Elasticity
When I changed companies, after 11.5 years, and I cleaned my desk, I went to deposit my little open-bin of rubber bands back to the general stores. They were all so brittle that pulling them the least bit caused them to break. In that moment, more than any other, did I realize that entropy rules. Only via continual renewal, input of energy, can we fight the tide. We won't stop it, but we'll ride it, ever seeking that perfect half-pipe of experience, so when we ultimately hit the beach, perhaps we'll not have too much sand up our arses.
17 January, 2009
15 January, 2009
Silly Parsec versus Time Thoughts
Scott Martin posted a link to my Facebook page, -
Source: www7a.biglobe.ne.jp
Download the Millenium Falcon patten.... Man, sometimes a fella just wants to make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs...
Sweet. Let's get it in the garage this weekend, put some hemis on it (whatever they are) and see if we can get it down to eleven parsecs!
Of course, upon first seeing that film, we all thought, 'Parsecs! That's dumb. A parsec "is a unit of length, equal to just under 31 trillion kilometres, or about 3.26 light years," (courtesy of Wikipedia).' And how could length be associated with time (Don't go there, Joel)? Of course, if we think about 'warp' technology as bending space itself, it all makes sense. If the Kessel Run involves getting from Point A, to Point B, then faster = more bending, or technically getting from Point A, to Point B, over LESSER DISTANCE, as well as (perhaps) lesser time. Of course, it may be that traversing between any two points might take the same amount of experiential TIME, but simply requires more power to the bending. All great, but then, they use the term "Light Speed", which yacks everything up. Okay, off to snow throw....
06 January, 2009
CosmoBells
I am SOOOOO hooked on this site: http://cosmobells.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Joel W., for turning me on to it.
Thanks, Joel W., for turning me on to it.
02 January, 2009
Resident Evil 4 - The Buzz
Contrary to my prior post, Paul W.S. Anderson is planning another Resident Evil installment. Catch the buzz here: http://movies.ign.com/articles/939/939627p1.html
Milla Jovovich - Not just a pretty zombie slayer - She's got cool tunes
After viewing Resident Evil: Extinction (part of the DVD trilogy), with a fever of 101, and digging it, I decided to go to Milla Jovovich's interviews, on the web, to see if they are planning on making another one. Nope. However, the browsing lead me to her site, and I downloaded 19 of her songs.
The intro song, upon entering the site, has kind of a Foo Fighters vibe, with a little Garbage thrown in. I dig it. I'll throw the rest of the tunes onto my media player and give them a listen.
Her site: http://www.millaj.com/
Interesting interview regarding her music (I think this interview is from 1994): http://thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/milla.html
More modern interview from around the time of Resident Evil: Extinction (2007): http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12589.html
The intro song, upon entering the site, has kind of a Foo Fighters vibe, with a little Garbage thrown in. I dig it. I'll throw the rest of the tunes onto my media player and give them a listen.
Her site: http://www.millaj.com/
Interesting interview regarding her music (I think this interview is from 1994): http://thecelebritycafe.com/interviews/milla.html
More modern interview from around the time of Resident Evil: Extinction (2007): http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12589.html
01 January, 2009
Zune - Mine is Back in Action
Well, my Zune brothers and sisters, aside from Microsoft's mixed messages that the Zune would come back to life around noon today, mine is back up and in action as of right now.
6:59 AM:
I plugged it in, just before 7:00 AM, and it charged up enough and booted up. I then launched the Zune PC app, and the Zune is syncing. I have a lot of podcasts, several video ones, so this should take a while.
7:09 AM:
When it hit 100%, of syncing, the screen went black, and now I'm getting the power plug indicator. Hmmm. We all know that it likes to have SOME power in it, even though it's plugged in, so like a car battery I'll let the thing trickle charge and see what happens.
7:12 AM:
The menu came back, and...whoops...there it goes syncing again. Not the Zune's fault, per say, but the fact that it is syncing simultaneously with the PC software downloading content updates, thus forcing the Zune into a cycle of syncing, chilling, then syncing some more. I usually launch the Zune software, before I go to bed, and then sync the next morning, which keeps the downloading, to the PC, and the syncing to the Zune, separate in time. My biggest syncing "problem" is that things like 'Meet the Press' (video) and 'The Digg Reel' (video) take quite a while to convert over to Zune format. I watch both of them regularly, so I will probably live with it. I've skinnied down my vids though, the ones that I don't really watch. Still hopelessly addicted to 'Escapepod' and 'Pseudopod' (audio), and they are quick syncs, so no biggie there.
Anyway, it looks like all is good, except the Zune's clock is now on PST instead of CST. Once the syncing is done I'll see where I can set the time zone. I poked around in the PC software and didn't find it.
7:30 AM:
Okay, all my syncing is done. I reset the clock manually; it had the minutes right, like atomic-time right, but the hours were two off. I reset it to my time, but I still found no time zone setting.
6:59 AM:
I plugged it in, just before 7:00 AM, and it charged up enough and booted up. I then launched the Zune PC app, and the Zune is syncing. I have a lot of podcasts, several video ones, so this should take a while.
7:09 AM:
When it hit 100%, of syncing, the screen went black, and now I'm getting the power plug indicator. Hmmm. We all know that it likes to have SOME power in it, even though it's plugged in, so like a car battery I'll let the thing trickle charge and see what happens.
7:12 AM:
The menu came back, and...whoops...there it goes syncing again. Not the Zune's fault, per say, but the fact that it is syncing simultaneously with the PC software downloading content updates, thus forcing the Zune into a cycle of syncing, chilling, then syncing some more. I usually launch the Zune software, before I go to bed, and then sync the next morning, which keeps the downloading, to the PC, and the syncing to the Zune, separate in time. My biggest syncing "problem" is that things like 'Meet the Press' (video) and 'The Digg Reel' (video) take quite a while to convert over to Zune format. I watch both of them regularly, so I will probably live with it. I've skinnied down my vids though, the ones that I don't really watch. Still hopelessly addicted to 'Escapepod' and 'Pseudopod' (audio), and they are quick syncs, so no biggie there.
Anyway, it looks like all is good, except the Zune's clock is now on PST instead of CST. Once the syncing is done I'll see where I can set the time zone. I poked around in the PC software and didn't find it.
7:30 AM:
Okay, all my syncing is done. I reset the clock manually; it had the minutes right, like atomic-time right, but the hours were two off. I reset it to my time, but I still found no time zone setting.
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