Great for the kids room

And it doubles as a security system. Especially effective if you happen to be the parent of two attractive girls, hmmm...?

I can envision my drink friends trying to bang out a poorly syncopated version of Claire De Lune then tumbling down to crack their heads open. Not a pretty sight, but damn funny once you check them out of the emergency room.

-nn

It could happen

When I was a child, this is how I thought things were manufactured. Great things came about organically, requiring human intervention to mature into something usable. At some point, on the road to adulthood, the fancies of our dreams are left on the curb. As adults, when we see the exposed fringes of these memories, we run from them, as if they will drag us away from the trappings of our matured selves.

The fact that this happens to be expounding on a motorcycle just makes it extra tasty.

Like it would be a bad thing.


Hurray to Triumph for making my childhood dreams a reality.

-nn

Et tu, Trueknowledge?

Have been waiting for an email response admitting me into the Trueknowledge beta program. The much awaited for technology that will rend the likes of google and the lesser-favored yahoo to the equivalent of so much belly-button lint.
Don't bait me with the promise of testing a new search engine unless you mean to follow through, because I have all my test cases ready to rock:
Obscure quotes attributed to philosophers influencing John Locke?
- Got it.
Controversial interpretations of the Patriot Act?
- Lock it.
Uninteresting bits of data aggregation from multiple sources?
- Rock it!

I feel like a kid on a day before the big test.

-k

Add this to the tech list

Robots will rule the future. Can you count how many automatic systems you interact with every day. Probably not. That is how prevalent they are. Transparent, unobtrusive, and for the most part helpful.
Now how about a house that assembles itself? Would be a major boon to those living in tornado prone states, hm?



-nn

Fighting Terrorism 101 - TER\101

Don't let them be afraid.
Don't let them see you in fear.
Don't allow them to control you.
Don't let them take away your sense of humor.




--- If you don't laugh, the terrorists win. ---

This is where it all begins

Someone is finally working on the right bit of technology. Rather than being inundated with literally hundreds of thousands of mostly meaningless links, TrueKnowledge is working to produce a search engine which will actually answer your questions. I have signed up for a beta account and will let you know what I think of the tech (like you care).

Click To Play

However, a word of warning is called for. Today, it is about a search engine that will understand context and be able to formulate meaning from simple phrases. Tomorrow, it will be SkyNet.

Because I had to

Once you see it, you will also know why.



-nn

happenstance

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Originally uploaded by no_niche.

We went to the grand canyon (and it really was) recently and, like just about everyone else wound up taking millions of pictures of rocks, trees, and really big ditches. Having finally had some time to review the gaggle of pics, you are always bound to find something unexpected. Our find was the person sitting on the ledge WAY out from the "edge".
Note this was just three days after someone had perished from falling into the canyon.
-nn

I am not normally one who relies on sophomoric humor. The setups are transparent, characters predictable, and every punchline will somehow find its way to bring up sex, the size of your penis, or an attractive girl's virtues.
So I am unable to explain away the following:


Topical, a taste of lesbianism, and an attractive girl in her underwear speaking as an authority. Really, what's not to like? Not much...
-nn

So returns the lust

You just cannot imagine the wellspring of emotion experienced when I ran across this item. I was like a twelve year school girl realizing my middle school crush was going to show up unexpectedly at my door. Yes, it was exactly like that.
This shirt will actively display the signal strength of any wifi spots in range. If I were the designer, I would take it a little further and add a scrolling led displaying the net names and which flavor of 802.11 the detected net is utilizing. New levels of geek love, let me tell you...
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On another note, the seventy pound mark for my weight loss still evades me like that last dill pickle at the bottom of the jar. After chasing that little mother with a single-minded abandon of a meth addict looking for a score before burning through my current stash, i still can't make that connection. And the current head of steam is starting to finally burn dry. I have been working hard to not pay attention to my waning enthusiasm (hell, it's been three years).
I went on a little bender after missing the mark at last weigh-in and starting looking to hook up with as many carbohydrate laden foods as possible. Good times.

-nn