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10420 – Wednesday

Back pain is kicking up seriously today – Took some meds, and hopefully it will be more functional soon. Too ouchy to do stretches or the bike right now.

Walkies yesterday ended in BHK picking me up a block from home as I trudged in a torrent – lucky she came and got me – I was fearing for the DS and the phone’s survival.

Having trouble remembering my dreams lately – time to start keeping a notepad by the bed again. I think the morning shower washes memories all away.

Today is the 10th Birthday of Newtcam! (Means Newt’ll be 11 in a few months)

I’ve been wanting to play Martian chess a lot lately – time to teach BHK( and Amy for a 3-player version for when she visits?) , or go back to superdupergames.org (I haven’t logged in for over a year) Maybe I’ll write an application for smart phones or psn, if I can get permission from Looney Labs.

I think that the ad campaign with the Old Spice guy Isaiah Mustafa is great, and that between his voice, build and humor, he’d be a perfect fit for a Luke Cage movie or tv series.

1 year ago – tightened resume @ library, 
2 years ago – Inger a grownup, picture this, okra and 3 kinds of eggplant from the garden, mamihlapinatapai, zero effect added
3 years ago – college park – drove by looney labs, got chrononauts, nasty smoothie king, collector’s crypt, liberty books
4 years ago – rip webmonkey, skipping dragon*con, personal growth post recap, newt on porch pic
5 years ago – mp, kev, $, Rs, the love god mp3, update info about me, tag cloud, allergy
6 years ago – construction webbing, fonts, celebs, web cam fights crime
7 years ago – braced, zombie pumpkin fights, insanity script, insurance stupidity
8 years ago – dream about graypumpkin at the paint store, little people, domed 3d displays,great ape project, 28 things quiz, sue the teacher trend, mental comfort
9 years ago – cool mini or not, vatic, cool things about moving, smoothies, misc news, age poll, counter testing, chocolate bees, Victorian Sex Cry Generator, what’s for supper, coloring book concept germ
10 years ago – Newtcam’s own page posted Geotarget

10,086 – Saturday

Snow Day! a little nutshelling and some cat pics.

     

Newton and Pye love seeing all the flakes dropping from the sky.

in-laws skidded over for pancake breakfast, and I played a little Left 4 Dead while tiles got shifted.

William and Dylan came by in time for a slice of BHK’s homemade apple pie – I slipped and hit the ground knees first bringing a slice to the neighbor (bruised, but the pie was safe!)

Later, the Nailles and Phil next door came over and we played a little What’s Yours Like (BHK won by a hair)

About 6 inches of snow on the ground now… snowplow is tooling through regularly to keep things clear.

1 year ago – dinner at grace’s fortune, pictures from dinner, counting quiz
2 years ago – work / friend relationships, sick
3 years ago – dinner with TM, Billy the Kid, cannabis vs obesity, American Idol
4 years ago – giant snail, indigo children (i get a bit snarky), newt chilling out pic, “Don’t think of yourself as an ugly person, just a beautiful monkey.”, death cult of the female wrestler, 
5 years ago – Mel out of hospital, AVG good, Mona booboo, gene kelly vw ad, oddball personal names list, beach place cam
6 years ago – Key west, Antarctica dollars, new matter, noting some filter styles for the heck of it. 
7 years ago – cool dream, birthday poll, Phrases I use/have passed on, got a jornada (it retired early)
8 years ago – gold star, lego horror, haiku, tattoo poll, Random phone message memory, happy things
9 years ago – fat albert, SOP, Friends list fluke, mocha, QotDGeotarget

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Newt is all over the place this afternoon – on the prowl.

Cams caught him upstairs and downstairs at about the same time. Pyewacket, however, is nowhere to be found on video. Phantom Kitty skulks in the shadows. Newt seems to perk up in the cooler weather! Only a matter of time before he starts licking condensation off of the windows.

See also –

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Randomly found archive pics of newton and a smidgen of Pye on the upstairs pyecam – BHK’s system took a little nosedive today, and while waiting for me to come home to fix it, delved into the cam server to see what’s been happening. 🙂

Of course, now is as good a time as any to check ’em both out – as of this writing, Newt is on Pyecam, and Pye is on Newtcam, as usual.

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9292 – Saturday

It’s the Weekend!!!

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NASA is bracing for “seven minutes of terror,” when an unmanned craft landing on Mars may wake a dormant robot army that could rise up to invade and crush our civilization… oh, wait. They’re saying the space ship might tip over. That’s all.



