for typing stuff and ahmmm... surfing the net but I NEED that webcam feature. Anyhoo, I mentioned before that I HEART Asus Eee netbooks, But right now i happen to Heart the Acer Aspire One more because it's cheaper and looks hell of a lot better.

Julia Nunez' cover of Say Anything's Alive with the Glory of Love

Don't you just love YouTube? In what? 3 years? It has grown into this big giant library of videos of sleeping cats, jedi wannabes, people being grossed out from watching 2 chicks and a cup, and presidential candidate's who want to get your votes. I like watching videos of bands I will NEVER get to hear about here in my dear ol' country like Dear and the Headlights (see older video posts) and *rarely Say Anything. What's better than seeing your favorite band is seeing a HOT chick play a cover of their best song. So here goes, Julia Nunez' cover of Say Anything's Alive with the Glory of Love.

Chi Cheng's car accident

Deftones bassist Chi Cheng was involved in a 'terrible' car accident in the first week of November, 2008. The latest news from their blog was that he is in a stable condition now. I would like to remind everyone to wear their seatbelts when you ride a car and to say a prayer for his speedy recovery. CHeck their blog for updates on Chi's condition.

http://deftonesinstudio.blogspot.com/

mini nuclear power plant

Hey buddy, could you spare $25 million? I'd love to buy a nuclear power plant m'kay? ...What the hell? Hyperion is selling a mini nuclear power plant for that price which according to Engadget is capable of supplying power to 10,000 homes with a lifespan of 10 years. Well if this is TRUE then any small country can buy one and solve their energy crisis and fuck renewable energy. So doing the math.... that's 25,000,000 (yes that's six zeros) divided by 10 years (its operating life) divided again by 10,000 homes would mean 250 bucks a year for each house. Now tell me that ain't a good deal? Third world power companies are ya listening? But this could turn out to be something that's too good to be true.... (ya know what comes next) Nifty idea ey? So maybe after it expires in 10 years either Hyperion could refuel the darn thing OR we could chuck it to wherever radioactive waste is kept (good thing it only measures less than five feet)Wait a sec... Reading through Hyperion's website, it turns out it can power 20,000 houses... let's do the math again.... $25,000,000 divided by 10 years divided by 20,000 homes brings us to....$125 smackers... and apparently it churns out 25MWe.

Bioterrorism

An article in the November, 2008 issue of Scientific American says that some public health scientists say that the U.S. is at a greater risk for bioterrorism due to the increase in biolaboratories and individuals with access to bioweapons agents after the government spent muchos dineros on preventing such attacks. It's like buying a dog to guard your house but it ends up biting you sigh. Hmmm, what a paradox.

Cockroach pheromones

An experiment where students learn to synthesize cockroach pheromones called blattellaquinone is described in the November 2008 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education. The experiment has a real world application in baiting the little fuckers (LF) which is less harmful to the environment than using pesticides to kill the LFs. This is all well and good until one of the students wake up with a cockroach humping his face.

From the Journal of Chemical Education

one of the lowest point in my life

One of the lowest point in my life I am an evil bastard

Estonia DDOS attack

Old news i know, but I was thinking about the Estonia DDOS attack in 2007 this morning. I haven't heard of another MASSIVE DDOS attack on any other country or entity but this type of "warfare" is one avenue worth exploring for small countries. Ok, I know the main suspect is Russia and Russia is not necessarily a "small country" but this attack seems like a cheap, doable and effective way to defend your coutry from another country (unless the other country is a God damn island inhabited by 3 crabs and 10 incestuous islanders)

I know that the U.S. military has some type of facility that could be used for this type of attack so I'm sure they're on board and thinking of a similar attack on another country (am I right to presume they've thought about this?). However, a small country could, i guess have a team of people to create a downloadable software that they could let people (nationalists? like minded anarchists?) put on their computers to automate attacks on a particular target (hostile country? or hapless country) So these are just random thoughts, no expert opinion, just products of an active imagination, but it is a scary and wonderful idea at the same time isn't it?

