just found this cool app via the TUAW Flickr photo pool. Nocture is a schweet little app (from the makers of one of my other favorite apps, Quicksilver) that can change your monitor settings so it looks like the classic green screen CRTs or, how I’m using it now, to make it more night vision friendly. Shades of red and orange don’t mess with your night vision as much as most colors. So, I told Nocturne to use a shade of red. It also inverts the images (black->white white->black) so it gets even darker.
     I’m using it as I type. So far I really like it. Check it out, and download Quicksilver too, it’s sooo useful.

     Now for the less geeky bit. Dad got tickets for my trip up to Solarfest. I leave on the Monday before (the 9th), and fly back down here the 18th (wednesday after SF). So come find me, I’ll be in the rush of crowds, most likely taking pictures or something for Haley’s mom

–Nate

this is hysterical. Just….read it!

If you’ve never read userfriendly and are a tech geek, you should subscribe in any way possible. This one i thought was laugh out loud funny

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies and Games, Reviews and Previews

     I don’t know how many know about this site, but it’s great for finding movies to rent or go see on a rainy day. Has a sense of humor, which is always good, uses “Tomatometer” to measure how fresh a movie is. Sometimes I wonder about some of their ratings (“Dave Chappelle’s Block Party” has 93% freshness, though i’ve heard that it’s not too good) but it’s been recommended by many. So before you rent, go see, or *coughcoughillegallydownloadcoughcough* a movie, check out RottenTomatoes.com

     Am obviously back from the beach, was fun. Pictures somewhere on the site soon. They want me to make a slideshow of it. Probably throw that on when I make it. Want to redesign the site, too lazy. calendar.frayedwires.com has my schedule, even right, though the issue is it doesn’t have the calendars selected by default. Kill it.

If only someone could design a theme for me…

For those of you that haven’t been around my site and seen my links, I have a stories section now, which i occasionaly write in. check out stories.frayedwires.com

What’s up all? I’m gonna try to do a train of thought type entry here. Twill be interesting. School today, boring as ever. May be building a new machine and selling current one to a teacher. OH! you guys should check this out: Skype offers free US and Canadian phone calls ’till end of year. Pretty crazy. If you have a microphone and high speed on your computer then you should definetly call someone with it. Go ahead.

The blog has risen again. Tempted to make from scratch a new template for this place. Want to find a way to change the header image for the time of day. Or just an easier way to change it to what I want. Good ol server, I like having my own. So cool.

Anyways later, wondering if anyone ya know reads this since it’s inactivity.

This is INSANE. It even has the “baseball” wireless signal sign, and it works. The whole outfit is made out of multiple programs used in harmony to create the OS X experince.

The people are even crazy enough to make their site act like OS X. It boots up and everything. It’s really incredible the detail they have. I commend them on the huge effort it must’ve taken to get this up and running. Good Job!

In other news for the mac’s among us, i’m being distracted by the next thing i’m gonna talk about: tickr for flickr. Search for tags in flickr and they scroll wherever you want them till they run out. It’s amazingly awesome.

Finally, i’d like to get your opinion on something: should i make a separate blog just for my geek stuff, and try to keep this blog more generally general? I’d appreciate any feedback on that matter, the comments or email will be fine.

And how can you live without tabs?

Some dude named creature created this very silly site: Pimp My Nutcracker!!!

its hysterical, have fun
by the way: reporting from pittsburgh, free wifi in the terminal. Loving it!!!

Carson Williams from Mason, Ohio used 88 light-o-rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights

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Dude, this is taking xmas lighting to the EXTREME. And if anyone knows the song their playing in the video, could you send me the name?

This thing is crazy! Be careful, this link could cause many hours of gawking and wasting of time figuring out how it works and watching all the sequences that is: The Blue Ball Machine