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Catseye! The cup full of clear liquid on my desk is NOT water for you to drink! It's pH-balanced saline solution that needs to be kept in a state of static electrolysis for my contacts. If you insist on drinking from it while the little wires are there, not only will it give you one hell of a shock, but you'll also ruin the solution and I'll have to run the salinization cycle all over again.

And if you could return my #8 Torx driver, I'd really appreciate it. Yes, I know it's shiny, but I *need* it for my work, okay?

Date: 2004-11-30 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-catseye.livejournal.com
Nasty trap! Catseye will remember that the next time.

But... SHINY!!! :D

Date: 2004-11-30 08:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com
It's not a trap, it's to stabilize the gel optics for the lenses while maintaining polarization and coherence of the retinal projection matrix.

Or simply - they make me see better and mean I don't have to use my hands to work my PDA.

Date: 2004-11-30 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-catseye.livejournal.com
Catseye thinks that could have been said the first tim - mrr?

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Oooooo. Is that why AlarmClockBoy keeps staring at the blippy thing all the time?

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Date: 2004-11-30 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-wildchild.livejournal.com
I'm with her. Dude, ENGLISH. Please.

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Date: 2004-11-30 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com
Think of it like a remote control and tv screen in one that you can wear on your eyeball. Plus it corrects that occasional nearsightedness that I have.

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Date: 2004-12-01 10:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-jubilee.livejournal.com
Dude,

That is so cool. Hmm...could you make a pair for someone who doesn't need them to see with, just for the other stuff. Or is this a one off invention?

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Date: 2004-12-01 11:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-madelyn.livejournal.com
Somehow I doubt you need anything to help you watch more television, firecracker...

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Date: 2004-12-01 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-crowdofone.livejournal.com
Besides, I think we're already over quota on "people who can change the channel by blinking," between the telekinetics, Lorna, and whatsisname.

Tbbbht!

Date: 2004-12-01 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-jubilee.livejournal.com
You can never have too many people that can change the TV by blinking. Means less getting up of our fat behinds for those of us that can't.

Adopt a telekinetic today!

(Did I mention the amount of soda I've had today?)

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com
Yeah, on that subject remind me to not try to sort out programming the universal remotes again, by the way?

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-jubilee.livejournal.com
I wondered why I was getting the Indian language channel no matter what button I pushed.

What did you DO to them?

Not that I mind Bollywood movies, but a steady diet of them and I'm going to be breaking into song and dance routines in class.

(Although, now that I think of it. Math class could use a musical number or two.)

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com
Hey, that wasn't my fault. That was someone else messing with my perfectly sensible and well-written modifications to the remote.

Its really simple. See the big colored buttons?

You press one of those to get to the device you want to control. White is the Television itself. Red is Cable Television. Blue switches between the DVD and VCR and other media players. Yellow controls audio and switches betw... actually, best left if you don't touch that one. Black is the control for the switch between the game machines.

Do you have -any- idea how frickin' hard it is to get a old 8-bit Nintendo, a PSX2 and a PC designed for Half-Life to play nice on the same output?

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Date: 2004-12-01 03:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-jubilee.livejournal.com
You realise of course by saying 'Don't touch the yellow button', I now have an almost overwhelming desire to touch the yellow button.

It's 'wonder what this button does' syndrome. *firm nod*

And you haven't added the Xbox in yet? Dude, chop chop. Some us prefer Xbox over PSX2. *grins*

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Date: 2004-12-01 03:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com
Yellow is the stereo. We have people with sensitive ears. Do. Not. Mess. With. The. Stereo.

Those three platforms were examples, Jubilee. If I listed every gaming console in this school, and how many we have that are able to be hooked up to the big TV's, I would be here all week. Yes, your precious X-box is added. And the Game Cube, and an orignal Playstation, and a couple of the old crap Sega machines, and... See? All week.

We have a Calicovision. Do you have any idea how ancient that is?

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Date: 2004-12-01 03:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-jubilee.livejournal.com
Dude, chill out. Can you not tell I'm teasing you here? You know, funny hah hah. Or should I stick smiley faces and little sparkley stars on everything I say?

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Date: 2004-12-01 04:15 pm (UTC)
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...I didn't know we had half those. Want to come help me try some of them out?

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com
What am I, an assembly line? Not everything I build is pro bono for the masses.

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com
Whoa. They're linked into your PDA, right? What interface language are you using to get what I'm assuming are eyemovements into commands?

For that matter, what did you use for the sets of eye movements and blinks? I mean, you could just go straight morse, I suppose, or some kind of directional codes. There's a couple of possibilities I can see there.

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com
Micro RFID transmitters, actually. The interface language is all on the mobile, hardcoded onto a set of EPROMs. It's cascading menu-driven, off of a system I saw used once for stroke victims, only cleaner, neater, and smaller.

Only real bitch is orienting them when I put them in and getting the calibration set. A tad bit dizzying.

huh.

Date: 2004-12-01 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com
Toss me a copy of your source code? I'd be interested in taking a look at that.

Yeah, I can see why you'd get dizzy. I take it you put in some kind of code to prevent yourself from totally frelling up the mobile before you've got the contacts in then?

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com
Wait until I get the patent, THEN I'll toss the source code around. Do I *look* like one of those unwashed granola-crunching patchouli-smelling open source nuts?

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Date: 2004-12-01 03:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-cypher.livejournal.com
Dude, chill. I just wanted to take a look at it. I'm curious as to how you handeled cross-platform commands with one interface.

And Open Source gave us Mozilla, and don't you -dare- dis Mozilla. Mozilla is awesome. Tabbed browsing, man. You can't tell me tabbed browsing isn't awesome.

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Date: 2004-12-01 03:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-jubilee.livejournal.com
I like Firefox personally. But since that's an offshoot of Mozilla (If I'm remembering my browsers correctly) then I guess that's moot point.

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Date: 2004-12-01 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-forge.livejournal.com
Open Source gives you people who actually want to give things to the unwashed masses for free. Brilliance belongs only to those who are ready to comprehend it.

Mozilla's a fine piece of code, as far as software goes. Once you strip out all the bells and whistles.

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Date: 2004-12-01 02:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-jubilee.livejournal.com
*innocent look* Pro Bono? Isn't he like the lead singer of U2?

And not an assembly line, just someone with a really cool set of contact lenses.

Alas, I have no actual money of my own, thus I shall just have to covert them quietly over here.

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