Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Welcome to my world
Just ran actross and article in BBC News, Real pain dulled in virtual worlds
"Virtual analgesia is founded on the principle of distracting the attentional resources of the brain. "
Welcome to my world; I am constantly distracted, and don't notice any particular dulling of pain. Hey Robert Nozik, your machine is ready...
Would you computer science people get on the ball and roll out some real Virtual Reality already? At least have the damn thing ready by the time I retire so I can subscribe to a nice virtual retirement home while actually living under the Washington Ave Bridge...
-C
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"Virtual analgesia is founded on the principle of distracting the attentional resources of the brain. "
Welcome to my world; I am constantly distracted, and don't notice any particular dulling of pain. Hey Robert Nozik, your machine is ready...
Would you computer science people get on the ball and roll out some real Virtual Reality already? At least have the damn thing ready by the time I retire so I can subscribe to a nice virtual retirement home while actually living under the Washington Ave Bridge...
-C
Labels: Cool Product, Technology
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Broke My Finger
Broke my finger on Sunday.
Actually, someone else broke it for me. I took back what I said about her mother, but now I am stuck wearing this brace for a month. This puts my guitar playing on hold, unless I use it as a slide... It also does not make me any friends driving down the road, perpetually flipping off the world. (Before I was just doing that mentally)
-CZ
Labels: A Day In The Life
Monday, February 16, 2004
Take the 'Final Voyage' with Celestis
My will states that when I die, I will have a viking funeral, the kind where they load my body onto a boat, light it on fire, and push it out to sea.
But, Celestis would have been my second choice..
-C
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But, Celestis would have been my second choice..
-C
Labels: Cool Product, Ubercool
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
The National Do Not Call Registry
Go here or call 1-888-382-1222 to add your phone number to the National DO NOT CALL registry. It won't stop
"political organizations, charities, or companies with which you have an existing business relationship."
(or your weird relatives) from calling, but according to the website, it should stop ALL other telemarketers from calling! Finally, some tax dollars put to some good use...
-C
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"political organizations, charities, or companies with which you have an existing business relationship."
(or your weird relatives) from calling, but according to the website, it should stop ALL other telemarketers from calling! Finally, some tax dollars put to some good use...
-C
Labels: Cool Invention, Cool Website, Ubercool
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The Wal-Mart Economy
I was unloading groceries from the trunk of my car when a Large, Bald Butcher named Max (seriously) was walking by and noticed that my grocery bags all proclaimed, "I (Heart) my CUB!" Unfortunately, Max is from the local, independently owned and operated grocery store. Max certainly would have carved me into thin slices had it not been for my neighbor (whom Max was visiting), who calmly reassured Max that I was simply lost, starving, drunk, and new to the neighborhood, and that I ALWAYS patronize my local small business establishments, and would NEVER make such a mistake again.
What does this have to do with the hyperlink to the lengthy article above? The article discusses the long-term effects of purchases made at stores using the business model of Wal-Mart. If you are upset at poor customer service, overseas outsourcing of jobs, and jobs with low pay and no benefits, you can thank businesses like Wal-Mart and the people who choose to shop there. I learned this lesson when the Mall Of America opened: go there to see what is available, then go somewhere else to buy it. Go to CUB if it's 1AM and nothing else is open...maybe. Better off to wait and
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What does this have to do with the hyperlink to the lengthy article above? The article discusses the long-term effects of purchases made at stores using the business model of Wal-Mart. If you are upset at poor customer service, overseas outsourcing of jobs, and jobs with low pay and no benefits, you can thank businesses like Wal-Mart and the people who choose to shop there. I learned this lesson when the Mall Of America opened: go there to see what is available, then go somewhere else to buy it. Go to CUB if it's 1AM and nothing else is open...maybe. Better off to wait and
Labels: Business Phenomena, consumerism
Online Myers-Briggs Personality Test
The Myers-Briggs Personality Test determines your "Personality Type". The test lumps you into a stereotype based on your responses to the questions.
