Gunther in the spot light

I fear some of you may be like, who the hell is this Gunther person this author is talking about?
He's not real, so think of me what you will.
He was, however, on TV which is close to being real.
Here's a picture I stole!



This is a direct frame from the episode 'Mars University'.
Another website writer for www.tvsquad.com named Joel Keller took the time of getting the farnsworth quote in there correctly. Or at least I will take the strangers word.

"Oh, please! That's preposterous science-fiction mumbo-jumbo. Gunther's intelligence actually lies in his electronium hat which harnesses the power of sunspots to produce cognitive radiation."

Sunspots are good

Sunspots are starting to reappear as mentioned in an article on the NASA website published on the 7th this month.
This is good - Gunter from Futurama is probably going to start doing better.
Prof. Farnsworth said his consciousness was simply harnessed energy from sunspots.
Anyway, what is a sunspot. A region on the suns surface that acts much differently than its surrounding.
Characteristics that make a sunspot include:
1) Decreased temperature
2) Increased EM activity.

So, these spots are like the size of our little planet or bigger, and release equal or more em energy in our direction, so my guess is that Gunter the monkey was 'down' for the period of the solar minimum.
But I would attribute that there's a possibility that bounds in human consciousness (discovering gravity and relativity and Tony Starck - you know the exceptional human example) are directly linked to periods of solar activity.
It's a bummer we didn't record the first sunset till sometime in the 19th century. The solar minimum/maximum frequency is close to 7 years.
We are just getting out of a solar minimum - one that worried many scientists as it was looking to last slightly longer than 7 years.
Five days ago the American populace and media corporations decided to out Bush after a lengthy couple terms.
I don't think it's a coincidence that these lengths of history occur at the same time as solar cycle changes - but we can't really prove a link between EM fields and our brain function unless we further record both what occurs in Humanity and link it to what happens in our biggest and most fruitful power plant - The Sun.

This means it's a matter of time until the study of solar cycle affect on human... capability? No, perhaps take a group of 9th graders and test them (they already do).
Build a DB of the results and compare it over time with NASA sunspot observations.
Do that for education systems over the world and look specifically at overall performance.
Realize cultural influence and try and subtract it to make the results support the idea more and there you go, a whole new discipline in both psychology and physics?

Video Professor on a boring Monday night.

Ok, so I just noticed the incredible similarity between the Video Professor of this happy company. Anyway video professor is up there. I suppose this isn't a very complicated similarity to realize.
Jack Layton (don't vote for him) is down there.

I stole this picture from their website. Like the Socialist party is going to come after me? Am I right? Anyway, just kidding Jack.
But these two fancy guys look quite alike. I'm not going to say that they're twins, but maybe, just maybe the Professor's grandpa got around alot.

Google already found the similarity when I searched the images section for "Video Professor" Thanks Google - you're a good friend.



Anyway, boring Monday night. This is what happens when you party too much.

John

Keyboard

THIS IS A FUCKING AWESOME KEYBOARD.


This is the Luxeed Dynamic Pixel LED Keyboard.
Each key can be be programed to either change colors when you hit the keys or they can light up in individual colors constantly. These are only LED's though. Old news and what you're only paying for color. There are also
Remember that fancy dancy 'Optimus' Keyboard by Art Lebedev.
Each key is a full 64 pixel OLED display.
102 key's of this space age technology is well above a grand.
Value? Not so much.
No one is denying that this is a sexy keyboard offered at a price that certainly reflects that.
The Luxeed wins in value.

But what about the future? Art has some things that they say they're going to go through with, but after the delays encountered by the first Optimus keyboard I dont think it's too likely to be seen in the near future.
I'll stick with the budget light up keyboard for now.
Or just a normal one and suck it up.
Just another commentary (not very well thought out) on input devices.

Dollars and Sense

700 billion dollar bills.
That's like an office building of paper.
Think the first scene in Wall-E where there are those garbage sky scrapers? Kind of like that. That's what I imagine at first at least, but what about us Nuns in Canada?

If we had a trillion loonies.... I think Canada would tip over.
But seriously, our government boycotts paper money.

So...what's the point? A Canadian bailout would weigh a good deal more?
No that's a terrible finish.

Sorry
Talladega Amp Energy 500 is on. Is that a good excuse? It makes me sound cooler than I am.

Life. Paused. Forever?

I can't remember what it was I wanted to discuss with my blog tonight. What does that sound like?
Does it make me sound needy?
Anyway, was I going to talk about my plans for dressing up this Halloween?
No, that's very lame.

I've got it. Let's talk about the title of my weblo, Potato Dragon.
Potato Dragon is a concept I would firstly like to manifest as an illustration. After it's illustrated I think it could become a fixture of juxtaposition. A Dragon image. Composed entirely of a Potato image.
What's a Dragon? A ferocious scale-icious beast. Fire breathing - all consuming.
Infact, I bet the idea of a dragon came around the same time man figured out how fire made meat taste good. A beast that could cook the meal and eat it...with the same fixture on their face!
That's innovation, that's what that is.

A potato is a lame piece of starch.
Starch is lame. It's beauty in simplicity, but small and complex.
Irish people love potatoes. We all eat a lot of potatoes - french fries and well, um?
For the most part these subsurface dense tubulars are quite boring.

Lame Fierce
What the hell does that mean?

That's all for now, folks!

In the training room....

I get to learn stuff today.
Right now I am at my place of employment ready to learn more about my place of employment.

The teacher is Hasan.
The material: Classic T training for the SBC account at IBM.

It would likely seem that I cannot actually blog about this today.
I'll leave you with this: I hate waking up early on Saturday's.

These will be real soon enough

I think this is the greatest tattoo of a particular subject I admire - ever.

That subject is plugs.
I would like to start off by saying that no one in the Edison era ever tattooed a picture of the standard UL 110V outlet on their body.

We live in different times. And here we are, hopefully no further than a single generation away from a true mind-computer link.

So the idea of flattering both cyberpunk culture and the obscure inevitability of the 'Brain Plug' is sexy to me.

Why do I love this one the best? Well, the obvious Matrix-like inspiration is a clue to what's on the surface but my dear readers - there is so much more.

I do believe that the artist of this tattoo to be of an elite Matrix fan base and I can tell from some of the subtle, but most vital additions made to the original matrix design.

• The person's a total fan
• They added their birthdate? or some other date as a funky addition.
• The numbers above look like hex code, could convert to ASCII - I'm too lazy to try
• The most important part of the whole deal is the fact that the artist was able to convince a freaking awesome sense of depth - so that's amazing and I applaud that element because it really exemplifies the talent of the artíst.
  

This artist owner meant business.
I even think it belongs to a chick.
Found this bad boy here on Cat Tattoo.

New

Tonight I was once again surprised by the things my body does.
For example: I was lying down flat on my back on my bed with my lower legs dangling off the edge and I took a drink of water.
I felt the water in my mouth and I tried to swallow it.
I autonomously moved my tongue and I made the water come out of my mouth in a slow stream from the corner.
I laughed.

Why is this funny? Because I didn't really realize what I was doing until it was too late.
I had never sat down and thought about the way my tongue was moving in my mouth before.
Am I saying we all take our central nervous system for granted? Maybe I am.
More the the point it was more funny because I was drooling like a child with a mental illness.

This, obviously, fits because I am a child with a mental illness.