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Moving to another username

2007-05-02T13:05:26Z

this is my new account - friend me if you want

http://hcross75.livejournal.com/

I'll stop posting to this account - the name is just not right for me.

Maybe I'll delete this one. Maybe I'll move away from livejournal altogether.

jay

CNET TV - why aren't you watching?

2007-04-29T17:32:39Z

I get an email every weekend that tells me to watch Cnet TV. I do and I'm not disappointed. You should watch, too.

Check out this episode where dude talks about this recent competition where people see who can text each other the fastest. "Put that hate on vibrate." Haha. I had never heard that one.

Just watch it. http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-27288.html

Play Knytt

2007-04-11T02:49:37Z

click on the pic an download it.

transformers trailers woah!

2007-04-02T04:47:00Z

two new

as of march 30. "Destiny" and "Hidden"

and download this game - it's cool. KYNETT

I'm inspired - stop motion video

2007-04-01T01:33:52Z

PencilBox1

2007-03-18T02:22:34Z

PencilBox1, originally uploaded by ergonomic_ninja.

this was made on my PDA... I'm prepping for drawing on the go! woo hoo!

Homer Slipper Barfs Fish

2007-02-28T01:33:54Z

Teen Girl Squad #12 - Valumtimes

2007-02-13T19:26:03Z

flash version

Intelligent Design

2007-01-31T12:39:52Z

If you don't already know (where have you been?), Intelligent Design is the name for smug idea that goes like this:

"Everything looks "made", therefore there must be a God to have made it."

This is supposed to be the wagging tongue in the face of "those" scientists that are trying to get God out of the picture.

I've decided to post my best argument against intelligent design. Here goes.

Intelligent design hinges proof of God on our understanding. To put it simple - Smart Universe = God. Dumb Universe = No God? Of course not. Prove that the universe is stupid and people will still believe in God, they'll just come up with a reason why God wanted the universe to be stupid.

Therefore - God can not defined by our understanding. His existence should be considered independent of our level of amazement. Put it simple? It's still about belief. There is no proof of God.

Belief is belief and science is science. Science is a discussion amongst people who don't mind questioning belief. Belief is for people who don't want to question (much).

If you want to be a questioning believer I suggest you at least entertain multiple ideas of how God did/does what you believe he did/does. Realize belief for what it is. You can't "prove" it. Ideas can be proven. That is to say - you can have an idea about something and determine whether that idea can be used to understand the world around us. You may find that your ideas are wrong, but you will never find that your belief is wrong. Will you?

"And that's all I got to say about that, uh humm."

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Book tag: Eragon

2007-01-26T13:58:36Z

tag game:

Grab the book closest to you.
Open to page 123, scroll down to the 5th sentence
Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog
Name of the book and the author
Tag 3 People

here's mine:

"Eragon leaned heavily on Gertrude as they made their way through Carvahall.

Horst had built his two-story house on a hill so he could enjoy a view of the mountains. He had lavished all of his skill on it."

yep, I'm reading Eragon (and I'm in a reading club).. fantasy...ewww...

...it's a light read - I reccomend it.

btw, I got the idea for this tag game while searching for some Matlab info...

http://chezkodder.blogspot.com/2006/12/tagged.html

Crack Spider: ha ha ha! + iPhone

2007-01-14T03:26:17Z

iPhone humor:

and the crack spider... slow at first, but just follow it...

My CES 2007 Fave

2007-01-13T04:21:34Z

wing flapping robot - flys for 10 minutes on one charge, takes 15 minutes to charge - can be charged with remote control device

btw, cnet tv has some decent vid coverage of the tradeshow

PS3 versus Wii video

2007-01-12T06:01:16Z

I keep hearing the Bill Gates character in Pirates Of Silicon Valley saying "You just don't get it, do you?"

New Commericals, French?

2007-01-05T02:40:13Z

A little while ago sony did this commerical where they launched a LARGE number of bouncy balls down some hill in California (I think). It was cool to watch. Now they have exploded paint all over these buildings. Cool, and great quality video. Check it out.

link

There's also a hitachi (power unleashed) commercial I'd like to see in high(er) definition. You might also. Give me the heads up if you know where I can find it. It was made by this guy named Jean-Paul Goude.

Speaking of Jeans (french folks), I listened to "Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the 20th Century"; heard about some cool ideas about "post-modernism" by this guy named Jean Baudrillard. Cool ideas. Let me know if you want to listen to the audio and I'll give it to you.

Also - now that I'm on this weird trip (the other day it was Indians, huh..). Ever see that BK commerical with the dude from Hootie and the Blowfish in it? Wow. Nevermind - here it is...

a better version here at David LaChapelle's site. French also?

it's all part of this dream I'm living. Just thought I'd put you up - don't blame me if you are lazy - this is the good stuff.

Semester One: Grades

2006-12-18T15:38:49Z

for the most part, I'm happy about this. I really could have had a B in Calculus, but at least it's not a D. We'll see if I can make a difference next semester - Freshman Folly.

