waterfalls! this friday. can't wait to see. they just have nothing better to do than play with water. dirty hudson water...

coporate challenge run today

hoping for no rain this time

I was just telling Shirley the other day in broken English about things such as illusions, how it demonstrates a fundamental physical drawback of the eye. Given the finite speeds of things such as light itself, receptors, transmitters, and processors there are bound to be delays. This delay is inherent in the whole 'seeing' process.

In order to compensate for this delay, your eye predicts the future. Oooh aaaahhhh. Say it isn't true. Does this mean you will know what kind of sandwich I will have for lunch tomorrow?
Unfortunately no, but you are welcomed to pay for it if you so wish. All you get is like a tenth of a second where the eye will see what it thinks should be there. However when reality doesn't meet expectations so to speak, you get illusions.

And why is this important? Well because it just so happens that tomorrow (Wednesday) you get to see the moon just like that song, as a "big pizza pie" in your eye. It is hard to believe how large it seems, but size does not matter in this case. It is the same size as always, because logically the moon doesn't grow. In this case it is a misplacement in spatial reference in conjunction with probably some atmospheric lensing effect thrown in for good measure.

Seeing is believing or is it?

yummy land shrimp

Another brown bag lunch today.

these events are getting carried away.
sometimes interesting but i don't get to eat during this event since i
have to man the encoder.

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More importantly:
I'll be giving my first first interview on Friday next week. I wonder how I should play this. I was entertaining this idea where I would sit at the conference table and wait for the prospective to arrive. Then I would play along and pretend I was also waiting to be interviewed. All the while secretly just 'get to know' the person and ask them all sorts of questions, "why are they here", "what do they think of the company", "do they think they have a chance to land the job and why".
When the time came, I would just scoot over to the other side of the table and say, "Now that we've finished your interview I have just a few other questions for you".
I could sooo pull it off since I'm sure they are expecting an old fogey to be there instead of a young lad of only 24.5yrs such as myself. To top it all, since we're all dressed up in ties and pants, they can't tell the difference.
Muahaha pure evil.

Getting a cat to have my evil ways with for a week starting at the end of this month, until Lin & Cyndi get back from vacation. I can't wait!
Need a list of ways to entertain myself with that cat.
Let me count the ways...

Gonna let it try to catch the mouse in the kitchen.

Don't get me wrong, me and Scratchy go way back. He was a much better pet than chicken-cat.
I remember teaching him how to take a fall. We would throw him against a mattress and have him practice landing on all fours. And I also taught him how to sleep near me so that when I roll over I wouldn't crush him.

fun times.

spyware

this particular strain that recently infected my computer was extremely difficult to remove. will have to keep checking to make sure it is really gone.

now to research more into stopping rundll32.exe files

Iron Man friday

31 cent scoops at Baskin Robins. tonight from 5pm - 10pm

Our dear coworker Bob told me a few days ago that he had purchased an iPod video or whatever those new fangled contraptions are called - for $350.
That in of itself isn't unusual. As with any good story, it involves a girl..naturally.

Being the kind of guy he is...unable to cope under pressure it was to be expected.

It turns out he was in the store with a girl, and she asks him, "So are you going to buy something".
Unable to take this overwhelming pressure of looking weak in front of the opposite sex, he decides to play the 'macho' cool guy and says, "Yes, I'm going to buy this Ipod, give me a minute"
The next day at work he tells us, "Do any of you want to buy a brand new IPod?"
And I'm like "No way, I got this really awesome player already"

What a maroon. In the end he went back to the store and traded it in for a smaller 'cheaper' IPod Nano behind her back.

I have to say, despite being an anti-Appler I see this is quality hardware. Well built and solid feeling tiny little device. The screen matches my currently player, although my OLED (organic) blows it out of the water...for the next few years at least until it wears out. The nano seems to have a more powerful processor to play all sorts of games while mine can barely do flash games.
The stock earbuds that come with the nano is mediocre. It is crisp and clean.