Archive for October, 2005

newflash, i have a place to put my gloves!

Monday, October 31st, 2005

I’m pretty sure every one knows I ride a Vespa ET2 scooter. Last night when I got home I discovered something amazing about it that I did not know. My vespa has a glove box! I found it quite by accident, you have to push the key inwards when it is in […]

big monitor update

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

Well it has arrived, 24″ of LCD goodness. I really can’t get over how great this monitor is. I’m going to have to upgrade my computer so I’ll be able to play HDTV content. I tried some of the HD trailers and they drop frames like crazy.

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Amazing Fractal Cabbage

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

This is so visually stunning of an object that on first encounter it’s hard to imagine you’re looking at a garden vegetable rather than an alien artifact created with molecular nanotechnology.

How-To Turn your Digital Camera into an IR-camera

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

Converting a regular camera into a infrared camera with nothing more then some film negatives. The only use I can see for this is being able to see through people’s clothes, well that and making glasses of coke look like water.

freecycle

Monday, October 24th, 2005

My basement was empty when I first moved in, however my parents made sure to pack up anything that remotely looked like it might belong to me and deliver it to my basement. Well for 5 months or so my basement has sat packed with boxes so I finally decided to do something about […]

artistic

Monday, October 24th, 2005

The word “Artistic,” as a cinematic term, means dull or meaningless.

From the people that brought you “Rotten Shaolin Zombies”

Monday, October 24th, 2005

Calgary seems to be a hot bed for making really really bad horror movies.

big monitors == big productivity

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Recently dell.ca had a sale on their 24″ widescreen LCD. I bit the bullet and finally bought a replacement for my aging 21″ CRT that is on my desk at home. Well today I read in an article Meet the Life Hackers (which should have been Meet the Life Hax0rs) that some recent […]

spend a $2 bill, get the secret service on your ass

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

This is old but it is a good read, the Woz has a story about his experiences with the Secret Service and Las Vegas security after spending US $2.00 bills in a casino.

Starting over…

Sunday, October 23rd, 2005

Well I’ve decided to move spamrevenge over to WordPress in an effort to get my blogging more actively.