Oh man

Oh man this day has started off as a huge debacle I totally forgot about an eight o clock appt. and ended up being late. Which sucks. Anyway I am loving this N810 its perfect for blogging one the go. When I started this blog in 2004 I never would have thought something like this was possible.

I havent fully realised the full potential. The default region for the English is UK English (hence UK spelling) I want to figure out how to use the webcam and would love to start making You Tube videos. The N810 commercial I posted last week sums up me in a nutshell when the girl says "I would die if you took away my Internet" (that reminds me I think the bill is due again)

I love how I can blog laying down on my back with a handheld -thats truly cool.

Gotta get an early start tomorrow.

Update

Just a quick tap out of a blog post this morning on the N810 while my nano get some fresh content. i will do a full write up on this device later right now its Mon morning and i gotta get back to work. Its been a long weekend.

Going Gordon Freeman on your ass

Going Gordon Freeman on Criminals' Asses, originally uploaded by tjwilde.

I faved this photo a long time ago, and saw some more comments in my recent comments stream. So I clicked on it again, and decided to blog it. Click on it its funny

N810 First impresseions

I dont have the photos of the unboxing yet, but I will say I immediately charged it, and then downloaded the latest software from here. Then immediately went to find a hotspot to load my feeds. in a simple 3 word phrase i love it i am currently tapping this very post out on it now.

lots to learn.

Terminal 5 launch disaster brings holiday chaos - Times Online

Terminal 5 launch disaster brings holiday chaos - Times Online

A very bad situation. (With Video Goodness)

Government vehicles

Govt Impalas, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

Saw this and thought "well hell this is a great photo opportunity".

Purposefully not geotagged as it is a work place - one of several ;)

treat

treat, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

On the way out of the place I see a bowl with the above, and a spoon and the guy told me to get a spoonful. It has a very unique taste. It was some kind of spice/seed whatever mixed with some kind of candy / sweet

Curry

Curry, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

Accompanying curry. Was hot -well it gets hot after you eat it for a while - Called Madras. My British Friends will recognize this instantly.

Rice

Rice, originally uploaded by Chris1051.

1st in a series of what I had for lunch yesterday. There is an Indian restaurant near my work and I had a urge for some Curry. This rice was awesome.

Bedtime again

Maybe this is some kind of poetic justice.

2008-03-26 23:07 CDT

Something odd going on

Well, I begin to wonder. I wonder if my bitching and complaining has gotten any results. I get an email from Nokia, saying that the items that are backordered have been split into a new order, and they would ship the items that are not on backorder in the original shipment, and then when those backordered items come, they would ship those on the new order. Fine I think, Ill get my super-ultra high mega capacity battery and my car charger, 13 days before the N810. So I investigate the links on the email and apparently, they say that the N810 and the Car charger shipped today and the super-ultra high mega capacity battery is currently on backorder. WTF!? huh? I mean seriously, WTF, If this was the case, they should have shipped it on the 20th, and I would have it right now. But there seems to be some odd shit going on over there. I just hope that everything comes through OK. So now it looks like it will arrive here on FRI and the battery will come later -somehow that doesn't jive with what the customer service dude was saying earlier. I will just have to wait and see.

Police: Family prayed instead of getting medical aid for girl who died

This REALLY makes my blood boil. It makes me really want to become more of a militant atheist. If this isn't proof enough that God doesn't exist, I don't know what is. I have said it time and time again, if God exists - he is one sick bastard.

Nokia USA called with some bad news

After ordering the N810 online on the 20th of March, I was already upset that it was on back order. I was expecting it to come in this week as was explained by email:



Cool I thought. So I call them up to re-verify the shipping address. Then the guy says something a bit worrisome. He says "The reason we sent you an email to call us..." and I am thinking "Hey, I didn't get an email to call you guys today." but he continued... "Your order is on back order... (I was already familiar with this after already having waited for 6 days) ...and will be expected to arrive on 8 April." I was floored. I was in shock and didn't say anything. He offered "you can cancel the order and then replace the order on the 8th" and I am thinking "fuck no, I don't want to cancel and run the risk of it being on backorder again" The guy on the other end has no idea how important this device will be to me -as a customer service guy -even though he works for Nokia USA (Or let's talk, Nokia's agent in the US authorized to speak on behalf on Nokia) but he couldn't offer anything else. Lets chock this one up to yet another round of BAD LUCK. So hopefully, 22 days after buying it online, I should have it in my hands. I have placed a google widget on my iGoogle page to count down the days, hours.... Am I just a little bit obsessed?

[Learning is Fun] Parallax

I added star descriptions on the above flickr photo I took on the 20th. Just click on the picture above and then mouse over the photo to the notes (above the stars)

I think I ought to bring up something called parallax. According to wikipedia, parallax is the only direct method by which distances to objects beyond the Solar System can be measured. The Hipparcos satellite has used the technique for over 100,000 nearby stars.

Wikipedia continues:
Precise parallax measurements of distance usually have an associated error. Thus a parallax may be described as some angle ± some angle-error. However this "± angle-error" does not translate directly into a ± error for the range, except for relatively small errors. The reason for this is that an error toward a smaller angle results in a greater error in distance than an error toward a larger angle.

However, an approximation of the distance error can be computed by means of the following:



where d is the distance and p is the parallax. The approximation is far more accurate for parallax errors that are small relative to the parallax than for relatively large errors.

Why we need to leave Iraq now (pt. 3)

I posted about the I-95 shutdown in Philadelphia and read this article this morning. I didn't want to post a photo copied from another website but here is a photo and accompanying article in ENR.

100 questions for Christians

100 questions for Christians

I like how you get the same repetitive arguments from ignorant theists. Then you get the hilarious "Maybe you will enjoy hell hahaha lol!" responses. Feel free to read through the thread. I didn't address Flip Jackson - who seemed more reasonable and level-headed. But I still need to address his points.

Nice peaceful religion eh?

Why I believe science is better than religion

Blog Renaming

I wanted to remove myself from that brand of militant atheism that is going around. I still like the term "born again atheist" as it is a perfect description for people like me, who were born into a religion - the religion of our parents, and have left and evolved as a non-believer.

I just pulled the new name out of my head. It stems back to High School, when I was reading about how they can determine the distances of far away galaxies. It was kind of a shame that they didn't teach redshift in H.S. Physics. Nor did they teach it in any other H.S. Science class I took. On that token, they didn't even touch evolution in Biology class. No We kids had to go to the H.S. Library to pick up books on the subject. At least the creationists didn't ban those books from our library. I spent a lot of time in both the H.S. Library and the public library and I am thankful to have done so.

There is a good article about redshift at wikipedia. If anyone reading this is unfamiliar with it, I recommend giving it a good read.

Without doing the math...

Sad. Equivalent of brainwashing, limiting these poor kids' knowledge. Filling kids heads' with lies and BULLSHIT.

These guys are nothing more than dumbasses! He can't even defend his ludicrous arguments with math - cause he must have failed at math in school.

Radiometric Dating.

Has it been worth it?

Was it worth 4000 US soldiers deaths' and an innumerable about of soldiers maimed - for invading Iraq? We have been mislead from day one, and even for someone like me, who was an initial supporter of the war, only due to lies. You get all sorts of Neo Cons saying "People make mistakes... Bush just made a mistake." Well that sure is one hell of a mistake.

Can you even put your head around that number?