Staticfree Blog

I finally have a cell phone. It took Cingular bloody forever to actually get me going with all the services i signed up for, but all's well now (if you for some reason desire my cell phone number, contact me). I'm quite impressed at how incredibly independent of any physicality I'm becoming: Cell phone for communicating with work and family, laptop for doing work away-from-home, and a backpack for the rest :-) I'm finding home as simply being a useful place to shower, store food/clothes, do laundry, find a comfy seat, and sleep; nearly all of which (save showering and sleeping for any extended periods of time) I can ( and do ) do on RIT's campus.

Maybe i should try living on RIT's campus, using the facilities there to survive for a few days - just as a proof of concept. I know where i can find showers and there're lockers into which i could toss some clothes. Or perhaps i can just leave it at knowing that, if suddenly my house was destroyed, with a bit of work I'd have a place i could crash for a bit.

I'm presently trying to train my computer to use my cell phone's text-messaging system if it needs to tell me something important. This is a bit of a challenging task, as my computers generally don't have anything particularly interesting to tell me. Maybe i can program it to pretend something's wrong so i can race to the rescue in my secret, invisible batmobile.

I was bored. Some time ago, I had the notion that it'd be nifty to see if I could use CSS's Real World™ length-units to measure things using the screen. "But how", you ask, "does one measure Real World™ objects with a computer screen?" "With a ruler", I proclaim! Yes, the entire thing's coded in JavaScript (using DOM, none the less), CSS and HTML. Most likely it'll only work in Mozilla though (and of course, Netscape 6.2+, Galeon, and any other browsers that use Mozilla's Gecko engine). Sad to say, they're the only graphical browsers that really support the standards well.