Saline and cat hair do not mix

[x_maker]

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?

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Re: ...

[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.

Re: ...

[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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[x-madelyn.livejournal.com]

Somehow I doubt you need anything to help you watch more television, firecracker...

Re: ...

[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!

[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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[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, on that subject remind me to not try to sort out programming the universal remotes again, by the way?

Re: ...

[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.)

Re: ...

[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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[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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[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?

Re: ...

[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?

Re: ...

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll reinstall my sense of humor when Angie's not being crazy, okay?

Re: ...

[x-skin.livejournal.com]

...I didn't know we had half those. Want to come help me try some of them out?

Re: ...

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

I could use the distracting. MarioKart?

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[x-sanfuaiyaa.livejournal.com]

a couple of the old crap Sega machines

Retract that statement. The Sega Saturn is not crap. Do you have any idea of the quality of its RPGs? Not to mention Saturn Bomberman. Set up a couple of multitaps and you have a game that will entertain you and seven others for hours.

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[x-forge.livejournal.com]

What am I, an assembly line? Not everything I build is pro bono for the masses.

Re: ...

[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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[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.

[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?

Re: huh.

[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?

Re: huh.

[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.

Re: huh.

[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.

Re: huh.

[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.

Re: huh.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

Um. Yeah, okay. Not getting into the economics of Open Source, man. Obviously you missed a discussion or twelve.

Moz isn't bad. I could probably knock out of couple of the more cludgy places, as it has a few sticky points in the source, but I think it'd just be eaiser to write my own browser from scratch if I wanted to do that.

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[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.