Speaking of folly - notice the cumulative average? 1993 coming back to haunt me. We sometimes pay for the mistakes of our youth. Hope I can get it fixed.

HARRISON JACOB CROSS

Fall 2006

Section	Course Title	Grade	Attempted Hours	Earned Hours	Quality Hours	Quality Points	GPA
MATH-1900-101	SCIENTIFIC COMPUTER APPL	A	3.00	3.00	3.00	12.00
MATH-1910-101	CALCULUS I	C	4.00	4.00	4.00	8.00
MATH-1915-101	SYMBOLIC CALCULATOR LAB	A	1.00	1.00	1.00	4.00
CHEM-1110-101	GENERAL CHEMISTRY I LEC	B	3.00	3.00	3.00	9.00
CHEM-1111-106	GENERAL CHEMISTRY I LAB	B	1.00	1.00	1.00	3.00
ENGL-1010-110	COMPOSITION I	A	3.00	3.00	3.00	12.00
MUS -1030-100	MUSIC APPRECIATION	A	3.00	3.00	3.00	12.00
Current Term				18.00	18.00	60.00	3.333
HE Cum Stats THRU Spring 2007				20.00	21.00	60.00	2.857
Honor Roll

googleCMD - The start of something.

2006-12-06T03:59:43Z

Since my efforts at creating world peace, universal enlightenment and personal prosperity have gone awry or simply remain unrealised I have decided to broaden my horizons, again. I'm no longer content with making music, taking pictures, drawing, hip jiving,etc etc. Now I'm offering a program that does much of nothing.

I call it googleCMD; you may get it here for free, yep. So what does it do? It downloads the main html file for google.com and displays it in a command window.

Laugh all you want. It's the start of something cool and the result of several hours of toil on my part. I plan on making a cool kind of web scraper application; more on that later. It has a snazzy rabbit icon, rabbits - almost a personal joke - more on that later. I used C++ and cURL to allow me to do this. Winrar let me package the DLL's and EXE into one exe and add a cool icon. Give me time and I'll show you why it's cool.

But there it is. Woop.

[edit]

I updated to make googleCMD get a page of your choice instead of just google; changed the name of the original to "0.01 - googleCMD". The new one is 0.02 - htmlCMD check it out... leave some comments. I have more to do to this program before I think it's really worth a damn; see comments for what I think about that.

hint: if you try the program don't enter just 'yahoo', for example. you have to enter the '.com' part. no WWW or http://.. but you can if you want.

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A list of things white people are not allowed to do

2006-11-29T22:34:47Z

in light of the recent line-cross by M. Richards:

Wouldn't it be nice if we could compile a list of things that white folks are banned from doing? Can't act too black. Can't act too white. Can't say 'Nigger'. etc. etc. etc.

That would help us white people from flubbing up. Okelly-Dokely?

Of course we would have to admit the list was fundamentally racist. What? Yeh. You have to single out white people based on their skin before you can define what they can and cannot do.

Come to think of it - isn't it racist to be mad at Mr Richards for saying the word when we aren't up in arms about Dre doing so?

It WAS an insensitive comment, but really - why did it get so much attention? Hmm. Because he has white skin. Quite a philosophical circle...

btw, I don't see this guy as a hero or villain. He just used a word. So what. He didn't kill or rape anyone. If you go to a comedy club expecting to hear "nice" words you are stupid. The real thing I'm writing about is the phenomena itself. I really could care less if it were this guy or the next.

my work is so behind

2006-11-15T22:08:43Z

by four I'm almost the only one
that soaks in these wasted fluorescent rays
and the subtle hum of something working

occasionally voices penetrate
but I'm left alone mostly
allowed to finish my work
to belong to these empty spaces.

everyone was a blank canvas, clay
until they found an idea to die for
that let them carry on in a selfish stupor
that molded them into some self image

very few singularities realized the use of that organ
the one that liked to forget it's place
the one that loved the interactions
that bounced off walls then dissipated
and left me to my hollow spaces

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what famous, sexy MFer do you look like?

2006-11-11T02:15:11Z

haha, Elijah Wood. Did you people know he is the voice of Spyro in the recent game? David Spade is the voice of the dragon fly. Funny. There are some other funny/pithy results at my Flickr account.

check out my del.icio.us links for some cool games I've seen recently - Grid Wars (and the ilk) plus Line Rider. Once you play Line Rider search for 'Line Rider' on Youtube - some really cool videos.

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"That" side of me

2006-11-06T04:24:43Z

Someone told me the other day that it would be great if I had a glass bubble over my head so nobody could hear what I said. What a mean thing to say ! haha, I must be doing something right. I kinda DO wish I had a bubble, though - but just to block out things I hear like that. However, there is a part of ME that doesn't want to hear what I have to say either. I think I bounce back and forth between ideas of what I think I should be - outspoken or quiet. I think it's time to entertain the quiet perspective. It's funny how something someone says can completely change the way you see things.

