Tired of going shopping for clothes? Clothes that more often than not are ill fitting? Or with so so designs that make you just settle? You can say good bye to those questions because in a few years, we will all be able to make our own clothes easily and painlessly. The clothes we'll be making will fit right and will have the design of your choice and liking. No more settling for what's out there. Oh, the convenience this brings! Especially since I'm so lazy to go shopping. I do it as a chore about three to four times a year only. Seriously. I don't have that much money to burn. Watch the video and see how convenient it really is. [flv:Spray-On_Fabric.flv 500 320] Links: Wired, Fabrican Ltd., Youtube
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Sunday, September 19, 2010
The Pigeon Wins (Again)
Wow! Birds are simply faster than some broadband connections these days in delivering data over distances. When I first heard about this contest then wrote about it, it was September 2009, about a year ago. I thought it was funny then and now it's happened again. Only this time, it's in the UK, a country reputed to be advanced. Well, at least more advanced than last year's African country. For this contest, the bird had to fly 84 miles. The pigeon completed delivery in about 80 minutes. The file upload wasn't even halfway through yet when the bird completed its journey. This is a nice topic to bring up considering the general state of our broadband connections here. You reading this, boss Nemi? We should all get together and make the same contest here. We just need to train some pigeons to deliver the data for us. Hmmm... How far is Cebu from here? Any takers for this contest idea? Sponsors...? Sources: Slashdot, BBC News UK The Mentat http://www.pineda.ca
Telepresence: Updates
First report from me: July 18, 2009 
Somebody has upped the ante and gone for the gold. A professor at Keio University in Japan and the National University of Singapore named Adrian D. Cheok, has come up with a technology that can deliver controlled electric shocks to the brain to trick you into experiencing something physical with someone over distance. Although Techcrunch's Sarah Lacy has a point, this augmented reality stuff still interests me as my situation has not improved all that much. I still live quite a distance from my wife and kids and only see them, like, three to five times on average per year. This technology can certainly help bridge the distance although it's not something to strive for. Being physically present is still the best for me or for anyone else. In a humorous aside, who remembers the movie Demolition Man? If you remember this movie, remember how Sandra Bullock's character asked Sly Stallone's character to have sex? Funny... but it could soon become reality. Links: Adrian D. Cheok, Techcrunch
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Somebody has upped the ante and gone for the gold. A professor at Keio University in Japan and the National University of Singapore named Adrian D. Cheok, has come up with a technology that can deliver controlled electric shocks to the brain to trick you into experiencing something physical with someone over distance. Although Techcrunch's Sarah Lacy has a point, this augmented reality stuff still interests me as my situation has not improved all that much. I still live quite a distance from my wife and kids and only see them, like, three to five times on average per year. This technology can certainly help bridge the distance although it's not something to strive for. Being physically present is still the best for me or for anyone else. In a humorous aside, who remembers the movie Demolition Man? If you remember this movie, remember how Sandra Bullock's character asked Sly Stallone's character to have sex? Funny... but it could soon become reality. Links: Adrian D. Cheok, Techcrunch The Mentat http://www.pineda.ca
Friday, September 10, 2010
In Serious Contemplation of... Suicide
No, no, no... I'm not sick in the head. I'm just tired of it all. Tired of having to play catch up every single day. Tired of having to clear the queues. Tired of the world and the situation in general and something in particular.That particular thing would be catching up on all the latest news, tech and non-tech. All the emails being received and require replying to. All those articles I want to read but don't have enough time to read. Gadgets I want to buy but can't afford. The futility of it all. Knowing the latest and greatest but unable to do anything about it.
Friends I can only chat with online but hardly ever see face to face. Can't have a cup of java with and enjoying good, fun, conve! rsation. Frankly, it's depressing.
Will suicide be worth it? I'm still thinking about it. Do I even want to? Can I do it? Can I afford to lose touch of my friends? The updates? The slim chance of being able to communicate? How about all the news? I don't have TV, after all. Will I be able to swallow it? How about losing the status of tech-guru? The go-to tech guy. All pertinent, relevant questions I have no answers for.
I suppose it's because of the sudden surge of workload being driven my way in the office and at home. Or the numerous demands on my time by different mundane activities. The stupidity of it all. I mean, considering those, I shouldn't complain as all of it goes a long way towards starving off any chances of depression creeping up on me. Still... it does take away a lot of my downtime. Downtime I need to be able to think.
I've tried foregoing a lot of it this past week and it all se! ems to make sense. Maybe I just need to step back and view everything from a distance. This is beginning to feel like burn out. Maybe you, my friends, can help me decide... shall I commit electronic seppuku by going offline with my Google Reader, Buzz and Facebook accounts? Or should I not? I still can't decide. Just so I know I'm not sick in the head. ;)
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Sunday, August 15, 2010
End of Days for the Maternity Ward
Everyone in the office knows me either as the fertility god or the director of the maternity ward. There's just way too many pregnant women among my staff for the past year or so. More than normal, I should say. You can review my "eros" posts of yore to check on what I'm talking about as I'm posting this via email and don't have the bandwidth to go through the links right now. Yesterday, around 4.40 in the afternoon, the last of my staff, Christine, gave birth to a healthy baby girl via c-section. She apparently ran out of amniotic fluids before the baby came out hence the need to deliver that way. From the report I received, she and the baby are doing great. No worries at all. Now that she's given birth and I have no more pregnant staff in my team, I wonder if my team's name will be changed come the new year. Right now we're being hailed as the maternity ward with my boss being the! captain, considering every team he has has at least 1 to 2 pregnant women on board. Might my team be re-named to the bordello? Hmmm... I think I'll rename my team to The Kindergarten before anyone else gets any bright ideas for my team. What do you think? What name shall I call my team in the next few months? The table's open to suggestions. ;)
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Thursday, August 5, 2010
The Coffee Lover's Prayer
Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no Equal(tm):
For thou art with me;
thy cream and thy sugar, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks;
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over. Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of Mocha forever.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures:
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz:
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction,
I will fear no Equal(tm):
For thou art with me;
thy cream and thy sugar, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks;
Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over. Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the House of Mocha forever.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Move: Complete
Back in February, I talked about moving to another place. A sort of downgrade. Well, it's happened and it's complete now. My stay at the wonderful place was a short 10 months and 6 days. It had been a wonderful experience marred only by the moving out debacle which stretched almost 3 months. Something I do not want repeated ever again. Anyway, my new place still needs a lot of work to look like home but at least it's mine. Right now it looks like a warehouse with things and boxes stacked all over the place. But it's homey and I can rest easy here. Meaning I'm almost always sleepy. :D My mobile broadband connection here's about the same as the old one. Same schedule of peaks and lows, I've noticed. Though the big difference is the stability of the signal and consistency. Probably because of the proximity to the cell tower. Or the height of this place. For now, I'll rest an! d so soon I will back into my blogging form again. Thank you.
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