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Breakthrough

I can't give many more details, but Secil and I have created a magnetic gate that is one way. It is really easy to travel through in one direction, and has a good push afterwords, on the contrary, it takes a lot of force to go backwards through it.

I will post some information if it works, or doesn't.

Evony Forum

Well I have created a Forum for my Evony alliance,and started doing some advertising on it as well. I searched, and did not see it as a violation of TOU for adsense, but if it is, please let me know, and I'll take it off.

Game of the Week

Sorry for the delay on posting. I've been spending some time with my family. I will try to be more diligent about more posts.

For the game of the week, I chose Evony. Used to be called Civony, Evony is a massively multi player online real time strategy. It is really cool, and the game continues as you are offline. It is a nice simple game, which you can log on for 5 minutes, tell it to do something, the leave, and come back later.

Check it out:

http://www.evony.com

My First Article

Click the title to go to Ezine and check out my first published article. I will be working on some more. In the mean time, if you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment with the question of your choice. Also if you have ideas for an article, let me know. 

Villians

Well, I am a little behind the bandwagon, but I just finished Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, and got some good ideas.

I am going to try and start a webisode, or some sort of animation, or something dealing with a villian/hero complex, perhaps with a twist (if it has been done before, I haven't heard/seen it). 

I want it to be regular people with alternate personalities, of course, which are heroes/villians in disguise from the rest of the world. I want the villian to actually be the good guy, the one you feel for, and the one you relate with, and the hero is a pompous jerk. In normal everyday life, the villian is a nice guy, and the good guy is the jerk/bully, and has a slight role reversal.

Not knowing they each have an alternate personality, the villian forms a persona that basically calls for revenge on the good guy, and he retialates, and it seems that the villian is evil to all who don't know the whole story. It escalates, to where the villian commits acts of evil (robbing a bank, murder, etc...) but all of them are for the greater good in his mind. 

I think it would be an interesting concept. When I get together with some of my High School buddies, I'll try to film something and put it together.

Game of the Week: My Brute

This week's game is a daily game to play, in which you fight against other players, but only 3 times per day. It is really cool at first, but eventually gets a little tiresome.

Play it here!

Challenge me and let me know how you fared.

Exercise and Diet

I am barely overweight, anything over a BMI of 25 is considered "lightly overweight" and last I checked I was right at 25.2 or so, so just barely above normal.

With that being said, I want to get down to 180-190 (I am 6'3''), and I can do it with moderate diet, but I want to also shape my body to get it a little more toned. 

I want to do many things, but effort is a large problem, especially when you have a changing schedule, little time to spend with your girlfriend, and more free time at night than in the morning, and a sleeping problem, many things prevent you from exercising. 

I want to start some sort of program, but I don't know what I can do, and do regularly. I would like to jog, in the afternoon, but my girlfriend has knee problems, and cannot take the impact of jogging. I may have to start exercising on my own in the morning, but I am awaiting a diet program/exercise program from a personal trainer friend of mine. If he can get me something working, I will try to follow it, and hopefully get a little more fit before the wedding. 

We'll see what happens in the future, but hopefully I will be lighter and more fit for my beautiful girlfriend on our special day.

Google's Top 10 Searches Today

So I figured from time to time, if I need to get some additional posts, I would comment on the Google Trends.

For today, April 30th, 2009, the top searches are as follows:

1.	jupiter jack
2.	swine flu seattle
3.	taylor hicks
4.	fort worth isd
5.	swine flu washington state
6.	snollygoster
7.	josh harraway
8.	the devils advocate
9.	pdxrewards.com
10.	pdx rewards Clicking will give you Google's search for the following. Let me know if anything is worthwhile.

Seeing Light and it's Path

Alright, I've heard of people using an array or traditional cameras (30fps) together to create a High Speed Shot of a target. 10 cameras, at 30FPS timed correctly would yield about 300 fps.

I got a bright idea. I want to see light leave a laser pointer for a distance of about 1 meter. Light travels at slightly below 300 Million meters a second, so for us to observe a 1 meter length, we would need to have a camera that could record some frames at 1/300,000,000 of a second, so 1 frame would need to be 1/600,000,000 for 2 frames of light movement, but I am looking for about 20-30 frames, maybe even 60-80.

