The Future

Popular science magazine is predicting that in 20 years we will have robots to help us with our daily chores. Do you think people will camp out overnight for the robot release like they do the iphone/ipod/ipad? I have to get the New iRobot 2 4g with 32TB...

Then how do you get this robot home? You cannot pick one up. Do you tell it "ok, follow me home..". Maybe UPS delivers it.

What if you and your new robot don't get along? What if your robot has an attitude. Like when you aren't looking it drops the dishes on the floor intentionally ... "whoops". You can't fire the robot. What if the robot is like David from the movie Prometheus, such a well played character, bravo.

Huh?

It's like one of *those* dreams, where you drink too much milk before bed.



Wow, what a trip.

Gingerbread house

Made with iphone app iMotionHD.

Sorry the video is sideways, for some reason I thought I could rotate the video once done, but transposing video is too complex a task for the iphone and youtube....

Explaining the simple things

My son and I were riding in the car yesterday and found a dead chicken.  Instead of asking me why the dead chicken crossed the road, he asked me what I was doing with the duck.... its not a duck, its a dead chicken.
Then I tried to explain what dead means.... "dead, done, finished, over, the end, .... Disassemble!"

Another good skit by SNL

Robots with tude

Another good SNL skit

The lesser known bond girls

Pretty cool concept

http://kaboom.org/about_kaboom/programs/imagination_playground

Taxes

To anyone who feels like they don't pay enough taxes:

Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Credit Accounting Branch
3700 East-West Highway,
Room 622D Hyattsville, MD 20782

Please write a check. When you have a history of making donations, then you can talk. Until then, quit speaking for the rest of us.

Also, if you feel that many of the government programs are succesful, Please, write a check. Don't force everyone to donate for what you feel is a good entitlement for society.

New toy

Been busy getting this old boy running. Case 580D. Its as old as me, and looks to be in worse shape than me. After this puppy is running, then its time for some fun.

Eric Andre Show

This show cracks me up...consistently

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eric_André_Show

Chicken Coop

Dream conundrums

It came upon me today that I have never used the internet in a dream. Its almost like the concept of the internet is forbidden. The possibility of getting answers outside of our knowledge base is not possible. All dream influences must come from within.

New music

I am really digging this old style.

Move over Numero Uno

Move over Justin Bieber, Owl City is on track to take over the number one spot for worst band/singer of 2012. Keep up the bad work.

Time vs. Money

You can either have a s*load of money and no time, or a s*load of time and no money. Everyone in between is getting wasted and killing time. Personally, I would take time over money. There are ways to entertain yourself on a budget.

Working on this

http://m.wikihow.com/Control-Your-Dreams

They don't make them like they used to

They are re-releasing the H1/Humvee to the civilian market. They won't be cheap. $59K gets you a shell kit. No engine, no interior, soft doors, soft top, no special perks (like the winch, CTIS, runflats, power options, etc).... Still,.... if I wasn't bogged down by building up the family farm I would sell mine and get this one :). I have realized over the last few years that my lifestyle really means I should drive cars with - little or no interior (drain plugs in the floor are a must), - maybe power windows (nothing else needs to be power, i.e. locks, mirrors, sunroof) - doors can be optional - 4WD - safe [for now, add this to my Christmas wish list, either 2 door or slantback please] http://www.hummerguy.net/hummer-news/am-general-re-entering-civilian-vehicle-marketplace-with-humvee-c-series-kit-car

360

Pretty cool application for the iphone. I hope to use it and post again in the future.

Studying the dynamics of the hive

Yesterday the hive decided to move on its own out of the boxes. I found them about 30 feet from the hive box. I found them by almost accidentally stepping on the them. I went home to get my suit, returned and scooped them up and returned them to the box.Lets just say they weren't happy about being moved.  I found about 50 stingers in my welding gloves.Luckily only a few pierced through far enough.

As I was making trips back and forth I discovered the queen crawling on the ground. I scooped her up and quickly ran her to the box. The rest of the hive started swarming back to the old home. I think they were tripped out by the new box and getting attacked by ants.
Here is a video I took yesterday.


They were still around today, doing some housecleaning.

The dynamics are interesting. I watched them carry out the dead. Which I had known they do as part of their house keeping, but what was a shocker was they also carried out weak bees, but instead of dumping them outside the door on the ground below, a single bee would carry the dead off to the field and drop them off about 45 feet away.... that is crazy. I guess its all about the good of the hive. Hard to think about the good of the hive when a bee's life is only 2 months or so.

So much to learn.

Who is Spike Jonze

Sometimes the internet leads you on a journey. One thing leads to another that leads to another.

Someone posted this video


Mr Little Jeans - The Suburbs (Arcade Fire cover)

A catchy little tune. Turns out its a cover for:

Arcade Fire - The suburbs.

Which is what led me to the robo luv video. Then the 28 minute video short scenes from the suburbs.  Then to his Wikipedia page Spike Jonze.  Turns out he has directed lots of videos. The jackass series, the Beastie Boys Sabotage video, and others. I will have to keep the journey going. See where else this takes me.

