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This interview with Daryl McBride of SCO just makes me want IBM to salt the eath from which SCO grows more then ever.
So it seems that while the supreme court is thinking at least slightly progressive. Congress is getting more stupid and reactionary then ever.
What is so wrong with Gay marriages? Does it take away from other peoples marriages? Do people really think it makes straight marriages less special that same sex couples can get married? Why are some people so afraid of same sex relationships? WHY WHY WHY? What does it matter if two people want bang each other in the ass? Really, I want some conservative to answer these questions. Explain to me why other people can't do what they want to each other in there own bed rooms.
You're A Hero!
You live to save the world! You are honest, true,
and always victorious! You may not always get
the girls/boys, but all you really want to do
is battle the bad guys.
What Type Of Anime Character Are You?
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You are Gambit!
You are a fierce fighter and a good friend to have.
Your preference for solitude and your
attractiveness make you very intriguing to
those you meet. Unfortunately, close
relationships are few and far between for you
because you often have trouble opening up to
others.
Which X-Men character are you most like?
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-Perfect- You're the perfect girlfriend. Which
means you're rare or that you cheated :P You're
the kind of chick that can hang out with your
boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't
care about presents or about going to fancy
placed. Hell, just hang out. You're just happy
being around your boyfriend.
What Kind of Girlfriend Are You?
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Gangbang movie! You're such a horndog! You can't
get enough sex! You've been around the block.
People might even go so far as to call you a
nympho. Chances are, you're a walking STD. Go
get tested.
What kind of porno would you star in?
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You have a mysterious kiss. Your partner never
knows what you're going to come up with next;
this creates great excitement and arousal never
knowing what to expect. And it's sure to end
in a kiss as great as your mystery.
What kind of kiss are you?
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You're Exotic Dancer Barbie. You have some moves,
and will do anything for a few bucks. Take it
off girl, but keep it PG-13 please.
If You Were A Barbie, Which Messed Up Version Would You Be?
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Gay Bear
Which Dysfunctional Care Bear Are You?
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kiss on the lips - you're sweet and simple but
quite daring. you move for the kill confidently
knowing the other person wants the same thing.
What Sign of Affection Are You?
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You are Hate.
You care little to nothing about people and things
around you. You are consumed by feelings of
animosity and loathing towards everything or
one thing and it affects your view of all that
is around you.
What Emotion Are You?
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narcissistic
Which Personality Disorder Do You Have?
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I have a TiVo and love it... I was greatly amused by this comic. Because its kind of true. Once you have TiVo it changes the way you watch TV.
Well, now it also seems like it is going to change advertising on TV. It will be interesting to see how this changes TV. It seems the SitComs and Dramas seem to have the smallest percentage of comercial viewership. Does that mean a death of thos types of shows? Or is 5% of the people that watch Friends worth more either finacially or in terms of total count then 60% of the poeple watching 60minutes?
Ok... So I'm here are the interesting articles from EE Times this week:
I live with a guy who knows all there is to know about blue tooth. I was recently talking to him and he basically summed up this article while we chowed down on stake and corn bread.
I just got a call from my ortho's office, my surgery has been moved to the 17th of July at 1:00pm.
July 17th... 1pm New Surgery Date... 11am be at the hospital
july 14th 1pm pre op
july 23 3:20pm post op
First story, Germanium MOSFETs again under study in U.S. and Europe is basically about new Germanium research. Or more accuratly that germanium reseach is happening again. The reason this is significant is it was the first semi-conductor used to built solid state transistors. New applications aren't for pure Ge based chips but using Ge-Si with high K dopants.
This is for Tim T., AI software gives virtual guitars a lifelike sound describes software that adds human like interpritation to music. The software plays a guitar with temp varied for effect and emphesis added to selected notes. The interesting thing is the temp and emphesis are all decided by the sw with no human input.
As a very early adopter of home networking (my father and I spent a weekend in '93/'94 pulling coax through the house for 802.3 thinnet (yes, even at the time I yelled at the moron and told him we should be doing the then just bergening cat5 so some day we could do 100mbit.)) I was very interested in this article,
Concerns over home nets take center stage at ICCE. The article is about using 1394, gigabit, 100baseT, and 802.11x for linking all computers, tvs, stereos, and internet appliances in your house together. A folow on article, QoS a concern in linking 1394, Ethernet, addresses the QoS link between 1394 and ethernet. It does this with the 802.1q extension and defining a set of prioritues for different services.