Is it possible? With a lot of money, time, and a huge computer system, YES, it is.

Recently a camera producer has a camera that can record one frame every 5 nano seconds (ns for short), that would be about 200,000,000 frames a second. With that camera, assuming you could get 300,000,000 metres in a frame, you could see light travel the entire distance as if it was a car, assuming that it could record a long amount of time.

Most of the cameras can only record a few hundred frames at such a high framerate, but that is okay, we want no more than 100 frames, and we would be using multiple cameras.

If you have an array of 5 cameras, each one starting 1 ns apart in theory, we would get a frame every ns, which would be 1,000,000,000 frames per second, if I did the quick math in my head right. At that speed, we should be able to see light travel 1 meter of distance, and actually see it move from point to point, and see exactly how light travels. Now the problems:

The cameras that record at 200,000,000 frames per second have such a quick "shutter" Tons of light is needed to record something at this speed for normal visibility, I have no clue what infrared or the other recording modes need to record.

Another problem is that each camera is actually a whole package, camera, computer, etc... that has basically 16 cameras that record in an array, just like the array we are wanting to set up. So basically an array of cameras, which each have 16 arrays inside, all controlled by one master computer.

If this could be achieved, the way we see light could be changed forever.

If only I had a few million dollars, and a team of experts to develop the software/hardware for this type of procedure, and I would have a pretty slow motion video. If all else fails I would have a really awesome High Speed rig, and could do some great special effects at a lower FPS.

Match Being Lit by Another Match in Slow Motion

What the title says:

Awesome Flourescent Bulb Shattering into Ground in Slow Motion

The way the first bulb was supposed to shatter, it looks like the ground it eating it.

Awesome Flourescent Bulb Shattering in Slow Motion

Entire bulb falls sideways, and shatters completely and in Slow Motion!

Game of the Week

So, one thing I will try to do is post my favorite online flash game of the week (at least 1 a week).

This week's and the first ever game on my site is:

Rotatspin

A simple yet complex game where your objective is to get your hat back. It is a side scrolling level by level game which has some interesting concepts. A pause which makes your character invincible, but the level still moves, and items that rotate the screen that changes your perception of the playing field.

Try it out and see if you like it.

Some Professional Stop Motion

My stuff is all done with an LG Dare in High Speed Record Mode. Pretty impressive fore a small phone, but here is a link to some professional stop motion in France, with a really expensive camera.

Slow Motion

Alright, Since there may actually be some people viewing this blog, post some comments about some items you would like to see in Slow Motion (hopefully my phone's higher resolution will look a lot better, and I will re-do the flourescent light bulb, but with a larger one and actually have a better impact on the ground).

Let me know if you've got any ideas.

CD in a Microwave, Slow Motion

High speed cell phone camera catches a CD in the Microwave. 7 total second in the microwave to create this video.

Sorry for the resolution, forgot to turn up the resolution, I will do better with the rest of the videos.

Fluorescent bulb in slow motion 2

The second part of the Flourescent bulb. Same situation as before, but a much better shatter with this one.

Fluorescent bulb in slow motion

My first Youtube video, and I forgot to change the resolution to the highest setting on my phone. I will be uploading 2 more, and will be recording additional ones with the higher resolution. All done with my phone.

Dave Powell

Well, the economy is apparently affecting a college that receives millions of dollars per year in donations and charges $30,000 in tuition per year per student, if not more now. 

David Powell, a part time english professor at Maryville College was terminated due to budget cuts. 

This is absolutely rediculious, not only was he an amazing professor, and there was no reason he should have ever been cut. He participated in many of the college activities, wasn't afraid to speak his mind, and opened up literature in a way that no other teacher had ever opened it. 

He had 1 year left before he was eligible for retirement benefits, and there are no other reasons listed other than "not upholding maryville college's standards inside and outside the classroom." If there was ever an embodiment of Maryvillie college, it would have been in David Powell, and they just made an ignorant decision to let him go.

