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Curoisity may fry the spider

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Hmm, I wonder how hard it is to build a Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) and Digital to Analog Converter (DAC), suitable for mucking with a phone signal… not a dial up connection, but quite litterly ‘hook in’ to the signal as it goes from the phone jack, and into the phone. I.e. for processing and manipulation along the way….

Kind of like a router really, only workin’ with POTS rather then the common Ethernet — and like wise, with all of the fun stuff we can do with modern switching technology…. oh man, this makes me wish one of my friends was an electrician lol.

Why I don’t drive

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…
(22:44:17) Friend: drive?
(22:44:29) Spidey01: no license
(22:44:55) Friend: WTF?
(22:44:58) Friend: are you serious?
(22:44:59) Friend: why not?
(22:45:04) Spidey01: can’t afford it
(22:45:20) Spidey01: it’s like a f****** endless loop !!
(22:45:28) Friend: dude yes you can
(22:45:37) Spidey01: how?
(22:46:01) Friend: go take the test
(22:46:28) Spidey01: cost of maintaining license, cost of insurance, cost of gasoline
(22:46:44) Friend: get more money cumming in
(22:46:53) Spidey01: how?
(22:47:23) Friend: well how do you get to work now?
(22:47:43) Spidey01: Her royal majesty drives
(22:48:34) Friend: dude how can that not bother you?
(22:48:38) Friend: mommy still driving you around
(22:48:43) Spidey01: uh huh
(22:48:59) Spidey01: there are 2 ways in which I can afford to rectify that situation:
(22:50:44) Spidey01: A.) Quit this job, get sufficient income to do it –> SIDE EFFECT: must make up lost earnings due to putting her royal majesty out of work; that means a job with around $1000-$1200 take home pay, plus more for cost of (license, insurance, gasoline), and I’ll probably end up her royal majesties taxi driver and even more so, an errand boy
(22:51:54) Spidey01: B.) Talk her royal majesty into paying the bill –> SIDE EFFECT: will surely end up her royal majesties taxi driver, and probably even more of an errand boy; attempts to use the car regularly will eventually result in a *cut off* of gasoline supply -> return to original problem definition….
(22:53:34) Spidey01: hence, either way I lose in the end -> life is a very evil chess game
(22:55:30) Spidey01: Any ideas?

where =~ substitute/her royal majesty/my mother the royal pain/globally
note $range is an off the top of the head estimate; but in the right ball park.

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Geeze, last night was nuts, and tonight not so much better. When bed time came around, I was wide awake with plenty of stuff to do; so I didn’t bother with rest.

I nearly forgot to sleep!!!!

Next thing I knew, 4 hours had passed since the last time check, and light was pouring in through the blinds 🙁 🙁 :-(.

At least tomorrow, I don’t have to be up and out for work until noon lol.

Most people who knows me well, know there’s only two reasons I can see for being awake so early… One would be to watch the sunrise with that special girl, and as anyone who knows me at all -> then start wondering why we didn’t pack a picnic-breakfast xD. The only other logical reason, is to setup an amphibious ambush, and go fishin’ ;-). Hmm, I wonder how many years it’s been … I’ve always enjoyed fishing, just get out in nature, and forget the rest of the world exists for a while. But unfortunately, you’ve eventually got to go to work lol.

left or right brain?

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http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22492511-5005375,00.html

To my crazy brain: clockwise, all the way and only way lol.

She appears to be spinning from right to left, and to my head that equates as clockwise. Also given the angle of her foot, and the momentum, I would be inclined to believe that the model “spun out” with the left leg, rather then spun in with it; i.e. she started to spin with the leg moving away from the right leg, rather then towards it; thus starting the loop anti-clockwise, but appearing to be turning clockwise at first glance, in so far as my brain works.

Because who would have noticed her leg in the first frame lol?

Descriptions there and else where relating to the right cerebral hemisphere seem to connect well enough with how I think :-/

Ahh finally….

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Got home from the vet a little bit ago, and off work an hour before that lol. Had to take Coco for her checkup, and bring Willow along for the ride so she wouldn’t destroy the house in jealousy! As soon as she found out we were going to the Victor Echo Tangos, her mind changed xD.

Coco’s doing good for an 11 year old, down to 5 lbs / 11 oz (~2.6kg). Maybe I should stop teezing her about being a fat belly with chicken legs? Haha! Now the two tweedle-heads are snoozing the day way.

I’m just glad to have my *corner* of the bed, lol.

It’s finally Fryday, get a little time off… been working almost the entire week straight, and same thing next week. I haven’t gotten much of anything done lately, just to fricken tired. These days, the stuff going on around the computer is about the only positive part of my life left…

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Miracally off work today, but the working schedule is a shambles :-/

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Darn it, I had my mail down to under a 100 messages in the queue…. few months of busyness and it’s over 700 lol. Oh well, weekends are good for something 🙂