P.S. sorry for the long updates (yes to all ahmmm 2 of you, ok, u mom, no? fuck! ok so no one's going to read this shit) but I was busy at work making money and shit

anderson silva vs rich franklin

Everytime i see Anderson Silva and Rich Franklin fight it's ALWAYS an awesome fight... er... massacre... When Silva grabs a guy he's good as dead from all that knee blows to the head, the body and just everywhere. Rich Franklin is a great fighter too for facing up to Silva even though their first match saw his nose broken in the first round and the referee had to stop the fight coz he was giddy on the mat after a kicks to the head. I'd love to see a Rich Franklin vs Silva 3!!! bring it!!!!!!!

Ronaldo tried to score, and thankfully misses

Ronaldo tried to score some bedtime action with some sexy emmmmm... denizens of the night but later found out that the ladies were packing something else between their legs. Things turned ugly in the hotel room apparently when the soccer star found out about the extra appendages that these ladies were packing in the hotel room. Ronaldo alleges the three madies... (man ladies :P ) were trying to extort him while the madies alleges that Ronaldo had taken drugs and threatened to hurt them. The streets must've been pretty dark in Rio that's fo sho! This has got to be every guy's nightmare, to be in a hotel room with three "alleged" extortionists with manginas (Man + Vag.. oh do the math) is purty scary. And to be threatened with some whoopass by a world renowned soccer player who YOU KNOW can Kick your ass after you try to earn your money must've been scary too for the transvestites. Oh lordy.

From the BBC news website

Metallica is releasing a new album ala Radiohead and NIN

Aww rats, and you thought Ashlee Simpson's outta my head crap is the worst thing that could happen and here comes news that another supposedly/wishfully dead/gone/comatose band is coming out with another puke bag. Metallica is said to be releasing an album with the same pay what you want model made famous by Radiohead. But the question is.... who WANTS to download the album for free and... who WANTS to pay for the darn thing? Ok, i see some hands being raised by a group of balding, middle aged peeps over there wearing Metallica T-shirts... Yes? you want the album? What? You don't know how to use the Internet? I thought so... Talk about bandwidth garbage.

Via Slashdot

hydrogen economy

Michael Webber from the University of Texas-Austin estimates that the U.S. will consume 19 to 69 trillion (yahuh, trillion.. baby) gallons (gallons not liters) of water by 2050 in a full blown hydrogen economy. The estimates are based on the consumption of 60 billion kg of hydrogen a year and that the technology used for hydrogen production is electrolysis. WTF?!? 69 TRILLION GALLONS (that's an astronomical amount that's pretty close to Dr. Evil's ransom) As if the world was not already reeling from the effect of biofuel production on food prices then get ready for water shortages because of hydrogen production. As for me I'll be wishing for a BIIIGGGGG breakthrough in cold fusion, i said WISH mmm'kay?

From the March 17 issue of Canadian Business

Tenth Tour of the Fireflies

I joined the tenth tour of the fireflies this morning for what is probably the fourth time in my life. The tour is an annual 50 km bike ride around the cities of Manila in celebration of earth day and they encourage participants to come in costumes while riding their bikes. I see the same people who wear wacky costumes every year and I'm pretty sure the best costume award just rotates around the dozen or so cooky people. There were more than 5,000 riders on this year's tour and whenever i join the tour there's always a pattern to the crowd of bikers. The front of the peloton is where all the cooky people are... they set the pace of the tour to make sure that even the kids could finish it. So when u start seeing fairies and a whole living room set on wheels, you know you're in the front. The middle part is where the "regular" people are... but there's still a few cookies in there like a tandem bike riding couple (WTF?!? seriously?) but this is where i like to be. The last part of the peloton is reserved for the hardcore these are the riders with the expensive/ multi shock/ fat tired/ downhill or cross country mountain bikes that usually get to pedal fast due to their distance to the front of the pack, (normally coz they waited long at the numerous stops along the way) So if you're ever in Manila around earth day and you ride a bike, join the rest of us make a BIIIIGGGG traffic jam where all the cars run idle and emit greenhouse gases in celebration of earth day! And remember to choose your crowd in the peloton, the cookies, the regs, and the hippies. Happy earth day!

