tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90445782724570162712012-02-16T12:57:51.972-06:00This site is here for me to post whatever I want.Shawnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09646091051863806097noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9044578272457016271.post-88651023538039390142012-02-10T21:42:00.000-06:002012-02-10T21:43:04.540-06:00

Well, I've been experimenting on and off for a while now on reducing my weight and or eating better. I'm now down to 232, and still falling, I started at 260, so that is 28 pounds lost. Really my max weight of all time was 265, but when I started tracking and doing anything about it, it was 260. So, Really, I failed in doing anything "pure", I failed at stopping soda, but I did switch to diet

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A recent study involving mice with Alzheimer's disease were given bexarotene, a drug already used for the treatment of skin cancer. The study was not ambiguous at all, it showed a 75% reduction in the plaque build up responsible for Alzeimer's after 14 days of use and 25% within a day. The mice regained lost abilities as the plaque levels in the brain reduced.  I truly hope they can get this

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Well, seeing the results so far from early primary states and the most recent polling results, Ron Paul doesn't have any chance of getting the GOP nomination, I had a small hope when he came in second in New Hampshire but that went no where fast, and now it is merely back to the whole "education" thing Ron seems to be obsessed with, but I don't care one bit about that, as in not at all, seeing

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I've been thinking about 3d models, and I have to say I'm a bit confused about how this would work out legally. Here is the problem, it is legal to take a picture of an item, or multiple pictures of an item, enough pictures of an item to where the whole 3d geometry of an item would be contained with the set of pictures, this has been determined to be perfectly legal.  It's also possible to simply

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I've been playing around with the kinect trying to get it to work as a 3d scanner. So, far the results go from underwhelming to promising. The question is not whether the Kinect can work as an adequate 3d scanner for many uses, but rather the lack of software capable of doing it in a manner that doesn't require rigging the kinect or multiple tries, or stitching scans together. In other words the

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I made some adapters to allow me to mount fluorescent lamps to my regular floor lamp, I then installed UVC  bulbs instead of regular flourescent ones, having attached 6 of these to the pole of the lamp, I made myself a relatively cheap and portable and relatively strong germicidal flea killing lamp. I don't know if I could have got these adapters from the store or not, and I'm sure I could have

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Well, I've started my latest experiment, which is youtube, and I have to tell you it appears that it will be quite possible to make a middle class income from youtube alone. Now, thus far I only have like 11 videos up there, and almost all of them are simply me trying to get my bearing straight, as in I'm by no means got my "sh*t" together at all, and 90% of my time thus far has been

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I started an intrade.com account less than 2 months ago, I only put in a 100 bucks, but so far I've realized over 76 dollars in increase, and that is after the 4.99 monthly charge for each month which so far has been 9.98, so actually I made like 86 bucks from trading up there. Essentially like 43% a month so far. Now, I don't expect that to continue, but that was over multiple trades, as in I

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In the very near future, when 3d printers are developed to the point to where printing an object is equivalent to the itunes store, as in you go browse for items to print, then download the 3d file to allow 1 print per purchase, and then just walk away why it prints, and I'm guessing most likely the cost will be .99 per item, maybe 1.99 with inflation and all that, that the IP (intellectual

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Well, I just hooked up my XBox 360 controller to my Android Tablet running AR Flight app for the AR Drone, and it's a far superior way of controlling the drone compared to the onscreen joysticks. In fact I'd say I went from flying like a drunk 2 year old, to flying like a drunk 13 year old, quite an increase in performance for merely using a real controller. The problem with all this touchscreen

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I finally have my makerbot built, 99% tuned, and working. Hurrray,  I'm in the 1%, the 1 percent of the US that can print any small plastic thing at will. I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!, well a tiny little bit of power. I'm pretty impressed overall with it, more so with the possibilities in 10 years from now.  I'd say the weakest link in at least the Open source 3d printer eco system is the software. I

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These are around the internet, but good information is worth repeating. 1. If you are designing something to be printed and you can have rounded corners do so, this is because when printing any clumps like to gather on hard edges, also the biggest challenge I'm having is warping at the base caused by temperature differences between the lower layer and the newly applied layer, this temperature 