Regardless of the reasons I'm going to attempt to censor myself a bit. Let's see if the next time I post it can be productive and not all long winded and meaningless.

Instead of adding a video I will include a link to my video bookmarks - sorry, I just don't feel like putting a video up.

By the way, I just have to note that the guy that said that mean thing about me looks like a redneck dwarf version of that monkey from speed racer. So why should I care about a redneck monkey dwarf?

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Proof - Stone the Goat

2006-10-29T21:30:31Z

laugh then read (this guy is so damned funny!) - parental warning: video contains strong language, offensive content and HONESTY! *ack*

hope you enjoyed the goat love... and now for our reading from the text...

I heard the other day that there is more proof to support "the bible" (the current accepted translation - ie. *poof*) than there is for "evolution" (haha-*poof*). I've since begun to question my definition of proof. To further the irony of the situation, I was offered "proof" against evolution ,not from the bible but in the form or criticisms of the current accepted interpretation of the evolution theory.

Do you have to research something to understand it? No. Do you have to know what you are talking about in order to talk? Negative. Do you have to have read the bible or anything on evolution to have strong opinions about either? Don't think so.

Just like you don't have to care about who is elected, what they stand for or why our people die in foreign countries. I can't recall the last time I heard someone say - "I wish I knew enough about (that) to have an opinion."

Nobody knows where we came from or where we are going. There are obvious reason for that. Different people take different approaches when it comes to guessing. But these are guesses.

My point is that people really should understand the nature of the guess. Belief and Reason are two opposite approaches. Proof belongs to reason - not to religion. Doubt that, I dare you!

So what subjects do you know nothing about? Let me hear how strongly you feel about them. I'll respect your answers as proof (sarcasm).

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FireFox 2

2006-10-25T04:01:11Z

click the picture to get it.

woo! now most of my extensions are incompatible!

Positive Atheism

2006-10-18T23:42:18Z

http://www.positiveatheism.org - another bit of fodder for my atheism with no edges campaign, I hope.

I thought I'd post this link for all you atheist readers out there (haha). I ran across this site while doing a research paper on Edison and Tesla... (I hate structured writing - go figure). If you are just tuning in, I'm trying to promote a nicer version of atheism than your local pastor or metalhead. We are human - the good and the bad... not all evil. There are some really cool quotes at that site. Check them out. Some ideas you might not have thought about but can really identify with, or not.

I'm interested to hear what people have to say.

Home Automation Dreams: something that matters

2006-10-15T01:25:04Z

    Home automation. I'd bet I'm not going to get anyone hard with this topic; I'm content with that, but if this is your bag then feel free to share your ideas. Onward to adventure....

    Today I got three space heaters, a motion sensing light switch, and a programmable thermostat for my house. ( Woo Hoo!!! Why don't more people get excited about this type of thing? ) I've bookmarked some pages relevant to my struggles with the thermostat - it was a little wrestling and some worry (AC/Heater units are a couple $K, or so). I got it working and now I'm happy about programming temperatures and increasing efficiency, etc. I got excited about having the thermostat tied in to a home computer system responsible for stats and control. The motion sensor switch really got my mind moving, it's far from perfect. Now we get to the nut-meat... yum.

if you click on that crab it will give you some music to listen to for a little while.
20-30+ minutes of chill courtesy a friend from SectionZ...
are you going to waste the chance??? hmmm...

    Here's what I want, though:

    1) In some cases I want the light to come on and go off when I enter and leave the room for a short period of time (to grab something real quick-like).

    2) At times, I would like to enter the room and stay for a while without the lights going out.

    I don't want to hit the switches or really do anything.

    The sensor I have now will go out after 5 seconds - this works for the first scheme but falls short on the second. I can adjust it to stay on for up to 20 minutes - this partly works for the second situation and fails miserably on the first. I could make the plan work better if I installed a door switch. Lights go off when the door is closed (like a refridgerator). I'd still only have a partial solution to the second scheme. I should add, there is a manual switch but that defeats my purpose.

    So how do I get the second scheme to work? And how do I get the lights to dim on and dim off ( I think that would be cool)???

    There is a practical issue for the starter home auto afficianado. In the future I will entertain ideas like mood settings/recall, action sounds (eg. gentle whoosh sound when door opens or lights dim on), vocal prompts, user settings recall, and other cool stuff. It's all about mood, control, audio, (video?), and lighting. I think these are practical dreams that can effect the mood and lifestyle of me and my peeps. We'll see.

    Do any of you people dig this type of thing? What are your dreams for your house (so I can steal them)???

yuck! I just viewed this post in Internet Explorer... sorry, IE users... I'm not going to try and fix it.. it's not really worth it for just a little picture of a living room and a two lines of text that run together. Sorry. And eeew, gross - nasty!

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Atheism: video from 2002

2006-10-14T00:45:21Z