And that act is… that’s right… The Robot Uprising.
These little bad boys are currently being 3D printed and tested as robots that can easily navigate their way into places that are too dangerous and/or small for a human to get to. They look really creepy, and no doubt will be a great tool for our future overlords in the upcoming robot uprising.
I hope your not afraid of spiders.
Tags: 3D Printing, Robot, robot uprising
OK, it’s been about a day or two now with the new Google Reader interface, and at first, I wasn’t that upset about it.
It still works as an RSS reader, which is what the application is named, “Reader”. It looks clean, and the articles still flow by like they always did.
That’s about all the good I can say about it. The new Reader has ripped out all the sharing tools that it previously used before the new interface was released. At first, I thought I would like the new idea… ”just share your Reader items on Google+” But, alas, I don’t.
I miss the way I could quickly see all the items that my friends had shared on Reader. They had a name and a number over there on the left side. I could just click an individual name and read all of his or her stuff, or just click, “mark all as read” and all of his/her stuff would easily be dismissed from my reading que.
I liked how the comment section was separated from my reading que. I could just read the shared item first, then go back and see what everyone was saying about it if I wanted to. I also like that fact that everything was sorted chronologically, and that order was never changed because of a non related interaction. That was the coolest part about the “comment” section. It acted like the Google+ Stream. It put the most recent commented item at the top. It separated the news feed idea from the RSS idea of just show me stuff in the order it arrived, and don’t worry about anything else.
Now that the shared items are gone, I’ve lost all of these things that I like. When someone comments on a post, it shoots to the top of my Google+ Stream. With so many comments, it’s hard to know how far to scroll to find a new unread item. It could get lost in the comment noise. When I get to my Stream, there is no marker to see how many items are “unread”, and how many items each of my friends has shared. I miss that. I feel like I’ve lost a bit of organization to my incoming items to read, and as a geek computer programmer, I enjoy my organization.
It’s who I am.
If I weren’t an organized geek:
- I wouldn’t use Reader to begin with.
- I wouldn’t want to organize large amounts of information in order to absorb it in the most efficient way possible… for me.
- I would use Facebook more.
Tags: Google, Google Plus, Google Reader, rants
I recently received an invite to participate in Google+. After a couple weeks of using it, I find it quite a bit nicer than Facebook. The two look very similar, and I’m sure many legal battles will come due to these similarities.
Anyway, here’s an excerpt from an email sent my old buddy, Bobby Martin. He sent this out to his friends to quickly explain the reasons why he is on Google+, and why he’s inviting you to join too.
Google Plus is Google’s new social networking app (like Facebook). It lets you:
- Post text, pictures, links or video
- Share posts with any number of individuals or groups (G+ calls them ‘circles’)
- Comment on posts, ‘like’ posts (called +1)
- Group or individual video chat
- Group or individual text chat
There are other things it does that I care about, but I’m not sure how much you do. Things like:
- Delete my account if I decide I don’t like how they manage the account
- Not share my information and information about all of my friends with random third parties
- Let me download all my G+ information and do what I want with it, including move to another social networking app
- Lets you “check in” at places and share your location with individuals or groups
I hope Google+ takes off. It’s a clean user interface that focuses on your sharing security. In other words, you most likely won’t accidentally post something that can be seen by your boss when you didn’t really want your boss to see it. If you’d like an invite, just comment on this post to let me know, and I’ll send you one right away.
Tags: Google, Google Plus, social network, Techy
This Dilbert comic strip reminded me of a funny post from ages ago.
Here’s the post “How To Win An Argument”
I’ve kind of quit putting notifications up here about new pictures. I figure that it’s just as easy for anyone interested to just click on the link to my Picasa Web Album and see if any new pictures have come up there. If you have a google account, or an RSS feed reader, you can subscribe to be notified of changes to my album.
The latest pictures are pretty cool, because Brett did his first Tae Kwon Do belt promotion. This is when you have to get up in front of all your classmates, parents, and instructors and perform what you have learned over the last few months. It’s nerve racking… I know, because Blinda and I have both done it. So, needless to say, we were very nervous for Brett.
He did fabulous. He performed flawlessly. We are very proud.
Update: if you want to see the pictures, you’ll need to email me. I’m going semi private with all of my web albums.
Tags: Brett, Tae Kwon Do
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