Lemon trees are neat to mess with. If you support a lemon's weight artificially, it won't break from the branch, but continue to grow. You can get them to be as big as cantelopes pretty easily. They stop resembling lemons after a while. They more look like a brain.
A Chia Head would be interesting in a cubicle. And it would be the source of lots of discussion. Or, how about an underwater plant? Or one of those dirtless air plants? Or some wheatgrass.
I grow mold all the time, but nobody seems to be interested or impressed.
I have an old Agenda Vr3 PDA that runs a flavor of Linux. It has large buttons on the side, and comes with a Microphone/earbud. I don't know if the processor would handle voice to speech, but with a little work, most linux programs could be compiled for it. Sounds like a fun hack.
You can get a new one here for $100.00 US but probably much cheaper elsewhere. http://www.softfield.com/vr3.html
In Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency the main character made his name with software that translates business figures into music. Apparently now someone is trying to get a PhD based on it. Douglas Adams is such a visionary.
We had a large mass of cabling coming out of the ceiling at work similar to your pictures. We used dryer vent hose to hide it all. Of course now our rack looks like some deranged dryer exhausting itself into the ceiling, but you don't see any spaghetti. I guess you could use that downspout extender tubing stuff if you wanted it to be more rigid. Either way it's cheap!
We went to watch the race... you'll notice the police boat rescuing the train in one of the photos. Only the engine went in the water at the second water crossing in Federal Hill. To add to the excitement, they were in the water near where a freak storm capsized a water taxi a few weeks before.
The course is 15 miles long including 2 water entries, a mud pit, and a sand pit. You must be in pretty good shape to make it. The guy in the beaver suit was easily in his sixties...
The Baltimore Inner Harbor recently became a wireless hotspot. The Orioles stadium (Oriole Park at Camden Yards) is about 3 blocks from there. I wonder if you could get a wifi antenna to reach from the stadium? The warehouse is really in the way though. I bet some coffee shop or some open home network is closer though. Time to experiment!
As far as baseball being an expense...bah! I live withing walking distance of the stadium, and the O's have a "scalp free" zone inside the stadium. There, you can buy tickets from scalpers legally and under the eye of a Police officer. No worries of paying too much and getting your wallet snagged when you pull it out to pay. I walk up 5 min before the game, buy tickets some guy is dumping cheap and go into the game.
I read large data files into large arrays in memory. (~2 GB files into 2GB of RAM) and for this task Java is unbearable. I am not that stellar of a Java programmer I know, but I am not that stellar of a C programmer either, and C handles this task nicely.
I am doing this on an SGI, so maybe it is their Java interpreter that sucks?
I think the point was that all he was trying to do was use his computer. Why do you have to be a network administrator to use your home computer? My suggestion is to buy a Mac:)
It seems that this could be modified to contain your resume, and a selection of your work. For example, you hand out some CDs they boot them, your resume comes up, and they can browse around, and play with and browse your code. I don't know if it would give you an advantage, but it seems that they would remember your resume.
Last year I saw my company flailing, and I decided to bail. I left Santa Cruz, CA with no job, a dog, and my girlfriend. We moved to Pennsylvania, but I could not find a job due to 911. Fortunately I was able to land a job near Baltimore, and now we are looking at buying a row home in the city. I lost 40 pounds and never felt better, so my suggestion is to just pick up and leave, it worked out for me. One thing that I did was take a pay cut, but I am finding out that I didn't have to do that, or at least not as much. I have a BSEE with 5 years exp and that is worth money anywhere.
I have ridden motorcycles for quite some time, and everyone I know has dropped their bike while parked at least once. Having your airbag vest go off at that time would make the event even more embarassing that it already is.
I lists an NTSC controller which would imply that the LCD is setup like a television, not like a monitor. As long as your video card has S-Video/composite output you should be ok, otherwise be sure to get a VGA display.
I have booted the knoppix cd, and it is cool and all, but I don't like having to set up the basics each time. Can you customize it so that it has your email settings, and net connection scripts, etc. on it? If you could, and you can get it on a usb key drive, then it would be kind of cool to walk up to any pc, plop in your keychain, reboot the thing and have your desktop up and running the way you like it.
My nephew has something similar that my sister bought on Home Shopping Network. It is a little bigger than a PS2 controller, and it has 10 classic Activision games on it. (Pitfall, Freeway, Grand Prix, etc.)
Actually I have found cycling to be way geeky enough. Mount a GPS on the handlebars (Garmin eTrex works great) or just a standard cycling computer and there you go. Not to mention all the stuff you can buy for a bike! widgets galore.
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Lemon trees are neat to mess with. If you support a lemon's weight artificially, it won't break from the branch, but continue to grow. You can get them to be as big as cantelopes pretty easily. They stop resembling lemons after a while. They more look like a brain.
A Chia Head would be interesting in a cubicle. And it would be the source of lots of discussion. Or, how about an underwater plant? Or one of those dirtless air plants? Or some wheatgrass.