My results proclaimed me to be anINTJ. The stereotype of this personality is the "absent-minded professor" I guess I put more stock in this assessment of my personality than my Zodiological sign (Taurus)
-CZ
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My results proclaimed me to be anINTJ. The stereotype of this personality is the "absent-minded professor" I guess I put more stock in this assessment of my personality than my Zodiological sign (Taurus)
-CZ
Labels: Online Tests
Friday, February 06, 2004
Car Plaques
Emblems Car Plaques In response to those who feel the need to advertise their beliefs by affixing them to the rear of their vehicles, this site offers some alternatives for those of us who feel the need to make fun of them.
-C
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-C
Labels: Cool Product
Tuesday, February 03, 2004
The End of Checkout Lines?
InfoWorld: Magic wand makes checkout lines vanish: February 03, 2004: By : Wireless
It's about damn time, I say! It really frosts my cake to think that our children won't have to wait in checkout lines at the grocery store.
Blog on,
CZ
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It's about damn time, I say! It really frosts my cake to think that our children won't have to wait in checkout lines at the grocery store.
Blog on,
CZ
Labels: Cool Invention
Monday, February 02, 2004
E-mail Etiquette
To: All e-mailers prone to sending e-mails containing confidential information (the rest of you can ignore this),
I recently received an e-mail with this thoughtful disclaimer/signature at the end…
“The information contained in this message is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby on notice that you are in possession of confidential and privileged information. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. You will immediately notify the sender of your inadvertent receipt and return the original message to the sender.”
This may be news to some people, but if you are sending “privileged and confidential” information via e-mail, then you are an IDIOT! Unless you have some kind of signed agreement with the recipient, any e-mail you send becomes the property of the recipient just as fast as you can push the Send button, and they can do whatever they like with it. If they want to post it on a website, if they want to forward it to all of your friends to make you look like a fool, or if they want to pay Janet Jackson to tattoo it on her breast and then whip it out on national television, then expect it to happen, and no cowardly-half-hearted-attempt-at-ass-covering-pseudo-disclaimer is likely stop it.
With this knowledge, we can now reinterpret the disclaimer to read:
“I am an idiot who truly does not understand that e-mail is an incredibly insecure format that flows through the hands of many, many people, each of whom could quite easily read my communications and use them to get me fired, arrested, or (at the very least) publicly humiliated. I am hoping that you are as stupid as I am, and that this ‘disclaimer’ will trick you into believing that you have no right to ‘disseminate, distribute, or copy’ this e-mail.”
Please send “privileged and confidential” information by registered mail, or perhaps via encrypted/encoded e-mail, and take any ridiculous disclaimers like this off of your e-mail signatures. Honestly! Next, I suppose you will want me to sign a waiver before speaking with you at the water cooler…
-CZ
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I recently received an e-mail with this thoughtful disclaimer/signature at the end…
“The information contained in this message is privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the individual or entity named. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby on notice that you are in possession of confidential and privileged information. Any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. You will immediately notify the sender of your inadvertent receipt and return the original message to the sender.”
This may be news to some people, but if you are sending “privileged and confidential” information via e-mail, then you are an IDIOT! Unless you have some kind of signed agreement with the recipient, any e-mail you send becomes the property of the recipient just as fast as you can push the Send button, and they can do whatever they like with it. If they want to post it on a website, if they want to forward it to all of your friends to make you look like a fool, or if they want to pay Janet Jackson to tattoo it on her breast and then whip it out on national television, then expect it to happen, and no cowardly-half-hearted-attempt-at-ass-covering-pseudo-disclaimer is likely stop it.
With this knowledge, we can now reinterpret the disclaimer to read:
“I am an idiot who truly does not understand that e-mail is an incredibly insecure format that flows through the hands of many, many people, each of whom could quite easily read my communications and use them to get me fired, arrested, or (at the very least) publicly humiliated. I am hoping that you are as stupid as I am, and that this ‘disclaimer’ will trick you into believing that you have no right to ‘disseminate, distribute, or copy’ this e-mail.”
Please send “privileged and confidential” information by registered mail, or perhaps via encrypted/encoded e-mail, and take any ridiculous disclaimers like this off of your e-mail signatures. Honestly! Next, I suppose you will want me to sign a waiver before speaking with you at the water cooler…
-CZ
Labels: Etiquette
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