Banana Computer Walk to Me

October 9, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

Banana ComputerRandomly came across this sucker while cruising the Information highway, luckily I didn’t run him over.  This banana computer is sporting dual fans and running Xubuntu Linux.  Wow! Gives me ideas what to do with Mac Classic in storage.  Amazing enough I can picture thousands of these crossings the Information Superhighway bobbing disorderly causing massive bottle necking and extensive outages along scenic routes like a feeding frenzy at the local duck pond when the school children through a whole loaf of bread instead of just a crumb.

Anyway, look at the pretty pictures and enjoy.  Please send any other ideas for Mac Classic dress ups and pimp-outs since I’ve got one in storage collecting dust.  Thinking of turning it into a digital frame, not sure how yet!

Via – http://www.hifihamster.com/current.html 

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Don’t have to say anything bad about Microsoft…

June 25, 2007 By - 2 Comments

Well, the truth is I don’t have to say bad things about microsoft since someone else has really summed it up. As a MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) I have seen some interesting things on the Windows Operating System. Over the years it just seems to get worse. I haven’t even tried Vista yet since when I looked at the beta it froze during the installation.

Now these guys over at … Microsucks… — Love the Name — Have some good reasons why MS is so bad. Now before you read, realize that the business world does depend on these products and majority of users run there home-based systems off of Microsoft products. There are a ton of alternates and those are getting better by the day, but the list is very true.

And here are the reasons why Microsoft is so bad: http://fuckmicrosoft.com/content/whatsbad.shtml

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Do computers have souls?

June 21, 2007 By - 2 Comments

A computer that I have used for a long time died, deceased, pushing up the daisies, kicked its case, gone to the other side (no its not a mac now!!) — it now is in a scrap pile outside waiting for a dumpster. What a terrible way to go. We had our time together, the past year and a half. Like dog years, computer years are calculate by nine years but that is nine years for every month it’s first post passes boot inspection. So, I shed a tear for my P4 friend who for prosperity I will name P4.

As his mother board fried due to an accidental close encounter with Mr. Starbucks I lay back in my swirly chair and wonder if computers have souls. I mean we have souls. I believe we have a spirit inside us, a unique and powerful energy that if you put your two pointer fingers slightly together but not touching and focus on the empty part you will see your own unique energy. Whatever you call it, a spirit, soul, aura it is there and its still somewhat of a mystery. Animals have souls, you can sense there energy when they are near you.

Death in all cultures is the time when that spirit leaves its vestal and journeys to some far away world. Will we see our electronic devices in heaven in some big shopping mall? Do they meet there maker? And who would that be the guy who made the designs or the union worker who screwed the motherboard to the casing. It won’t be Bill Gates since he most likely won’t be joining P4 in heaven. I believe P4 has a soul and is in computer heaven soaking up a futuristic virus free OS, and has a full upgrade with 24TB of ram and Petabyte hard drive. I can dream that he is having a good life making someone happy as they fight a battles in WOW with Einstein, Edison and Tesla.

With the passing of P4 I have learned that true lessons of technology; Moore’s law. A dual-core processor blows the slow poke out of the water! I salute P4 and all the processing he has done for me, I raise Mr. Starbucks, lay back in my swirly chair and listen to Pandora.com. Rest in peace my old friend, thanks for the memories, you won’t be missed since Dual-Core got a sister I’ve been eying and she’s called Quad-Core.

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StumbleUpon to find what intrests you

May 16, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

We live in a complicated webbed world. The internet has brought us a ton of information and yet navigating through the sticky web is more like the poor fly who is about to be Charlotte’s  dinner. But wait! Now you have a true way to navigate the web without know what you really want to look at. Hmmm is that wrong. We do search for things using a search engine and it works if what your searching for is in the top two or three pages. However, we all have our own interests and that is where the stumbleupon.com site fits in.

Stumbleupon works like this. You download the Browser plugin (IE & Firefox compatible), create a login and then you just stumble. Stumbling is first telling the site what you like by choosing categories and pressing a button in your browser called Stumble! This button will take you to random pages that other Stumblers have added. The best part is that you just click a thumbs up or a thumbs down on any webpage. These “I like it” or “I don’t” thumbs are organized in your stumbleupon Favorites. Then you can add your review and comments. Since the site uses tags, its easy to go back to cool pages that you’ve stumbled upon.

Now like all web 2.0 sites there is a great community involved. Adding someone as a friend will place the pages they’ve liked into your stumbling activity. The community grows by more people adding pages. If you click on the ‘Thumbs Up’ icon and no one else has then you’ve discovered that page and get to give it a review.

Stumbleupon my page http://yfat32.stumbleupon.com/ to see how it looks. If you decide to enter into the wonderful world of stumbling, realize it’s like pulling down the arm of a slot machine. Sometimes you get crap, but when you hit that unique and interesting site that you’d never know about then you will realize the fun and usefulness of this tool. Send me a message on stumbleupon if you decide to stumble through the sticky web and lets build on this great community tool.

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How many bottles of Sake does it take to fuel your car?

May 15, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

With bio-fuel becoming more popular every country is looking into how they can produce their own fuel. While Brazil is the biggest export of ethanol due to their large crop of Sugar Cane other countries may be able to produce bio-fuel crops to help with the current direction of green based energy. Every country produces their own alcohol and with that it seems the trend is starting. Sake is a rice based alcohol that is Japan’s home brewed moonshine. Brazil has its Mojito a sugar cane alcoholic drink. Does this mean that in the future, Poland will run cars off of Vodka and Ireland off of whiskey and one day down the road will my fellow Americans pack an extra six pack of Budweiser to feed the car on the way back from the Football game? This could mean the car getting the DWI instead of the driver.

Whatever the future has in store for us, I’m glad that bio-fuel has started to take off but I wonder what this may have in store for my alcoholic preference in the future. Will the switch over to bio-fuel sky rocket the price of my Irish Whiskey or Japanese Sake? Or do I choose to have another shot instead of filling her up!

Sites: Cnet News – Sake May Power Japan Cars

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A Clock that Writes? Verbarius clock!

March 12, 2007 By - Leave a Comment

We will have to wait till November to put the writing on the wall. The clock defines Technically Foreign. This clock spells the time out for you….

“Verbarius answers the question “What time is it?” writing a different reply every time it’s asked: it’s either forty-five minutes past four, or fifteen minutes to five, or four forty-five, or a quarter to five.” -Verbarius Website

Verbarius Clock

Visit: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/verbarius/ for more info…

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