Every time I practice meditation I use the Neurosky to record my brainwaves and then you can chart how your brain is changing (if at all) over time! Pretty neato, right?
A really cool thing about the Neurosky Mindwave is software that allows you to record brainwave information during meditation sessions and chart those data over time!
The headset measures 8 brainwaves (Delta, Theta, Low Alpha, High Alpha, Low Beta, High Beta, Low Gamma & High Gamma) and also has a chip-set algo that reads these 8 wave-forms in real time and outputs them in two additional channels called "attention" (one-pointedness of mind) and "meditation" (openness of mind).
On Thursday evening, I finally managed to get the NeuroSky headset I ordered working with my computer! The headset is a BCI (brain-computer interface) that measures your brainwaves in real-time and sends a stream of data wirelessly to your computer where it can be used to interact with computer programs.
Here's a photo of my playing one of the simple games that comes installed where you try to make barrels on the screen explode by focusing your attention on them.
And we stayed up late looking at photos on my computer. Ellen gets tired waiting two years for me to post photos on this site, so sometimes when she's over she likes to get a sneak peeks into what's coming down the line (eventually). Hahah.
I designed the new look in Photoshop, and then once I had something I liked, I spend a bunch of time trying to relearn CSS (shit keeps changing and it's harder and harder to keep up!) and make my code match my design. (Remember for years and years my site used to look like this?)
I came home to find Meredith hard at work on lesson plans to teach kids the fundamentals of computer programming using MIT's SCRATCH programming language!
After they got back later that evening, we watched Stefon SNL clips and gorged ourselves on COOKIES! (Peanut butter cookies with a Hershey kiss on top are my FAVORITE!)
Later that night I used an adapter I'd recently purchased to copy all the data off a bunch of IDEs I had laying around. (Oh, the things we do to keep our data around).
Sarah asked if she could use my computer to look at something new of the interwebs called Chat Roulette! (Man, this already seems like 10 years ago?!?).
I spent Monday night writing captions for the Nerve Party and Karaoke Times Two entry. (On my screen you can see the interface for the content management system that I wrote to publish this site!)
And laughed our asses off typing the beginnings of racist questions into Google. Their "auto suggest" feature is basically a window into the collective mind of modern man. "Why do men..., why do women..., why do white guys, ...why do honkies..., why do asians..., why do asian men..." There's no end to the fun you can have with this.
As soon as I got home that night, I downloaded the Android SDK and tried to write a Notepad application. I had marginal success, but gave up like 2 days later when the Android App market was flooded with like 200 version of Notepad apps.
My computer, which I'd purchased in 2002 and had been steadily upgrading for six years, finally met its match when I tried to run the Eclipse editor for Java. Every time I tried to compile, it would take like 10 minutes. Guess it's finally time for a new computer. *Sniffle*
After craft time we decided to watch Peep Show Season 5. If you haven't seen Peep Show yet, you should check it out. Easily one of the funniest shows ever made.
After we were done at the reserve, we headed back to the resort! Meredith hopped on the internet to do some emailing, and I headed out to the boat for a two-tank afternoon dive!
Awww, yeah. This is the computer where all the I Keep a Diary magic happens! (Er, or at least this is what the set-up looked like back in June of 2006!). I was hard at work updating the site when Meredith convinced me to stop being a nerd and head up to Times Square (on a Friday night? Crazytown!) to go to...
As anyone who's been over my apartment can attest, as soon as someone comes near my computer, I'm always overtaken by the NEED to show them all the funny videos and/or pictures I've recently found. So with a huge audience crammed into my tiny room, it was no surprise that I busted out my favorite video of all time - the video of the teenage boy that tries to launch a bottle rocket out of his asshole.
I hooked it up to my newer computer and spent a whole bunch time browsing my old files and copying over anything of interest before I f-disked it and put it up on craigslist.
On Tuesday after work I headed over to Sarah's apartment to finish packing up the stuff I'd left in the room I'd been subletting in her apartment. I put it all into her little grocery handcart and pushed it over to the our apartment I 5 short blocks away.
We commissioned Vin as our vandal, er, artist...and on Sunday (with seven days left until Fatty's birthday), he came over to my apartment to look at pictures of Fatty and start sketching out some ideas for the mural.
Here's Fatty later on that night at my place checking his JDate email one last time. Because Fatty's like one of three Jewish guys on the site that's taller than six foot and has all his hair, the kid gets more emails than he knows what to do with.
I got home to find Tara hanging out in my apartment and wearing my underwear. Hey, you'd be hiding your face too if I'd caught you drinking drinking a wine cooler! Cuh-lassy! Hahaha
Vin and Allison slept over in my guest bedroom - and someone, Vin I think managed to snap this late night picture of me being a dork and working on this very site. That's right ladies and gents, that desk is where it all goes down.
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