Flicker in the Light
The flame that burns too quickly, too brightly in the darkness, becomes a mere flicker in the light.
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Tales of a Murderous Tooth Fairy
Tales of a Murderous Tooth Fairy by Blake Robinson
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Looking Back
Hard to let go of the past when it's the only thing that keeps you looking forward.
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CSharp Notes and Pitfalls
Things not to do and things to remember about C#...
Just notes and things I want to remember when I'm coding C#. Sometimes these things take hours to catch when the fix is simple, if you knew about them in advance.
RichTextBox.Text - do not update in a background thread even if each thread has its own RichTextBox (building multiple control objects in parallel, for example). This will cause a memory corruption error and either cause your program to crash or hang every so often (which makes it even harder to notice).
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Clouded By Doubt
What do you do when you've done the impossible but no one believes you?
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Best Pocket Camera So Far? Sony RX100
I haven't been following cameras that closely but just saw this today.
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DSC-RX100-Sensor-Digital-Camera/dp/B00889ST2G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1348019580&sr=8-2&keywords=sony+rx1
Apparently it's also very small like any other pocket camera but has 20 megapixels (+2 times the usual sensor size for image quality) instead of the usual 10-12. When did that happen?
Scary - can't wait to see when pocket cameras beat professional cameras
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DSC-RX100-Sensor-Digital-Camera/dp/B00889ST2G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1348019580&sr=8-2&keywords=sony+rx1
Apparently it's also very small like any other pocket camera but has 20 megapixels (+2 times the usual sensor size for image quality) instead of the usual 10-12. When did that happen?
Scary - can't wait to see when pocket cameras beat professional cameras
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Android Resources
Rooting, restoring system apps, etc...
Below are some resources I found useful to clean out my phone and also repair when things go wrong.
Phone Apps
GPS Test -...[More]
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Nothing But Nothing
Always in a rush because you'll do nothing but nothing if you die... And who knows how long it'll be before you're reborn again.
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Dreaming in a Coma
Living the dream until waking to find you've been dreaming in a coma...
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Theme de La Cite des Enfants Perdus OST 1C
Thème de La Cité des Enfants Perdus OST 1C by Angelo Badalamenti
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Chrome as a Spider
Helping Google find pages not necessarily linked anywhere...
Interesting discussion at Webmaster World on how Google might be indexing pages that are otherwise private or hidden from the rest of the world. Ran into this a few times myself when trying to set up a few heavy-load test scripts, only for it to get indexed and get outside hits as well. <_<Some of the discussion floating around has been centered on the parsing of URLs in gmail messages, as well as indexing pages someone using Chrome or Google toolbar visits.
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Can and Saw in Delicatessen
Recently watched "Delicatessen" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro (very interesting film by the way 
). Ironically what caught my attention a lot more in the film were the toys, particularly the moo-ing can and saw used as an instrument.
For a while, I could not figure out what the can was actually called (Googling something without a name is hard), but I managed to find the item here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K7OHNI/
They call it a cow voice but similar products on other sites have different names. Basically the toy is a simple-looking can with no electronics or batteries. When you flip it, it emits a "moo" (or "bah") sound. Quite pointless but that's the point.
The saw is actually a pretty popular instrument it seems. It's called a "musical saw" or "singing saw" and is also available on Amazon (without teeth), though I suppose any real saw and cello bow would work as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Snap--Industrial-296-Stradivarius-Musical/dp/B002IB1C6K/
It's also on MusicalSaw.com as a complete set and guide:
http://www.musicalsaw.com/
Definitely going to try to learn it the next chance I get. The sound it makes doesn't seem like a real instrument (more like a ghostly computer-generated synth) but I thought it sounded pretty neat in the film.
). Ironically what caught my attention a lot more in the film were the toys, particularly the moo-ing can and saw used as an instrument.For a while, I could not figure out what the can was actually called (Googling something without a name is hard), but I managed to find the item here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001K7OHNI/
They call it a cow voice but similar products on other sites have different names. Basically the toy is a simple-looking can with no electronics or batteries. When you flip it, it emits a "moo" (or "bah") sound. Quite pointless but that's the point.
The saw is actually a pretty popular instrument it seems. It's called a "musical saw" or "singing saw" and is also available on Amazon (without teeth), though I suppose any real saw and cello bow would work as well.
http://www.amazon.com/Snap--Industrial-296-Stradivarius-Musical/dp/B002IB1C6K/
It's also on MusicalSaw.com as a complete set and guide:
http://www.musicalsaw.com/
Definitely going to try to learn it the next chance I get. The sound it makes doesn't seem like a real instrument (more like a ghostly computer-generated synth) but I thought it sounded pretty neat in the film.
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