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I'm not a plant expert, so when I saw English Ivy growing on brick houses I always thought it was "pretty" without any other thought, but I now know the truth about this plant. English Ivy is a tree killer, also it crowds out the whole ground if you let destroying much of the natural habitat, and given time it will literally take over everything, toppling trees, and every single thing in its

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Well, one of my mostly dormant sites got hacked, and I don't really consider it my "site" as it was a joomla installation, and apparently the hack was based on myphpadmin on godaddy. It wasn't a total loss, and really there wasn't much there to begin with. I got all my content from the database. This is why I don't really go for the preboxed applications so much, because those are what the

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Since I'm on a roll looking up 3d printer technology, I couldn't leave out printing human tissue and organs. As some attempts use 3d printers to either to build the tissue directly or to build the scaffolding the tissue or organ will grow upon, still this is just another 3d printer in one form or another, though to be fair a large part of the problem is the materials and finding the correct

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Well, here's some 3d printer goodness. This time it is on the large scale. Imagine printing out a cement building on the spot, with intricate curves, holes for wires, plumbing etc, exactly to the design you specify, well that is what some researchers are working on and I can't weight until they finally figure it out. Really, if you think about our "housing" it's still done nearly the same way

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Well, as soon as I almost get my makerbot together, I run across this TED talk, about this guy that has built a super accurate 3d printer. It's not available now, and I have no idea about the material strength, and details, but the resolution is amazing, amazing enough that if indeed the material is strong, then the "real" 3d printer revolution is about to begin (Means:Available at best buy, for

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Well, I almost have my makerbot completed, which covers small plastic parts. So, the next thing I'm going to acquire is a CNC machine for cutting large things, really the makerbot and CNC are just two different breeds of the same animal, they both just move along x,y, and z planes, the makerbot dumps out plastic, and the CNC just cuts away. Here's the one I'm currently looking at, it seems to be

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Well, I finally got around to putting my makerbot together, and it would be done except 1 wire was missing. So, I contacted the makerbot people and they are sending me one. I'll probably get it in the next few mailing days. Hopefully... It shouldn't take but 10 minutes to connect that and screw the bottom on to be completed. Well, putting this together was not as easy as it could be, it's not

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Kim Jung Il died... I really feel sorry for the North Koreans, it must be like being trapped in a bad play that never ends, filled with bad actors, and paid off critics, as no one looking in on this display of "grief" can for one minute believe it's real, it's so over the top and over dramatized as to be absurd. Anyway, hopefully North Korea's new leader will move some degree away from the

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This report blew my mind, after a decade of war in Afghanistan, apparently no one thought to stop and tell the locals why we are there!!  I would think that would be the first thing you'd inform the population of, but what do I know. So, for almost all of Afghanistan, the perception is we simply showed up and started bombing, detaining, and killing people for NO REASON, at least to them there

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I received my AR Drone a couple of days ago, and it works pretty well, however, there are some things that you should know. 1.  Hard wood floors do not work very well for this thing, the drone has problems keeping track of where it is at on them apparently, as when I flew it outdoors it was generally far more stable than in the front room. I just installed a floating floor, and it isn't very

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It's amusing how no one admits to fixating on the negative, or perverse, but when you look at the numbers it screams that nearly everyone does.  So, I was looking at my views on my posts, this blog doesn't get much traffic, but still gets enough over the course of the year to have some evidence, and the two most popular posts for the year were a post I made about FARTS, and a post about a local

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I guess I should say what is wrong with a large share of republicans in Iowa? Recent polls show 44% are supporting Gingrich, which is mind blowing. Gingrich will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER beat Obama in the election, I vow I will vote for OBAMA, if the choice is OBAMA or GINGRICH, and I don't like Obama at all. Gingrich is a serial adulterer, he left one of his many wives while she had cancer!,

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Well, I bought myself an early christmas present. It's a Quadricopter, you can control with your ipad, iphone, android tablet etc... I've wanted one of these forever. It's pretty cool, this one is sort of a starter model, as it has stuff like altimeter to try to prevent it from crashing to the ground and whatnot. I'm going to, make a hobby job of it, as I've looked on youtube, and people get a

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