The P-Mate is a bizarre product that purportedly allows women to pee standing up. Check out the How To page for the explanation of how it works. I am doubtful.
Vital Statistics
Bike odometer: 813 miles
Weight lost: 54 lbs.
Hours of sleep last night: 6
Hours billed last week: 29
Current reading: 2107 Curious Word Origins, Says & Expressions by Charles Earle Funk, The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Recent listening: Collision Course by Jay Z with Linkin Park, Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs, Science Friday, The Rising Tied by Fort Minor, Fresh Air
Recent viewing: Sportscenter, Pardon the Interuption, Countdown, The Dead Zone
Recent playing: Spikey’s Bounce Around, Pipi the Jumping Bubble
Recently accomplished: backed up my hard drive
Imperative To Do: RMA old Tivo drive, fix bathroom sink, backup Thomas, backup Graham, backup Tina, implement rechargeable battery plan, mow lawn
Get A New Daddy
I caught this on PowerFuse a couple of times. Sick but funny.
Woke up this morning with a pain in my head
For the second morning in a row I awoke around 3:00 am and couldn’t get back to sleep. Yesterday I attributed it to the fact that I wasn’t using the CPAP (because I couldn’t breathe through my nose), but that was not the case this morning. This is usually the time that I start deep sleep which can lead to apnea episodes, especially when I’m not using the machine. I’m not sure what the explanation is this morning.
Since I’ve been awake, I’ve had the words “woke up this morning with a pain in my head” floating around in my head and couldn’t figure out to which song they belonged. Turns out those words belong to many songs.
Nadia’s Theme
Remember this? My sister had it on one of her K-Tel records and we listened to it alot back in the 70s. I don’t know why I remembered it recently, but this one is for Maridee.
Vital Statistics
Bike odometer: n/a
Weight lost: 55 lbs.
Hours of sleep last night: 8
Hours billed last week: 29
Current reading: 2107 Curious Word Origins, Says & Expressions by Charles Earle Funk, The Book of Totally Useless Information by Don Voorhees, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Recent listening: Abbey Road
Recent viewing: Van Helsing, The Daily Show, Sportscenter, The O’Reilly Factor, Stunt Junkies, High Stakes Poker, The French Connection, Lost Highway, The Colbert Report, Heavy: The Story of Metal, March Madness (regional finals), Big, Suns at Kings, 24, Full House
Recent playing: Donut Games, Wii Sports
Recently accomplished: Foam recycling, paid bills, started Flickr page
Imperative To Do: RMA old Tivo drive, fix bathroom sink, backup everyone’s computer, implement rechargeable battery plan, mow lawn
Flickr
I’ve taken a number of pictures in recent years that didn’t really fit in at the Rynosoft Gallery because it mostly contains family photos. Recently I discovered that Flickr, a free service from Yahoo!, is an excellent way to store and share your photos online. I started Flickr page for several of my photo projects, including this set documenting my last trip to the sleep clinic.
Flickr has some nifty features like the ability to add notes right on the photo (as in this example, specifying the geographical location of a photo, tagging photos with searchable keywords, organizing photos into sets and a bunch of other stuff I haven’t checked out yet. It’s really well done.
Fitter Happier
As I mentioned earlier, Thomas has show some interest in learning how to program computers. After a discussion with some colleagues at work, I decided to introduce him to Logo, a graphics-centered language that is based on the more sophisticated Lisp.
A quick Google of “logo+mac” got me this website where you can download a free version of Logo for the Mac. I had him download it and try some of the tutorials here. He took to it immediately and it was interesting enough to keep him off of Runescape for a few hours.
Logo has been around since before I got into computers so there are many resources available to support learning endeavors. I searched for books on Half.com and Amazon and found a compelling review for this book by Brian Harvey. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a very good price for it.
On a whim, I googled the author’s name and found his website. He works at UC Berkeley now and has provided free online editions of all three volumes of his Computer Science Logo Style series:
I told Thomas that when he was through with Logo, I’d show him Java, the cross-platform language from Sun. He wants to learn Java already, but I’m holding him back for awhile. The second volume of the Harvey series has a few game examples, so I think that will keep him busy for the time being.
Just mindin’ my business, eatin’ food and finger lickin’
My sore throat is gone but now I have full sinuses and a persistent cough. That’s bad news for someone with a CPAP machine and a nose mask. If I can’t breathe through my nose, then the machine is useless. If I don’t use the machine, I don’t get good sleep. If I don’t get good sleep, I don’t get better faster.
Not a good turn of fortune so I’m home from work again today. I might try to do some programming here later this afternoon if I feel better.
Oh, do you know my name? Do I look the same?
Spring break started today. The boys and Tina are not feeling well and I have a sore throat. I stayed home to beat it before it gets started.