April 29, 2006

Doctor Who night & the army of robots

I love this BBC2 Doctor Who promo from 1999. Not only is it done really well and captures that little-scared-child-behind-the-sofa feeling that used to be synonymous with Doctor Who, but whoever produced it must love vintage toy robots. It looks like they raided our SPACEBOYSTOYS collection.


April 24, 2006

GeekNews: Mac OS X to run Windows apps natively

In the near future, probably before the end of 2006 or latest early 2007, Mac users may be able to natively run Windows-only programs directly within Mac OS X without having to literally run Windows at all. Now this is cool news! Read on...


OS X to run Windows XP apps natively?

Apple may be planning to implement the Windows API (Application Programming Interfaces) directly in Mac OS X 10.5, which would allow Mac users to run Windows XP applications natively in Mac OS X without rebooting and without the need for virtualization software. Robert Cringely, in his latest column, also reiterated that Apple may migrate Mac OS X to a faster kernel, abandoning the older Mach microkernel presently in use. Apple and Microsoft in 1997 agreed to a five-year patent cross-licensing agreement, which ended in August of 2002 -- 10 months after Windows XP began shipping. The columnist believes Apple may be planning to utilize Microsoft's own Windows API, coupled with a faster kernel under the hood to offer users the ability to run Windows XP applications natively from their Mac OS X desktop, with the optional ability to dual-boot into Windows Vista once it ships in 2007.

Read even more detailed info about this here and here.

April 21, 2006

Soooo gay, and I love it

April 19, 2006

Blogroll description, how funny

Recently discovered description of me on Dead Robot's blogroll. I'm amused (thats a good thing).

  • Fellow Bearish robot fetisher from NYC. And he writes a mean blog!

Neat! I never thought of robots as a fetish but I guess it is so. And am I
mean as in a nasty cruel kunt, or as in wickedly cool?

April 18, 2006

Easy Does It Back There

It's not that anyone has been clammoring for me to blog, in fact not a peep has been heard. Hmm, I guess my readership is down. Oh well, it's not like I receive money for this, so who cares. This is my entertainment as well as yours.

Life has been quiet lately and yet busy. Family stuff busy and personally quiet. On top of that, since I've finally decided to get my ass back to working out again (haha), I started and then a few days later strained my neck and shoulder muscles (with 20 pounders no doubt! huh?). So now I have to wait to heal and revert back to my schlub-self. I'm OK with it for now because I can surround myself with big muscle-bound men friends. Can't join 'em, then surround yourself with 'em. I just really want to heal and stop the pain. So I've enlisted the help of a new
Chiropracter, who's office is quite charming, unconventional, yet very calm and relaxing. Unlike my old Chiropracter (Adam), who's office was like a circus and not very relaxing at all. Sorry but truth be told.

Other than my physical woes, I've been immersing myself in some rather geeky things at home. Like setting up my own wired network (wireless sucks big time with all the security risks, interference, and bandwidth issues), enhancing my RoadRunner bandwidth, souping up an old Graphite PowerMac G4/DP500 tower and running Tiger server (that's Mac OS X server 10.4) on it, dusting off an old Windows-PC (gasp, Robocub using a PC?!) to run a dedicated Halo game server on it and trying to start a gay Halo clan, called the PinkPanthers. And of course also just playing Halo a lot and a getting my ass kicked real bad by a bunch of anemic zit-faced teens. And since I have a Windows-PC (reads: serious security hazard) on my network now, I've had to make sure my firewall is secure. And thanks to a reliable source, I'm quite content that it is locked down all neat and tight, no swinging saloon doors.

Hey, I didn't have such things as a kid, so now is the time to try it. And as Margaret White in Carrie (1976) said, "I liked it, I liked it!" Back in my childhood day, we only had Atari, and those old 4-bit (or was it 2-bit?) games were hardly exciting. I'm actually not into video games much, but my buddy Davis has kinda gotten me into it, and it's a good thing. My hand/eye coordination really needs improvment, and jerking off just doesn't exercise that skill the way we'd like to think it does.

April 11, 2006

Windows on my Mac, Heeeellll No!

