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Breaking out

TimTucker — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:38:17 +0000

Getting in the designing mood and I’ve gathered my sketchbook/notebook up off the floor. Good things must come of this.

Signs of adulthood

TimTucker — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:25:28 +0000

Sometimes being an adult just means being able to wake up at 4am and decide you want to eat pie.

iPod touch - false promise of WiFi?

TimTucker — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:22:17 +0000

After looking at the iPod touch announcement, I found myself slightly disappointed. Unless I’m reading things wrong, it looks like it fails to include the one use for WiFi that I’d really like to see in an MP3 player: wireless syncing.

Apple TV can sync via WiFi, so why not the iPod? Even if only from a set number of PCs, it would be nice to be able to stream music on my home network anywhere I’m within signal range of an access point. It seems like that’s a huge feature that would offset the 16GB limitation of the built-in flash memory.

Celebrity

TimTucker — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:31:23 +0000

Amazing how much popular opinion can sway with the whims of a celebrity (or king):

“Now all the people took note of it, and it pleased them, since whatever the king did pleased all the people.” (2 Samuel 4:9)

Idea of the day

TimTucker — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:54:49 +0000

While eating an ice cream cake at work and talking with someone about bringing in donuts, I had an idea for a new food: an ice-cream filled donut.

Basically, a jelly donut with soft-serve ice cream as the filling rather than the traditional jelly.

Looking around online, I found reference for at least one patent for an “Ice Cream Donut” and an ice cream shop that sells Krispy Kreme donuts w/ scoops of ice cream on top. So the basic idea isn’t completely new, but the idea of doing it with a filled donut might be a new twist.

Pirates!

TimTucker — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:03:01 +0000

Went to the Apple trailers site to check to see if any of the bugs with embedded Quicktime movies were solved in the more recent nightly builds of Seamonkey (hadn’t updated in about a month).

To my pleasant surprise, not only do the controls on embedded Quicktime objects seem to be working again, but I’ve also found a movie coming up to look forward to!

Yes, the Pirates who Don’t Do Anything are getting their own movie! The is likely the most anticipated transition from silly song to full-length feature film ever! (I seem to be using more exclamation marks than usual!)

Funny idea

TimTucker — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:44:02 +0000

I had an odd idea this morning. I was thinking about how my Mom has been listening to modern musical renditions of Psalms lately and started thinking about how there are a few projects to translate the Bible into Klingon.

Hence my brilliant idea for incredibly niche music: a Klingon praise & worship cd!

(ok, so maybe the idea is completely crazy, but I’d probably buy a copy just to hear what it sounded like)

Good, good, good

TimTucker — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:48:39 +0000

So far this has been a pretty good week.

I just got my camera back from Nikon today (hooray for free repairs!) Looks like it’s good as new thanks to a new CCD (or actually better than new, since it had a stuck pixel when I originally bought it).

Of course, that’s more the minor highlight for the week

Unexpected

TimTucker — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:09:39 +0000

Today went unexpectedly well. Not that I’d expected it to go badly, but there were definitely some good things that took me a little by surprise.

Given the lack of sleep I’ve had this weekend, cryptic mention of goodness is all that’s getting posted at the moment.

Digital Signaling in Numbers

TimTucker — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:44:15 +0000

Was looking through the book of Numbers to prepare my lesson for the teens for this week and though this was a somewhat interesting approach that seemed like it was basically describing a fairly efficient way of distributing messages:

“The LORD said to Moses: “Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out. When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. If only one is sounded, the leaders—the heads of the clans of Israel—are to assemble before you. When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out. At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out. To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the same signal.”