Thursday, December 21st, 2006

So, my friend Joe sends me a special invite to check out Revolution Health and I decide to check out the “BMI Calculator” which takes your height and weight and tries to approximate your BMI. Well, apparently, for someone who’s 5′3″ and 190 pounds, it thinks my BMI is 33.7 which it tells me is not just “overweight” or “chubby” but “obese.” Damn. I’m one fat bastard.
Watch out, or I might eat you in a fit of uncontrollable hunger.
Tags:
Revolution Health,
startup,
BMI,
obese
Posted by Dossy Shiobara in Dossy, Dossy and more Dossy! | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
---Mutt: ~/Mailbox [Msgs:5164 New:14 Old:81 ...
Yes, that’s the status line of my Mutt window telling me I’ve got 5,164 messages in my email inbox, of which 14 are new. I’ve got mail in there dating back to September, 2000. A lot of it is stuff I just never got around to filing away into subfolders, but there’s plenty of messages from old friends and acquaintances that I just never got around to replying to!
As part of my desire to clean up my intellectual messes with the quickly approaching 2007, I’m going to go through each and every email and decide whether to file it, delete it, or reply to it right then and there–even if it’s 6 years late. I just can’t let it go on any longer.
Tags:
organization,
procrastination
Posted by Dossy Shiobara in Geeking out | No Comments »
Monday, December 18th, 2006
del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since December 11, 2006 at 09:00 AM:
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“ClearSync [formerly WeSync] officially launched version 1.0 on September 26th, 2006.” Of course, it’s no longer free–requires yearly subscription. Is it worth it? I’m not sure.
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Little Flash app. that implements enhanced client-side file upload functionality. This is almost a must-have for modern AJAX-style applications.
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Posted by Dossy Shiobara in Links | No Comments »
Monday, December 11th, 2006
del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since December 4, 2006 at 09:00 AM:
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“[...] driver for a virtual video device [...] that exactly mirrors the drawing operations of one or more physical display devices. [...] solves the problem of reliably and efficiently detecting modified areas on the screen.”
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Almost 26 minutes of audio where we discover that some Verizon employees don’t know the difference between “.002 dollars” and “.002 cents.” Remember kids: stay in school, don’t do drugs, or you might be these people someday.
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TiVoToGo DRM cracked and code is available open source. Finally.
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Jay just got one of these and endorses it.
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Take regular 3.5mm stereo headphones and connect them to the 2.5mm jack on your Treo or other cellphone, for $5.95.
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Kent Beck and Dave Cleal offer an alternative to fixed-price contracts and traditional time and materials contracts.
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I don’t know if this is a legit product or a hoax, but it’s definitely a funny concept. All technology eventually evolves into teledildonics.
Posted by Dossy Shiobara in Links | No Comments »
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
I just couldn’t help it, I have to preserve this snippet of a conversation I’m having:
[12:21] jayridge: u have bad attitude
[12:21] jayridge: where is ur xmas spirit
[12:21] Dossy: it's nailed to a cross.
[12:21] jayridge: lol
Posted by Dossy Shiobara in Religion | No Comments »
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