dilbert.com redux... in color

Your favorite pencil pusher's online home has been redesigned with NEW features! wait for it... wait for it... It's in color!!! Now you could see all the office drama and suspense that dilbert delivers in all the colors of the rainbow. What's that? You're color blind? ahmmm, not my problem but just don't be driving the bus that I'm on. But for color blind people who have a sense of humor (are there any?) you could also try your luck at making other people laugh by adding your own punch line to the comic strips for everyone to see and rate in the new mashup section. If the productivity at your office goes down you know who to blame.... no, not the new sexy intern who keeps wearing that short skirt... but the all NEW! www.Dilbert.com hit the link clockwatchers!

Bob Reby's advise for financial planning

The third part of Bob Reby's financial planning series in the post-pension era states that the ...........essential expenses should be covered first with PREDICTABLE sources of income such as Social Security, Pensions, and Annuities........... Hmmm... sound advice

(from the Fairfield County Business Journal)

Where are the digital picture frame mods?

If you mod tech toys and shit, i have an idea for you. You know how cheap and easy to get digital frames are these days right? ( I mean you could get one for less than 50 bucks on WalMart) These things usually have a slot for SD cards (2 to 4 GB are pretty common now) and some also have USB ports on em, and they HAVE to have a chip in there somewhere right? So why don't i see anyone modding these things to run a linux for typing documents? A little more effort and these things could probably get internet access, 3G anyone? So if anyone has heard of a mod like this send the link over so i could oggle at em. If anyone has been inspired by this idea, drop me a line so i could send my address over so you could send me my cheque... T.H.A.N.K. Y.O.U. very much....

Dear and the Headlights - Sweet Talk enjoy! :)

Man Vs. Wild

Man Vs. Wild is awesome. It's pretty cool to see a guy head into God knows where with just a flint, a knife and his wits and always come out alive. Living in the city doesn't really provide man with the challenges that living in the woods offer. City folks are pretty used to getting what they want with just a flick of a button and such. Bear Grylls has to climb a darn coconut tree just to get something to drink and all i had to do was open my fridge to get a coke! I think i need a little challenge sometimes, just to remind myself to get off my ass and work to get food and stuff. I should move out of the house and try living on my own. And I'll make my own reality series called Me Vs. My Lazy Ass.

Ahhh... thank God for long weekends.

I got to go to Bicol for the recent long weekend with most of my family and it was such a relief to be out of the office and recharge my energies (and sanity). I took my aunt for a boat ride on the river to a not quite remote town down river. It's always been on my to-do list and i finally got to do it.
The boat ride to that nameless town took an hour and twenty minutes and i was able to see pairs of oreoles and blue kingfishers on the trees on the riverbank. Riding on that boat on a calm river made me remember how unimportant the latest techtoys are. What do I really need an Asus eee for? And a new phone? Will I really be happy if i had those? No, no, no, but I'm sure I'll be happy for a few weeks or when it's useful to me but I doubt if that will make me happy for the longterm. (Tech toys do get obsolete)
I'll keep achin for tech toys but I know that these will never make me complete or even happy for a long time. But these are great for short bursts of happiness, just like watching TV.

Achin for an Asus Eee

I've been veeeerrryyy interested with the Asus eee ever since I read about it somewhere on the internet when it was just being developed. I remember reading a post on engadget about how it was going to cost only $200 and that got me even moooorrreee interested. Well it's been out for sometime now and it's NOWHERE near the $200 price but i think it will fit my computing needs just right. It's around $400 so THAT sucks.... but i like how small the darn thing is and props for the darn little sucker for rockin a linux! (Linux is sexy!!!!) engadget posted another news about how a new version of the eee will come out with a full screen (7.9"?) and carry 16GB and now i'd love to see that out in the wild and come in that sweet sweet $200 price point.... (I'll keep dreaming)

First post

I wonder what kind of dreams blind people have, is it full of sound or touch? Especially for those who were born blind...hmmm... if anyone knows the answer drop a comment. I've read the post on yahoo answers but a better reference would be great i guess.

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