We Love you Joe Wong!

My name is JW. But, to most people, I am Who?
Hu is actually my mother's maiden name, and the answer to my credit card security question.
I just want to reassure everyone that I am invited here tonight.
I grew up in China. Who didn't? And my childhood memories are ruined by my childhood.
Like all immigrants, I too want my son to be the President.
My son says, "Dad, why do I have to learn 2 languages?" I say, "Son, because, when you become President, you'll have to sign legislative policies in English, and talk to debt collectors in Chinese."
Obama was conducting 2 wars when he was awarded the Nobel Peace P. And he accepted it. You can't be more badass than that. The only way you could be more badass is if you took the Nobel P P money and gave it to the military.
I was born in the year of the Horse and that is why I am a naysayer.
America's #1, because we won the World Series every year.
I have a quick solution for global warming. I will switch from Fahrenheit to Celsius.
I believe open dialogue and unilateralism are too expensive. So, if elected, I will switch to text messaging. I will text our allies even to say Hi. And I will text our enemies when they are driving.

On Ellen :

Are you guys afraid of the economy? I'm not. I grew up young, you see. If I become poor again, I'll just feel young.

To become a citizen I had to answer some questions :

Who was Benjamin Franklin? Uhhh... the reason our convenience store gets robbed.
What is the 2nd amendment? Uhh... the reason our convenience store gets robbed.
What is Row vs Wade? Uhh...  2 ways of coming to the United States.

Anything iCanDo, You Can Do Better

Have to give these guys credit for sticking around so long - probably been 20 years..

http://icanprogram.com/09tk/lesson6/lesson6.html

Their recipe for displaying the contents of a text field :

proc saveFile { } {
set fn "saveFile"
global f

set myFile [tk_getSaveFile]

puts stdout [format "%s:myFile=<%s>" $fn $myFile]

set line [$f.t get 1.0 1.end]
for {set i 2} {[string length $line] > 0 } {incr i } {
puts stdout [format "line=<%s>" $line]
set line [$f.t get $i.0 $i.end]
} ;#end for loop
} ;#end saveFile 

Here's my tweak that's much more elegant (off the web of course) :

set nLines [$f.t count -lines 1.0 end]
for {set i 1} { $i <= $nLines } {incr i } {
set line [$f.t get $i.0 $i.end]
puts stdout [format "line : %s" $line]
} ;#end for loop
} ;#end saveFile

A New Worthwhile Resource

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2012/01/15/how-to-strengthen-willpower/

Unity for All Mankind

Who are the geniuses behind Unity 3D? Seems, with my limited ken, an incredible piece of work.

Some people, somewhere, decided, wouldn't it be nice to do X, and wrote a proposal for it and got money and hired people and did it! Supermen.

Maker Faire SD

3D Printing is in - as it has been for 2+ years - at MF at least.

Astroprint is now applying the cloud to it - so you can print directly from your smartphone. Someone was talking about content being the next big thing in 3D. I've heard of ABS and PLA filament. Now, there seems to be PET. I saw a couple of prints that were metal - using a laser to do something to the powder - a rocket engine..

As usual, my to-do list grew bigger and my feeling of having wasted my life as well... Saw this young Asian guy talking about getting motors from China and hacking them to use for go-karts - with a DC brushless motor, you can drive them as hard as you want if you can get the heat out. He adds epoxy to motors, replaces ball bearings, you name it - and no formal degree yet. I've wasted my life.

There's San Diego Startup Weekend I'm looking at seriously : http://www.up.co/communities/usa/san-diego/startup-weekend/6504

DIY genetics hacking biology is getting bigger - at least in mindshare.. People know who Craig Venter is. Never mind no one wants to sleep with him. wetlab.org.

Altium started off in Australia, moved to China and are now based out of Oregon. Wow. They have a new FREE PCB tool called Circuit Maker. I guess user experience is the thing. Not sure in what way it's deficient compared to the pro version.

Q's Snapdragon was in a few places spread out. Anyone figured out why the h Q's stock has been beaten down so much?

In addition to pitching Robot College in Riverside, Tim Lewis, who does Disney's Animatronics (or did anyway) was pitching the greatness of Garner Holt : http://www.ghpproducts.com/animatronicdemos.php . They have a massive machine shop he said after telling me animatronics is multi-disciplinary.

How to Deactivate Suunto Core All Black Military Watch

Press all four buttons at the same time and keep pressed. You'll hear a beep and then the screen will stop displaying information.

Why Not Work on a Cure for Cancer?

Consider these smarties :

In China, iOS app developers used a counterfeit version of xcode (which is used to develop apps) to develop apps because it downloaded faster.

Then, the hackers modified this counterfeit version to plant malicious code.

How smart are these guys? Don't they have relatives they love who die of leucosemia? Mann!

Be Nice to Anonymous, Or Else

I wonder if they can give me justice. Maybe I should take my story to an anon..

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack/

Cute One : Nostradamus by Max Gunther

Well, maybe. The verses are in such indirect, mystical language that you can interpret any of them to prove anything you want to prove. Leaning over backward to be charitable to the ancient seer, I once studied a hundred of his prognostications and ended with the following statistical summary: Three forecasts were correct, eighteen were incorrect, and the remaining seventy-nine were such dense gibberish that I simply didn't know what the old Frenchman was driving at. Not a very impressive record. Yet Nostradamus managed to make a name for himself in the world of prophecy -- a name that any modern oracle would love to equal.

Nostradamus wasn't often right, but he sure was often.

Hemp : A Drug Good for You

Marshall Goldsmith - "Am I happy?" is the wrong question. The right one is "Am I doing my best to be happy?" Along those lines, are you doing your best, in every meeting to be (HEMP ) :

Happy
find Meaning
Engaged
build Positive Relationships