Madness In My Method

My 300GB hard drive is filled with shows and games.
That was one of the biggest HDs available when I built my system (they went up to 1T at the time, but the price was still out of range), and while I love games and load the crap out of my computer, I honestly thought that I would need to upgrade some computer stuff before having to upgrade the hard drives.
I have 2.7GB 1.2GB left and still plenty of online game purchases that need to be downloaded.
I guess I need to watch some shows* and upgrade my hard drive capacity.

**No, I don't want to just burn the shows to disks. If they are on my computer it's so that I can watch them and then either 1)decide if I want to buy them or not, or 2)watch them now because I was lazy and didn't set the DVR and they haven't come out yet to be purchased. If they are good enough, I'll buy them as efforts allow. If you know me in real life, then you've probably seen my DVD collection and know this to be true.

Battlestar Galactica: The Plan


Yep - Geek cred is still intact.

Ok, so my youngest nephew's birthday came, and that was the day that we celebrated at Chuck E. Cheese (see earlier entry). There was something that came up regarding the birthday that I had to rant about and just hadn't had the chance till now.

Now this particular rant may cause some bad ju-ju between me and a couple of die-hard fanatics out there, and that's ok.

( Transformer Toy Rant )

Just to show that I still don't hate all Transformer toys due to this incident, I still really want this sexy guy, and this is great in concept, but it would really be worth it if it was a working phone, even if it were as basic a phone as you can get.

We thought you'd like to know that we shipped your items, and that this
completes your order.

Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5

Woohoo, I just dinged my geek cred another notch.

You post ten million links from Geekologie for posterity:

Wooden Vespa
Fat Cars
Steampunk'd Star Wars
Super Mario Push-Pin Mosaic - bored-at-work project for office staff and techs #1
Real Life Photoshop
Steampunk Bluetooth Headset - I now have an idea for a steampunk'd Cyberman
(not unlike the steampunk R2-D2 or Dalek)
Marble Maze Table - WANT
Post-It Note Experiment movie - bored-at-work project #2
Western Spaghetti - I wonder what the wine is made of

and for corzican - Bacon Beerito recipe

The MacBook Touch is {hopefully} soon to begin it's debut process as Mac and iPhone users the world round wait and wait and....

This video shows two images at 35-38 seconds into the video of a mock-up docking station concept as explained in this article here.

I'm all for Apple really looking at this idea and pushing it to fruition, and I'll go it one step further.

I have drooled for a long time over PC tablets, but so far I have been unimpressed with the lack of touch sensitivity offered with Windows note-taking software. As a writing perfectionist who also dabbles in mathematical equations and graphics, I can't stand crooked line strokes and figures that look like a child drew them, yet that is exactly what I saw when given the chance play with a fellow classmate's tablet. The theoretical MacBook Touch promises much more sensitivity, but it also gets rid of the textile keyboard that I also covet in a laptop.

Imagine a portable touch screen ~8x12 (sheet of paper) sized computer the depth of a typical 100 page spiral notebook. That's simple enough, as the Mac Air is already smaller than that. Now give it a 360-degree hinge that contains a pop-out/swivel* keyboard.

*For an idea of what I mean by a "swivel" keyboard, notice the images at 52-55 seconds in the same video above. It shows a phone with a theoretical "swivel" face in which two pivot points are located 1/2 of the way down both sides of the face thus allowing it to spin in place. Now just add some sort of securing feature so that the face/keyboard can either swivel 180-degrees and lock into place in both positions or pop out and separate completely from the frame.

Now, since the screen is fully touch screen compatible, not only let it have both landscape and portrait views, but also 180-degree landscape as well. READ: you can also turn the damn thing upside down and it will orient correctly. Ahhhhhh - yes indeed this feature is what would open up the capabilities of the gadget.

Possibilities:
1) You could use it as a regular laptop with both keyboard and touch-screen capability.

2) You could swing the keyboard part to the back side and swivel the keyboard itself within its frame so that it faces towards the back side of the monitor section (thereby protecting the keyboard from accidental touching) - this now creates a typical touch-screen tablet, which is essentially the ONLY goal of the MacBook Touch concept as far as I can tell.

3) Pop the keyboard out, swing the frame of the keyboard section open slightly and turn the whole thing upside-down. It's now essentially a desktop docking station just like the original video image I had you take notice of. With the keyboard communicating wirelessly, the computer can be connected to any other form of monitor/projector device in the case that you want to see your work on a larger screen.

I like this little ménage à trois concept a lot.

oooooh. This site, and the links across the top have me in a math bliss right now.

BTW, my math models paper will essentially be about spelling out the jump rope equations that I linked to.

Stop touching his Dongle.

(totally safe for work)

I received my replacement neuroscience textbook today. I had lent out my previous book to a fellow psych lab student two years ago. It was never returned and I have no way of reaching her now. I wanted to replace it with the exact same book I had used in class, even though future editions had already come out. I have wanted to look things up on a regular basis only to find my book shelf empty of my most prime research material. Yeah for the interwebbers!

I was able to replace the book pretty cheaply. Once again I have access to my arsenal of brain areas, neurotransmitters, psychological disorders and a broad scope of terms like vestibular sensation, Mendelian genetics, diaschisis, vomeronasal sensation, suprachiasmatic nucleus and parasympathetic system.

This makes me a very happy and a very geeky Nikki.