computer - access culinary database, caffeine
03 February, 2006 10:31
How nice this would be; mounted in the wall directly left of my computer screen.
What a pain in the ass it is to walk the five or six meters to re-fill my mug in the morning. I could be much more productive reading my e-mail, blogs, and geek news if I wasn't constantly distracted with satisfying my body's need for coffee nutrients, the necessity of life.
Excuse me, I must re-fill...
This bad boy has a hot water dispenser and a bean grinder. In addition it has a drawer for espresso cups (like that would ever be used).
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my favorite bands and artists
02 February, 2006 10:54
- 3 Dog Night
- Addison Groove Project
- Alanis Morissette
- Ani DiFranco (blush)
- Art Garfunkel
- Beastie Boys
- Beck
- Bela Fleck (Accoustic Planet Tour was a blast!)
- Ben Green
- Ben Harper
- Bob Schneider
- Bob Weir
- Dark Star Orchestra (10,000 lakes festival was a blast!)
- Dar Williams
- David Gray
- David Grisman
- Dispatch
- Doc Watson
- Hanson (flame can be sent to yourmother@extracted.org)
- Hooch (local La Crosse band)
- Jack Johnson
- Jason Mraz
- Jerry Douglas
- John Mayer
- Kruder & Dorfmeister
- Led Zeppelin
- Little Feat
- Macy Gray
- Medeski, Martin and Wood
- New Earth Mud
- Particle (10,000 lakes festival was a blast!)
- Paul Simon
- Peter, Paul and Mary
- Reel Big Fish
- Rusted Root (10,000 lakes festival was a blast!)
- Sam Bush
- String Cheese Incident
- St. Germain
- Stever Kimock Band
- Sublime
- Teitur
- The Alan Parson Project
- Tony Rice
- Tracy Chapman
- U2
- Victor Wooten
- Vince Welnick
- Widespread Panic
- Yonder Mountain String Band
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Gummy Bears - Damn gummiberry juice!
01 February, 2006 20:34
Disney - TV Theme - Gummy Bears.mp3
Dashing and daring
Courageous and caring
Faithful and friendly
With stories to share
All through the forest
They sing out in chorus
Marching along
As their song fills the air
CHORUS:
Gummi Bears
Bouncing here and there and everywhere
High adventure that's beyond compare
They are the Gummi Bears
Magic and mystery
Are part of their history
Along with the secret
Of gummiberry juice
Their legend is growing
They take pride in knowing
They'll fight for what's right
In whatever they do
CHORUS
(Repeat first verse)
CHORUS
Gummi Bears
When a friend's in danger they'll be there
Lives and legends that we all can share
They are the Gummi Bears
They are the Gummi Bears
They are the Gummi Bears!
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it's a bird? it's a plane? nope, it's a flying electric generator!
31 January, 2006 09:40
Holly flying electric generators! [bb]
What a fantastic idea. Just "1% of the jetstream's wind power could supply all US electrical demand". Combine this with the power of electrical storms and solar energy, this idea might be a solution to many of the world's energy problems.
So, how do we get this off the ground? This article describes three research projects with proposed designs for just this mission.
Sky Windpower, for example, has a peak capacity of 70-90% of time. Take this, and combine it with a 1.4 cent kilowatt hour expense (that would be the cheapest power source on earth), generating 2.81 megawatts, you walk away with a radical new way of powering the country.
One of the problems, however, is it IS radical. I find it funny how corporations and the US government can pour billions of dollars into projects that enable cleaner burning coal, and low emissions. I just don't think it will be easy for this proposition to be funded with the current office and its policies. Oil makes the world go around, and some think it will be an economical issue, rather than a global environment issue that kills us.
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Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone
30 January, 2006 18:41
What the fuck?
Not all BS though. Some ideas for software are mentioned later in the article.
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This blog post sums up my reaction in its entirely magnificent disbelief.
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obesity is a virus, McDonalds rejoices
30 January, 2006 16:00
We once thought big macs and large shakes were the steming cause of obesity. McDonalds rejoice! We now have proof of a correlation with the heaviest obese people, and a strain of virus called Ad-36.
A physiologist at the University of Wisconsin Madison injected a group of chickens with three strains of adenovirus--Ad-2, Ad-31 and Ad-37.
"...chickens carrying Ad-37 were found to have nearly three times as much
fat in their guts and more than two times as much fat over their entire
body at the end of the three-and-a-half week period."
Certain strains of adenoviruses are responsible for pink eye and chest colds.
"I am not saying that all obesity is caused by viruses," Dhurandhar
notes. "Obesity has multiple causes and viruses may be one of those
causes." --Nikhil Dhurandhar of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center
New fast food slogan, USDA certified adenoviruse and obesity free. [digg]
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Walmart movie, reminds me of something - my Best Buy experience
28 January, 2006 15:23
Best Buy in relationship to social
deficiencies, is that of third world child prostitution rings. Best
Buy in relationship to corporate responsibility, is that too Sony's
blatant attempt at a root kit. In no way is the company satisfying
the responsibility of using resources to better there employees,
customers, or the corporation themselves. They suck the money out of
consumers, the life out of employees, and take these necessities and
invest in communistic social structures such as employee moral
exercises, and insurance for customer purchased merchandise. Rather
than create a friendly environment for everyone, they are creating
community drones that cycle into work related depression and consumer
satisfaction woos.
Walk into any Best Buy and you are
immediately greeted by the service counter with a line of unhappy
customers using there rights to the insurance of there purchased
product. In a Walmart type fashion they are responded with
amendments; in return respond in frustration. Employee drones of
Best Buy manipulation camps, those that are in a hypnotic state of a
sick psychological and social structure mapped out by corporate Best
Buy employed social science majors, spread the joy they take home
from work. Broken relationships, debts, and abnormal mental
diagnosis's reminds me of the monopolistic Walmart corporation.
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Asahi - the beer pouring robo-slave from Japan
27 January, 2006 09:52
Most men dream of having a maid to pour your cold beer. There are a couple lucky ones, thoes with money
and a maid, and thoes with a subservient wife. Neither is very
likely. For the rest, don't despair! We have Asahi, a beer pouring
robo-slave from Japan.
At a push of a button, Asahi selects a beer from it's 6 can
beer chest, and a mug (it always has two at hand). It then pours the
beer in perfect style. Gizmodo claims a perfect head everytime.
I would try to obtain any device that gives perfect head. Don't say you wouldn't either.
Asahi is free! Just collect 36 seals from specially marked Asahi beer.
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