Natalie Portman on a bike

Oh my God... I'm in love again (sorry honey, but you always knew I had an on again off again crush on Natalie Portman) Number 1, she looks amazing, Number 2, she rides an awesome looking bike....

BIOENGINEERED TEETH!!!!

My teeth are bad, I hate em, a lot of em are gone and I hate wearing dentures. I've always knew that someday they will find a way to replace teeth with live ones even when the patient has stopped growing new teeth. I read an article on the November 2009 issue of JADA where some smart guys were able to demonstrate the feasibility of using bioengineered tooth germs to regenerate lost teeth on mouse models. The teeth had characteristics of naturally forming teeth such as histologic appearance and hardness of dentin. This is a step forward for my dream, I'd love to see the day when this becomes common place, given that a lot of people lose their teeth and it's a pretty useful thing to have :P

DIY BOOK READER FOR NOKIA SERIES 40 PHONES

Hi guys,

I recently bought a Nokia 5130 and it's a pretty decent phone for me since it can replace my 3 year old 1GB iPod shuffle, take pics with a 2 megapixel camera and of course function as a phone. The one thing it lacked for me (well aside from a flashlight which i happen to find VERY handy in my old phone) is the lack of an application to read documents. I searched the web for one but failed to find one so I thought of a workaround for it. All I needed was to read texts on the phone, I dont need the text to be in format or such but i just need to read it. So what I did was I copy pasted the texts from the documents to a web editor (in my case it's the Open Office Impress) and saved the file as an html file. After that, I saved the html file to my phone through the Nokia PC Suite. This allowed me to view the texts through the phone as a webpage and voila!!! problem solved. I'm sure any other web editor could work as long as you save the text as an html file :)

The Filipino in space

So I was reading the IEEE Spectrum's special issue about manned mission to Mars today and the issue was really inspiring. I wish the Philippines could send a Filipino to space someday, the whole country tunes in when Pacquiao has a fight and I'm sure the whole country will also watch it when a Filipino gets launched into space. This would surely inspire the nation to go into the sciences of which I hope many gets inspired to become engineers. Our country doesn't have a lot of natural resources and I wish this situation inspires everyone to realize that one of our greatest resources is our people. Sure, the government is fucked up but I wish everyone will take it upon themselves to just forget the government and just go on and enrich our lives. It's like a reverse laissez faire. Studying the sciences, practicing the arts, and letting the businesses compete and find their own ways to prosper are my wish for the country.

Ahhhhh!!!!!

Now I know what's causing my hypokalemia!!! It's Coke!!! It all makes sense now after I read this article from BBC. An Aussie guy had severe hypokalemia from drinking tons of soda and another woman had the same case. I actually drink soda a lot, Coke in particular, and i drink it just like some other guy drinks water so I'm sure this is the cause of my recurring hypokalemia. I have an earlier post about it so yeah, now i guess i have to cut back on all that Coke and caffeine. Thanks to that BBC article i guess i could also cut back on eating bananas just to keep my potassium level up :D

Zalgo!!!

This Zalgo meme has gotten popular but like all meme's it's bound to fade away. BUT! There's money to be made for those who act fast.... Those movie execs should ride this wave purrrttty damn fast... I mean the movie's already in everyone's mind... Pretty single mom (PSM) being scared shitless by hordes of mindless zombie/squid-like people who chant "he's coming"...

scipt goes like this...
ZOMBIE SQUID (ZS) : "He Comes..."
PRETTY SINGLE MOM (PSM) : "Who? Who's Coming?"
ZS: Ahmm... Santa Claus? Who else Bitch? It's Zalgo!!!!
PSM: Ayeeeee!!!!!!!

Yeah, roughly like that, just keep repeating the scene... add some chainsaw wielding squid people for greater effect and BAM! you have a block buster/flop whatever. The good thing is the producers don't have to spend a lot on marketing since people are looking for it. *shrugs.

If anyone makes a movie from here on i want MY MONEY BITCH!!!

It's been awhile

So yep, it's been awhile since my last post in here. Must be due to the fact that i've lost hope in making money out of this blogging thing. So i'll do it purely for fun from now on. Speaking of fun.... I've been a lurker at this British site called B3ta.com for some time now, people post funny photoshopped images there and it's pretty uhmmm... fun. so go check it out.

here's a sample from the site (from a guy called tatters)

boooyah!!!

Lookee lookeee who'se typing on his Asus EEE 900?!? It's me babeh it's me!!!! (clap clap clap)

After pining for a netbook for so long, i finally have one, ahhh love.... :)

But the things i dont like about is how small it is... damn, i know, its a netbook, what did i expect, but then again, it's sooo small!!!!

Maybe I should've gotten the asus 1000 so its bigger, maybe next year when the price drops :D oh, and i got this one second hand for around $200 :D

hahaha dang! :D

Future Phone

I will make a prediction on what cellphones (The iPhone?) will look like in the next 5 to 8 years....

