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03 February, 2006 10:31 CST6CDT

How nice this would be; mounted in the wall directly left of my computer screen.

Zanussi’s ZCOF636

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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it's a bird? it's a plane? nope, it's a flying electric generator!

31 January, 2006 09:40 CST6CDT

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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Asahi - the beer pouring robo-slave from Japan

27 January, 2006 09:52 CST6CDT

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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this is the sound of your hard drive on acid

26 January, 2006 10:33 CST6CDT

Hitachi has a few wav files with sounds of dreaded hard drive failures. Gizmodo created a contest to take these clips and turn them into "Dying Dance Tracks".

I must warn you, these are not for the faint of heart. I dread the sounds, and cross my fingers each day that my pictures and music remain intact.

This is one of my favorites: Tuhin_Mehta_-_DDT.mp3

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text messaging world record

25 January, 2006 08:31 CST6CDT

A 28 year old Singaporean business student has broke the world record for the fastest words in a text message within a givin period of time

He typed a screaming 26 words in 43.24 seconds. With correct punctuation and grammer, he chocked out "The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality they seldom attack a human."

Unbelievable. I send out one, maybe two text messages a month, and ALL of them are pre-programmed. It takes me a good 5 minutes to create my 5 or 6 word macro, and another minute when I actually need to find it and send it through my phone's lousy menu system.

I also read somewhere that a british company is going to be sending complete literary publications through phone text using the leet phone talk language. I can see phone speak as a second language for kids of this generation.

When I hear wuz or cuz, I shivver and give dirty looks. When I see it on my phone, it breaks, and I go broke for a month.

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