I grow mold all the time, but nobody seems to be interested or impressed.
I have an old Agenda Vr3 PDA that runs a flavor of Linux. It has large buttons on the side, and comes with a Microphone/earbud. I don't know if the processor would handle voice to speech, but with a little work, most linux programs could be compiled for it. Sounds like a fun hack.
You can get a new one here for $100.00 US but probably much cheaper elsewhere.
http://www.softfield.com/vr3.html
Seriously, have you ever played Madden football? It kicks ass. Definitely worth it to me that these guys are over worked.
iPod is cool, but its seamless integration with iTunes is what makes it the thing to beat. These iPod killers seems to forget that.
In Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency the main character made his name with software that translates business figures into music. Apparently now someone is trying to get a PhD based on it. Douglas Adams is such a visionary.
We had a large mass of cabling coming out of the ceiling at work similar to your pictures. We used dryer vent hose to hide it all. Of course now our rack looks like some deranged dryer exhausting itself into the ceiling, but you don't see any spaghetti. I guess you could use that downspout extender tubing stuff if you wanted it to be more rigid. Either way it's cheap!
I didn't see any... maybe a good idea for next year.
We went to watch the race... you'll notice the police boat rescuing the train in one of the photos. Only the engine went in the water at the second water crossing in Federal Hill. To add to the excitement, they were in the water near where a freak storm capsized a water taxi a few weeks before.
The course is 15 miles long including 2 water entries, a mud pit, and a sand pit. You must be in pretty good shape to make it. The guy in the beaver suit was easily in his sixties...
The Baltimore Inner Harbor recently became a wireless hotspot. The Orioles stadium (Oriole Park at Camden Yards) is about 3 blocks from there. I wonder if you could get a wifi antenna to reach from the stadium? The warehouse is really in the way though. I bet some coffee shop or some open home network is closer though. Time to experiment!
As far as baseball being an expense...bah! I live withing walking distance of the stadium, and the O's have a "scalp free" zone inside the stadium. There, you can buy tickets from scalpers legally and under the eye of a Police officer. No worries of paying too much and getting your wallet snagged when you pull it out to pay. I walk up 5 min before the game, buy tickets some guy is dumping cheap and go into the game.
I tried to post to slashdot, but it didn't show up
As far as computer books one needs. This discussion lists some interesting ones.
I read large data files into large arrays in memory. (~2 GB files into 2GB of RAM) and for this task Java is unbearable. I am not that stellar of a Java programmer I know, but I am not that stellar of a C programmer either, and C handles this task nicely.
I am doing this on an SGI, so maybe it is their Java interpreter that sucks?
I think the point was that all he was trying to do was use his computer. Why do you have to be a network administrator to use your home computer? My suggestion is to buy a Mac :)
did they just take 50 years to learn how to make wine?
Natural Selection
A UK based MUD that seems to be a good place to learn, and helpful clans and teamplay. Anyone else have any experience with it?
It seems that this could be modified to contain your resume, and a selection of your work. For example, you hand out some CDs they boot them, your resume comes up, and they can browse around, and play with and browse your code. I don't know if it would give you an advantage, but it seems that they would remember your resume.
Last year I saw my company flailing, and I decided to bail. I left Santa Cruz, CA with no job, a dog, and my girlfriend. We moved to Pennsylvania, but I could not find a job due to 911. Fortunately I was able to land a job near Baltimore, and now we are looking at buying a row home in the city. I lost 40 pounds and never felt better, so my suggestion is to just pick up and leave, it worked out for me. One thing that I did was take a pay cut, but I am finding out that I didn't have to do that, or at least not as much. I have a BSEE with 5 years exp and that is worth money anywhere.
I have ridden motorcycles for quite some time, and everyone I know has dropped their bike while parked at least once. Having your airbag vest go off at that time would make the event even more embarassing that it already is.
I lists an NTSC controller which would imply that the LCD is setup like a television, not like a monitor. As long as your video card has S-Video/composite output you should be ok, otherwise be sure to get a VGA display.
I have booted the knoppix cd, and it is cool and all, but I don't like having to set up the basics each time. Can you customize it so that it has your email settings, and net connection scripts, etc. on it? If you could, and you can get it on a usb key drive, then it would be kind of cool to walk up to any pc, plop in your keychain, reboot the thing and have your desktop up and running the way you like it.
My nephew has something similar that my sister bought on Home Shopping Network. It is a little bigger than a PS2 controller, and it has 10 classic Activision games on it. (Pitfall, Freeway, Grand Prix, etc.)
Lik-Sang.com is apparently slashdotted. Ironic
The last time I checked the going rate for a space trip was about $6.1M
Actually I have found cycling to be way geeky enough. Mount a GPS on the handlebars (Garmin eTrex works great) or just a standard cycling computer and there you go. Not to mention all the stuff you can buy for a bike! widgets galore.