You Tube

Well, I just signed up for a youtube account. What type of videos am I going to make? Right now I am going to start with what is easy for me. I have an LG Dare, and one of the unique things on it is the Slo-mo camera. It can record up to 120 frames per second I believe, which basically takes the typical second and turns it into 4 (Assuming 29.98 or whatever fps, although 24 is what cinema uses). 

I plan on trying to record some cool things in slo motion. I also have a pretty good HD camera as well, so I may try to post some video of Hawaii and other things. I will embed whatever I post on Youtube here on my blog, it should make things a lot easier. I hope this will help to get some visitors to my site. I'm also going to add the site to my signatures on forums, to try and drive some traffic here. If only I could get Google to pick me up properly. 

Dishes

I hate doing dishes... We cooked homemade pizza last night, and with 2 people in the kitchen, 2 different pizzas, 2 different styles, and making everything from scratch, lots and lots of dishes are in the sink. I took a shower, waited a bit, then started to wash the dishes. 30 mintes later, still dishes left, and no hot water.  So I have a sink half-full of dishes, no hot water, and a dirty sponge, so I guess I will finish them when I get home. We have a dishwasher, but we can't use it except for a few days a month (same with the air conditioner). 

Weebl's Stuff

It's been a while since I've seen an animation from them. Not that they haven't been making them, on the contrary, I just didn't look. So far my favorite is still Kenya, but Brazil is starting to get up there.

Check them out sometime.

Papercut of Doom

My job is not a dangerous job, yet there have been many times I have almost died in the line of duty. From ladders collapsing to electrical shocks from wall outlets, there have been times where I have seen the light coming for me, and I seem to just pull by. Every time, though, it doesn't hurt quite as bad as a papercut.

 

I have a high tolerance for pain, I can take large lacerations, burns, etc... but one thing I hate are papercuts. I was opening up some invoices today, and lo and behold someone folded their letter in an odd way, so when I slid my finger under the envelope flap, pulled it through the envelope, tearing the top, the top part of a piece of paper lodged itself between my finger and my nail, ripping open my skin, ever so slightly, but ever so painful.

 

After blood, alcohol prep pad, and a bandaid, a ruined bloody invoice, the pain subsided, but now it is hard to type with a bandaid over my index fingertip.

 

Pigs in a Blanket

I was hungry today, and decided to make some food, and looking around, I had the following in the fridge:

Milk (About 1 pint or so)

Cake, Cake and more cake (3 cakes, probably all bad, cooked weekend before last)

1 piece of KFC crispy chicken (drumstick) 

A little cheese

Turkey

Hot Dogs

Oranges

Onion

1 Lime

Lots of butter

Nothing really dedicated for a meal, considering we had no sliced bread, or any hot dog buns. I decided I would make Pigs in a Blanket, but I would have to make it from scratch. Usually Crescent rolls are the preferred blanket for the pigs, but I didn't have Crescent rolls, and I didn't know how to make them. I had plenty of flour, plenty of baking powder, shortnening, butter, so I figured biscuits would be a good blanket for the pigs. 

I found an old Betty Crocker recipe for biscuits, and I don't have it in front of me, but here goes:

2 cups flour

1 tsp of salt

2.5 tsp of baking powder

2/3 cup of milk

2/3 cup of shortning

Turn on oven to 425 degrees. Mix all together, knead, flour a surface and knead it together. Roll it out and cut it in biscuit shapes for biscuits. I took the leftover, and instead of re-kneading and cutting more biscuits, take the leftover and wrap it around the hot dogs, don't make it too thick or else there will be a lot of dough and not enough pig. after all is prepared, stick on a pan and put in the oven for about 20-25 minutes until cooked to desired look. 

It tastes pretty good. I really wanted to go out and have something nice for dinner, but ended up having biscuits and hot dogs. It was good anyways. Maybe something nice for dinner tomorrow?

Miracle Berries

So, A long time ago, I read about "Miracle Berries" and "Flavor Tripping", and thought that it would be great to try it. I never did it though... until the other day. 

I purchases Miracle Berries from thinkgeek.com (title links to the product) for 14.99, after shipping to Hawaii, about 20 bucks. (2 dollars a tablet). I was hesitant after receiving the product, so it took me a couple of days to actually try them. 

