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Great geek address
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My latest million-dollar idea
This one's about a gym where the exercise equipment generates power which can be sold back through the power grid to the power companies. You offer your members a discount on their monthly membership fees based on the amount of power they've generated (leaving yourself a margin of profit, of course). So your members are very effectively motivated ( Read more... ) -
More on automated Mad Libs
Seems I made a slight error in my first pass at filtering out words with unambiguous parts of speech. Basically I filtered out words that also appeared in one of the other lists, but I didn't restrict the command to match only the full word. So for example, "hatch" would have been filtered out of verbs because it contains the word "hat" from the ( Read more... ) -
Automatic Mad-Libs
I've taken a step along the crazy path of automating Mad-Libs. That is to say, I've had the idea for a while of creating a program to parse text and turn it into a Mad-Lib. Apologies to whomever might own the trademark for the term, but frankly, bite me. Anyway, the first step was to identify words in the English language that are unambiguously a ( Read more... ) -
Another great band name
Mayan Tensions
Perhaps they could be a cover band of Mayan Sanity.
After this occurred to me, I discovered about a hundred more words this pun works with. -
On caffeine
I had a bit over the weekend. A mug of tea on Friday morning just sounded good, and then one on Sunday as well. Also had two of the energy gel packs on Sunday during the bike ride. The gel packs have 25mg of caffeine, and the mug of tea probably 100. So Sunday was about 150mg altogether. Especially not doing this all the time, I think that's ( Read more... ) -
Upping the difficulty
Just had an idea for a plot device that could be used in a computer RPG to increase replayability in a plausible fashion. This is inspired from seeing episodes of Stargate SG1 where they travel through the mirror to alternate realities. The goal of the game at first appears to be your typical save-the-Earth-from-impending-doom sort of schtick, and ( Read more... ) -
Biking update
I went out on my bike again today. Wore my new kilt. :) I managed to shave about 10 minutes off the round trip of about 20 miles this time. And I didn't stop for as long at the half-way point this time, only long enough have one of those energy gels. I had another on the way back at the point where it's all uphill, which helped a lot getting past ( Read more... ) -
Woah, colours
I just had this idea that you could rig up a sort of frosting printer to spray intricate patterns such as fractals on a cake... -
Biking
So I went out today for the first real serious bike ride I've been on in about ten years. I've been talking a lot about biking to work, so I tried out the route this morning. I had estimated half an hour to 45 minutes each way, but it turned out to be an hour instead. And uphill both ways as far as I can tell from how I'm feeling at the moment. I' ( Read more... )