I think I need to get myself some userpics. Besides an actual picture of me, I'm not yet sure what I'd want to use for a userpic, but my posts look rather plain without them, at least by comparison to everyone else's posts. I figure tux the penguin will work well for computer geeking. Various people seem to have used some sort of caricature ( Read more... )

Since yesterday was optical sensor day, today can be acoustic sensor day. It's also a neat idea, though at the moment I think optical sensors are in the lead, since there are already optical systems that can track an arbitrary number of points, and it sounds like acoustic sensors haven't reached that point yet. Hopefully the acoustic sensors can ( Read more... )

This should be the default user interface device for all computers. It's such an amazing improvement over keyboards and mice. Watch the video. If you're rich, fund the man's research, or better yet, throw money at this and build a commercial product. I want one. Very badly. I would pay a ridiculous amount of money to own one of these. I'm ( Read more... )

I talked my employer into buying a new video card for one of the old P4 systems I have for desktop machines, since you can get an nvidia GeForce 6200 for about $40-50 these days. It arrived yesterday, and today I got everything installed and configured. I can now have both the CRT and the LCD monitor attached to my linux box, leave my windows box ( Read more... )

If you're ever looking for gift ideas for me, and have more money that you know what to do with, a Tesla Roadster would in fact be looked upon quite favorably.

http://www.teslamotors.com/

The description of software development at Google was quite interesting. The rant against XP, less so ( Read more... )

Insomnia sucks. In fact, it's been sucking since about 2am. Actually, it's been sucking since long before then, but I am most accutely aware of it sucking since about 2am. All of the previous times it has sucked seem less important than the fact that it's sucking right now, and has been since 2am.

I'm new to LJ, and haven't had time to explore the configuration options much. Does anyone have recommendations for configuration items to change? There was something about an S1 or S2 style system, though I don't know what the differences are.

So, I have to ask, is anyone actually interested in reading about my life? I'm mainly on LJ because so many of my friends are using it that I think I may be missing out on a lot of social communication by not being here. The prospect of writing about my life in a public archived forum triggers both my paranoia, and my tendency to assume that my ( Read more... )