Wonderful weekend

Last weekend my lovely husband visited me - It was really a wonderful weekend. There is not much to describe, we played around on my new mac, we had dinner with his cousin Jean and her husband - she is pregnant and she was due last weekend - no show though and we are still waiting to hear :-) It was a lovely night. On sunday we did a little bit of shopping.. and bought a beautiful red shirt for Alvaro.
So it was a quite weekend, not much to write about but very lovely.
Am I overusing the word lovely? :o)

My new macbook

the mac has crashed once;
thunderbird has crashed twice;
firefox has crashed once.

I have not owned this computer for longer than the number of times it and its applications have crashed.
Can it be that windows has been to blame for what it is actually the fault of intel?

update: sorry number of times should have been number of days. Styx is being a stick!! :-P
Also Valardur, my mac did a restart so that is as bad a crash as it can be. :-( It was actually kind of funny, because it took me a while to understand what the screen meant!!

Google

Biogeek has put up an interesting video of Lewis Black talking about Google - It is interesting that is was only today that I was reading the following article about Google being the most invasive of all net firms. The empire they are building is really expanding what now with news of their uni mails being rolled out.

I am starting to have a very bad feeling about Google....

Blog who?

I must confess that although I am a sometime blogger, I don't really read any other blogs except for a couple of friends who rarely update. So the following article was very interesting for me. It lists the top 25 most visited blogs of June. I haven't had a chance to look at more than a couple - but my they are interesting!
Check out Boingboing for the above amazing pic of a baby wallaby. They also have some very nice old mexican music. Then there is downloadsquad which keeps you up to date about downloadable software. And.. well you can read the rest. Unfortunately there are many interesting sites. bugger.
Update:
I just found this other website which is hilarious! It is called SayNoToCrack and the picture above is just one of the posts. About the picture it says "This 15 lb tabby cat chased a bear up two separate trees in rural New Jersey." Here is a link to the National Geographic article. Oh I think I will have to bookmark this website!

Racism Test

Check out this test for racism designed by some people in Harvard.

My results were as do follows: "Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between African American and European American." However I would have to say that I am not sure how good this test is - personally I was getting so confused and the black and white faces looked so much alike that have the time it was simply random! The other half was pseudo-random.

seriously... how reliable can such a test be?!!

Btw, I am on a role today with all my posts! :-)

update: I just saw this comment on digg which i thought was appropriate for me as well...
"Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between Light Skin and Dark Skin." - No it suggests I wanted to win the damn game.. I didn't care what color they were as long as I didn't make any mistakes.
Flawed test for gamers/competitive people.

Extreme 3D experience

I found the following extremely cool 3D experience.

Try the virtual barbershop experience here - you have to put on your headphones and close your eyes.... and wait for the magic. It is amazing!

Also try the other ones the guy has posted - the second link has a woman whispering - and it is so funny some of the comments on that page... seems it was big success for a lot of the guys. One guy went so far as to think of the possibilities if this kind of thing was used in porno movies!

Return of the Fly

Yoo hoo... yes I mean you! Hello!!
I feel like I should re-introduce myself it has been so long since i have written. Yes yes my name is Phly, Gad Phly. Now, will you get me a martini? shaken, not stirred.
WHat!! you have no martini? fine,.. get me my new favourite drink, Mai Tai. yummmm.

Anyhow, i realized that I have gotten out of the habit of updating my blog. It really does end up being a habit - update blog or just send an email about the interesting item to some people? these days i have been emailing.
But with the following item things are going to change.
I read this BBC article about the new bear robots the US military are developing for the transport of casualties in battlefields. The future is coming!! According to the website:

1. Teddy bear face designed to be reassuring (How cool is that!!!)
2. Hydraulic upper body carries up to 227kgs (500lbs)
3. When kneeling tracked "legs" travel over rubble. Switches to wheels on smooth surfaces (ok this was also very cool - i think you can even tell how that would work based on the picture of the legs)
4. Dynamic Balance Behaviour (DBB) technology allows the robot to stand and carry loads upright on its ankles, knees or hips for nearly an hour

Hasta la vista.... senor bear!