1. Oranges ---- At first tasted like a candied orange, very very good. After getting halfway through the orange, the sweetness was getting extreme, and it was very very syrupy tasting, and it wasn't pleasant any more.

3. Tabasco ---- No fire taste, actually tasted really really good. Hard to describe, almost like a honey BBQ or something like that. Fire as it goes down the troat.

4. Salt ---- has the taste of a sweet powder (but not sugar) had a little salty aftertaste.

5. Buffalo Sauce ---- about the same as Tabasco but slightly different variation.

6. Icing ---- very sweet.

Then the novelty wore off, and I didn't really have anything else in the fridge or pantry, so I quit and just drank water.

Breaking the Laws of Physics, etc...

I work with an interesting fellow. There's a thin line between Genius and Insanity, and he's running down that line with a pair of scissors. He is either an insane genious, or just insane. 

Anyways, we are working on a couple of projects, and here is a quick summary of those (I will be updating later with the first one, and if you want to know more information about the second, I will see what I can do to get you his papers):

1.  Linear Magnetic Accelerator with a loopback--- A long time ago (well probably 20~40 years) a man named Howard Johnson, came up with a magnetic engine that once started, it never stopped, and produced energy that was drainable without stopping the running.... Supposedly.... I've always been taught that this would not be possible, but according to him, it is. No one has recreated his machine, and he has died, so if he was successful, his secrets have died with him. Anyways, We are working on making a linear track, with Pinball balls (if they can be attracted by magnets) in which the magnets will pull a ball in, and shoot a ball out the other end (very similar to a Gaussian/Guass rifle, which do exist). The way we are changing it, is that instead of the magnets being on the track, they are going to be outside the trach, attracting the ball to the center, which will impact other Pinball balls, and *hopefully* one will leave the magnets completely.

2. SRT Project- I am a bit skeptical about this one, as I have some difference in opinion, but I don't mine have intelligent discussions with a madman. He has came up with a theory that basically defines the smallest particle of anything, and that this particle makes up everything in the known universe. When the particle is orientated with other particles in a 90 degree formation, it creates the fabric of space. When the particle combines with 3 other particles at 60 degree angles (creating a shape similar to an equalaterial tetrahedron, but made of spheres), that creates a photon of light. 5 photons, arranged in a specific configuration creates an electron. Past that he doesn't have much, as the shape did not create pretty Protons (long strings instead of spherical like objects), but now thinks to http://www.thinkgeek.com, and tetratops, there is a thought that 6 of the elementary spherics create another particle (possibly gamma radiation, or something like that) and together those build photons. It is really interesting how these build. I will try to get some photos together, and post them tomorrow or so. 

Wedding Drama

Well, my time in hawaii is coming to an end. For those who don't know me, I am a 23 year old male, who moved from Knoxville, TN, to Kailua Kona, HI, and it has been an interesting trip. Many things have happened, some good, and some bad. I live here with my girlfriend, and we are getting married in Brazil in August. 

With that being said, my job will not allow me to take the time off for the wedding, and it seems that I will have to resign. This is great, and not so great. With the economy and the job market the way it is, I am worried that things may not go my way, but this is one of the best times to change thing up.

In August, as I said before, I am getting married in Brazil, and most all of my friends (before I moved to Hawaii in September of '07) said that they could go, so my girlfriend and I have planned a wedding there. Now most of my friends have backed out, except for 2. 

Bad news aside, we are spending more than a month in Brazil, and we are going to explore the entire country (okay, she probably won't let me go to the Amazon, but there are a lot of areas that we are going to go to). I am very excited about the trip, and very excited about allowing my girlfriend to visit her home country, and her family/friends for such a long time. Even without my friends it will be a great trip, but I wish that they could go. 

This is the first post on the blog, and I plan on implementing some cool links/items that I have found recently today. In 30 minutes I have a play date on the Xbox, and I've got a slew of Zombies to kill, and before 4:30PM, I have to clean the house (I'm doing dishes right now as I type.... well the Dishwasher is, but don't tell my girlfriend).