pretty nebula

Today's NASA image of the day is really pretty. It looks like a wispy firework blowing in the wind or drifting through the stars :) It reminds me of the ending credits to Saikano.

from the page:
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured a glowing stellar nursery within a dark globule that reveals the birth of new protostars, or embryonic stars, and young stars never before seen.

fun grocery store

If there was anything like this grocery store near here, I'd definitely spend an evening or two walking around, reading and investigating everything :)

wth?

Just what everyone needs!!! A nine inch long, 2 pound "knife" with 85 tools (have to see it to believe it). This is sortof cool, but way way overdoing it :)

linux apps!

This is a great article with 10 great linux apps/tips. Specifically for Ubuntu (A great Debian distrobution) but most of these will work on any distro. Hadn't heard of a couple of these. The Automatix bundle looks like an awesome compilation of software (for Debian based distros), I can vouch for the awesomeness of Amarok, and at the bottom definitely check out the flash of that Wild X-Windows modification. HOLY CRAP! I have to try that!!! It plays some annoying rock music so be sure to turn off the volume, but holy cow!! Is Windows Vista's new 3d stuff 1/10 as cool as that thing??? HOLY!!! Ah, I guess there is a #11 (Bonus)...yep Frozen Bubble is a great game. I know at least one person who went out and bought her first Linux distro after getting hooked on FB :)

cosmos

Just discovered Cosmos on the Science channel. I had forgotten just how much I loved that book by Carl Sagan, back when I had read it in high school. It is difficult to convey how watching this show makes me feel. It is like a whole hidden-away section of my heart and mind comes back to life, awakening emotions and ideas I had all but forgotten. There was a time in my life when the entire universe seemed so amazing, so soul-chilling, so horrible and amazing. Life is truly a divine, magnificent, glorious gift. It is only my life, and my memories - it is impossible to convey why now-forgotten things like astronomy, science fiction, mathematics, color-cycling fractals and various states of altered consciousness moved and touched me as they did.

But I do not want to remember that. I want to be like I was 2 hours ago, happy with the direction my life was going, happy with the narrow path of my life. I don't want to be the fumbling, unknowing person I was. At his moment, I really don't know how I feel, and it's not like I have to decide. However, looking into myself and writing this has numbed my feelings of reawakened wonder.

However, I am disappointed in my fellow human beings as well. On the topic of science itself, people are trying to make it into anathema, synonymous with some evil villain in a fairy tale story with which they have been catechized their entire lives. There are so many beautiful things to learn, to know about our universe and about ourselves, yet people self-choose to wear blinders over their eyes, happy with being ignorant, happy with the pain in this world we could alleviate, if only we stopped bludgeoning each other and our children with self-destructive and self-fulfilling indoctrination and hatred for each other and for ourselves. If only we would focus on amazing and beautiful and honorable ideas and endeavours..not simply content with how the world is, at this exact moment...doing the same thing over and over and over, and never moving on to and grasping the glorious world we deserve as human beings...this world, which is right here dangling before us and attainable, before we die.

I guess I don't know what I'm trying to say, but I felt moved to write that..and this is my blog so if you don't like it I can always delete it if you send me a polite note explaining why you feel it should be deleted :) I guess Carl Sagan just has a way to make such awesome concepts seem so simple and so understandable to me, so real and relevant to my puny insignificant existence in this illusion of this "world" I am living in :)

ut2007!!

Here's a trailor for ut2007. I hear they will have full Linux support. I know not a lot of games come out for Linux....but the ones that do tend to be just my cup of tea. I love games like UT and Q3 where they don't really try to make it super realistic, just fun as hell, with tons and tons of customability.

rumored requirements:
* Minimum: 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM, Geforce 6 series
* For high details: 3-4GHz, 1GB RAM, NVIDIA 6800GT/Ultra or 7800GT/GTX SLI
* Dual-core CPU: Multi-threading is supported and should provide much better performance
* 64-bit version to be available with better textures
* Renderers: SM3.0, 2.0, possible DX8 renderer
* HDR supported
* Physics: Novodex Physics Engine
* AGEIA PhysX PPU supported

tiny security camera

This camera is pretty sweet. Wireless, tiny, video. Better keep your house locked at all times though this thing would be pretty darned easy to hide anywhere.
Only like $70!

snakes on a plane

Was expecting it to be a horrible, horrible movie but was definitely more worth my money than "Out to Sea" was in 1997. I give it two poisonous snakes up!!

ug

I have to stop ranting about stuff that I really will never be able to do anything about and isn't healthy to dwell on!!

LOL sorry bout the rant. Luckily theres only like 3 people who ever read my blog and I think you guys know me well enough to know I'm not actually a complete dick in real life.

Thank goodness for this newfangled "blog" technology where I can at least delete or edit my posts. That last one was actually pretty good and pretty close to being on target to what I really feel, but I need to do a little polishing...who gets something right on the first draft, anyways?

On a positive note I have the Japanese letters for "delete" down pretty darn good.

Going to see snakes on a plane today! Is going to be a horrible, horrible movie.

Tonights preseason matchup between Pats and Cardinals will be interesting. Am glad to see Junior Seau coming out of his not even a week old retirement to help with the linebackers! Teddy Bruschi not having much luck since being plastered on all the newspapers after the last Super Bowl the Pats won :( Am really positive about the Pats this year, in fact pretty psyched up about football in general. I guess this is Matt Leinart's first start, according to the previews on NFL network. I pretty much dislike the idea of preseason football games...cause these are very physically dangerous games, and these games are meaningless...and yet the scalpers are still making a killing off the tickets. Anyways it's great to have football to watch...20 days till the first REAL game :)

tons of gods

http://www.godchecker.com/ is awesome! So many gods and goddesses etc. I've always sortof enjoyed reading about the Egyption gods, very morbid. The middle-eastern persian gods are interesting as well, has Adam and I'd assume many gods that God himself was so pissed off over :) The whole Lilith thing is funny, as she was too much of a bitch to Adam so god made a submissive Eve out of a rib. Also Lilith ties into Neon Genesis Evangelion, in some whacked out way. Not that Evangelion is supposed to make any sense whatsover but is still fun :)

hello

Did some spring cleaning the other night!