Skaag's Blogodump
You live once, Live well!
Established 1973
Aug 27th
I’m 35 years old today. Goodness…! <gulp>
I decided I’m going to skip being weird this year, on my birthday. I guess this defeats the purpose because I usually am weird on my birthday, so not being weird this year will be weird in itself 
To all my friends and family, I’m proud of you all, and thank you for being part of the journey so far. Here’s to our future together, may it be a glorious one 
[UPDATE: August 30] I ended up being weird anyway, the majority of the day. I took half a day to walk aimlessly (some call this “walking meditation”). After half an hour of walking without thinking about a thing, I started thinking about life, and ended up performing some inner accounting of the many strange events of late. My wife ended up coming back from University after all, to spend the evening with me, and this seriously raised my happiness levels to the point where I stopped being weird 
Memories of the deceased
Aug 22nd
I hold the people dearest to me in my heart, at all times. I miss them. Some of them are no longer with us… I still get “miss” attacks, and during the more severe ones, I still sometimes cry. Mostly in secret.
Grandfather, I miss you so terribly. I cherish the years I spent with you in my childhood. I come from you. I will never forget. I miss you and I love you, forever. For all eternity. Until all atoms in this universe freeze. My life is an inspiration to yours.
Grandmother, I miss you so much. No creature can be said to have been more good hearted than you. Your goodness and kindness lives on in the memory of those you left behind. It is an inspiration to all who knew you, and I hope to not disappoint your ways by being kind hearted, just like you were. I was very lucky to have had a grandmother like you. I will never forget your kind face, your kind eyes, your warmth which radiated from you like a beam of high powered energy.
Hebrew in Mac OSX Java Applets
Jul 26th
If you use a Mac, and find yourself using some Java based Chat Applet, you will notice you can’t write Hebrew. The keyboard input refuses to even switch to Hebrew.
I googled for a solution, and found none. In the end, I found the solution myself. Here’s what you need to do, to get it working:
- In spotlight, search for “Java Preferences”, and click to run this utility.
- You will see a list of JVM versions: 1.6.0, 1.5.0, and 1.4.2. Simply switch to 1.4.2 and click “Save”
- You are done! Remember to completely close your browser, before you try again.
I know, you want to give me a hug now, don’t you?
If you want a brief explanation of why this happens (technical stuff), email me and I will try my best to explain.
Singularity very near
Jun 27th
When you read articles such as this one: Will a Computer be Implanted in Future Human Brains? you can’t help but say: Ah, the singularity is closer than ever.
For me there is no doubt that eventually, small parts of my brain will be enhanced and replaced, and eventually, all of it will be replaced. It will create a new me out of me, with extra dimensions. I’m betting it will also help me revive very old memories that lost certain associations and are stranded (Some brain “doctor” software will find and fix corruptions in my memory).
It is at this point that I will have the option to become immortal, by uploading my consciousness to a central hive mind, where I will be able to live in a virtual reality, and later, as more advanced robots exist, I will be able to inhabit a body that looks and feels like a real human body (kinda like what the Cylons did, in Battlestar Galactica).
I’ll try to cover more on this subject in my blog from now on, since this subject interests me a lot!
Update: Another article about controlling something with the mind: In the Future You Will Control Machines With Your Mind
How to properly measure your member
Jun 18th
Nonsense warning: I’m in a good mood, so I decided to write a completely silly entry in my blog. I did not try the method mentioned below, so try at your own risk!
There have been lots of debates on penis size. Some say size matters, some say it’s how you use it, etc. The “size” however is not always very well defined. Are they talking about Length, or Girth? Lots of articles (mostly written by Women) talk about how the length doesn’t matter, and it’s really all about the girth, and yet some other women will tell you the length AND the girth matter.
I say, the only right way to measure your Penis is not by length or girth – It is about absolute atomic mass!
That’s right boys and girls. And how do you measure this? Fear not, for I’ve devised a sure method for you Math challenged people, that will also make you look like a “Real Man” while measuring your mass (because Beer is involved). You will need a large empty pot, a glass of beer filled to the top, and a cooking scale to weigh the fluid.
The Beer Displacement Method (Thank you Leah for the name!):
- Step 1: Zero the scale by placing the empty pot on the scale, and turning the scale on. The display should show “0 grams”.
- Step 1: Take a pint of Guinness beer, and place it inside the pot.
- Step 2: Look at a photo of Scarlett Johansson to obtain an errection.
- Step 3: Stick your member into the glass, the beer will spill from the glass and into the pot.
- Step 4: Remove the glass from the pot, and weigh the liquid content.
- Step 5: You are done! This is the mass of your penis!
So from now on, when you brag to your friends about how large you are, remember: what really matters is your mass!
And another thing: If you are crazy enough to actually try this I will be happy to get comments below about your measurements!
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