Tune in next week...
The only problem for me is this:
This approach is already occasionally used by surgeons, but not to replace load-bearing bones.
Although this says maybe:
The sections should be strong enough to bear weight without any need for a pin. And within about 18 months, the polymer section would be completely replaced by living bone.
One point that the article is clear about, clinical trials are few years out. :-(
OK... So today, I decided to screw my leg brace... I didn't put it on. I just put on my sandals. This may or may not have been a great idea. But I was tired of the damn thing. They way it feels, the way it smells, how clunky it is. Last time I did this I had a considerable amount of pain. This time I didn't. At least no more pain then I've been having with the brace on. It was nice because I was able to really drive my car an remember why I love it soo much.
I go the phone call from my surgeon today. I'm going in for surgery on July 24th at 1pm. It sucks have to wait that long! I was under the impression it was going to be sooner. I have to call them to confirm that date and to schedule that pre and post operative appointments. Hope fully this will fix it.
I don't know if everyone knows what my surgery is going to be so here is a quick description. I have a Titanium (Ti) nail running through the normally hollow center of my Tibia (the big main "shin" bone). This nail is secured both on the top and the bottom with Ti screws. I have one screw on top and two on the bottom. Because my fibula is what the call a non-union (it isn't growing together on it's own) they are going to reopen the wholes at the bottom and take out the two lower screws. This will "dynamize" the injury and encourage it to grow together.
If the next surgery still produces a non-union, then I have two options. The first is a bigger nail. The second is bone grafts at the point of fracture.
The bigger nail, would involve the Dr. opening my knee and the remaining bolt hole and removing the current nail and bold. Then the doctor would ream the hollow channel that runs though my fibula to make it bigger. He would install a bigger , at least initially, non-dynamic (attached above and bellow the fracture) nail. This should encourage the bone to grow together.
The grafts may be one of three types. There are artificial bone grafts. These are made out of a surgical plastic that is very similar to bone. The body treats them like bone and heals it self. Eventually dissolving and replacing the plastic. The second kind of graft is from a dead person. (All of you are organ doanners right?) They take bone tissue from dead people and graft it in to your own. Your body then heals and eventually replaces the bone with your own. The third type of graft is an auto-graft. This means it comes from you... They open your hip and take bone from your illiac crest. This sucks the most because you have to go through the pain of multiple surgical components.
The Dr. wasn't clear on what kind of graft he would do for me if it comes down to it. He also wasn't clear whether grafting or the nail is the preferred next step after the dynamization.
It seems that Iran is currently undergoing some of the largest protest in it's recent history. The numbers seem to be dwindeling night by night but that may have to do with the fact that Islamic militants are attacking the protestors.
It also seems as though the US is encouraging these protests. It isn't clear from the article how...
In other news:
Y Chromosome common thought to be useless and genetically weak, is in fact capable of self repair, and holds more of the male condition then previously thought. But still researchers can't explain why we never stop to ask for directions.
Al Gore trying for a cable network
Al Gore is trying to raise money for a democratic tv network to counter all the conservative shows on cable.
A horrible opinion piece about scientific and engineering progress.
I scanned it but dismissed it as crap (as I do with much of the crap I read) but 1/2 of the Kemanda took the time to write a great response.
(This is for the 0.0000% of people that read my blog and no metamanda.)
Orin Hatch Nuttier then a friut cake...
"No one is interested in destroying anyone's computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles company that builds technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique deliberately downloads pirated material very slowly so other users can't.
"I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer "may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."
The senator, a composer who earned $18,000 last year in song writing royalties, acknowledged Congress would have to enact an exemption for copyright owners from liability for damaging computers. He endorsed technology that would twice warn a computer user about illegal online behavior, "then destroy their computer."
Sun has decided to try and grab some market share with SCOs move against IBM.
Lucky for Sun it owns a large chunk of the IP in sysVr4. Sun also happens to sell Linux appliances and such and according to the threats from SCO (to other companies) should be liable in this situation.
However, if SCO were to go after Sun, they would just revoke SCOs rights to Sun IP and that would DESTROY SCOs OS.
