Paper cuts, that’s right, you’ve had them, but why do they hurt so much? Check out paper cuts on Wikipedia. “A Moment of Science” by Indiana University Bloomington has a article about paper cuts. If you scroll down to the bottom of the article you can have it read to you or click here. (You need RealPlayer, but I’d recommend Real Alternative) Also Carbonless.org is a site about the evils of carbonless copy paper. They also have photos of paper under an electron microscope.

So as I was looking around the net I noticed there were a few things today, more than usual, that people have pet peeves about.

Some are:
• The plural of the word ‘virus’
• The proper usage of apostrophes
• It’s or Its (a simple explanation of each is here) and
• To who or whom it may concern.

• More people reading and writing blogs.
• More sites and a variety of projects using wikis.
• More people using RSS for blog syndication, getting podcasts, getting torrents.
• More cross-site integration.
• More mashups.
• More people listening to and creating podcasts.
• More vidcasts.
• More people using Flickr for sharing photos.   My Flickr Photos
• More people using BitTorrent for all kinds of content, free and legal content licensed under Creative Commons.
• A broader user-base for all of these.
• More hardware hacking fun.   To learn more about it go to Hack-a-Day, Make Magizine

In ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas,’ Charlie Brown mentioned aluminum Christmas trees and I was wondering what he was talking about. I searched on Google for ‘Aluminum Christmas Trees’ and found AluminumChristmasTrees.net. It explains what they are and they sell them too. More information about Chirstmas trees is on Wikipedia.

I just attempted to take a power nap. At first I tried to take a 15 minute one, but right when I was almost asleep my dog, Mindy, who was in my room, started barking! Ahh! Then I tried to go to sleep again for 20 minutes. I didn’t ever really fall asleep, well, I don’t think so. It was peaceful at least.

I did this because I am tired and I read about it at Life Hacker. The article referred to an article in Men’s Journal intitled ‘Snooze, You Win.’ The article said that there are five stages of sleep. By only sleeping only 20 minutes you stay in the light, but restful stage and arn’t groggy when you wake up.

I believe that this would work if I had followed the other rules for good power naps listed in the article. Such as napping in the morning or just after lunch and not drinking a sugared drink right before trying to nap. Another article just about sleep in general, including what sleep is, sleep patterns, how much sleep most people need of different ages. It’s called ‘Sleeping Well’ and it’s over at Royal College of Psychiatrists

Power Naps link
Sleeping Well link

• Random Shots

  Hello everyone.
  I found this interesting page with action figures doing different things. It’s kind of interesting.
  -Tim Ballas

• Gumby Cartoon Parodies

  Hello everyone.
  I found this site that has cartoon parodies of gumby. They’re pretty funny.
  -Tim Ballas

1. My Web Site
2. My Wiki
3. My Short Film Wiki
4. My Photos
5. My Old Blog
1. My Old Blog On Blogger
2. This Blog
6. My MySpace Profile
7. My Digg Profile
8. My 43 Things Profile
9. My Flickr Photos
10. My Last.FM Music Profile
11. My (Insert Other Web Service Here)

Get a program called TS 404 and SimSynth or other sound generators.

Now get Audacity for recording and editing.

Read this tutorial that covers everything you need to know about Audacity.

Get the LAME MP3 Encoder.

Read this tutorial that explains how to setup your sound card to record from the sound generators and other programs. (Only do step 3)

Read this short tutorial on setting up Audacity and recording with it.

1. “For you, I’d give up all I own
   And move to a communist country
   If you came with me, of course
   And I’d file my nails so they don’t hurt you
   And lose those pounds, and learn about football
   If it made you stay, but you won’t, but you won’t”
   In ‘Don’t Bother‘ By Shakira
2. “Pretty girl keep growin’ up, playin’ makeup, wearin’ guitar” In ‘Left Of The Dial‘ By The Replacements
3. “I say I miss you, I miss you” In ‘Return To Me‘ By Matthew Ryan
4. “I don’t want the world, I just want your half” In ‘Ana Ng‘ By They Might Be Giants
5. “How it makes you a weapon” In ‘Weapon‘ By Matthew Good

1. The worst actor to play the new Willy Wonka. link #1 link #2 I also just realized that Gilbert Gottfried [imdb] looks a lot like my old bishop.
2. Remade movies that had less of a budget than the originals. link