Author Archive for Jim
I suspect this might become more common, but I believe I may have developed some Wii Elbow from playing tennis on Wii Sports.
Last week I decided to launch a Delphi podcast. It was a lot of work, but amazingly it all came together and I met my deadline of having the first episode online this morning. I did however discover it was very, very time consuming to put it together. I sepent over 10 hours just making, [...]
Dr. Horrible isn’t horrible, it’s fantastic. I guess Dr. Fantastic wouldn’t be a really good name for a super villain though. And that would be an even worse catch phrase then “I have a PhD in horribleness!” (yes, it is a word.)
I just watched Dr. Horrible Act 1 and 2 again. I can hardly wait [...]
Just watched Episode 1 of Dr. Horrible, and contrary to the name, it is actually very good. The first 4 minutes were pretty slow, but then the music starts. Although I must admit I like evil villain musicals in general, but I thought this one was the best one I have seen so far. Check [...]
I am not really a cat person, although I used to be one. I thought this was a hoot, and mostly I wanted to see if Jake still reads my blog. Jake is a cat person and also a software engineer (like me!) I caught him before with my Why Curiosity Killed the Cat post.
I [...]
Don’t be a Victim
1 Comment Published by Jim April 2nd, 2008 in learning, mind, philosophy, quote, religion, thoughtI could write about this in great detail. It is something I believe strongly about, but there is just one point I would like to make right now. I say this in full realization that such a statement could be considered self-referential.
Anyone who suggests that you are a victim of others, is trying to victimize [...]
Leo just IM’ed me about this new RV. He saw it on Top Gear, and the reason he was telling me about it is they incorporate my idea of a faucet that has an LED inside that changes color based on the temperature - red for hot, blue for cold and some shade of [...]
Thanks to Kevin who just introduced me to The FuMP - The Funny Music Project. Basically it is a collection of daily funny songs, each released under creative commons. I listed to a couple of songs and found this one particularly funny:
Robert Lund - Nuttin’ But Spam
My reasoning for finding this particularly funny is every [...]
Spinning Dots Illusion
0 Comments Published by Jim March 31st, 2008 in creativity, learning, mind, self-improvement, thoughtI love optical illusions. First of all, they are cool, secondly the good ones teach us something about the way our eyes and brains work. One of the neet things about the internet is that it makes it really easy to share animated optical illusions. Check this out out:
If you follow the pink dos with [...]
Naturalist or Bodily-Kinesthetic
0 Comments Published by Jim March 31st, 2008 in self-improvement, success, thoughtMy dad just sent me this video of Lorenzo : the Flying FrenchMan. . .
It is really cool to watch, but it got me wondering, is this an example of Naturalist Intelligence, or Bodily-Kinesthetic. My guess it is a strong combination of both. Naturalist allows him to communicate with the animals so well, [...]