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Dude, like a real Tricorder would be so cooooool!

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I know this has been discussed to death, but I wanted to assure everyone that we here at NIMLAS Studios would love it if one of our mixed nuts or nutcases won the latest XPrize.

The Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize

Introducing the $10 million Qualcomm Tricorder X PRIZE.

Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That’s the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. The end result: Radical innovation in healthcare that will give individuals far greater choices in when, where, and how they receive care. Learn more about the competition

I used to have a toy one, I bought it for way more than I should have and I loved it till the batteries corroded and ruined it on me.  That toy had stickers in place of the instruments, but if it actually worked, well that would just be awesome.  Forge needing national healthcare, we could all have one of these in our homes and never have to worry about the little aches and pains, the tricorder would tell us if it was a tumor or not :) The only downside is kids couldn’t fake being too sick to go to school, sorry kids, better think of better ways to play hooky.

The Year of Vlogging Dangerously by the XerialKiller

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You may have listened to a Nutty Debate or two in which we had the  as one of our debaters.  This year for 2012 he has decided to do a VLOG a day, that’s right, everyday he will VLOG.  (What is a VLOG, you might ask?  It’s a video blog, a video journal, a video diary, a guy who films himself rambling about what he did that day.)  While I often don’t watch many VLOGS, they keep me tied to a computer (or iPad, or other device that supports youtube video) I do check them out from time to time.  I don’t see yet why this is a VLOG over a podcast because there isn’t much to see other than his head… well there is that happy fat Buddha in the background, but it’s a short VLOG so it holds my attention.  Have I mentioned I have ADD?  I do, and not in the turn of phrase I have ADD because I get distracted but in the clinical sense, I have ADD, my mind works differently and I use that to my advantage but it often makes me rambly and easy to distract.

Anyway, go check out his channel, watch the videos, they are kinda fun and I’m waiting for him to do some crazy things on camera, because he can.  You will notice he isn’t swearing much, but if he does swear random words like taco and potato aren’t covering his swears, so dad.  (I mention this because XK is the guy who recorded all my swear word covers for Nutty Bites.)

Below is the first VLOG from January first, he has now done 11 of them (as I write this, and as I publish it he should have done 12, yes, I am prewriting this, muhahahaha!) and I can’t say that any one is tied to another, nice and random, just how I like it.  Also, XK taunts me in one of his videos calling carbonated beverages “pop” he is wrong, it is soda.  (Yes I know it is pop to some and soda to others and some odd folks call all walks of carbonation coke, but it is soda to me and the one time I called it pop I felt dirty)

PS: I find the idea that his project can easily be referred to as VD (Vloging Dangerously, dropping the rest of it, it makes sense in my head so just go with it) highly amusing and would love if that abbreviation catches on.

A wordle. I do wordle. You too. You do wordle too

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Facebook has that new timeline nonsense, so of course I had to try it out.  I have to try everything out, didn’t you know that?  Right, so when making my timeline I needed a cover image, like a big banner that you have almost no control over (Big shock, facebook is limiting our control over something and then claiming it’s a feature, big fun) and at first I had my beloved cougar Jaspurr as the cover, but then I decided to change it to a wordle I made of this site’s RSS feed.  Don’t know what a wordle is?  Well click the image and it will take you there (While you’re at it, click the stop censorship bar and make your voice heard about how you think SOPA is just plain wrong), you can make it from anything with a RSS or ATOM feed, I learned all about this years ago from @smoran8m and I use it all the time when I want something interesting but nonspecific (I also use tagxedo for more options and importing a document)

Movie Review: Tomboy

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“A 10-year-old girl, settling into her new neighborhood outside Paris, is mistaken for a boy and has to live up to this new identity since it’s too late for the mistake to be clarified.”

Today I watched this movie, it’s in french with english subtitles.  It’s slow going but it held my attention mostly because of the realistic acting from these child actors.  It was pretty good except it left me with a sadness at the end.  I thought I saw a real natural progression of what a young person might be going through if they were able to realize at such a young age they would prefer to be a boy rather than a girl.

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Guest Blog Post on BMJ2K

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I was asked by the site host for BMJ2K to write a guest post for his blog (thanks for the thought Barry) and I found myself wondering what to blog about.  I skipped anything I had an idea for that involved New York because Barry writes the New York Minute and I didn’t want to step on any toes.  Next I tried to not write anything that would normally show up on either his or my blog, again, to do something different.  Then, I was inspired by the holidays, and more importantly new and made up holidays.  Enjoy, I hope you like my out there ramble :)

READ IT HERE!