Brain Chip

"He can think his TV on and off, change channels and alter the volume thanks to the technology and software linked to devices in his home."

"Mr Nagle has also been able to use thought to move a prosthetic hand and robotic arm to grab sweets from one person's hand and place them into another."

This is pretty fascinating, it shows real hope for people with paralysis.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4396387.stm

Decisions Decisions Decisions

So it's the first day of Spring, and it's bitter cold. Why must Windsor have such wierd weather? Stupid great lakes!

Otherwise, right now I'm stuck making decisions about what to do with the next couple years of my life. Grad school? Maybe. Work? Maybe. Who knows. On one hand grad school is guaranteed money, but working is not guaranteed but more money. And to commit two years of my life to grad school to do research isn't a simple decision. It's a lifestyle choice.

But enough seriousness. I watched "The Iron Chef" for the first time, and that might be the stupidest thing on TV that I've ever seen. Actually, stupid may not be the right word because it is entertaining. It's just so...over the top.

"TODAY'S SECRET INGREDIENT IS.............................................TURNIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Dude, it's turnips. Relax fella, you need a rest. I just don't get it. A memo just went up at work for our company's Iron Chef competition. I think I'll spice up my mac & cheese with a delicate blend of MSG and heroin. I may not win, but a week later I'll have the most popular mac & cheese on the planet.

Okay...could they not be more innovative than "Kitchen Stadium". I wonder what the translation actually is. Oh, we're about to find out about todays challenger. I love how the host shouts out a string of Asian language and throws in english. "Toi cha nee no baa IRON CHEFS!"

Okay. Okay, here comes todays secret ingredient. Oh no they didn't. It can' be. That's insane. It's CABBAGE. OK, who had cabbage in the pool? My money's on the iron chef. What the hell, how they're telling a story about cabbage. This is getting stupid. I'm done.

This is...odd

It was the racist chicken wing that made me a violent alcoholic

This guy found a half eaten chicken wing in his potroast at denny's, and took it as a racial comment and thought he had cought a disease from the food. Here are some excerpts:

"...white workers put the chicken wing on his plate as a joke and that he feared he'd contracted AIDS from eating someone else's food"

Which white worker would that be, the "Indian waitress" or the "Latino cook".

"But the stress he felt from the incident was strong enough, he said, it caused him to regularly fight with his wife, lose sleep and drink half a pint of liquor a day."

It just gets stupider. You can read the rest for yourself.

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What would we do...

if computers ceased to exist.

You may be thinking "What a strange question". But the reason I ask is due to an experience I had at work today. For those that don't know I work in a restaurant, and all the orders are punched in on computers and are automatically printed up for the cooks. Today, the computers went down. Now, notwithstanding the fact that the only way to fix them was to call someone from head office in London, the kitchen became completely frantic.

The servers had to write the orders down by hand and give them to the cooks, they had to calculate bills and prices by themselves on a calculator, and it just seemed like a madhouse even though it was only slightly busier than your average Sunday day shift.

My point is that we've come to rely and depend on computers, and all in all it's a good thing, but it's still kinda funny to see what happens when people are forced to think for themselves.