11 posts tagged “geek”

Or not.  But as I was sitting here, wondering how the hell I was going to scrape up the cash to drive to Army this weekend (and back again, the back again part was really stressing me out), my sister calls and offers me $50 to fix her machine.  Seeing as how I am still jobless, I've certainly got the time for that.  HIP HIP HOORAY (or something). 

The new moon can't come soon enough.  I need to work some serious mojo for my future prosperity this month.  What better time to do that than during the harvest?

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I shamelessly neglect my technorati account, mainly because it's just a bit more savvy than myself.  I'm not 100% comfortable with the reasons for it, the possibilities of what it can do for me, etc.  So today I log in to clean up my claimed blogs (cancelled typepad, closed LJ) I see the "wtf" option and IMMEDIATELY thought it stood for "what the f**k?!"

I am very disappointed that that is NOT what it stands for.

hehe

Dogged determination, and a hunch has yielded me FINALLY able to transfer my typepad stuff here to vox.  So on with the fun (and tagging.. oh the tagging).

Note: I ended up whittling away my posts from 1093 to roughly 400 or so, and perhaps deleted whatever problem post was there.  Some of them, from as far back as 2001, never imported correctly into typepad from diaryland, so maybe that was the problem.

Of course, maybe typepad or vox fixed the issue if it was on their end.  I guess I will never know.

It seems I'm a blog fanatic.  Not a reader (unless nice network-sites like vox provide easy reading linkage to all my blog friends!) but I like to post my thoughts on almost anything and everything.  I used to even take notes, especially when I was able to listen to public radio at work, so as to remember what I wanted to mention in my blog later..

Well I'm going to shut down my typepad account, as soon as I can import the posts into vox, especially the Astrology, Quiz, Pagan and Green items.  Vox_help is working on it and will hopefully get back to me.  Joy.  And I need to figure out how to import my typelist into vox full of book finds when I worked at the library last year.  Those books are appropriately categorized as "hidden gems"!

Next step to narrowing my blog focus?  Ceasing posting at livejournal, and putting all posts here.  If only there were a way to import some select few livejournal friends into my list here, or to set up blogrolling or something like it.  Hmm..  Questions.

Giggle-icious, I thought.

Demonsoulled

Hmmf. Technology hates me, and the feeling is occasionally mutual! This photo below is Jason showing off, displaying that only for ME does my cell phone refuse to keep the preprogrammed incredibly high pixel ratio. Click on the photo which Jason took just now, and you have a huge file to work with (and make look better). But if you click on the loon-photo which I took earlier today, and you are left staring at a tiny blurry THING. ARGH!!!!!!

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New thin-film solar-power technology could come in handy in a field that I personally have a lot of personal investment in: keeping beer cold. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working on Active Building Envelope technology, a new science that shrinks solar panels to micrometer-thin sizes, allowing them to be stuck on walls, roofs, or, yes, beer bottles. Less exciting but perhaps more practical uses for the tech could potentially be replacing climate-control systems, such as air conditioning, with thin solar strips on all the windows in an office building. If efficient enough, the thin-film technology could prove revolutionary and move our energy consumption more towards renewable solar power; if not so efficient, it could at least keep my Brooklyn Lager cold for an extra 20 minutes on a summer day. Either way, sounds pretty sweet to me. — Adam Frucci

Source: Sci Fi Tech newsletter

E-rope applies Tetris theory to power strips

2006 IDEA (Industrial Design Excellence Award) winner does for the power strip what minibars did for drinking. Just put together as many of the modular E-rope sockets as you need for a particular outlet, plugging away to create anything from a small power nub to a full-on socket king snake. The plugs rotate 180° in case you want your custom power strips bend around corners. The E-rope can even lighten up your power bill, since twisting the socket 90° will cut off the electricity (it's said that 10% of power in a home is used by electronics in standby mode).

You can't buy the E-rope sockets yet, but we hope designers Chul Min Kang a nd Sung Hun Lim's IDEA-winning idea gets a manufacturer soon — if only so we can stare at those cool blue lights.

Source: scifi.com/tech