IBM: "IBM's Unix license is irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid up. It cannot be terminated. This matter will eventually be resolved in the normal legal process.
IBM will continue to ship, support and develop AIX which represents years of IBM innovation, hundreds of millions of dollars of investment and many patents. As always, IBM will stand behind our products and our customers."
I really really hope the giant weight of IBM comes crashing down on SCO. I don't want IBM to give them a seatlement or to do anything gentle. I want them to raize the land and salt the earth.
Sunday, Kemanda and I were at Holister Hills SVRA. Ken and Amanda both rode a XR100R.
They both looked great. Amanda went on a long trail ride and Ken was flying around the vintage track.
Now they need to buy a few bikes...
Notes for Kemanda (mostly for rating used prices):
Ken:
TTR-250 $4,299
CRF230F $3,399
XR250R $4,699
KDX200 $3,999
DRZ250 $4,699
Amanda:
TTR-125 $2,399
TTR-125L $2,499*(kick start)/$2,699*(electric start)
XR100R $2,099
CRF150F $2,899
KLX125 $2,299
KLX125L $2,499
DRZ125L $2,499
DRZ125 $2,299
It seems Cadence and Applied Material have produced a test chip with current fab technologies with 45degree traces. Non-orthoginal interconnects will allow chips to be smaller and faster. Cool!
Women execs... The basic point of the article is: Job, Family, Life choose two. You can't have it all. One of the missing things is this: This isn't just about women. In the tech industry you can't have all three. Younger engineers on the rise generally have a job and a life. Most of the older engineers/managers I know have families and jobs. But to be successful in the tech industry I don't believe anyone can have all three.
Time to dispel clockless logic design myths
There were a few clockless design articles in this weeks EE Times. This one was the most redimentry. Clockless designs are and interesting idea. Or more interesting clockless designs allow you to bridge two clock domains more easily. This is most important in something like a northbridge. In a northbridge you have the front side bus clock, the memory clock, and the IO bus(ses) clock(s). By using multiple domains and clockless interconnects between the domains you are no longer tied to certain clocks. This is huge. The Server Works GC family of chipsets are all tied to one clock in the northbridge. This means the CPU is quad clocked 100Mhz, the memory is ddr 200, and the IO busses are some even multiple or devisor of 100Mhz. With this new technique you could have a 800Mhz PSB, 333DDR2 memory bus, and any spead IO bus. That rocks!
I discovered She's a nightmare yesterday. The story in interesting, it's kind of main stream, but the art is really good.
I highly recommend it...
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=imdb+porn+astalavista
Looks like them Canadians want them some movie porn!
So far that is the funniest google search to show up in toryn's access.log
Here are a list of terms that have returned pages on toryn:
| Term | Count | Percentage of searches that return pages on toryn |
| pqbon | 33 | 34.7% |
| ximian desktop 2 debian | 10 | 10.5% |
| 2000 bmw z3 | 8 | 8.4% |
| ximian desktop 2 | 3 | 3.1% |
| bmw z3 2.8 | 2 | 2.1% |
| 2000 bmw z3 2.8 | 2 | 2.1 % |
| debian ximian desktop 2 | 2 | 2.1% |
| z3 2.8 | 2 | 2.1% |
| imdb porn astalavista | 1 | 1% | dinan z3 | 1 | 1% | Other phrases | 31 | 32.6% |
Alternative Offroad... This bike looks really interesting at first glance. I think the idea is great but it doesn't seem to be there yet. For one thing: it uses bycycle parts. You cann't compete with 125cc 2 strokes and 250 4 strokes with bycycle parts. It could maybe compete in the play bike catagory. Beefed up 50cc or 100cc bikes but I'm sure I would bend the forks and the stem and almost surely the rims. Mnt. bike rims just aren't designed to hit doubles at the weight and speed of a motorcross bike and rider. The bike doubles the weight the rims are subjected to. Same with the suspension. Motocross rims and suspension have known to get trashed from abuse like big jumps, I just think this bike would fold. I hope they keep at it. In a few years they might have an AMAZING product.
I was picking through their forum and it does seem that they have some rear wheel problems. I wasn't clear on the detail but they mentioned they were "beefing it up". I hope they make it. I love the idea.
Well I'm in the 10%. I'm going to be going in for more leg surgury. The tibia isn't growing together.
