Comments on: Caltech unveils microsopic microscope http://deviceguru.com/cal-tech-unveils-microsopic-microscope/ ...views from the Black Tower at the edge of the cloud Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: shadfurman http://deviceguru.com/cal-tech-unveils-microsopic-microscope/#comment-1475 shadfurman Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:39:46 +0000 http://www.deviceguru.com/?p=144#comment-1475 give nate a break... I thought it was a funny rant and an insight into behavior that we ALL do (in some respect or another) and often don't even realize. I don't think nate meant that he literally could NOT click on it, but that stuff comes to you all the time from friends passing stuff on should bare some value to your sensibilities. (personally I HATE the email chain letters... if you send it to all your friends it doesn't even make a chain... it makes a crumpled ball of metal and who wants that, almost as bad are the surveys... though on occasion if its from a crush they're useful to glean information from to put in my PDA cause I'm a guy and don't remember that crap, so then when I ask her out I can look up her favorite flowers and she'll be like... OMG your amazing! anyway I digress) ok... linus... do you really think nate doesn't have a life? Or a clue? Think it through now... maybe your right... or maybe... nate was being funny. Or using an exaggerative form of humor often described as satire to relate a well observed chemical reaction that had occurred in his brain. And Jack... dear Jack... do you honestly FEAR for the future? Does it haunt you? Keep you awake at night? Or was that adjective an exaggeration? Do you know Nate well enough to say he has no sense of personal responsibility, huh? In a world where people can't pick decent politicians after months of campaigning, or decent mates after years of dating, you think you can determine the responsibility level of Nate from four paragraphs of plainly formatted text? And me? Its ridiculous that I have the time to write things like this isn't it? give nate a break… I thought it was a funny rant and an insight into behavior that we ALL do (in some respect or another) and often don’t even realize. I don’t think nate meant that he literally could NOT click on it, but that stuff comes to you all the time from friends passing stuff on should bare some value to your sensibilities. (personally I HATE the email chain letters… if you send it to all your friends it doesn’t even make a chain… it makes a crumpled ball of metal and who wants that, almost as bad are the surveys… though on occasion if its from a crush they’re useful to glean information from to put in my PDA cause I’m a guy and don’t remember that crap, so then when I ask her out I can look up her favorite flowers and she’ll be like… OMG your amazing! anyway I digress) ok…

linus… do you really think nate doesn’t have a life? Or a clue? Think it through now… maybe your right… or maybe… nate was being funny. Or using an exaggerative form of humor often described as satire to relate a well observed chemical reaction that had occurred in his brain.

And Jack… dear Jack… do you honestly FEAR for the future? Does it haunt you? Keep you awake at night? Or was that adjective an exaggeration? Do you know Nate well enough to say he has no sense of personal responsibility, huh? In a world where people can’t pick decent politicians after months of campaigning, or decent mates after years of dating, you think you can determine the responsibility level of Nate from four paragraphs of plainly formatted text?

And me? Its ridiculous that I have the time to write things like this isn’t it?

]]> By: Jack http://deviceguru.com/cal-tech-unveils-microsopic-microscope/#comment-558 Jack Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:10:41 +0000 http://www.deviceguru.com/?p=144#comment-558 Nate is a prime example of why I fear for the future. Nate has no sense of personal responsibility. It wasn't his choice to click on the link sent to him by his friend; it's his friend's fault. Nate is an idiot. The technology, on the other hand, is very impressive. It's a great time to be alive! Nate is a prime example of why I fear for the future. Nate has no sense of personal responsibility. It wasn’t his choice to click on the link sent to him by his friend; it’s his friend’s fault.

Nate is an idiot.

The technology, on the other hand, is very impressive. It’s a great time to be alive!

]]> By: Linas http://deviceguru.com/cal-tech-unveils-microsopic-microscope/#comment-554 Linas Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:53:45 +0000 http://www.deviceguru.com/?p=144#comment-554 A jeez, Nate, get a life! (get a clue?) This is an impressive invention. Small-scale, low-cost microscopy is exactly the kind of thing that could save your life a decade down the line; coupled to powerful CPU's, it has the potential do achieve many many more things. A jeez, Nate, get a life! (get a clue?) This is an impressive invention. Small-scale, low-cost microscopy is exactly the kind of thing that could save your life a decade down the line; coupled to powerful CPU’s, it has the potential do achieve many many more things.

]]> By: Nate http://deviceguru.com/cal-tech-unveils-microsopic-microscope/#comment-552 Nate Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:39:11 +0000 http://www.deviceguru.com/?p=144#comment-552 What I am wondering, is why someone sent a link to this page to me. I will admit that this is interesting. But there are a million interesting things out there. You know what I think? I think RSS is kind of a bad idea. Why? Well, RSS bombards a subscriber with endless tidbits. An article here, a funny message there... Its non-stop. That's not so bad for the subscriber. But what about the instant message buddies of that subscriber... You see, because that subscriber is getting little tidbits all day long, he decides that he should share this with his IM buddies... I, someone who has never subscribed to an RSS feed, am one of those IM buddies. And so I get tons of quick IM messages... I open the IM, and there inside is a link... Being the knee-jerk internet junkie that I am, I click that link... Imagine putting some crack in front of a crack-head... Do you think the crack head would smoke the crack? I do... Well I click the link. I don't even think about it... I just click that link... As the browser opens and the page starts to load, I get that uneasy feeling of anticipation. And I like it. Then I start to take in what just loaded up... And low and behold. Its this... Its an article about a microscopic microscope. Well, that is kind of cool. Because just look at the play on words there... It is, what it is designed to act upon... Imagine for a moment some other instance of this strange phenomenon... A drilled drill. A pealed pealer. Well, nevermind... The point is, when I click that link in my IM window, I'm looking for a couple of things. First, is funny. I love the funnies. Second, is shock factor. And third is need-to-know... After that, it just turns into a big let-down. Kinda like when a crack-head smokes a big nugget of aspirin... He's so happy while he's suckin it down... But after a few seconds he realizes, "Hey! That wasn't crack!!". What I am wondering, is why someone sent a link to this page to me. I will admit that this is interesting. But there are a million interesting things out there. You know what I think? I think RSS is kind of a bad idea. Why? Well, RSS bombards a subscriber with endless tidbits. An article here, a funny message there… Its non-stop. That’s not so bad for the subscriber. But what about the instant message buddies of that subscriber… You see, because that subscriber is getting little tidbits all day long, he decides that he should share this with his IM buddies… I, someone who has never subscribed to an RSS feed, am one of those IM buddies. And so I get tons of quick IM messages… I open the IM, and there inside is a link… Being the knee-jerk internet junkie that I am, I click that link… Imagine putting some crack in front of a crack-head… Do you think the crack head would smoke the crack? I do… Well I click the link. I don’t even think about it… I just click that link…

As the browser opens and the page starts to load, I get that uneasy feeling of anticipation. And I like it. Then I start to take in what just loaded up… And low and behold. Its this…

Its an article about a microscopic microscope. Well, that is kind of cool. Because just look at the play on words there… It is, what it is designed to act upon… Imagine for a moment some other instance of this strange phenomenon… A drilled drill. A pealed pealer. Well, nevermind…

The point is, when I click that link in my IM window, I’m looking for a couple of things. First, is funny. I love the funnies. Second, is shock factor. And third is need-to-know… After that, it just turns into a big let-down. Kinda like when a crack-head smokes a big nugget of aspirin… He’s so happy while he’s suckin it down… But after a few seconds he realizes, “Hey! That wasn’t crack!!”.

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