What The Bleep do We Know

I'm finally watching the movie I have so loathed without even watching it. I know what to expect because this movie was brought to you by the same guys that brought you The Secret. I describe this movie as 'When Quantum Mechanics Becomes Tim Burton Land' Given their ongoing reference to tumbling down the rabbit hole. The whole way they represent Quantum Physics reminds me of a Disney Land fairy-tale.

'When Quantum Mechanics Becomes Tim Burton Land'

Is Love Just Chemicals?

The thought of love being physically, a cocktail of chemicals is only depressing when you use the term 'just chemicals' as if chemicals were less than us as whole even though we are made up of them. Do you see where I'm getting at? Thinking chemicals are less than us as a whole is absurd because we are made up of chemicals one way or another. I believe love and every other emotion is only possible because of chemicals but that doesn't mean I'm going to ruin a romantic evening with my partner when she tells me she loves me by responding to her saying "it's just the chemicals talking" Don't be silly, the chemicals are always talking, and it's way easier to say "I love you too, honey" which is, in a way, what the chemicals want you to say. XD

Source(s):

Mind Wide Open by Steven Johnson. He even has a chapter titled "It's the Hormones Talking"

Science

I still think that if everyone goes thinking that the laws proposed by science aren't true laws they will stray from explanations that work and delve into psuedo-science.

Got the Ipod Touch 4 (Unboxing)

I got my new Ipod Touch a day today instead of Monday! By chance, I went on the Amazon website to check the status of my package and found that my package was here in town. I called the postal service and sure as hell my Ipod Touch was waiting for me to pick it up. I put on a coat, got on my bike, and flew to the postal office.

I've been playing with it for about an hour now. I'm already disappointed by a couple of Ipod Touch's aspects, but It'll be a couple of days until I'm sure what I like and what I don't like about the Ipod Touch 4. I've never had an Ipod Touch so I don't think I have anything to compare it to besides maybe my Acer netbook and my dad's Blackberry.

If you actually wanted to know about the packaging,

The Ipod Touch case that you would see at the Apple Store is a crystal clear casing. On the top and bottom (both shorter sides of the ipod) there is a tape to keep the clear casing closed. I have to peel the tape to get the casing open. Peeling the tape was not too hard but I did have to use some pliers off my swiss army knife.

I finally got the crystal casing open, and the Ipod is strapped with a light film of sticker-like plastic to a square of the same material that the casing is made out of. You have to take the Ipod, attached to the piece of plastic, out of the case and then undo the strap in the back. I wonder how much money went into the making of slits for the piece of plastic. I'll have to take pics so you can grasp what I'm talking about. I'll save that for a Ipod Touch (packaging) post.

GAP - Pardon Our Dust

When I saw this I thought M. Night Shyamalan, director of "the happening", is now doing ads.

Privacy on Blogger: How to Hide your Posts

I was complaining earlier about the complications of making a post private or protected on Blogger. My definition of private is only you can see the post, and my definition of protected is only some people can see the post.

Google Gets Privacy Right...

Google is getting privacy settings for individual items right with every other Google Product: in Youtube, you can choose if you want specific people, only people with the link, or only you to be have access to the video. On Google Documents, same as Youtube, you can choose if you want whoever has the link, only certain people, or just you can view the document.

But Google Doesn't want to be Perfect...

However, in Blogger, making your posts private is complicated. There is no option to have a 'private' link to your posts as with every other Google product item. If you want only you to have access to your posts, you have to make an entire blog that only you have access to. If you want only certain people to read your blog posts, you have to make a entire new blog that allows access to certain, specific people.

Easy Way Out...

I just discovered that if you want to save a post for yourself or hide a post that you've accidentally posted, all you have to do is go to that post and click 'Save as Draft' and it'll be taken from the public realm and put into your editing dashboard.

Kindle Prices Over Time (pisses me off)

Kindle 2 Prices in the United States

• February 23, 2009 Kindle is released (release price [RP] $359)
• July 8, 2009 $359 to $299 or -17% RP
• October 7, 2009 $299 to $259 or -28% RP
• June 21, 2010 $259 to $189 or -53% RP
• May sometime, I bought the Kindle with a leathery case

I feel bad enough that I bought Kindle 2 just two months before a much better Kindle 3 was released for the same price but imagine how robbed the people that bought the Kindle 2 in July of last year must feel having to watch the Kindle depreciate 53% in less than a year.

Kindle 3 Prices in US

• July 28, 2010 $139 (WiFi only) and $189 (WiFi and 3G network)
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• $185.49 manufacturing cost estimated by iSuppli.

I'm pissed off because if anyone wants to sell their Kindle 2 now, we have to take into account not just one price and one set of features but two different prices and two different very important connectivity features. I have to explain to potential buyers that Kindle 2 always has access to the internet via Whispernet but doesn't have WiFi capabilities. Who's heard of Whispernet? Nobody. If I have any luck, I'll sell my Kindle for $120 a 40% drop from the price when I bought the Kindle in May.

I wonder if all electronic toys depreciate 50% a year after their release.

Blog URL

Darn, I couldn't help but change my blog URL again from IMOVER9000 to LEVEL9000 Oh well.

I don't know why I change it when so few people read this blog. I just think level9000 is more catchy and easy to remember. IMOVER9000 is probably even a little too arrogant. I just hate that I can't put any punctuation in IMOVER9000 to make it I'm Over 9000. Level9000 makes just as much sense with punctuation. People could confuse IMOVER9000 as 'I MOVER 9000', an epic Apple product for moving everything out of your house to make your house hinder to Apple's minimalist standards. Maybe someday someone will give up OVER9000.