Sunday, October 30, 2005
How to Break Things with Gerbil Food
Step 1: Grind the Gerbil food
Step 2: Add Gasoline to the Gerbil food. Make sure to wear a mask.
Step 3: Add a ton of glue and mix completely. Add a fuse and wait for it to dry.
Step 4: Light it next to something you think is Ugly, Stupid, or is trying to kill you.
Compliments of the Shrine of the Mad Cow.
Step 2: Add Gasoline to the Gerbil food. Make sure to wear a mask.
Step 3: Add a ton of glue and mix completely. Add a fuse and wait for it to dry.
Step 4: Light it next to something you think is Ugly, Stupid, or is trying to kill you.
Compliments of the Shrine of the Mad Cow.
Saturday, October 29, 2005
Reasons to be Grateful to The GIMP.
After getting a new digital camera, I was inspired to write a few simple reasons to be grateful to The GIMP.
A Despeckle enhansement filter, to fix problems that come form, oh, let's say a digital camera that takes bad pictures.
Color tuning abilities needed for fixing some pictures - like ones taken from digital cameras
It's free!
A Despeckle enhansement filter, to fix problems that come form, oh, let's say a digital camera that takes bad pictures.
Color tuning abilities needed for fixing some pictures - like ones taken from digital cameras
It's free!
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Rakugaki Kingdom
Just look into it. I typed it in and accidently erased it. It's a cool game featuring Yasunori Mitsuda and Studio GHIBLI.
Monday, October 10, 2005
Die, CCSD!!
This title is really misleading. The real target of this article is to kill off all of limitations that are faced daily in the classroom environment from budget constrictions.
The first thing to do is eliminate the textbooks. This "wealth of Information" is actually a bad idea, because it costs a ridiculous amount of money to purchase. (It's also very heavy to students bringing the books home, which will likely lead to back problems).
So to solve the textbook problems, we simply reduce it to a more portable form. Is anyone thinking what I am? Maybe PDF, PostScript, DVI, or even LaTeX sources? or maybe publishers can give it out in an even more universal format, like XML?
Of course, all of this means a demand for computers if we're going to digitize the textbooks. But computers are expensive, right? WRONG!!!! The software is expensive. The district spends probibly millions (if not billions) of dollars on inflated cost software. Then they pay some developers to make specialized programs, and give them an extra trillion or so (I wonder how much I've missed the mark? Maybe my sarcasm is on point...).
The Idiots at the offices don't get out much appearantly, so they really can't see how little it would cost to put a Linix and/or BSD distrobution on a computer (which, by the way, whould cost less if they didn't have to buy them from a terrible manufacturer like Dell. Even Great Quality Computers [by the way, GQ is NOT great quality, especially with their cheap SYS motherboards!] would have a higher rating then Dell.). Using Linux/BSD would decrease the TCO and with some luck, increase the teacher's salery (clearly, I jest).
New Computers may not even need to be purchased. There are many alternatives to standard desktop PCs. Laptops can occasionally be cheaper and at the same time, offer more features then a PC. MIT is even trying to build a $100 Laptop. PocketPCs and HandheldPCs, while still overpriced, have now thankfully reached under $200 in some places.
Now there is one good idea for a computer replacement that hasn't been widely explored yet, and that's because it is still quite bleeding edge (even thought the idea came in about 1996). It's called the Simputer. It was designed by MIT computer labs as a means of 'updating' third world countries. However outdated it is now (It was compleated quite a while ago...) it may still have some uses to public schools, as it can be used as a public terminal via SmartCards.
The next thing that would be wise to do is Superlearning via Binaural beats. Well, that's something that The school district will have to discover themselves.
More to come later.
The first thing to do is eliminate the textbooks. This "wealth of Information" is actually a bad idea, because it costs a ridiculous amount of money to purchase. (It's also very heavy to students bringing the books home, which will likely lead to back problems).
So to solve the textbook problems, we simply reduce it to a more portable form. Is anyone thinking what I am? Maybe PDF, PostScript, DVI, or even LaTeX sources? or maybe publishers can give it out in an even more universal format, like XML?
Of course, all of this means a demand for computers if we're going to digitize the textbooks. But computers are expensive, right? WRONG!!!! The software is expensive. The district spends probibly millions (if not billions) of dollars on inflated cost software. Then they pay some developers to make specialized programs, and give them an extra trillion or so (I wonder how much I've missed the mark? Maybe my sarcasm is on point...).
The Idiots at the offices don't get out much appearantly, so they really can't see how little it would cost to put a Linix and/or BSD distrobution on a computer (which, by the way, whould cost less if they didn't have to buy them from a terrible manufacturer like Dell. Even Great Quality Computers [by the way, GQ is NOT great quality, especially with their cheap SYS motherboards!] would have a higher rating then Dell.). Using Linux/BSD would decrease the TCO and with some luck, increase the teacher's salery (clearly, I jest).
New Computers may not even need to be purchased. There are many alternatives to standard desktop PCs. Laptops can occasionally be cheaper and at the same time, offer more features then a PC. MIT is even trying to build a $100 Laptop. PocketPCs and HandheldPCs, while still overpriced, have now thankfully reached under $200 in some places.
Now there is one good idea for a computer replacement that hasn't been widely explored yet, and that's because it is still quite bleeding edge (even thought the idea came in about 1996). It's called the Simputer. It was designed by MIT computer labs as a means of 'updating' third world countries. However outdated it is now (It was compleated quite a while ago...) it may still have some uses to public schools, as it can be used as a public terminal via SmartCards.
The next thing that would be wise to do is Superlearning via Binaural beats. Well, that's something that The school district will have to discover themselves.
More to come later.
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