Archive for the ‘Brainstorms’ Category

Gmail Tree Theme

December 4th, 2008

Hi all,

Yea… no action — I know — I’ve got finals coming up — I’ll definitely write about some of my experiences (the first semester of graduate school in physics, the first few months in my house (LOTS of stories in the category…) over xmas break – FOR SURE.

Anyway, I wanted to get this out there though – something on my mind, hah.

OK So gmail came out with some pretty sick themes a little while ago — they’re awesome, don’t get me wrong, but I have a bone to pick with the Tree theme.  It’s the coolest one, obviously, because it updates based on the weather outside — at least semi-accurately.  So far I’ve seen SUNNY, CLOUDY, RAINY, WINDY — and these have all been nearly 100% accurate.

But GMAIL Team — really, you went through all the trouble to get the weather based on the location I input and you can’t be bothered to look at the TIME to see whether it’s dark or light outside?

That’s a bit ridiculous if you ask me. (:

So — in short — Thanks for the theme, but please, put less than .5 hr more work in to make the background color change based on night/day — so that the sun is not blaring in my face at 2:00 A.M.  Then it’d be my favorite theme as well as THE perfect theme. (:

Cheers!

–Justin

Shouldn’t it be Palinilap?

July 14th, 2008

I was thinking about the word “palindrome” last night, because when I got in the bed it was 12:21.  So I thought, “Ooh, palindrome,” like a nerd.  Regardless, shouldn’t the word that defines a word’s order to be irrelevant(read from front->back or back->front) have an irrelevant order itself?  Oh well, I wasn’t put in charge of these things.

Palap?

Palinilap?

Palindrordnilap?

Palindromemordnilap?

Blind eye to rEvolution

July 13th, 2008

Something about coffee, Shpongle, and sitting in my room in front of the computer just gets my thoughts racing.

Coffee — just some random Folgers my mom got me — Thanks mom.

Shpongle — electronic music I was introduced to by my friend Emery Clark.  — This is my favorite song they do –> Shpongle – Divine Moments of Truth

Computer — eh, you get the visual.
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Amazing Video on the Brain: ” Vilayanur Ramachandran: A journey to the center of your mind”

December 10th, 2007

Just watch. The most amazing portion is when he discusses healing the pain of a phantom limb syndrome patient. Stunning.

Restaurant Menus Minus Prices For Her

December 1st, 2007

I had this brainstorm yesterday when Lucie, my girlfriend, and I went out to dinner.

I feel like this happens to a lot of people, especially females, and it shouldn’t. When I want to take her out to dinner, I want to take her out to dinner. I wish she’d order whatever she wanted regardless of internal feelings of guilt or shame about the price. So, while this idea may only suffice to satisfy a select group of men taking women out to dates, I still think it warrants sharing.

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My favorite picture of all time

November 29th, 2007

Hubble Ultra Deep Field Thumb

It’s amazing how much time I have spent just staring at the 36″x36″ poster of this image on the wall in my room.
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