anamnesis

fabz: I think we need to work on our communication...one guy is talking crap, one just goes "lol" and the other one doesn't understand what's going on. atsleek: lol nefemus: what?

Bright-eyes caught this fella goofing off in our backyard. It's my inspiration for today.

I've seen a fair amount of resumes, but the one from last night's dream made a lasting impression. A friend (dream friend, never met her in "waking" life) was updating her resume. I was amazed to discover it was made out of cheese. Little slabs of cheese, a little smaller than an index card, each slab was about 1/3" thick. They were threaded together with twine in an accordion type fold and on the top of each slab was a concise description of one of her previous jobs. Given the ingenuity of how she got the print on the cheese, and depending on how fresh the resume was, I think she'd probably get an interview for sure. People would just be too curious to see what kind of person would have created this ---and had the nerve to apply for a job with it. Might work better for some types of jobs than others, though.

"It's too late to work within the system, but too early to start shooting the bastards" - Claire Wolfe I wonder. Especially reading stuff like what happened to Tracy Ingle . In Little Rock, Arkansas. No knock raid. Shoot the guy 5 times. No drugs found. Put him in jail. Charge him with assault. Tell the media to mind their own business. Well, that tiny sliver of media that's actually looking at relevant things, anyway. What a dichotomy from the post below. And stuff like this , you can only see outside of the country. But we don't censure news in this country. Do we?

Back in 2006 I discussed an idea I had for a floating chair using magnets. Well, it seems like a company called Hoverit actually made one of these this year. It looks a little fancier than my DIY model: To stay competitive, however, I have since upgraded my idea. Granted it's much easier to upgrade ideas than physical products. Here's the new plan. You'll probably see someone implement in 2010 :-) Instead of static magnets, use electromagnets to modify the strength of the field dynamically. Then hook-up a simple digital signal processor circuit that modulates the intensity of the magnets, within a certain adjustable range, based on amplitude from your music (or other variables.) You can get prefab circuits that do this with only minor tweakage required. What do you get with this? Say you had a music track with beach sounds . . . you'd get the sensation of your chair being a raft floating out on the ocean waves. If it was hip-hop, well, you wouldn't have to stir y...

Got an email from someone I meet at the Las Vegas conference. Instead of "Cheers", "Sincerely", etc. he signed off with: "squidely pop." After our "official" exchange, I asked him BTW, what's the meaning of "squidely pop?" (The only thing I had turned up on the internet were signatures from his posts on various forums.) He sent me back a document on its history. And it was pretty cool. From 1980 to 1988, Radio 4 in Britain was the voice of the country. They had a comedy segment in the programme called "Radio Active" which had some stuff you'd expect from the home of Monte Python, like a nude radio show and a report from an alien living in England. One of the segments, along these same lines was a broadcast they picked up, aired by Alistair Cook. An Englishman living in the USA. His segment was called "Letters from America." Alistair had been running his own broadcast since 1946, and it went on until Feb. 2...