The BASIC future phone will have....
1) Wireless charging
2) pico projectors
3) 12 megapixels
4) multi touch screen that's like 4 inches
5) with the wide screen comes integrated efficient solar panels that extend the life of batteries
6) WiMax (not very confident on this one though)

and that's it for now :D I'll treat myself to a nice bottle of Corona if i get 4 out of six :D

Mourning in the digital age

I have an uncle who killed himself some years ago and I sometimes feel I have not mourned appropriately for him. I've shed no tears for him (must be because I was already in college when it happened) but I miss him sometimes and he's one of the few people who ever gave me advice which I remember. He once told me that it was easier to lift a pen than any other stuff. This metaphor was his way of course of telling me to study hard so i can get an office job rather than get one where i had to do a lot of physical labor. The reason I mention him was that I found myself getting the urge to google his name and see what comes up. Of course there wouldn't be a record of him online neither would his works be but it got me thinking of how we SEARCH for people, even dead ones, in a internet search engine. It's as if I was hoping to meet him online magically, just as a traveller reaches into his wallet to find pictures of his far away family. Hmmmm... mourning in the digital age

Marching Band

I rode my bike tonight to the city and along the way there was a wake at some house. What was unique about this wake was that there was a full piece marching band that blocked the whole (kinda major) road but they were playing so well that I had to stop and listen. The band played 'True' from Spandau Ballet and 'After the Love has Gone' from Earth, Wind, and Fire. Hardly dirges but they played it so well and it gives you an idea of how the person lived. May he/she rest in peace and somehow his/her request for a marching band made the living a little happier (that would be me)

Mother Jones

I came across the Mother Jones magazine today when I browsed the available magazines that my colleagues could work on. I searched Google for what type of stuff the magazine carried and the first thing to pop up was their site and a sublink to one of their photo essays about phone sex operators... SOLD!!! I click the link and bam.... a handful of tasteful photographs of phone sex operators. The photo essay affords a quick peek into the identities of these people and their profession. Although I am sure there are people who do this profession out of sheer desperation, the people in the photo essay are proud of their jobs. Browsing further, I come across another photo essay of a grandma that makes clothes for Aryans, yep, the Ku Klux Klan. While any organization that exists based solely on hate is errr... hateful (how apt eh?) the photo essay strays away from judgement (such as the previous one) and just presents the subjects as facts of life to encourage discussion, the pictures shout.... HEY!!! YES!! WE EXIST!!! And that not all of us do this out of desperation, We choose to do this job and listen to other people as they wank off if you don't like us! Suck it! (In the case of the phone sex operator essay) While the other essay shows an organization that is rooted in Americana... The grandma recounts how the old Klan used to beat up a white guy for not taking care of his family. So if you're ever bored and like to look at good photo essays, go check out Mother Jones magazine (Zeet eezz not for zee faint of heart;) )

AHhmmmm, the link is over here

parity cases visual guide

OK boys and girls, i had to do a lot of dabbling in MS paint to do this shit so appreciate my effort!!! With a lot of help from pogobat's YouTube tutorial about the 4x4x4 rubiks cube, I was able to confidently get to the point where I can meet monsieur Parity (yep, THAT bastard parity) so, in order to guide me (and you) on how to recognize parity cases, I made this illustration. Here it is, enjoy. AS PER pogobat's algorithm instructions on his tutorial, his algorithm for these cases are....

1) 2U*, 2L*, 2U, 2l, 2U, 2L*, 2U*, R, U', L, 2U, R', U, R, L', U', L, 2U, R', U, L', U

2) 2R*, 2B, 2U, L*, 2U, R'*, 2U, R*, 2U, 2F, R*, 2F, L'*, 2B, 2R*

3) 2r, 2U, 2r, 2U*, 2r, 2u

4) 2U*, 2L*, 2U, 2l, 2U, 2L*, 2U* F', U', F, U, F, R', 2F, U, F, U, F', U', F, R

5) 2r, 2U, 2r, 2U*, 2r, 2u

See his tutorial HERE!!!!

Gimme silence

Gaahhd I want this.... SOmetimes i want complete silence... Hearing is not like your other senses such as your sense of sight, smell, taste, touch.... you can't really shut it off at will... even if you cover it as best as you can you can still hear things.... The reason I'm saying this is because my Dad and his frat buddies (Yes, they're REALLY old now) are downstairs singing videoke... A 65 year old guy singing Bon Jovi's a bed of roses is NEVER a good thing to hear.... Plus sometimes our dogs from hell (We have 4 of 'em) NEVER stop barking... when one of them is in heat all hell breaks loose. So... I want COMPLETE AND REVERSIBLE SILENCE.... a quick google search brings up this research from Geek dot com. Mmmm... acoustic cloak.... gimme two... make it man sized...