I really don't understand what all the hoopla is about having Windows running on a Macintosh (only on the new Intel based Mac models). Well maybe it's a big deal for the drone legions of Windows users. But for a Mac user like me, I have no interest in having Windows on my Mac. Why on Earth would you even want to use Windows when you have the Mac OS?

I'm only hoping that this is Apple's way of getting more Windows users to buy a Mac and trying out the Mac OS. Because once you go Mac, you never go back. 'Tis true. The very interesting result in the news is that the new Intel based Mac hardware seems to run Windows and other PC software better than a typical ugly ol' PC. Now ain't that amusing. I suppose it's called quality engineering.

But seriously, I'm a techy and have been using Macintosh since 1988. I also don't live in a vacuum. I've had lots of experience using Windows. I choose not to use it because I know it sucks and I know I don't have to use it and neither do you. Case in point, my man Eddie used to have a Dell laptop. Even as a techy guy, it was a constant vigilance on a daily basis to keep that thing clean and running smooth because of constant spyware threats and virus concerns. I finally had it, and we threw the damn Dell running Windows laptop in the trash. My man now has a vintage Mac G4 Cube on his desk. He loves it, and amazingly for 6 year old "vintage" technolgy, it seemingly runs faster and better than that 2 year old Dell now at the bottom of a landfill somewhere. I'm tellin' ya, it's all about the operating system.

Now I don't wanna come across like Mac and Apple hardware are a problem free blessing to the Human race. As with any machine, they all have issues at one time or another. Systems cans crash, files can go bad, and of course there's the human error element.

But here's how I see things from my informed perspective, where myths don't apply;
  • Even though Mac OS now runs on Intel based Macs, it's still a better sleeker easier operating system with much better security. It's all about the OS, not necessarily the hardware it runs on, which is what all the talk is about now. Granted the move to Intel (the engine), I think is a good one only because they are fast and backed by a rather large company.
  • Windows itself is at the root of the security issues for all PCs because it's such a legacy ridden piece of software, meaning it tries to be all things to too many old and outdated PCs, equipment, and other software.
  • The Mac OS is essentially UNIX with a very pretty face on it. UNIX was built with security in mind. It may not be perfect but it's a hell of a lot less prone to security issues than the leaky drafty Windows. Even as the Mac OS becomes more popular and will attract the attention of hackers and evil doers, it's still a much more secure system and much harder to crack or attack.
  • It is a total myth that there is more software available for Windows than Mac. But to be real, yes, quantity wise, there is more software for Windows. But what kinds of software? Total shit that you would never even use. There is a bounty of software available for Macintosh, in fact every major software package you could want runs on Macs. And most of them actually started on Macs first.

Oi, I really should stop the OS wars rant here. I've kinda made a promise to myself that I would not rant this rant anymore. However I have agreed with myself that I will never ever tell anyone to buy a PC running Windows and will always suggest a Mac. I also will never ever give friends technical support for Windows, but will try to help when I can for their Mac issues.

But I guess ultimately the fact that you can run Windows on Mac hardware is about choice, and better options and choices are always a good thing.

April 08, 2006

The Internet; scrambled or over easy?

So every now and then I check out my stats. What does that mean, you ask? Well stats are like how many visitors I've had to my blog, or how many people use a certain web browser, or which operating system they use (makes me vomit that 67% use Windows), or what City/State/Country a visitor lives in. And then there's one stat that I rarely ever look at, but since I was home and bored and looked at all the other stats, I figured...hey, let me look at this particular stat and see what it says.

It's called "Recent Keyword Activity". It shows which Search Engine was used and what keyword[s] were used to search, where my blog turned up. So I'm looking at each one and then I see someone just searched "robocub" on Yahoo. So I clicked the link and it shows me the results. Now what I see amongst the results just makes no sense. And here it is...

Thought Not: Mourner's Kaddish
... ROBOCUB on Snaxx. ROBOCUB on What's Old is New Again -- And We're Just Older. ROBOCUB on I have nothing to say. ROBOCUB on I ...

Thought Not: The Guy With The White Dog v.2
... With The White Dog v.2. ROBOCUB on Snaxx. ROBOCUB on What's Old is New Again -- And We're Just Older. ROBOCUB on I have nothing to say. ROBOCUB on I ...

