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03/31/2006 15:57 #32553

on the way to the symposium
Category: poetry
Argh, I never recovered enough clipboard data so it was back to estrip and porn poems at the last minute.

I am finally recycling the lemonade. Well at least the bottles live in the trunk and not in my cubicle.
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http:www.paulvisco.org/symposium

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03/31/2006 10:58 #32552

Wireless Power Cords
Category: electronics
One of my coworkers sent an email about this wireless extension cord . (e:terry) and I had talked about this being a possible reality for a while. It sounds mega dangerous to me.

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Here is the description from their site.

Just plug the Wireless Extension Cord (WEC) base unit into a standard wall outlet, and plug whatever you need into the satellite unit. The WEC uses microwaves in the 7.2GHz range, so it won't interfere with wireless networks, Bluetooth components, etc. Now, all you need to do is adjust the antennae on the two units so they are aimed at each other. Turn everything on and you have the power! The distance the WEC units can broadcast differs from situation to situation (due to interference of such things as walls, power lines, and microwave ovens), but we've beamed power over 300 feet! The future is wireless - and the WEC's are your ticket to the future.

Warning: Even though these microwaves are about as harmful as the leakage from an ordinary microwave oven (not much), do not put computers, televisions, other sensitive electrical equipment, food, liquids, paper, glass, flammable substances, magnets, or living things in between the base and satellite units. Just in case.


paul - 03/31/06 12:10
I thought it was insane.
jim - 03/31/06 11:58
LOL thinkgeek's April Fools jokes are up early.
twisted - 03/31/06 11:35
p.s. -- your usersound starts out like some electrical gadget going haywire.
twisted - 03/31/06 11:33
Oh My God. Great, now I'm afraid of my microwave. I'm gonna starve.
ladycroft - 03/31/06 11:09
'or living things'???? so if you walk between them, what, you get a jolt to the heart?? Haha.

03/30/2006 20:34 #32551

Back Post
Category: potpourri
These are bunch of pics that never made it into specific journal entries but needed to leave my phone.

They are doing some abestos work at Roswell tomorrow in my building. Suddenly, the signs dissapeared on wednesday and I have no idea if it is happening now. Luckily, I won't be there most of the day because of the Poetry Symposium at UB that I had forgotten about.

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Here is some food I ate, I know how everyone loves those pics, lol.
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Food at Globe Market
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Salad at the infoteh niagara dinner
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I have a problem with lemonade.
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Salad at Globe Market, yummy, yummy, yum
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Salmon and Tuna after the gym
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We made it from our house on Linwood to HSBC in Kenmore on Deleware in under 10 minutes. You can see the timestamp on each pic. I am missing 8:57.

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03/30/2006 19:48 #32550

i hate flash
Category: work
At first I loved it. I was like this is so great and then I started to realize why I hated it before. If everything was programmed or everything was made with the UI it would be fine but the fact that some stuff can get changed in the UI and then its not obvious in the programming is annoying. Right now I have a movie clip that unfortunately got scaled in an unfavorable way. It is really annoying me.

Don't worry these are not real patient's skin, but pictures off of google.

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I am way happy to be programming for helping to cure cancer rather than for some stupid social networking bullshit. I just realized that yesterday. I have all kinds of plans now on what cool stuff I can make.

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03/29/2006 20:09 #32549

Strange Day
Category: web
I had this weird kind of depression all day today. Maybe it is because I was making a web based skin cancer viewer and I unfortunately used real picsture of skin cancer off google to test it out all day. I think I can tell a cancerous mole from a non-cancerous one now. It's kind of ironic because all I wanted to do was go outside and sit in the sun.

The viewer is supposed to be able to pull up patient charts and allow the doctor to zoom, change saturation, brightness, contrast and sharpeness. Luckily flash can do all that in its more modern incarnation. Then they get to tag and annotate the images. So kind of like a mini flickr for cancer.

I generally hate working with flash though. Everytime I feel like I am excited about it a new version of actionscript comes out and everythign changes. With Actionscript 3 just around the corner I am just not as motivated to btoher with version 2.

There are so many things going on with the internet that I want to program and it is all moving to fast. Sometimes, i just get overwhelmed with it all.
olemanrunin - 03/30/06 08:42
dude, you're on track...real time
leetee - 03/29/06 22:31
(((( Paul ))))