Still tinkering with the chicken coop

I changed the roof design to something simpler. I need to just pull a few hours together and finish it up.... been distracted by many other things.

Are you above or below angry bees?

Jimmy (local Bee officianado/expert) and I went to extract a bee hive from a porch overhang. We were unsure if the bees were in the wall or the soffet of the overhang. We started by cutting up the wall (removing the fascia), then proceeded to removing the soffet. We found them between the floor joists. About a half dozen combs. Lots of brood, not a lot of honey. We took the comb and placed them in the frames, and the frames in the box. After we realized we were still missing the queen. The survival rate of a queenless hive is pretty low. We could see that the bees were swarming back towards the house. We began to cut more and more. We realized we were overwhelmed by the sheer number of bees and not being able to locate the queen visually. There must have been several thousand bees.

We borrowed a "bee vacuum" from another local bee keeper (named Ya). The Bee vacuum is a bee safe vacuum for collecting a large number of bees.  Its weird when you grab a handful of bees and it feels like firm jello.  We were able to collect a pretty fair amount of the hive. Including what we believe to be the queen (as the swarm quickly started gathering on the vacuum.

I accidentally tipped over the vacuum filter (full of bees) they didn't like that at all. All of sudden the buzz volume went from a 5 to a 9. They all start buzzing and flapping their wings (signalling danger).

That night we moved the bees over to my new place and set them up. They were pissed by nightfall. They were following me everywhere with quite a ferrociousness. They were tame all day, but when they were pissed, they got piiiissed. Now I know what angry bees are like.  Next is to learn what angry african bees are like (fortunately we don't have the African bees here (yet)).

Now to see if they survive in their new home.



When we arrived just a few bees were outside. The bees were entering the house under the flashing, but we were unable to tell if they were going up between the studs to the window, or down into the overhang.

When we arrived just a few bees were outside. The bees were entering the house under the flashing, but we were unable to tell if they were going up between the studs to the window, or down into the overhang.

Found them in the overhang.

The comb

Me helping pull the comb out.

Serious bees, still not pissed, just a little confused that their home is gone.

In the vacuum canister, waiting to be transported.

I brought a piece of brood comb home for Nathan. we were able to watch this bee come out (born) this morning during breakfast.

Another

Another homerun by kimmel

Robo luv

Trippy SciFi love story. Well directed. A little slow, but interesting to see how robots and humans might interact and what robot-robot love might look like :)

Funny Song

Add another to the fire

AntiQ = Warhorse.

I mean, seriously, did they expect that trailer to garner any excitement.


http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/awards-campaign/posts/snl-takes-on-war-horse-and-misses-out
Well at least poking the fire is funny.

Chicken Coop

Going to try to build this....

Might make it a little shorter, and the eaves a little longer to keep the rain off the side and from coming in through the openings..

New Pet

Found it (he/she?) abandoned in the driveway. We have had it for a week now.

It is going to need a home. Working on some plans now....

Skurred str8t

The scared straight skits are pretty funny.  This a recurring theme they run every few episodes. More can be found on nbc.com




Love it when they lose it.

Some kids

I was in SF last week and Nathan was staring at a T-Rex skeleton. Nathan would run around and scream " T-Rex... Rahhhh..".

Another 7 maybe 8 year old Indian boy walks up with his mom, and starts naming all the bones of the leg. Then his mom starts to correct him on some of the foot bones.

Then I look at my boy, "Rahhh...."

I got work to do.

New music

This is good jam to cruise the island on
Josh WaWa White - Movin about my ways

The Anti-Q

Netflix should have an anti-queue feature. Its basically a list of movies that you never want to watch about or hear about.

The notebook, Mama Mia, the king's speech, the Artist, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Phonebooth, the Help,

the list goes on.


Then on top of that, you should be able to compound your double anti-list by not just banning a movie, but take the worst movie and double ban it, meaning indicate to netflix you want nothing to do with all the actors in a particular movie, and ban them for acting in such a stupid movie.

Some new music

On a somewhat similar note. I know who/what I am going for as for next Halloween. Will anyone recognize John Oates.

 

DJ Earworm

Another masterpiece. United State of Pop 2011

Orbital - Halycon

Great video and song.

808 fun

My sister sent me this one:


Which was good, and these same guys



These guys are pretty funny. They should keep it up. They could go someplace.

Comics

Was looking for a particular comic, but found this one. Still a good one too.

This little piggy went weee.........

A friend got these 2 on my property. My first time eating wild pig meat. It has a little taste difference than your standard pork. A little BBQ sauce covers it up.

Still on my list of things to do is to setup a trap and imu.  When I have some down time.....

COOOOBRA

My mom sent me this one:

Kind of reminds me of the jerky boys when I was a kid. Still cracks me up


Ant then somthing not amazing or funny

Creative writing for 12 year olds

When is it appropriate for a man to write like a 12 year old, and say "OMG"?

I think if I saw a devastating mushroom cloud on the horizon. Maybe....

If I witnessed a school bus full of children get scooped up by a tornado, I might say Oh my god.

But if I saw a funny picture of a cat with its paw on its genitals, I don't think I would say oh my god.

