Calling All AR Developers

A big thing in wearable computing is the concept of Augmented Reality (AR). The idea that you can have your headset overlaying reality and augmenting it. Don't like the graffitti on the wall? Your computer can replace it with a digital scenic view or classic painting. You could attach virtual post-it notes to things. You could meet someone in the street and instantly have all their information scroll up in a sidebar so it looks like you're a people person instead of a freak wearing a computer to compensate for your personal inadequacies.

I'd like one to put up a display with stats, like an RPG or a renai game. That way when I'm talking to the girl I'm interested I can gauge responses and such correctly by having the data in a way I'm familar with and that I can easily understand and observe the effects my actions have on the situation.

That way I wouldn't feel like I feel tonight where I'm not sure if I said the right thing or freaked her out or what. Honestly. I hate my fucking life. I wonder if I can get some kind of warranty replacement for my human relational skills? I'm seriously considering it because these one's I'm running are fully defective. I don't know where I stand at all at anytime, I don't know what I'm doing 95% of the time and the other 5% I'm suffering from insane delusions that "Hey. This girl is cute, funny, intelligent. And she seems to like me. Maybe we could hit it off" that always turn out to be more gutting that a triple vindaloo made with senna leaves.

In other news, I'm a stark raving basket case, destined to be alone for all time while everybody overtakes me in life career-wise, relationship-wise and family-wise.

So filled with hate...

So I apply for iinet's bangin', well priced ADSL service. Then I get the following e-mail


A full Service Qualification has now been conducted on your nominated phone
line. Unfortunately your application for ADSL has been rejected due to
Incompatible Infrastructure ? RIM (Remote Integrated Multiplexer).

RIM (Remote Integrated Multiplexer) technology allows a communications carrier
to run fibre-optic cable to a location and then convert the fibre signal into
traditional phone services. RIMs are significantly cheaper to install in remote
locations where there is no existing copper infrastructure, such as new outer-
suburban housing estates, outback bush and islands. Unfortunately, ADSL cannot
currently be applied to phone lines running through a RIM.

As this is a phone line hardware incompatibility, there is nothing iiNet can do
further with the nominated phone number. You are welcome to supply an
alternative line number for iiNet to try for ADSL compatibility if you have
one, or you may like to consider one of iiNet?s many dial-up options.


And then, I start getting their NEWSLETTER in my e-mail!!! I mean, you won't subscribe me to your service, but you'll send me your propaganda!!!!!???!??!?!! And additionally, I can't get tel$tra cable either, and I'm not forking out almost a grand to get satellite. So now we have Tel$tra, the national telco unable to provide somebody who lives 23km from the center of Brisbane, in the middle of an established suburb with either the infrastructure or ability to recieive broadband internet.



Anybody else see something wrong with this? Oh, boy can I count the fucking ways.

Ewwwww...

Apparently, Karaoke on Friday night was not for Bec's birthday, so I stand corrected, both in my comments section and in outraged type on her blog.

In other news, I feel like crap. I kind of got a little summer flu from work last week. As some of you know, the result of four years of Music Technology studies at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music has seen me gain employment as an AV Technician for a company that does conference staging and general AV hire. Consequently a sizeable part of my job involves running all over Brisbane in an econovan delivering whiteboards, data projectors and other assorted AV items. It's been really hot this last week and jumping in and out of 30 degree heat into a 23 degree air-conditioned building then back through the 30 degree heat into a 40 degree van doesn't help if you're trying to avoid an illness. Additionally, my throat was hurting a little on Thursday night so Friday night karaoke didn't help none.

On the plus side I got to sing more Savage Garden songs to piss off Patrick, but Shawn sang too and because she's his girlfriend his outrage was tempered. I also sang "I've Got Faith" which for those of you who bother to stay up late and watch channel 9, is the theme from Star Trek Enterprise, and because my voice was all husky from singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" I nailed it all cool.

Now I'm sitting in the office at work on a Sunday night waiting for people to arrive so we can go and pull plasma screens out of the Brisbane International Motor Show. Fun.

Wow, Blue Fairy!! I'm a Real Blog!!!

Panic tells me that my blog looks too much like a real one, what with all the quizilla quizzes all over it. So with great aplomb ask you to find out "What Kind Of Blog Do You Have?

Okay, so here's the lowdown. My band has it's webpage up at http://klokband.tripod.com. I went ice skating last night and got horriffic blisters from too small skates. Looks as though I shall have to buy a pair. At least I can afford to now. Uni goes back in two weeks, Bec is doing karaoke on Friday night for her birthday, Paul Coleman Trio are playing Gateway on Saturday night and Sunday night I have to strikedown the Brisbane International Motor Show. Yay, fun!.

This One I Agree With

The Dreamer
Escapes from society into a daydream where beauty
and adventure are all at her fingertips. She
still seeks to find aspects of her imagined
world in the real one, childlike almost in her
perspective, naive at times but genius at
others, a thirst for new ideas, new
information, new places all in the hope to find
what she longs for, but as of yet can only find
in her dreams...


A unique perspective on one's inner self: who are you?
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Accurate?

You are one of the few out there whose wings are
truly ANGELIC. Selfless, powerful, and
divine, you are one blessed with a certain
cosmic grace. You are unequalled in
peacefulness, love, and beauty. As a Being of
Light your wings are massive and a soft white
or silver. Countless feathers grace them and
radiate the light within you for all the world
to see. You are a defender, protector, and
caretaker. Comforter of the weak and forgiver
of the wrong, chances are you are taken
advantage of once in awhile, maybe quite often.
But your innocence and wisdom sees the good in
everyone and so this mistreatment does not make
you colder. Merciful to the extreme, you will
try to help misguided souls find themselves and
peace. However not all Angelics allow
themselves to be gotten the better of - the
Seraphim for example will be driven to fighting
for the sake of Justice and protection of those
less powerful. Congratulations - and don't ever
change - the world needs more people like you.


*~*~*Claim Your Wings - Pics and Long Answers*~*~*
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See????!??!?! More Evidence!!????!

Aphrodite/Eros


?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
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I'm A Princess!!

My inner child is six years old!

Look what I can do! I can walk, I can run, I can
read! I like to do stuff, and there's a whole
big world out there to do it in. Just so long
as I can take my blankie and my Mommy and my
three best friends with me, of course.


How Old is Your Inner Child?
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