Selling My Kindle

Believe it or not, I managed to sell my second generation Kindle for a whopping 70.00, with a leather case, to a guy off craigslist. I'm not even going to figure out what percent I got out of the price I bought it for. Actually, I got about one fourth maybe. 25% it's original price. Amazing. I sold it sometime before Christmas 2011. I thought I was never going to get rid of that hideous thing, but I managed to get ripped off. Thank you Amazon.

I still have my handy dandy ipod, though. I barely use it, though. I only use it once and a while to check my mail when I'm not at home. I fib, I did play Final Fantasy on it for a while recently, but I quit playing Final Fantasy as soon as I decided to buy Skyrim for my new laptop. Goodbye life.

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.

Why I Don't Like Kindle (2G)

Electronic Ink Technology Not Worth It

The Kindle behaves just like paper. With paper or the Kindle's e-ink technology, you don't have to worry about reflections; you can bathe in the sun while you read on the Kindle. The e-ink technology is an awesome feature for people that read outside a lot and don't want to worry about reflections off a glossy screen getting in the way of reading, but when you read in the dim most of the time, the technology isn't worth it. And just like paper, the Kindle doesn't provide a light source, thus you have to buy a book light with your Kindle if you want to read in the dark.

You Need to Know a Computer Language to Get Articles from the Web on your Kindle

I'm not serious about having to know a computer language, but I made a program to ease transferring articles from my computer to my Kindle. The Kindle, as far as I know, does not make an easy transfer of anything 'free'.

The simple program I made inserts the necessary HTML to describe headers and end-lines that would make for a tedious task done manually. The output file created by my program then needs to go through another program that converts HTML files into EPUB files which the Kindle understands.

The Kindle isn't Big Enough For Textbooks

I was so excited about getting the Kindle so I could carry all my textbooks in half the weight of a single textbook. When I finally received the Kindle, I realized that there was no way I would be able to comfortably read my textbooks on it. Unless you buy the whopping $350.00+ Kindle DX, you won't be reading your textbooks on your Kindle. I tried reading "C Primer Plus" by Stephen Prada but the code in the book, because of it's different font, was hard to read and the side notes were disorganized. Otherwise, Kindle 2 is great for novels such as Twilight and Harry Potter


My Library doesn't like Kindle

I don't know if Apple made a deal with the libraries here or what but I cannot upload digital books from my libraries to my Kindle. Actually, my library supports just about every other e-reader device besides the Kindle. I went through thousands of electronic reading devices but for some reason Kindle was not on the list.

Ipod Touch 4G Shipped

My Ipod Touch 4g was shipped by Amazon today! I'm excited! I should be getting it on the 6th of December; Monday of next week. Yesterday, I looked at some youtube videos on how fast you can surf with the new Ipod Touch; Of course, the speed at which you can surf the web is relative to the speed offered by your Service Provider and the quality of your WiFi router etc.. However the interface for surfing the web and the speed was beautiful. I can't wait.
The person that was buying my Kindle backed out so I might be putting my Kindle up on Ebay since nobody responded to it on Craigslist.

Getting The Ipod Touch 4

I'm getting the Ipod Touch 4 as a Christmas present for myself.

Goodbye Kindle

I've had the Amazon Kindle 2ND Generation since a month before Amazon released its 3rd Generation Kindle. I was so mad when the new Kindle came with WiFi compatibility, an essential feature, only a month after I purchased the Kindle with no WiFi compatibility. I bought the Kindle for almost $200.00 (with a cover) and now I'm going to sell it for $120.00 towards my new purchase of an Ipod Touch 4.

The main reasons I want the Ipod Touch 4

• Portability: The Ipod Touch will fit in my pocket and I won't have worry about looking like a ninja turtle everywhere I go because of the bulky backpack you have to wear to comfortably carry a laptop or netbook.
• Readability: The new Ipod Touch has graphics capabilities that nearly parallel the Wii gaming console. I should have no problem using this device to read books, articles, posts, comments, status updates, comics, and other stuff I like to read.
• Camera: I've been wanting a camera for some time to take pictures of random things and the Ipod Touch comes with a camera capable of 720p HD video which is more than half of what most high end TVs display (1080p).

I'm selling my Kindle 2.0 for $120.00 towards the Ipod Touch 4.0 for $270.00. Therefore, I will be $150.00 into my purchase. I will have lost a total of $180.00, the price of my Kindle and the leathery cover I bought with it a month or so before Kindle 3.0 was released. The $30.00 unaccounted for is about how much Kindle 2.0 depreciated since I bought it in May 2010. Kindle 3.0 is now selling for $189.00.

Add Hand Sanitizer to my Christmas Wishlist

I sure wish I had some hand sanitizer for the Thanksgiving Dinner I'm going to. I'm going to be shaking some hands and touching forks, knives, and maybe even some sporks. I'm not afraid of catching something, rather I'm afraid to pass on the cold virus I've been dealing with the past week.

Google Reader Statistics are Useless

I don't read the expansion for every headline I read via Google Reader. Accordingly, I think 'mark all as read' is an inaccurate description of what I'm doing because I have not read everything I'm marking as read; I just want to reset the number so I know when new stuff comes up.

Finishing Sentences

I know you're not supposed to complete people's sentences but I can't help myself when someone is talking about something science-y and I want to let them know I'm not a fool of a took on the subject. I was talking to some stranger in town about nuclear bombs and he was trying to explain that a nuclear bomb is not an explosion rather an _____. Where I completed his sentence with "[...]implosion, a domino effect towards the center".

Insulated Windows

I'm not talking about an operating system. I'm talking about the window in my room. My dad finally covered it with some plastic window material that helps keep heat from being lost at my window. My room already feels warmer. I tried explaining that one way I could tell that my window is where a lot of heat was being lost is by the amount of condensation on my window. He responded that all windows 'sweat' because of the change of temperature. I think that's bullocks because good windows don't sweat like pigs.

Liquid Interface

Liquid interface is a neat term for projects such as Kinect, SixthSense, and LuminAR.

My XMAS Wish List

1. TI Graphing Calculator (for school)

2. Magnetic White Board

3. Podium

4. Clip Boards

5. Pens & Pencils

6. T-shirts & Jeans
7. Coat
8. a scrub brush for my back

The Dark Side of the Moon

Is it the dark side of the moon I see
or is it my mind playing tricks on me?

not a trick exactly
but a brain's desire for rationality

Insanely, the smile of the Cheshire cat

a smile as wide, and creepy as can be

Why Books Are Better

In a nutshell, books are Attention Deficiency Disorder (ADD) proof. With books, recording your progress is easy and you don't have worry about going off on a tangent that has nothing to do with your study goal (e.i. With books, you can't go from reading about calculus to listening to youtube songs about calculus that honestly don't teach you anything about calculus but in the vast sea of procrastination that is using the 'internet'...). With this said, the iPad, although still on my wishlist, is an ADD factory. The iPad is disguised as a device to increase productivity but we all know what most people will be using the iPad for, and we know it's not reading. The iPad will be the death of us all! I'm just kidding.