By lizard on January 15, 2011
This is not a tribute, though I must admit I wish it was. It was not even a help, even though that was its original intent — it failed at that. It ended up being amazing, even though I’m pretty sure I was doing it entirely wrong the whole time. Three days ago, my dad [...]
Posted in whatever
By lizard on April 2, 2010
It was a *lot* of work. He was up until the wee hours last night, getting everything just right. I came home from work, and he came out to tell me that Invader Zim was on! So I went into his room, where he was sitting with his laptop open. “I sort of broke my [...]
Posted in photographic memory
By lizard on February 21, 2010
Today’s Wikipedia P.O.D.: An illustration of the pharyngeal jaws of a moray eel, a “second set” of jaws contained within an animal’s pharynx, distinct from the primary (oral) jaws. When the moray bites prey, it first bites normally with its oral jaws, capturing the prey. Immediately thereafter, the pharyngeal jaws are brought forward and bite [...]
Posted in the lizards are out there
By lizard on February 19, 2010
Or really bad ones, depends on how you look at that sort of thing. I’m not complaining, I find it quite hilarious, especially considering that there *is* decent voice recognition going on in the software world today. It’s just, none of that’s happening anywhere near the Google Voice division, for some bizarre reason I can’t [...]
Posted in miscellaneous pathology
By lizard on February 6, 2010
Presented here in no particular order are my top eleven favorite Android apps. These aren’t necessarily the ones I use most often, but they are definitely the ones that add the most coolness to my overall Droid experience — the ones I’ll fire up whenever conversation turns to “what our phones will do” (is it [...]
Posted in love my computer | Tagged Android, Apps, Droid, Google
By lizard on February 3, 2010
I admit I didn’t expect much. After all, the whole snafu was partially my fault for not noticing things for months at a time, and for not clarifying things with the kiddo & the dad regarding what was sent back when. And yes, I did delegate the canceling in a way that caused it to [...]
Posted in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things
By lizard on December 27, 2009
I am not fond of air travel, and haven’t been on an airplane since … hmm, thinking … 1999? My desire not to fly has increased steadily with each new regulation requiring the violation of personal space, but this one really takes the biscuit. “…during the final hour of flight passengers must remain seated. They [...]
Posted in miscellaneous pathology
By lizard on November 7, 2009
i’d been reading and reading about it, perhaps selectively. i am a phone-looker – i look at phones all. the. time. up until now, none of them have had that perfect combination of stuff (when i say “phone”, understand i mean “smartphone” and by that, i mean i want it all — internet, camera, social [...]
Posted in miscellaneous pathology | Tagged shiny things: i love them
By lizard on October 23, 2009
Have you seen the tragic video of Desiree Jennings, the beautiful 25 year old cheerleader who was struck with dystonia ten days after receiving a seasonal (not H1N1) flu shot? The correlation between the timing of the flu shot and the onset of the disorder is reported in this story as “doctors” saying the flu [...]
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