Now I'm sitting here and thinking, WTF!? Why is Oliver writing ROBOCUB this and ROBOCUB that in a bunch of nonsensical non-sentences. So I click the links to investigate further and the resulting page which is Oliver's blog has nothing to do with the Yahoo results showed, I mean nothing. My name is not mentioned anywhere, nor is Snaxx (which is hard to believe since Oliver mentions Snaxx all the time). So I think the Internet is totally wacked out and scrambled up like eggs.

Someone who's really smart please explain to me how this happens.

April 06, 2006

What dreams may come

Some 40 years later and my dream has come true. Not that I'm 40 yet, but nearly that time ago when I was 5, I'd run home from school everyday to watch another episode of Lost in Space on WNYW channel 5 at 4pm M-F. It was the high point of my day. And I was in love with the Robot and wanted one of my own.

Now as we're in the infancy of the 21st Century, a company is actually mass producing my adored B9 robot. Now every little (or big) Will[ma] Robinson can enjoy their very own bubble-headed booby mechanical friend.
B9Creations has produced a life-sized B9 for your very own, all for a mere sum of $14,000 smackeroos.

Is "overseen" the same as "overheard"?

Overseen or Overheard recently...

Which "A-list" starfucking fahion-bear was recently spotted in a dark corner of a Friday-night west Chelsea nightspot on his knees um...
admiring the muscle[s] of a member of a local bodybuilding thruple?

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April 04, 2006

TOP OF THE BOT

OK kiddies, today's discussion will be all about Tops & Bottoms....


Nah, suckers! Too bad my April fool's is 3 days late. The Bot I'm referring to is, as in robot.

I've finally eeked out a little bit of web design (please excuse my poor design aethetics) and placed some of our robots in full view of the world on that internet thing. Check 'em out via the links below.

ROBOTS1
ROBOTS2



P.S. As much as I'm an
Apple fan, I really don't care much for their new iLife '06 suite and how it doesn't interact well with the .Mac suite, especially iWeb. What a piece of crap!

April 03, 2006

ROBOTS O' THE DAY #1

Today I'm starting a new series called (duh), ROBOT O' THE DAY. I guess it'll be similar to my MAN O' THE DAY series, which I haven't had one in way too long. I need to remedy that real soon.

With ROBOT O' THE DAY, I'll show a robot from our extensisve toy robot collection and give a little bio and history if available.

Today's ROBOTS O' THE DAY are three little goofy twerps that I've named "Huey", "Duey", and "Lewey", after the little helper-bots in the movie Silent Running (1972).

These little guys stand about 2 inches tall and are made of all plastic. Their source of locomotion is powered by a mini wind-up spring. Their cuteness is only enhanced by their goofey walking pattern; as they walk, each of their heads rocks back and forth from side-to-side, in a drunken-like wobbling motion.


April 01, 2006

Looks Are Deceiving; He Is and I'm Not

An interesting conversation I had last night with my friend Steven, of Confessions of a Weblog (aka the now defunt APT3E). Steven claims that his recent sexcapades detailed in his blog are actually true. And I admit I was a little shocked and also envious. To this I called him a whore (not that that's a bad thing). I immediately expressed to him that he looks so innocent. And in turn he expressed that I looked like I am what he does. We laughed. We're each other's opposites. He's an innocent looking whore. And I'm not a whore who doesn't look innocent. I think I like that.

GAYDAR equipped cell phones

News from Phonescoop.com - Bravo Offers New Mobile Service For Metrosexuals
source: NBC Universal


A new application from Bravo TV hopes to straighten out the many thousands of city dwellers confused by the trend that their show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, may be responsible for.

The network is offering a new picture messaging service for gay men and straight women to identify whether a man is actually gay or is just well groomed. Users simply take a picture of the man in question and send it in an MMS (multimedia message) to 429327. An advanced algorithm on the server will determine the sexuality of the man in question and send back a text with the answer.

Despite the purpose of the application, Bravo is hesitant to mention that the short code spells out "GAYDAR."


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