Frustration:
Red sticker info
In california you have to have a sticker on an offroad vehicle to use it offroad. It is a sort of licence plate. There are two colors red and grean. Green is great. It means you can ride year round with out any problems. The cost of the sticker is used with 1% of the state gas tax to maintain off highway vehicle parks. The red sticker is evil. If you have a vehicle with a red sticker you only get to ride it half of the year. The big problem is that only a small handfull of offroad motorcycles qualify for a green sticker anymore. To make matters worse, any bike sold as a motocross bike is automatically a red sticker. This includes bike that have a 100% twin for trail riding that is green stickered like the YZ/WR line. The good news is all 2002s and earlier were re-mapped and are now all green stickered... I guess I'm buying a used bike.
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OK...
Here is some status. 1: I can mostly walk. Many of you have seen me do it. Some of you haven't. 2: My knee is basically OK. I have pretty much full range of motion. 3: My ankle is doing OK. I have not rotary motion, but I can go forward 15 degrees and back a little over 30. When I do stretching with my body weight on the ankle is in the ball park of the other one. 4: I have been able to ride a motorcycle and drive my car with some regularity. It may just be in my head, but riding my motorcycle seems to be less work on my bad leg.
Later today I have an appointment with my orthopedic specialist where he will take X-rays and we'll see how well it is actually healing (I'll send out a supplement later to let you know). As I write this I'm in physical therapy getting current running though my leg: 35 to 45 mA at 90 to 100Hz (cycling).
I have one important issue. On thursday evening my youngest sister graduates from Folsom High School. Given that I have watched both of my other siblings graduate I would really like to see her. My problem is transportation. The way I see it I have two options. The first is to find a kind hearted individual that doesn't mind missing some work or sitting in a rodeo arena watching a graduation. The other is to ride/drive me self there. I thought about the train but with the current train schedule it doesn't work out well (I would basically have to stay overnight in Folsom and take a morning train back. This would eat up two half work days.)
ADDENDUM: Most of my leg status entries are taken from email to a list of close friends. Things like asking for a ride are actually directed at the email crowd not random people reading my blog. (Here I thought only my roommates read my blog.)
The entry is goonley, at lunch today we went to a great Japanesse Place in sunnyvale that had AMAZING Jap. Curry. It was awesome!
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It is down town right accross from the mall.
I just found this on boing boing...
The art looks AMAZING! It seems to be alot like early strangers in paradise or box office poison.
I'm listening to an assortment of Ben Fold's Five music at work... I think I'm really starting to dig it alot...
Not just the stuff you hear on the radio like brick but most of the stuff.
I just finished last weeks EE Times... It was OK. No amazing articles. The most interesting thing is a fight about an Veralog extension. The extension is a validation extension. One company is pushing the use of their propriatry product called 'e' to be made into a std. Others are working for a truely new extension to veralog to do validation.
There was also a few interesting articles about silicon processes. Aparently Intel is skipping a process shrink. This is causing suppliers no end of trouble. Intel is choosing not to use the 157nm process. They plan on moving straight to the Extreem UltraViolet Lithography. They did this by enhancing their 193nm tools to allow them to do 45nm nodes.
I just bid $4K on Ebay for a WR400F converted to YZ400F...
The gearbox kinda scares me, that is the only real difference between a yz and wr model bike. The WR has a lower first and higher top end and isn't even close to being close ratio like the YZ...
Maybe I won't win... maybe I will... I still think I'm dumb for doing it....
UPDATE: I lost the auction... I guess I'm going to have to find a new bike.
OK... So if your reading this chances are you know who I am... You know that I have a broken leg that is currently on the mend. You may also know that this was from a skiing accident.
Tonight I am going to see the Vagina Monologues. I hope it will be good. I'm not sure who is in it as it is just a presentation in San Jose.
Today, after a very late lunch, Kemanda and I went to look at motorcycles. We looked at the Honda/Ducati dealership accross the street. I'm currently looking for a YZ250F... They didn't have one but they did have a YZ400F. I'm seriously thinking about it. They wanted $4K which is better then the $5.6K for a new YZ250F. The YZ450F which is the prodgeny of the YZ400F is $6.3K. Maybe, I will go with the 400. ;-)
So this concludes my first blog entry. Not very interesting but hey what do you want for a gimp.
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