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This is over by Ajia's dance class. It's NEVER done this here!
Monday, March 29, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
So, @noellequade and I told the kids the news... [VIDEO]
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Granger "hid" from the news under a blanket, but took it well after. Ajia, as seen in the video, almost killed Noelle - she was/is so excited!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Watching "Inside the Womb" with the kids and wife (@noellequade) before breaking the news
Tonight we'll be telling them the news. I may post a video of their reactions...
TCP/IP. But mostly IP... LOL [PICTURE]
Head over to http://www.cafepress.com/ to find some really funny maternity clothes!
First an album release; now a baby release [PICTURE]
Hi! You can't really see me yet but I'm here!! I'm in that dark circle on the left! I'm due November 23rd! Please keep me in prayer. I've already given mommy and daddy a big scare. They were in the ER for 9 hours! Doctor says everything looks like it should right now :-) I'm not even 6 weeks yet!
- Baby Quade -
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
"Wetten, dass..?" [VIDEO]
Those Germans are so strange I tell you. The Japanese take first place though.
Sophia Heesch wettete, dass sie 80 Star Wars-Figuren nur mit dem Mund erkennt. Sie muss vier von fünf richtig erkennen. "Wetten, dass..?" aus Erfurt, 27.02.2010.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Ajia does a one second hand stand at the eighteen second mark
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She tries twice but only gets the second time.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Geocaching w/ my baby
We were out and about at westchester commons and decided to look around. We found "Guarding a future cache."
Friday, March 19, 2010
Portal 2 is Officially Announced!
via Level Select by Nick Staros on 3/5/10
The moment I and many many others have been waiting on for years is finally approaching. Portal 2 is finally coming! (I’ll give you a moment to giggle with glee.)
According to Game Informer, the second installment in the much loved button-ridden world will be a “full fledged, standalone sequel” which will incorporate, if I interpret that correctly, a full story and (if the reports from last year are accurate) will be set before the first game.
Now this news is terrific, but I think the thing that makes my pants a bit tighter is that the game will be co-op! That’s right now you’ll be able to triumph with a friend! GLaDOS won’t stand a chance! The game is scheduled to come out late this year, and we’ll all be eagerly anticipating the moment when we once again can hold onto our portal guns with renewed vigor! In the meantime, check this out!
Hey, perhaps this little gem will even inspire me to write more often! (I think to date I have 5 articles. And this one is only 137 words, so does it even count?)
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Troubleshooting aka sitting and waiting
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So, at work I was told that the dvd copier wouldn't boot up, but alas, you witness it working fine in the video.
Here is my question though: how is it copying at a rate of 0.0x ?
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Don't have iTunes? Get a list of online retailers selling my album "Digital Only"
Hey everybody. I am hyped! So excited...
If you don't have iTunes, but still want my album, check out my ReverbNation profile - http://www.reverbnation.com/theprefectionist I have several links there in the top right corner. Enjoy.
My debut album "Digital Only" is NOW AVAILABLE on #iTunes
After 10 years of ideas, experience, and direct musical influence I have finally put together an album.
I would like to give a shout out to all those that encouraged me along the way:
Jeff, Ellen, Edith, Chris, Nathan, Morgan, Julie, Eddie, Josh (most recently) and last (but certainly not least) my wife Noelle - Thank you all for your support!
You can snag my album "Digital Only" over on iTunes by clicking here - http://j.mp/bOSciO
Solar-Powered Augmented Reality Contact Lenses
What time I can has? Anytime are good. 
via Slashdot by samzenpus on 3/17/10
ByronScott writes "Want eyesight that could put your neighborhood cyborg to shame? Well, University of Washington professor Babak Amir Parviz and his students are working on solar-powered contact lenses embedded with hundreds of semitransparent LEDs, letting wearers experience augmented reality right through their eyes. If their research proves successful, the applications — from health monitoring to gameplay to just plain bionic sight — could be endless."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
I Want My GTV
Anxious to see where this is going... 
via Slashdot by samzenpus on 3/18/10
theodp writes "The NY Times reports that Google and Intel have teamed with Sony to develop a platform called Google TV to bring the Web into the living room through a new generation of TVs and set-top boxes. The three companies have tapped Logitech for peripheral devices, including a remote with a tiny keyboard. Based on Google's Android operating system, the TV technology runs on Intel's Atom chips. Google is expected to deliver a toolkit to outside programmers within the next couple of months, and products based on the software could appear as soon as this summer."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
YouTube's Bandwidth Bill May be Zero
via Slashdot by samzenpus on 3/18/10
MrShaggy writes "Credit Suisse made headlines this summer when it estimated that YouTube was costing Google a half a billion dollars in 2009 as it streamed 75 billion videos. But a new report from Arbor Networks suggests that even though Google is approaching 10 percent of the net's traffic, it's got so much fiber optic cable it is simply trading traffic, with no payment involved, with the net's largest ISPs. 'I think Google's transit costs are close to zero,' said Craig Labovitz, the chief scientist for Arbor Networks and a longtime internet researcher. Arbor Networks, which sells network monitoring equipment used by about 70 percent of the net's ISPs, likely knows more about the net's ebbs and flows than anyone outside of the National Security Agency."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
"Back to the Future" mod for Crysis
OMG this is so cool!
via Level Select by Mike Ballan on 1/15/10
Yes now you too can have your very own DeLorean from Back to the Future in Crysis and Crysis Wars. This awesome mod has been created by Mert Mimaroglu and CryMod member Thomas Jacobs (Jaco_E) and just like the film when this baby gets to 88mph you see some serious shit..!
