I took some time out of my evening to make a short but detailed vlog for my youtube channel.
Here it is:
Be sure to listen to it word for word. It’s rather important.
Ladies and gentlemen, the BluetoothBrush
Not as in a blue coloured toothbrush, but an actual toothbrush with bluetooth enabled on it. Don’t believe me? Check this out:
Procter & Gamble’s subsidiary Oral-B will unveil what it says is the world’s first Bluetooth-enabled ToothBrush at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Part of the company’s Smart Connected Bathroom idea, the innovative device will provide users with “excellent control” over their oral care through an Android or iOS application.
It’s said to come with the following features:
- Two Way communication – The Brush sends data about your brushing habits to the application and you can use the application to personalize your brushing.
- Delivers Expert Guidance with Focused Care – Dentists can use insights from the patient’s brushing history and based on diagnosis, they can personalize the brushing experience based on the needs.
- Programs Personal Brush Settings – You can control the brush with your smartphone as a remote and set basic setting options.
- Stores Your Data – Tracks details about how you brush and stores it in the free to download app for iOS and Android devices.
This makes me wonder what we’ll have next. Smart toilet paper that teaches you how to wipe? Or better yet maybe bluetooth condoms that alert you if they pop or not. For the ladies there could also be bluetooth pregnancy tests and tampons that send statistical data to your smartphone so that it’ll tell you if you’re pregnant or how fast your flow is! The possibilities are endless!
A walk and some tea shopping
Nothing totally exciting happened. I went for a walk yesterday evening. That was nice, the sun was still out and everything. I deposited my checks and came home to do a little shopping. My friend TheBongmaster introduced me to a website called Dragon Teahouse. I’ve been needing to stock up on flowering tea but wasn’t sure where to go until he suggested it. So him and I decided to do a little shopping. 😀
So I have a bunch of flowers (green and black tea types) plus some matcha coming in the mail. They have all kinds of types to choose from. They had some more interesting stuff that I’ll have to go back and have a look through. You can use paypal to purchase their teas AND from what I can tell it looks like they mostly do free shipping.
Back up and kicking
Turns out one of the updates I ran the other night was the cause of mumble morphing my voice (and others) into the spawn of satan. Since I’m very good at doing that on my own WITHOUT the help of a OS update I reinstalled fresh and only installed the updates that I know I’ll use. Needless to say I’m back up and running 100% until I find some reason to fuck up again.
Damn it… the sun is coming up again. Guess it’s time to go lay down… Oh, and here’s a picture of a bed I found for Source Filmmaker, I’ve already shown a few people. But I’ll post it here anyway.
Ok, sleep time.
I know what my weekend project is going to be.
Updated to the latest kernal under Fedora 20 this morning only to have more grief happen. I lost communication in mumble (everything turned horribly autotuned) and even before the kernal update mumble was giving me slight problems. Each time I started mumble it kept doing a sigterm on an audio process. Since my video drivers haven’t been working properly under Fedora 20 anyway, I’ll just go say fuck it and go back to 19. The few bugs I had in 19 were in 20 anyway with extras thrown in.
Oh well, I was bored and had my little adventure. 😛 I think tomorrow I’ll start copying off my files again. Luckily Linux doesn’t take forever to reinstall like any version of Windows. I can be up and running at full throttle in half a day without having to take freaking forever to install updates and restart over and over again.
Getting high on my gmod server.
Saw a couple of players chillaxin’ on my server and decided to investigate. Turned into fun flying and explosion time.
Fun in gmod
Saw a couple of peeps on my gmod server tonight. So I pulled out FRAPS and decided to record some fun shenanigans. These players were super cool, and the stuff that happened was pretty fun.
Video:
You’re not as private as you might think.
I still receive flak for not being a social network butterfly type of person who likes to talk about where I live/graduated/work etc. After watching this video I’m gonna just continue to do what I do best. 😛
That looks like quite the fun experiment.
Oh god I’m still awake…
Damn you TF2 for keeping me up late! Actually, it helped me get out some aggression. I found out tonight that two of our co-workers are getting laid off due to lack of hours to give. According to our boss the company is allowing 700 hours for the whole department, but our store manager says that’s too many and that we can only use 500. Which means for some reason we have to lose two extra people and become even more horribly understaffed.
On top of that a long time co-worker is retiring soon. She was originally going to stay longer because our boss said she was needed, but then she changed her mind again when her hours were cut too. Obviously she wasn’t needed that much…
I talked with her a bit during my lunch tonight. Since I’m going to be on the national healthcare plan I’m contemplating looking for other places to work. Since I don’t depend on them for insurance anymore and I wouldn’t even be able to qualify due to the lack of hours given to me (I have to have 24 or more in a work week or it gets lost. Lately I’m lucky if I can even get 20), so I’m thinking if things don’t get better (which they probably won’t) I’ll look for other places in town to work. I just need to keep an eye out for openings.
Sunday Morning Open Thread
Haven’t posted in a few days, been a bit melancholy about a couple things I’d rather not talk about. So mainly I’ve been sorting through my things, playing some games trying to bury it in the back of my head.
During my cleanup session in Source Filmmaker I unearthed a mocap test animation that I never used. It was one where I experimented with locking items (a hat in this case) to a model before adding the animation.
Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh0gMGfNgAs
I’ll need to setup some time to do some serious animations… well, as serious as my personality will allow.