Trimming The Fat

Taking another cue from my brother and friend, I recently deleted the Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter apps from my iPod Touch to avoid being bored and become more brilliant. 

Right away I noticed that the Touch has more battery life since I stopped checking in every thirty minutes. Some of that time was spent using my Chromebook to check in. That could be resolved by putting the laptop into my Bag of Holding.

I hope being able to connect only through wifi won’t be a problem for the bored and brilliant challenges that will start on February 2nd. I'm excited for the project from New Tech City because I see a lot of my friends checking their phones every five minutes, even during conversations. I'm guilty of doing the same.

Writing this took a lot longer since I kept checking all those links.

Weird Dreams Are Made Of These

Today's blog will take a backseat to the weird dreams I had this weekend.

Friday, I spent close to 7 hours of playing Borderlands The Pre-Sequel with my friend Damon, on a 92 inch screen! Along with surround sound speakers, you become immersed in the game.

When he first invited me over to his house, I was impressed with the "TV", which is actually a Panasonic ICD projector. Damon did all the work himself, since he's the owner and president of Premier Audio Video Designs.

I had an opportunity to go to a trade show and see some of the upcoming TVs, projectors, speakers, and other home entertainment equipment. I remember that little box that had the slider for TV and Game on it. Now there are receivers with 10 ports for speakers alone.

Back to the original topic;

I don't remember much about the dream itself except that I had to press A to continue throughout it.

Saturday was weird, even for me. I was wading through the sewers of Valhalla, waist deep even. I'm a germaphobe in real life, but that didn't bother me at all in the dream. I was carrying my small travel suitcase above my head, to keep the clothes and chromebook inside dry.

I saw the ladder to get out, and as I was climbing up, the suitcase fell into the water. I grabbed it by the handle, so only the bottom got wet. Once I was on the street, these two 20 year olds came out after me and told me to hide. We made it to a rooftop, where I got to check my belongings. My clothes were wet, and so was my chromebook. As I lifted it out of the suitcase, water dripped out. I opened it up to see if was still working and to my surprise it was. I had to reboot it through a sequence that involved pressing 3 buttons, then playing a level of Street Fighter. Then I woke up...

Tasty Accident

During visits to my parents, I rarely have to cook, unless it’s breakfast. My parent's have an electric stove which I’m not used to, so I tend to set the top burners higher than I should. This year’s Christmas trip led to a tastier version of the Gordon Ramsey scrambled egg recipe.

While I was throwing out the shells, the eggs had a chance to cook and the whites formed. Luckily, they didn't cook all the way through so I was still able to scramble them. The yolks broke and mixed, so I kept stirring. The outcome was scrambled eggs with bigger bits of white in them. This combination with the butter made for moist, tastier eggs. Add in the guacamole, and it made for a new breakfast meal staple.

If You Didn't Write It Down, It Didn't Happen

The title of this post is one the best pieces of advice I've gotten in my lifetime, and it never held truer till yesterday.

As I was getting ready to run errands, I headed to the bathroom to brush my teeth. Thinking out loud to myself, I had a idea for this Sunday's blog which made me happy. I even said, I should write it down now, then changed my mind to do it afterwards.

I got distracted with other thoughts, and putting my wallet, keys, and phone into pockets. So the idea never physically manifested onto paper or my iPod. One of my thoughts was to enable Siri so I could keep track for the future.

I'm hoping I remember it again.