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.