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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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childe
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10:52a
Thoughts from Work
Yesterday at work... let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
I downloaded, installed, and used the Gimp in the space of about seven minutes to fix one of those "You're joking, right?" problems. The problem was a big deal, and I'm just thankful that the fix was quick, easy, and done.
This set the tone for the day. Except for the quick and easy fix part.
I really want to build Hunter's computer. He's probably too old for the Sugar interface, but I have to wonder if something like edubuntu would be too complex. Probably not. And then, of course, there's the issue of connecting to the internet.
The preview for the new Avatar (not Airbender, which is also awesome) movie is amazing. Watch it. Now.
current mood: blah
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(comment on this) Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
atdt1991
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10:04p
But what if I want them black? That looks totally hot.
http://gizmodo.com/5401364/i-wear-my-suncontacts-at-night
 Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts.
Traditionally, these light-to-dark lenses have been constructed by coating a normal lens with a photochromic dye. When UV light hits the dye, the individual molecules expand, darkening the lens and absorbing light. Coating contacts, however, doesn't work so well.
So researchers in Singapore have laced contacts with a matrix on nano tunnels filled with these photochromic dyes. Not only has the team been successful in producing transition contacts; these contacts darken in the presence of UV light faster than standard lenses (just 10 to 20 seconds).
Researchers are now working on isolating the photochromic material to just corneal region of your eye, granting you all of the UV filtering without turning your entire iris black.
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(5 comments | comment on this) Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
kawaii_not
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11:40p
kawaii not #300
Adding a little icing probably wouldn't hurt, either. XD
This is strip #300!
That's a hell of a lot of cute gone bad, don't ya think?
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childe
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5:58p
Thoughts from Work
A supervillain guards my desk. Watch out.
More words today. About the same output. I got into gear faster, though. I started feeling the story again, and seeing the scene in my head. With the zone that I got into, I could have written for hours, I think. This is good news.
My elbows are being scratched by the insides of my shirt sleeves. This means that the air has gotten dry enough to require me to use moisturizer. Who knew that I'd need lotion to forestall painful elbows? (ZHWOM!)
I'm up to two medium Tim Hortons size cups of coffee per day, plus one to two Diet Mt. Dews. I'm still yawning. This may just indicate an increasing caffeine tolerance, which would be bad news. Get here quickly, CPAP chin strap!
current mood: bouncy
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(2 comments | comment on this) Monday, November 9th, 2009
childe
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11:32p
You posted to the what now?
So, to deal with Susan tiptoeing around in my brainmeats, I've gathered the posts that mention her together as a set of links and posted it to the Google Group. What Google Group, you ask?
http://groups.google.com/group/davidmcrampton
I will likely be doing the same with Todd's story shortly. The entries are much easier to read in order than they are in Livejournal's reverse chronological order. Just a side-effect of shared fiction within a blog environment.
Anyway, if you're inclined to read, please do. If you're inclined to comment, that's also welcome. Good night, all. :)
current mood: accomplished
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childe
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5:42p
Thoughts from Work
Got some words down on paper again at lunch. I don't like my low output, but with a max of a half an hour spent actually writing, I can't get too mad at myself.
Hunter's birthday party went off really well. All of the kids really seemed to enjoy it. So, having kids birthday parties at movie theater = win. The actual movie (Where the Wild Things Are), not so much. Apparently, it's nothing like the book (I've never read it), and it's certainly not as visceral and violent as the movie is. There were some pretty disturbing images, and I'm hoping that none of the kids ended up with nightmares. It's pretty much a dark movie centered around the Jungian archetypes of an angry boy with fear of abandonment.
Ha! I can say that without any spoilers!
My wedding ring needs to be resized. Downward. It started slipping over the knuckle today. Holy wow.
I think I need to start going to bed earlier. It's a constant battle between getting things done and satisfying my need for rest. The chin strap for my CPAP machine has been shipped. I'm crossing my fingers that this is the last piece to the CPAP puzzle, and that I'll be able to use it nightly now. Nothing left to procrastinate on. I'm knocking on wood with my crossed fingers, for added levels of goodness.
I -really- need to pick up that Flobots CD.
Also need to gather links to the Todd posts from the Carnival and the Susan posts from Nocturnal Ambitions. Wordpress will either present interesting challenges for linking to fiction, or will make it strangely easy. I won't be able to decide until further play has been had. Thinking about making Steven's universe the same universe as Two Vampires. Lots of things bouncing around in my brain, pounding the walls into new shapes.
current mood: crazy
current music: Yoko Kanno - Rise
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(comment on this) Sunday, November 8th, 2009
childe
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9:40p
Testing
Test post using Live+Press. Posting from WordPress blog, hoping it ends up both here and in Livejournal.
current mood: crazy
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atdt1991
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5:15p
Off to work out. Might go to mongos in royal oak after. Company?
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childe
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4:36p
Thoughts from Work
How real is this?
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html
Updates:
- Hunter is having his last dose of Tamiflu today. Symptoms seem to be gone, he's just got his usual fall sniffles.
- Cian has his first ear infection. When it rains...
- ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nitoria has a rotated vertebrae that is attached to a ligament that wraps around her hip. Muscle relaxers and exercises will coax it back into place, we just need to be patient.
- I didn't vote yesterday. Instead, I took nitoria to the doctor. I would make the same choice again, but I still feel like a jackass. Perhaps I need to start getting absentee ballots. Unofficial election results.
Horoscope:
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the coming week, you will have the potential to articulate what has never been spoken before and to name truths that everyone has been avoiding. Uncoincidentally, you may also be able to hear what you've never been able to hear up until now and tune in to truths you've been oblivious to. As you might imagine, Taurus, you must fully activate both of these capacities in order for either to function at its best.
Stargate Universe continues to intrigue me. In Episode 4, the ship is still pretty much doing all of the work. I like the Ancient-technology-before-they-were-transcendent-beings that's involved in Destiny. It's definitely a cross between the Earth tech they've used in ships like Prometheus, but with an Ancient design. I still can't get over how the basic shape is the same as a Wraith hive ship. Also - heartbroken overweight nerd in his early twenties... ack, flashback! Heh.
Oh! I am very, very, very happy with the copious application of actual physics in this series. Gravity used to brake and to accelerate, as well as relative velocity causing smashy smashy. Not to mention the difficulty of finding habitable planets, and how low levels of carbon monoxide in an atmosphere means that it'll be nearly too cold to live, and have almost no vegetation. SCIENCE! In my Science Fiction! I wonder how much of this is John Scalzi's doing. :)
Wordpress is still sexy. I'm particularly pleased with its ability to import across blog platforms.
Looks like I will be up late tonight and/or early tomorrow working. It'll be worth it to finally get this done.
current mood: irritated
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atdt1991
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12:24p
It really saddens me that so many people make a distinction between the civil rights of gay people and those of the rest of our citizens. It saddens me even more that people feel like they should be able to vote away the rights of others not to be treated equally under the law.
And I find it totally depressing that people have convinced themselves that, somehow, allowing two people to bind together as a family in the eyes of the law threatens their own idea of family, even as they are comfortable with divorce and interracial marriage (once forbidden).
It is okay if I literally destroy marriage by getting divorced, but it is wrong if I were to perpetuate family unity and economic stability by marrying someone of my gender. How does that make sense?
There will be a time in history in which Americans will be just as ashamed of the persecution and anti-gay laws we've enacted as we are over segregation.
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