Ok, so it doesn’t really time travel but it does do the next best thing by changing the map’s time randomly, it even has the classic flaming tires marks and once it has time traveled it even gets cool just like the films version. And to top that of the guys have been so kind as to make it as easy as possible to install this mod onto your computer with 3 easy steps:
First you may want to visit the download page over at: www.crymod.com and grab all the files needed..!
Installation:
- 1. Go to your Crysis game folder -> Electronic Arts -> Crytek -> Crysis -> Game.
- 2. Copy the downloaded zz_DeLorean.pak file into the current game folder (Game).
- 3. For details on how to put the DeLorean into your map, please refer to the DeLorean_Readme.rtf file.
Check out the video below to see this great mod in action..!
All we need now is somebody to make a real Back to the Future game..!
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Samus Speaks For The First Time
via Level Select by Jeff Phelps on 3/2/10
While it’s disappointing that this video doesn’t detail new game play or some sweet segments where aliens are blown to bits, what it lacks for in action it makes up for in breaking new ground. This is the first time that we have ever heard Samus Aran speak full sentences’ we actually hear her true voice instead of the grunts and groans we have come accustomed to.
Not only do you get a good taste of Samus’ voice but you also see some of that full motion video that we have been hearing about. It seems that Team Ninja is really going above and beyond to make this one heck of a game. A few select game journalists have been lucky to have some hands on time with Other M and they all have had nothing but good things to say about this reiteration of a classic Nintendo IP. I’m so glad that Nintendo isn’t afraid to take their characters into new directions and even into completely different art styles.
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Geo-caching and Ajia falling in the mud [video]
we spent the weekend showing the kids a few home-made treasure hunts, known as geo-caches. On our way to this one Ajia slipped and fell in the mud. I just HAPPENED to have the camera rolling - watch Noelle's reaction!
Geo-caching with the kids [video]
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Sent from my Google Android device - please excuse typos.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Ajia being silly [video]
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Noelle, Ajia and I are at Chili's while Granger is at a birthday party.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Kids have a war after giving themselves a wedgie [video] -
The kids were being very loud and my wife said to do something. So, I got out the ERIS and began to capture the madness. They were giving themselves wedgies and having "wedgie wars". Kids are... weird.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
28th Birthday Bash @Dave_and_Buster
Here are the pictures that my lovely wife @noellequade took. Thank you Julie and Clifton for the slow cooker. LOL And thank you all for coming. I was totally surprised that we were doing anything or going anywhere! Good call @critterwyatt on going to @Dave_and_Buster. Mine actual birthday isn't until 3/11, while @critterwyatt birthday is 3/10.
Love you guys!
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Researchers get plastic to act totally metal
Plastics became ubiquitous during the 20th century. They were hot topics of industrial and academic research, and saw innumerable consumer applications. While plastics can have a wide variety of mechanical properties, they are almost universally good insulators, both of heat and electricity. But a paper out of the Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engineering Laboratories reports on a novel processing technique that aligns the polymer chains of polyethylene, which results in a material that has both a high thermal capacitance and a high electrical resistance.The researchers forced the polyethylene to form into this aligned morphology by slowly drawing the fiber out of solution using the tip of an atomic force microscope. The new fibrous form of polyethylene conducts heat well along the direction of the fibers—so well, it beats out many pure metals, including iron and platinum.The resulting fiber was about 300 times more thermally conductive than normal polyethylene. This surprising ability to move heat could find uses in any number of technologies that currently rely on metal as a heat transfer medium.
This new method differs from previous attempts at creating a more heat-conductive plastic in that it transforms the morphology of the underlying material instead of using an additive. These prior attempts, while scalable, resulted in only modest gains, since there was high thermal resistance at the interface between the plastic and additive.
It's not currently known how well, if at all, the process will be able to scale up to production. So far, the team has only produced single fibers in the laboratory, but they hope to be able to scale up to macro-scale production of entire sheets of this material.
Nature Nanotechnology, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2010.27 (About DOIs).
So I guess children can have metal(like) toys once again?
Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking
The bill is hopelessly vague about what "salt" is. If it just applies to "table salt" (sodium chloride), restaurants would simply switch to salt substitutes like potassium chloride. Also, the bill is vague on things that *contain* salt, whether they're allowed. There are all sorts of salty ingredients out there -- some artificially salty, some naturally salty -- that could be added to dishes to add the salt indirectly. If it were to ban anything that contains any measurable amount of salt, it would ban almost every food on Earth.
Anyway, this is just a guy who knows nothing about cooking and probably not much about chemistry. Don't think it malicious. My uncle was in congress for a term (he didn't run again because of health problems). I remember playing trivial pursuit with him. He'd miss out on what seemed the most basic, obvious questions to me in most categories -- but boy oh boy, if a legal question came up, you can bet he knew the answer! Going into public office takes a great deal of your time; these people usually aren't generalists. As of the late '90s or early '00s, the last time my uncle had watched a movie in a theater was the original Star Wars, back in the '70s. That's how much being involved in the high levels of politics can consume your time.
Now, even most people who are highly specialized in one particular field will know of salt's role in cooking. But there are enough elected people out there that at least some won't. But trust me -- he will soon ;) This bill will disappear in short order.
via rss.slashdot.org
"Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, introduced a bill that would ruin restaurant food and baked goods as we know them. The measure (if passed) would ban the use of all forms of salt in the preparation and cooking of food for all restaurants or bakeries. While the use of too much salt can contribute to health problems, the complete banning of salt would have negative impacts on food chemistry. Not only does salt enhance flavor, it controls bacteria, slows yeast activity and strengthens dough by tightening gluten. Salt also inhibits the growth of microbes that spoil cheese."
See-Through Vision Invented
Charles Choi
Published March 10, 2010
Scientists have figured out how "see" through opaque barriers by unscrambling what little light passes through.
The reason you can't see through thin materials such as dry paint, eggshells, paper, or skin is because any light that manages to pass through them is scattered in complicated and seemingly random ways.
(Related: "See-Through Goldfish Bred; Cuts Out Need for Dissection.")
However, it's actually possible to project light through such opaque materials and reveal objects hidden behind them, according to a new paper by scientists at the City of Paris's Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution (ESPCI).
The trick is knowing exactly how materials alter light that enters them.
In experiments, the researchers shone a green laser beam at a roughly 80-micrometer-thick layer—that's 80 thousandths of a millimeter—of zinc oxide, a common ingredient in white paints. On the unseen side of the zinc layer were a series of tiny dots.
By analyzing the patterns of light that came through, the physicists generated a complex model called a transmission matrix—essentially a formula decoding the seemingly chaotic way light travels within the opaque material.
By applying the formula, the researchers say, they were able "translate" the green light coming through the zinc oxide, resulting in a digital camera image of dots in shades of green—revealing exactly what was behind the "wall."
(Read about the power of light.)
The team is now attempting to make out far more complex images of familiar objects, though they're awaiting publication before giving specific examples, ESPCI physicist Sylvain Gigan told National Geographic News.
The see-through vision isn't perfect, though, since a lot of light never makes it through to the other side of the opaque material. In more complex, future experiments, this missing "information" might result in grainy images, said Gigan, who co-authored the new study.
(Also see "Two New Cloaking Devices Close In on True Invisibility.")
Sorry, Peeping Toms
The technology will probably never be any good for looking through walls, said physicist Allard Mosk at University of Twente in Amsterdam.
"Looking through a hundred-millimeter [four-inch] wall would be a million times more difficult than looking through a hundred-micrometer layer of paint," said Mosk, who wasn't involved in the new research.
But the method might one day be used to peer into bodies, study co-author Gigan said. The system, though, would need to be thousands of times faster than it is, to compensate for all the scattering generated by the movement of living tissue.
Still, it may become possible to look through several millimeters of skin, the University of Twente's Mosk said. "I think that is still far off but not unrealistic to hope for."
Findings detailed in the March 8 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
Some of us already have this ability...
Einstein's Gravity Confirmed on a Cosmic Scale
Ker Than
Published March 10, 2010
The theory of gravity proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago can explain the dance of galaxies around one another just as well as it can model the motion of planets around the sun, according to a new study.
The finding suggests that the invisible substance called dark matter and the even more mysterious force known as dark energy are not just figments of physicists' imaginations.
For centuries Isaac Newton's law of universal gravitation worked well enough to explain gravity on Earth. But astronomers eventually saw discrepancies in the way larger objects such as planets interacted.
Einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916, proposed that gravity works on large scales because matter warps the fabric of space and time, also known as space-time. (See timerCount('article_body');
I'd just like to point out that I already knew this. That is all.
Monday, March 8, 2010
28th Birthday Bash @Dave_and_Buster
Here are the pictures that my lovely wife @noellequade took. Thank you Julie and Clifton for the slow cooker. LOL And thank you all for coming. I was totally surprised that we were doing anything or going anywhere! Good call @critterwyatt on going to @Dave_and_Buster. Mine actual birthday isn't until 3/11, while @critterwyatt birthday is 3/10.
Love you guys!
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