Well that was quick, I sold the OLPC (e:paul,42673)

I can't believe someone bought it for "buy it now" $300 on ebay in like 10 minutes after I put it up. Clearly, I underestimated the value. Considering we spend $400 for both and one was for charity, making $300 back on it was an insane deal. We also got a free year of tmobile hot spots out of it.

Well that pays for the nokia n810 which I think is a much better linux based internet device for me.

I have purchased myself yet another linux internet tablet for myself for my birthday. This time it has a freakin' keyboard.

Hopefully, it will make me feel like the old one did (e:paul,38513)

I lied, after checking my own journal it appears I bought my current one last march which means it must have arrived the night of some other party, not my birthday party, hm - maybe I just have a problem.



I don't agree that this make steh iphone feel old but this article has some good pics

here is the developer site

The nice thing about there is unlike a real phone they have no monthly service fee or anything.

I bought and ate the Ocean Perch from the coop the other day. It is quite a delicious fish, even in gluten-free flour. The only problem is that there were like 100 mini, sharp, pin like bones.


I braved it and for the first time ate out for lunch at a non-sushi place - India Gate with (e:jim), (e:james), (e:enknot), jon, and megan. So far so good I haven't been sick to my stomach although I wish I hadn't followed it with some lemonheads and chocolate. I think that was a bad idea although so far no pain.



Finally, they came and took the cancer mattress away. I am glad. I just wish it didn't cost me like $400 after all was said and done. I figure it prob save son future medical bills.



Speaking of which, just my CT scan alone was ~$2000. The medicine is like $400 for the bottle I got and the scope proabbly cost a fortune too. Who knows about the blood test and the other doctor visits. I guess altogether, so far it has cost around $4000. Thank god I have health insurance.

I saw the BUffalo flag in action today on the John Deer Truck.

I know, the best geek toy ever would really just be the parts but considering I have a soldering iron, a basic stamp, a GPS chip and a bunch of other CMOS chips, etc and none of them are doing anything - i wouldn't mind having this partially finished box of parts with a Linux system and an eclipse based Java SDK



If only it had GSM I could just make my own phone!

I had so much to do today but a million things came up including this meeting where we talk about If Disney Ran Out Hospital. The best part was I got to have a lot of fun playing with some networked controlled cameras. I really like programming involving some sort of extra hardware and the web. Maybe I should work so NASA or Deep Sea Exploration of something.

So it's my birthday coming up so soon. On the 22nd I will officially be 31 years closer to dying than I started.

I want to want some electronic but there is nothing left that I want. Last year I got the Nokia N800 I kind of wanted the Nokia N810 but really the only difference between that than the N800 is the keyboard and GPS which my new phone already has. Not to mention no store has it right now. What I really want its the Nokia N810 but with phone line, not just voice over IP and that doesn't exist.

I want a totally open, totally accessible, linux based cellular phone with all the hardware capabilities of the nokia 810. So basically, that with a phone in it. Supposedly they will have a wimax version someday.

I wish it would just happen now as a GSM phone. Its so weird because the Nokia 7710 was almost there and I loved it but I wanted linux and then came the Nokia 770 and 800 but lacked phone. None of those had GOS or keyboard and now the 810 has GPS and keyboard but lacks phone. Its like they alway get so close to getting it right. Maybe I need to just hack it so that I can pull the gsm parts out of the Nokia 7710 and put them in the Nokia 800. That way I could have the best of both worlds. Oh ya, but minus the GPS, argh.

If only the iphone had a real keyboard and was more open. So back to where I was at there is nothing I want, short of a computer controlled microscope which I know I am not allowed to have yet. Imagine how crazy I could go then.