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I'm seeing more and more SUVs these days, usually with only one or no passengers. I think it's ridiculous. It's the '70s all over again with muscle cars and land boats. And soon we'll have another oil crisis and have to remember if our license plate number is odd or even.
If my math is correct, a 15mpg vehicle like the Ford Expedition sucks up one gallon of gas every 15 minutes or so. That's ridiculous... no, that's ludicrous! ;)
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A few companies will be rolling out the smallest full-fledged computers withing the next few months. These machines are the size of a large pda with 1GHz processors, 256MB of ram and 20 to 40GB disk space running Windows XP. I like the idea that you can run millions of titles on such a small device, but now you're bringing with you all the problems of full-size PCs — DLL hell, service packs weekly, viruses, etc.
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While working on my language Inertia, I developed a new perspective on objects and scope. Instead of looking at it as sending a message to a receiver, you can look at it as evaluating messages in different scope. For example:
x sin
x is evaluated in the current scope. Then sin is evaluated in the resulting scope, which is the result of x. Instead of sending messages to objects, you could say you are sending messages to the current scope. I saw this perspective after trying to fuse literals and variables:
x.perform( sin );
x.perform( 10 );
doesn't make much sense, but
sin.value( x );
10.value( x );
reverses the focus from an object performing a method to getting a value in the current scope. A literal doesn't need any data from the current scope, although it could go though translation routines or something set up in the current scope. This opens up the odd but legal syntax:
a = b 10
What does b 10 mean? What can it mean?
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Not wanting to dig my bigger speakers out of the garage and take up more space, I decided to go to Best Buy and buy some small satellite speakers. Also needed some CD-Rs to do some backups, and want to pick up Aqua Team Hunger Force if they have it.
They had desktop speakers ranging from around $20 for the el-cheapo ones, to around $300 for the 5.1 channel systems. I chose to stick to the $50 range. They weren't on display to try out, but I bought the JBL duet speakers anyway because they seemed like the high end of the low end. I plugged them in and turned them on. They sound great, and have a good bass presence at low volume.
When I was there, I saw Robosapien for the first time. Robosapien is a $99 foot-high programmable robot that is capable of many fluid movements, including dancing.
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Somehow while browsing on eBay, I stumbled upon www.wreckedexotics.com. Check out this car -- looks like it's been stomped by Rabbot. A great resource for automotive desktop images is www.dieselstation.com.
If you're into art and graphics, try out www.depthcore.com, www.deviantart.com, atomfilms.shockwave.com and www.digitalblasphemy.com.
If you like odd stuff... and who doesn't :), try listening to MC Hawking's A Brief History of Ryme at www.mchawking.com, or singing kittens with big mouths at www.rathergood.com
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I've recently moved, so I have not had high speed Internet for a few weeks. I've been using pokey ol' 56k. I was in... Internet hell.
Since the local service here was AT&T I decided to get DSL from them if their prices weren't bad. $29/month ain't bad, so I ordered it. I told them we would be using an iMac 233 with OS 8.6, and they asked if I could install OS/X on it. Haha... right ;) I said it would be on a network and he mumbled something about "we don't disallow you to do so, but...".
After I hooked everything up and installed the filters, everything ran fine. I was happy to be on the broadband wagon again.