So last night I decided to begin my personal experimentations into Hemi-Sync, as I once planned long ago. I was going to bed a little early last night, so I figured there would be no better time to start the Hemi-Sync Gateway Experience from the very beginning, and really focus on making it work, as well as documenting my progress (or lack thereof).

Hemi-Sync Gateway Experience. Wave 1: Discovery - Orientation. Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007: 10:50pm to 11:20pm.

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I first heard about this book when author Daniel Pinchbeck guested on The Colbert Report to advertise the book. This was right around the time when I had just discovered a bunch of connections to all of this 2012 hoopla, mostly from the 2012 Wiki page. For this reason I immediately sparked interest, and wrote the title down on my ‘to read’ list.

It wasn’t until several weeks later that I came across it at a Chapters, recalling the interview I had seen previously, and decided to pick it up. Though I was really quite into it from the first night I brought it home and read a big chunk, I now have fairly mixed opinions about it.

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I really feel like I’ve had this album on my computer and I’ve been waiting to review it for so long. I’ve been listening to it on and off for at least two weeks, but it’s been really hard to get a good grip on exactly what I think of the album.

If I had to give a straight-up answer, it would definitely be some thumbs up.

Like I said, it definitely took me a little while to decide on my opinion of the album. It came as a pretty big surprise, as I hadn’t really been waiting or expecting Poison the Well to release anything new. The timing was good though, as I was in a really good mood for some PTW.

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definitive (de-fin-i-tive) adjective

I’m not sure which of these definitions fits properly to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s The Definitive 200, but needless to say it’s not any of them that I would choose. I don’t have much to say about this, nor do I want to, but here are so true WTFs of the list:

#50 GREEN DAY - DOOKIE
#57 50 CENT - GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’
#61 GREEN DAY - AMERICAN IDIOT
#68 KID ROCK - DEVIL WITHOUT A CAUSE
#84 LINKIN PARK - HYBRID THEORY
#95 CREED - HUMAN CLAY
#128 JAY-Z - BLUEPRINT
#154 WILL SMITH - BIG WILLIE STYLE
#189 JAY-Z - IN MY LIFETIME VOL 1

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I’ve always wondered these sorts of things, but this last year at university I’ve had a course called Life Beyond Earth which brought up some interesting, but otherwise obvious concepts. Here are some additional questions I’ve often pondered about an alien civilization should one exist (mostly assuming that they would be, indeed, far more advanced than we are).

A quick thanks to visitors arriving from The Anomalist. This isn’t exactly deep, critical thinking, but I’ve always been interested in these sorts of questions. So, if people are interested, I’m always willing to do some more in-depth discussion and research behind any of these questions or others. You may also want to check out the Science & Pseudoscience subsection for some posts on Out of Body Experiences, and other topics. Regards!

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Yesterday there was a bit of a discussion over at Slashdot about network sniffers. Someone mentioned a program called etherpeg, for Mac (of about 5 years ago) that sniffed wireless network traffic and displayed collected images. The idea sounded pretty fun, but I couldn’t find anything similar for Windows. What I decided to do was write up my own quick little script to do something similar — it’s probably not as interactive and instantaneous, but it works.

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I’m not a die-hard listener of The Locust, so I wasn’t really expecting too much when I came across a copy of their new album. I did much prefer Safety Second, Body Last (SSBL) to any of their other stuff — not just because it’s more accessible, but I just like the overall tone and sound of that album more. The first song from the album, ‘AOTKPTA’, really had me excited. It was really dark and slow, somewhat comparable to the stuff off of SSBL, but alas, I was wrong.

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Google has their own Summer of Code, so why can’t I have one too?

I like to try and make the most of my summers, and as much as I like doing nothing in the warm weather, I always like to work on some projects on the side. Inevitably, some of them will be programming-related. I have a pretty big list of projects I want to work on, but I’ll probably only end up getting around to one or two. But that’s okay!

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I recently created an AJAX-based auto suggestion textbox for a work project so I thought I’d share some code.

I’ve seen examples that used combinations hacked-up select boxes and multiple DIVs. However, I think I came up with a fairly good solution using nothing more than a textbox and an empty HTML DIV.

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I finally got around to installing a Gallery for my photos, so I’ll start uploading some of what I would consider the better picks from my thousands of photos.