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The Perfection Keyboard

perfection-keyboardAfter dealing with “one of those people” the other day I had an idea. What if you combined the game of Perfection and a keyboard. Instead of the timer that the original Perfection game included this special keyboard would be triggered by typing something stupid.

You thought firing off that “First Post lolz :) :) ” message was funny. All of a sudden the keys fly off your keyboard in random directions, now you get to spend 10 min remembering what comes after QWERTY. Think of it as a shock collar for the internet.

It’s also a non-lethal alternative to SOIP (Stab Over IP) that has been suggested by others.

Twin Engine Saturn Prototype Spotted

0424091611c I spotted this monster on my way home. I apologize for the very bad picture since I didn’t get lucky enough to get stopped at a light behind it. (Click the image for a larger version) It’s not clear who their target market is for this car but they still have a few bugs to work out. It seems the car is fast enough to make some of the trim pieces fall off. I’d estimate maximum acceleration at 9.8 m/s/s , subject to local conditions.

With the poor aerodynamics and added weight I expect fuel economy to be pretty atrocious. On the positive side scrap resale value should be much higher.

Battery Powered Battery Charger


Cool. Someone stole my Cold Fusion Battery Charger and my Perpetual Motion Battery Charger fell apart last week.

Oh and it’s raining out I’d better make sure I take my Sodium Umbrella with me, it’ll be a blast.

On second thought maybe that’s all a bad idea.

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Kwiry Alternatives

Here are my Kwiry replacements:

Status Updates: Ping.fm – The giant list of sites for inputs and outputs is nice. I may actually start using BrightKite now. The support for pictures looks to be much better than Kwiry’s was.

Task Reminders: Remember the Milk – I plan to just send e-mails from my phone to create new RTM tasks. It’s certainly much more powerful that Kwiry was for tasks.

General Reminders: E-mail – I just added a contact to my phone so I could quickly send myself an e-mail and setup my client to filter e-mail from my phone.

Contacts: Dropcard and Contxts – I’m using both services with slightly different info in each. Dropcard has my full info but the free service is limited to 5 uses a month. I put a little less info in Contxts but it’s probably the one I’ll be using more often.

Netflix Queue: TxtFul – Works very similar to the way Kwiry did with Netflix.

Let me know what solutions you end up with in the comments. Especially if you find some way to work with Netflix.