Citizen Cope - Friendly Fire

Repost:
A great video and song combo. Youtube likes to yank it after a while...
http://youtu.be/h8aeOCYcmm0

The land of opportunity...

This made me laugh...
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/f-a-former-snl-star-slams-obama-over-taxes/

Sucky Odds

Went to the local 2012 Home Show, which the local contractors association (known as CAK) advertised "Win $25,000 Cash, The first 1,000 adults over the age of 21 receive the opportunity"....

How misleading. The game, a scratch off ticket with 6x6 squares. The objective scratch only 6 square and reveal 6 stars, and you win. So I get up there, scratch mine, first one is wrong, game over. Guy mentions that someone got 3 stars, then the 4th one was off.

Little advertisement to the odds of winning.  Lets go through the probability
P = P(6|36) * P(5|35) * P(4|34) * P(3|33) * P(2|32) * P(1:31)
P = 0.16 * 0.14 * 0.12 * 0.09 * 0.06 * 0.03
P = 4.3 * 10^-7
1:2.3Million
Yeah.. nice odds. thanks
Pretty much means they weren't planning on giving any money away. They might as well have offered $1Million.

Healthy Community Design

A speaker was visiting our community (I did not attend) who talked about healthy communities. The topic was why don't we stop separating housing and commercial areas. If housing and commercial areas were more mixed, it would promote healthier lifestyles since people wouldn't have to drive everywhere. This got me thinking about the last 5 homes I lived in, none of them were walking distance to anything. If you think about the San Jose area, there are several newer town home communities built around or near shopping areas. While these are ideal they are way too crowded. This got me thinking that we have been going all wrong with community development. The communities should be centered around shopping areas and parks, with smaller homes, apartments, then lead outward into larger lots, almost like mini-cities (with urban and suburban environments)...

Planet of the Apes: Rise of the Apes

Weather outside is frightening

Getting slammed by lightning and rain. I think we are somewhere around 30 inches of rain in 2 weeks. The lightning shows have been cool to watch at night.

Here is a slideshow from the news channel
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/slideshow?widgetid=47580

Funny Commedian

This guy was pretty good on Conan last night.



Its been a while since I have seen a new funny commedian....

Boost

I was listening to this today, and this is what my brain feels like after drinking a monster energy drink... doot...dooot.....di....doot.... BLA!BLA! BAM...BLA! BAM..BAM!



How long before energy drinks get restrictions like cigarettes, and a special government tax like cigarettes?

Food vs. reality

This was a pretty good website writeup.

http://www.alphaila.com/articles/failure/fast-food-false-advertising-vs-reality/

Robot chicken clip

This was pretty good.



If I was the emperor, I would definitely order that....

Passing the time

I need cheaper hobbies. Might get into this....

http://morebeer.com

Current progress

Well, we are well on our way. Almost done digging out the foundation. A small hole. The excavators are a blast to drive. The learning curve is about 3 hours, but then its a breeze.

Picture of Nathan

Birthday coming up. His personality just went super goofy.

Brewing

Other things be brewing. Here is another blog that I ghost write and photograph for .... http://htfgkauai.blogspot.com/

Latest jam by SOJA

Digging this song now.
Not Done Yet By SOJA

Ken Block

After seeing Nick Swardson in 30 minutes or less, and all those seasons of reno 911, he deserves some more good movie roles.

Facebook

Its amazing how this idea has made that much money

just crazy money

and the stupidest things are on facebook

I think I saw a microwave on facebook, like some ad saying "Check out samsungs microwave on facebook"

I was thinking that was not the original intention of facebook.

so I guess people out there can now friend a microwave

and post on the microwaves page

wow, how cool is that

Me- "yo, microwave, what time is it"

MW - "3:21"
Me - "microwave, why do you have cheese stains and smell like butt"

Tutu and Fishing

Soda Caps

When did soda companies completely switch to putting codes under bottle caps? What happened to the days where you just looked underneath, and you were a winner or a loser, or you got a stupid fun fact? Who enters all these codes into the computer?

SJ

Got a few laughs from this guy...

Some new old music

Radiohead - Nude (Naked Lounge Remix)

The library

I woke up to Nathan reading books in his room. He likes to make a big pile of them in the middle of the floor. I walked by his room and asked if he could clean them up while I make breakfast. Walked back 10 minutes later and he said he is done. Well... he gets an A for effort.

Popcorn recipe

This is some good popcorn.

I can't see why this cannot be made at home (- the bee pollen)
Pollen Popcorn” there and comes pre-mixed, using organic popcorn, macadamia nut oil, nutritional yeast, dehydrated bee pollen, garlic powder, cayenne pepper and sea salt. It’s made in Hawaii by North Shore Naturals.

Edit: Well... here is the secret recipe.
http://earthharmonyhome.com/spirulina-popcornwhats-the-secret/

Welcome

Little Z Tuers was born this week. Doctor says he is doing great.

Hanging out

A neighbor/friend/business employee invited me to a BBQ.... unlike others I have been to.

I think I might start off with an imu. But a small one of these for chickens or shoulders looks nice.

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