An inside joke between me and my geek friends involves a conversation I began ten years ago that began “wouldn’t it be great if you could build a device to detect eye movememts that would replace your mouse?” Over the years the “device to detect” phrase became a running gag, useful for knocking the wind out of a hyper geek like myself.
Hey, you had to be there.
Anyway, someone has built a device to detect eye movements called OpenEyes. And its open source, too. So step off, you doubters!
I’m ripping another one of my CDs using Grip, the Linux open-source ripping tool. Ocne again I’m blown away by the exhaustive list of music genres I get to choose from. While variety is a good thing, I find it annoying that there are dozens of varieties of club music represented: house, trance, club, club-house, darkwave, electronic, Euro-dance, Euro-techno, Euro-techno clubhouse trance. I mean, WTF is all this stuff?
Don’t get me wrong. I tune in to Afterhours on WKNC and love the music. I think its some of the best on the radio. But I still wouldn’t know club if it, uh, hit me upside the head.
Somebody help me out here.
