DeepDarkSee

It’s an amazing place!

I just got my OQO 01+, removed Windows XP, and loaded it up with Ubuntu Linux. Found some support from a Linux page at OQO (not for the faint of heart).

The only downer is that it has a bad column of pixels on the screen…QA should have caught that. Gotta send it in to have the screen replaced.

It’s really interesting using this small device, complete with pen, and having a full featured computer in my hand. I keep expecting the apps to be “pda level.”

I’m tired of hauling around my notebook computer all the time, just to be ‘available’ in case of an operational issue at Bones in Motion (things have been going smoothly there, but “on call” is “on call”). I can do everything with this, a full featured computer complete with a pull down ‘two thumb’ keyboard and the ability to dock to desktop periperals. I’ll write more after I’ve lived with it for a while.

Oh yeah, and did I mention DIVX movies on the go? Also the ability to work in coach airplace seats even after the person in front of me leans back? Wifi and Bluetooth for connectivity? I hope this thing stands up to my level of enthusiasm…

“Now and then it is good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
-Guillaume Apollinaire

In a strange way. I find them entrancing. Thanks to Seth Goding and Sarah Dopp.

These great questions and answers are from the days when “Hollywood Squares” game show responses were spontaneous and clever, not scripted and (often) dull as they are now.

Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions, of course.
(Please note: most, if not all, of those answering the questions are (now) dead!)

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.

Q. If you’re going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver: Three days of steady drinking should do it.

Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.

Q. You’ve been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That’s what’s been keeping me awake.

Q. According to Cosmo magazine, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he’s married?
A. Rose Marie: No, wait until morning.

Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say “I Love You”?
A. Vincent Price: No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.

Q. What are “Do It,” “I Can Help,” and “I Can’t Get Enough”?
A. George Gobel: I don’t know, but it’s coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hand while talking?
A. Rose Marie: You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I’ll give you a gesture you’ll never forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you’ve just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I’m too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what’s a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics. What is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Q. While visiting China, your tour guide starts shouting “Poo! Poo! Poo!”
What does this mean?
A. George Gobel: Cattle crossing.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver: I’ll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver: His feet

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and Laugh

I started drinking 2-4 cups of green tea daily a few months ago. I started mostly for the health benefits (which are amazing - see this article). I’ve developed a taste for it, and have had lots of fun trying different varieties. I’ve always liked wine, but am only about a one-a-week drinker because I’m often doing things in the evenings where I want my full faculties. Green tea has proven to be a great expression for the fun I have with wine - nuances in taste and learning about ‘it’ … but now I can drink and experiment every day. Wow, healthly, fun, interesting - not bad!

“Better to be deprived of food for three days, than tea for one.” (Ancient Chinese Proverb)

A jem from RocketBoom.

Facts don�t change people�s behavior.

Emotion changes people�s behavior.

Stories and irrational impulses are what change behavior. Not facts or bullet points.

…Here�s the challenge, then: figure out how to do the atypical. How to change the interactions that people have with each other. How to change what they talk about in the elevator. How to create an environment where people walk in ready to learn and change and challenge,…

Thanks Seth

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

CNET says: “A consortium of U.S. cable companies announced on Wednesday that they will form a joint venture with Sprint Nextel to offer mobile service to their customers.

This is huge, not from the point of view of more bundled services, but as an enabler for handsets that would use cable/VOIP voice services in the home, and switch to Sprint wireless when away (with the same phone number and handset). It’s strategic for the cable companies, and for Sprint.”