TroyToy (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} troyworks) wrote,@ 2005-10-01 16:14:00 |
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The Marriage proposal revisited.
Everybody disliked his approach strongly enough I'm going to suggest he reconsider, here's how I'm suggesting he tweak it:
Make sure she knows that he's out of town/busy that day for some reason, several weeks in advance,enlist a friend(s) of the bride to get her to the boardwalk or someplace she likes to go, on a certain time/day (possible weather issues). Provided the groom can act, which I have my doubts, Have him heavily disguised (face covered) as a bum, then threw off the disguise and say surprise. Even better I think a better would be psychic veiled with a voice changer or a taped recording of someone else. "I forsee a tall etc man in your future, who feels strongly for you"...may I read your hand...
If your a girl, How would your respond to that?
Geek: Dermal Display.
a conceptual video
http://www.nanogirl.com/museumfuture/de
I disagree that this is the way it will go for this type of useage. When technology is sufficently advanced to implant active displays beneath the skin, people will opt for optic augmentation instead for many reasons. However I can see such displays being used for fashion purposes (e.g. digital makeup) which i think will take off 2015-2020.
Geek: LED architectural lighting.
much as LED's are making inroads for 16million color architectural lighting (up to >100watt now! several hundred lumen), which leads to innovative applications like rechargeable color matched tables that light up
.
http://www.laminaceramics.com/
Geek: a tale of two Tablet PC's.
I just sold my ancient 2000 Tablet PC, which while a cool piece of technology, very jetson-esque was never particularly a good tablet PC. I bought it for $2k in 2001.., and sold it for $50 (partly working)in 2005 (how's that for losing value).
Here's a comparison between the QBE and the Motion Computing 1400
$2000 off ebay on 2001, $1700 off ebay (2004)
both had to be serviced.
300mhz Celeron vrs 1.3ghz Centrino
256 versus 1GB ram
10gb vrs 60 gb.
9 lbs vrs 3 lbs.
1.5hr battery life, 3 hr battery life. (when new)
passive wired stylus no pressure sensitivity, vrs wireless
touch screen versus no touch screen (key thing I miss)
card reader versus fingerprint reader
internal modem vrs internal wireless and bluetooth.
same resolution display.
I really tried to think of something useful to do with it, originalllyl I was thinking for music/midi performance, since at one time it was attached to a cymbal stand,
but the touch screen didn't work anymore (and only orginallyrecognizes one finger at a time) and the sound card was noisy I couldn't really use it for anything audio related (it doesn't have wireless). Plus Even having two fast PC's means having the overhead of synching data (favorites documents etc). Plusthe time it takes to administer a slow PC with aging parts doesn't really pay that well especially when a machine 15x faster than it (which my laptop is) can run all that stuff you'd want on a separate box anyway. I suppose I could have gotten more for it, but my original idea was just to trash it, which really seemed a waste. Given how much time it takes to clean up the harddrive, and pack etc, I'm not sure it's really worth it costwise but, Thank goodness for Ebay, else it might just sit and rot in a goodwill or landfill someplace. I hope that the buyer can do something interesting with it.
Geek: Local, free Ewaste 'recycling'
Santa Monica is having an E-waste (e.g. old pc's, laptops, batteries , fax) on Sat 15. This is a semi annual thing. I will be bringing a load of my old stuff over if you have stuff.
Everybody disliked his approach strongly enough I'm going to suggest he reconsider, here's how I'm suggesting he tweak it:
Make sure she knows that he's out of town/busy that day for some reason, several weeks in advance,enlist a friend(s) of the bride to get her to the boardwalk or someplace she likes to go, on a certain time/day (possible weather issues). Provided the groom can act, which I have my doubts, Have him heavily disguised (face covered) as a bum, then threw off the disguise and say surprise. Even better I think a better would be psychic veiled with a voice changer or a taped recording of someone else. "I forsee a tall etc man in your future, who feels strongly for you"...may I read your hand...
If your a girl, How would your respond to that?
Geek: Dermal Display.
a conceptual video
http://www.nanogirl.com/museumfuture/de
I disagree that this is the way it will go for this type of useage. When technology is sufficently advanced to implant active displays beneath the skin, people will opt for optic augmentation instead for many reasons. However I can see such displays being used for fashion purposes (e.g. digital makeup) which i think will take off 2015-2020.
Geek: LED architectural lighting.
much as LED's are making inroads for 16million color architectural lighting (up to >100watt now! several hundred lumen), which leads to innovative applications like rechargeable color matched tables that light up
.http://www.laminaceramics.com/
Geek: a tale of two Tablet PC's.
I just sold my ancient 2000 Tablet PC, which while a cool piece of technology, very jetson-esque was never particularly a good tablet PC. I bought it for $2k in 2001.., and sold it for $50 (partly working)in 2005 (how's that for losing value).
Here's a comparison between the QBE and the Motion Computing 1400
$2000 off ebay on 2001, $1700 off ebay (2004)
both had to be serviced.
300mhz Celeron vrs 1.3ghz Centrino
256 versus 1GB ram
10gb vrs 60 gb.
9 lbs vrs 3 lbs.
1.5hr battery life, 3 hr battery life. (when new)
passive wired stylus no pressure sensitivity, vrs wireless
touch screen versus no touch screen (key thing I miss)
card reader versus fingerprint reader
internal modem vrs internal wireless and bluetooth.
same resolution display.
I really tried to think of something useful to do with it, originalllyl I was thinking for music/midi performance, since at one time it was attached to a cymbal stand,
but the touch screen didn't work anymore (and only orginallyrecognizes one finger at a time) and the sound card was noisy I couldn't really use it for anything audio related (it doesn't have wireless). Plus Even having two fast PC's means having the overhead of synching data (favorites documents etc). Plusthe time it takes to administer a slow PC with aging parts doesn't really pay that well especially when a machine 15x faster than it (which my laptop is) can run all that stuff you'd want on a separate box anyway. I suppose I could have gotten more for it, but my original idea was just to trash it, which really seemed a waste. Given how much time it takes to clean up the harddrive, and pack etc, I'm not sure it's really worth it costwise but, Thank goodness for Ebay, else it might just sit and rot in a goodwill or landfill someplace. I hope that the buyer can do something interesting with it.
Geek: Local, free Ewaste 'recycling'
Santa Monica is having an E-waste (e.g. old pc's, laptops, batteries , fax) on Sat 15. This is a semi annual thing. I will be bringing a load of my old stuff over if you have stuff.