Spent most of the day shopping for a new couch and a new bed – found the bed we wanted at a decent price – we pick it up tomorrow, and our old bed goes to the blue house for storage. We have a new Queen Size pillow top marshmallow (but firm) – feels good at the store – can’t wait to try it at home.



Gaming in my brain –

Next game I want to pick up is Hive. (with the mosquito ) I like the insect theme and bakelite tiles a lot – I’ll have to see if Aardvark can order it for us.

Unlike the US government, Hasbro lets you print out your own Monopoly money. There are PDFs for 1,5,10,20,50,100, and 500 dollar bills.

Good for any money-handling game, really. Witch Trial comes immediately to my mind. (which uses our monopoly money more than monopoly does)



From New Scientist Tech: (or, a better use of a Newt/Pye cam?)

To try and develop a more sophisticated model, the team recorded the responses of 49 individual neurons in a part of a cat’s brain called the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). The LGN receives and processes visual information from the retina, via the optic nerve, before sending it on to the cerebral cortex.


The data made it possible to build a software model of the LGN that can approximate how the neurons would respond to real scenes. The model was tested against scenes recorded from a “catcam” camera attached to a cat’s head.


“We chose the catcam because it was the most natural stimulus we could think of, the closest to what a cat would see when walking around,” Matteo Carandini told New Scientist. Because the catcam footage lacked elements moving independently from the rest of the scene, the researchers also used a scene from Disney’s animated film Tarzan.


The model’s predictions proved to be 80% accurate when shown artificial scenes, but this figure fell to 60% with the natural scenes or the Tarzan movie.


The ultimate goal of the research, still years distant, is to develop an implant that uses visual data to directly stimulate the LGN of blind people whose optic nerve or retina has degenerated from lack of use.


“For these people, a prosthesis in the eye doesn’t help,” Carandini explains. Only people who have recently become blind can benefit from such implants – currently being tested in humans – that stimulate the retina or optic nerve


Work on monkeys last year showed it is possible to stimulate the LGN using electrodes to alter their vision, something previously thought impossible. Software models like that developed by Carandini and colleagues would be vital for an implant to stimulate the right neurons to create a mental impression of vision.



1 year ago – birth control, thursday, Catching up with TD, good stuff, gp and kat vanishment

2 years ago – man-bear, joker laughs, day off, but on call, if meme

3 years ago – Simple short film expressing life and death, first auto-post, bears, MP calls me, zombies, rapture, flip top box, cannibal, birthday meme, RIP Thurl Ravenscroft, 6 questions meme

4 years ago – robo-scotto, LLAP-Goch, arms, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Fire Cracker Labels, freaky man-made island, bro

5 years ago – yale bombing, kiwano, doodle fizzles, D & I in There

6 years ago – dead picture trail links, bad dreams, re: pus jars, long weekend, train and bus smells, wondering what sci-fi geeks will watch with Buffy and x-files gone. Hm… I guess smallville is it? I don’t watch much regular TV, ikkyu poem, ARQuake.

7 years ago – blue rosebuds, gnomon, Herman the human mole, word association, evil news, scottsquatch returns, jelly jack, Joel gorilla

8 years ago – my first user icon – ,Heather outs Alex as a cheater and a bisexual (remember kids, post something publicly on the net, and the world can see it, even people you know.)

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Privacy! Hey, good thing…

I feel that locks do a good job of keeping honest people out. Those people that wish to keep the journal private, and still play on the net, check out the new beta client. You can have it so only you can read it, only your friends, everyone, or only select friends. I’m going to let Robb know so that he can pass the information on to certain folks who think what they post is currently private… silly bunnies. I still can’t get my web cam to upload to my ftp site. 🙁 not sure what I’m doing wrong… I don’t want to write a batch file to do it, but I guess if I don’t figure it out in a week, I’ll klugde around it that way. I’m getting sort of sad about my relationship with April, I don’t think I can maintain affection for someone who doesn’t reciprocate. Ah, well. If it doesn’t work, I was quite happy for a little while, and I’ll just move on, no harm, no foul.

Man, I’m all fragmented today…

This just happening! I got a webcam! Now I just have to work out how to make it go. (just the cam, no software or anything, it was in the supply closet for aobut a year at work. It’s an ezonics ezcam usb, and I plan on using it to spy on Newton-cat while I’m at work and surfing the web. (And maybe doing cool cammy type stuff like all you other camfolks) any ideas or suggestions on software, or what sort of fun stuff to do with it? Is it possible to make it a streamcam via real video with a feeble 56k connection to the net? Ack oop ick. Anyhow, more news as it happens, kids!