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A murder of crows in downtown Minneapolis. In my neighborhood, twice per year, there are thousands of crows. Last night, a sizable portion of them were hanging around the church behind my building.
http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/videos/birds.flvGood News: There Is An Afterlife
Bad News: Yours will be on YouTube
Good news: there is an afterlife. Bad news: Yours will be on YouTube
(from a fotrune cookie I recieved at Chino Latino in Minneapolis, MN)
I found this image on the interwebs and I really hoped it was fake. Unfortunately, it isn’t. Amazon.com sells it. I hoped this was just a funny Photoshop from Fark.com or something but it isn’t. This makes me lose faith in humanity just a little bit more.
Seriously:
Does the author have any testimonials? Does she have any cases she can cite where a dork became the coolest person in the school? Probably not. If you need this book, you should just switch schools and start over. If you are that desperate, you are already beyond repair.
I wonder what Lorraine Peterson’s childhood was like. I bet she was the kid that nobody liked and had to sit by herself every day at lunch. Seriously, what motivates someone to write a book like this? If you are a self proclaimed expert on cool, then you’re not. Calling yourself an expert does not make you an expert (with the exception of airline travel “experts”).
I wonder if she is still alive. I would love to know her credentials
From Amazon:
Anybody Can Be cool-But Awesome Takes Practice is an adventure in letting truth shape one’s self-image.
Bestselling author Lorraine Peterson helps teens:
Discover what God says about each one of them.
Focus on biblical truths that free people to express their true personalities.
Be strong to stand up to the constant lies from Satan regarding inferiority, lack of self-acceptance and peer pressure.
Become the unique and beautifully designed person God has created to reflect Jesus Christ to the world.
Thirteen weeks of challenging and inspiring readings encourage young people to apply the power of their faith and value in Christ to the issues facing them at school, at work, with friends and family.
About the Author
Lorraine Peterson is an award-winning writer whose experience as a junior-high teacher provides a rich background for communicating with young people. Originally from Minnesota, she makes her home in Mexico and continues her work with teens
Anybody Can Be Cool - But Awesome Takes Practice
(BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THE USER REVIEWS!)
And for good measure, “If The Devil Made You Do It”
An awkward PSA letting people know that “VD Is For Everybody!” If you didn’t know what venereal disease was, you could almost be tricked in to thinking that it makes you successful and look good at the same time.
http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/videos/vdforeverybody.flvHere is a shor tutorual I wrote a while back to document cleaning the older white and clear keyboard. This does not apply to the newer think keyboards Apple released in 2007.
I love the design of Apple keyboards. The clean while surface supported by clear plastic looks great. However, after a few weeks of use (and eating at my computer) the keyboard became quite dirty. After a while, the device became so dirty that I purchased a second one. Since I could sacrifice one keyboard to experimentation - I did just that.
I have managed to clean both keyboards several time with no ill side-effects so far. I can’t say that this won’t destroy your nice keyboard, but here are the steps I take.
Things you will need:
- dish detergent (anti-grease & anti-bacterial)
- a large sink or bathtub
- paper towel
- salad spinner (preferable)
- or a colander
- a flat screwdriver
- THIS PAGE PRINTED OUT
Begin by using your screwdriver to pry the keys off. Be careful - the board is resilient but you can still scratch it.
Here is a good US propoganda film featuring Donald Duck!
http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/videos/spirit43.flvFrom Wikipedia:
The Spirit of ‘43 is a World War II propaganda cartoon created by Walt Disney Studios in 1943 and starring Donald Duck. It is a sequel to The New Spirit. Arguably, it contains the first appearance of the character of Scrooge McDuck, although Scrooge is not named in the film.
In the cartoon, Donald Duck is portrayed as an ordinary American who gets his pay at the factory each week, and is reminded that in order to support the war effort against the Axis powers, he needs to remember to pay his voluntary income tax every quarter (in the 1940s, income taxes were paid directly by workers every three months, and not directly removed from employee paychecks as is done today). The purpose of the film was to encourage patriotic Americans to file and pay their income taxes faithfully every 3 months, in order to help the war effort. At one point, Donald Duck is faced with the classic “good angel on one shoulder, bad devil on the other shoulder” dilemma that was so common in cartoons of that era. The bad side is a zoot suit wearing hipster duck who urges Donald to spend his money at a tavern. The good side is represented by the “thrifty saver,” who appears as a slightly elderly duck with a Scottish accent and wearing a kilt and Scottish cap and urging him to be thrifty and save so he can make sure to pay his taxes. When Donald shakes hands with the “bad” duck, the hipster changes into a duck version of Adolf Hitler, complete with mustache. Donald then kicks him out. A montage shows the taxes are being used to make planes, bombs, ships, and other war materials. It then shows them being used against Axis forces, along with the repeated slogan “Taxes…to (bury, sink, etc.) the Axis”.
I discovered that, under some conditions, 3M Post-Its glow. They don’t simply glow, but they exhibit phosphorescence. I did not expect that.
I discovered that basic 3×3 post it notes actually exhibit this when they are hit with my 432nm (bight blue) laser. The exact Post-Its I used are here: http://www.amazon.com/Post-Notes-Colors-Sheets-654-14AU/dp/B0002DOC68/ref=pd_sbs_op_6
See the video after the jump
If you have five free minutes, you have to check out this post about the $5 cell phone oscilloscope. The display (including non-existent divisions!) is from an old Nokia phone and the CPU is a PicAxe 08M.
It is things like this that make me want to go back and get my EE degree. (Not that I don’t like my B.A. in Journalism - but EE is just a little more nerdy)
From the page:
- Vertical fixed at 5V full screen (or 0.5V per division, if it had divisions.)
- Horizontal Sweep fixed at (approximately) 43mS full screen when over-clocked at 8MHz (or 4.3mS per imaginary division.)
- Trigger fixed at 1/2 the peak-to-peak signal (with a time-out when there is no signal.)
- Non-portable (unless you want to carry my entire workbench some place.)
- Very Affordable (about $4.50; $3.50 for the PicAxe, $1.00 for the phone, everything else I had on hand.)
- Visible in Day Light (the LCD Backlight is not connected.)
- All Solid-State (using ultra-reliable E-Z Clip Technology.
Source:
http://www.geocities.com/Minimalist_Oscilloscope_08M_Proj/Minimalist_Oscilloscope_08M_Project.html
How can I, using only command line tools, find the newest .jpg file in a given directory? I would like to use that in part of a cron job so I can copy images from my moblog to a common directory with my Word Press instillation.
Basically:
- find the matching image
- cp /moblog /content/images/latest.jpg
- embed /content/images/latest.jpg in one of my posts
- execute steps 1 & 2 via cron
Anyone know how to pull this off?
EDIT:
The basic command is: mv `ls -tr | tail -1` ../hereitis.jpg
EDIT2:
Here is the answer
curl http://www.ineedcaffeine.com/moblog/SCRIPT.php
cd /YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog/images
cp `ls -tr | tail -1` /YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog.jpg
convert /YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog.jpg -resize 400×400 YOURFULLPATHHERE/moblog_resized.jpg
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