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Procrastination

Published on February 10, 2010 in Geeky and Tech. 0 Comments

I’ve been using an application called WriteRoom to write up reports and such lately. WriteRoom lets you block everything out and allows you to work against a black background. It helps me concentrate on only what I’m trying to finish writing. Whenever I try to work on something, I end up spending at least 200% more time than necessary because I let myself get distracted. What I’ll do is surf through sites like Wikipedia or go on Amazon and look up junk.

On another note, classes are cancelled because of the snow. What am I doing? Procrastinating by writing about how I prevent procrastination. I should really be studying for my chemistry exam.

Also, there should be a screenshot here of what WriteRoom looks like.

School’s Almost Out

Published on June 18, 2006 in Music, Personal, Photography and Tech. 9 Comments

I can’t wait to get out of school. I have just two more days left. This Wednesday, I am going to take a Regents exam for Chem. Then, I’m going to school for one period the next Wednesday to pick up my report card. I don’t think I mentioned this before, but I’m gonna be working at YoYoNation during the summer. I can’t wait to start. I’ll be getting paid and its my first job so that’ll be fun.

There are a few things I’d like to save up for with the money I’ll be getting. Now, I’m gonna try and hold myself back from splurging with the all money since I know I’ll need it later. Hopefully, I’ll find some way to “grow” my money.

Here’s my summer wishlist (listed in the order I’m most probably getting each):

  1. Brain Age: I really want this game since, as fun as it is, New Super Mario Bros. gets boring when it’s the only game you have.
  2. Canon EOS 350D: Lou and Aaron seem to be happy with it. I’d look at the Nikon D50, but I’m more of a Canon person. I actually wish I had enough money right now since there’s this rebate offer going on.
  3. Banjo: I’d really like to get a banjo sometime in the future. Maybe not now, but someday.

A Review of the Nintendo DS Lite

Published on June 16, 2006 in Geeky, Shopping and Tech. 9 Comments

New Super Mario Bros.

Recently, I had the pleasure of splurging on a Nintendo DS Lite with my birthday money. Let me say, it is one hell of a system. Just like Glen, this is my first system I’ve had in a long time. My last system was the original Game Boy Advance, which is so old now it’s missing its battery cover.

The DS Lite looks very nice. I didn’t like the look of the original DS so I didn’t want to get it last year. I’m into the sleek, minimalistic look, thanks to Apple, and the DS Lite has it going on. I’m not ashamed to carry it around in front of people with PSPs.

I didn’t feel like waiting for the other colors to come in the US, so I went ahead and bought the white one the day it came out. EB Games decided to get only enough DS Lites for people who reserved it. Best Buy was nice and had a lot in stock. All I had to do was go to the cashier and they’d get me one.

Originally, I had planned to get both New Super Mario Bros. and Brain Age. When I was at Best Buy, I decided to get just New Super Mario Bros. because my mom would be paying for it seeing as to how I had barely enough money for just the system.

New Super Mario Bros. is a really addictive game. It’s amazing how easy the bosses are yet how hard the levels are. I can’t wait till I meet up with others with DS’s. Pretty sure that’ll be fun.

Jahangir Khalu’s New Camera

Published on March 24, 2006 in Shopping, Tech and Vlogs. 2 Comments

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My uncle, Jahangir (Khalu is a type of uncle), got a sweet little Canon ZR600 and I was showing him how to use it. It’s really nice and easy to use. I love that it has 16:9 video as the default option. I just wish it were HD, I’d probably get it if it were.

Technology and Families

Published on March 7, 2006 in Personal and Tech. 1 Comment


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It’s amazing how technology brings people together. Back when I was a little kid, my parents would call up my relatives in Bangladesha and tell them about me. My cousin just sent me a video of my niece and nephew all the way from Bangladesh. For some reason, I find that really awesome.

Free Time

Published on January 24, 2006 in Geeky, Music and Tech. 3 Comments

Since I’ve got loads of free time all of a sudden, I’ve been looking around the web. I found two really nice videos.

I found a really cool music video for the song, “When I Wake Up,” by Wintergreen. I think the coolest part about the video is that they actually went to dig up the games that Atari buried in a landfill way back in like the 80s. At least I think they did. I have a soft spot for retro games and such. The song is also beyond cool.

I also found a really nice video of a guy named Jake (judging from the URL) playing, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” on the ukulele. I need to get one of those things. They sound really nice.

Just Another Sunday

Published on December 18, 2005 in Apple, Blogging, Friends, Gallivanting, Geeky, Photography, Shopping and Tech. 2 Comments

Photo Booth

Today, I went to the Apple Store with Rasidul and Sudman. It was pretty fun. We checked out the new iMacs and took Photo Booth for a test drive. It’s pretty cool. Something that’s good for when you have parties and such. You can just fire up your computer and let people take photos. Sudman and I took a really funny one, but we didn’t remember to post it to Flickr.

Sudman got a bunch of iPod nano Tubes for him and his sister. Sudman also blogged from the store. I wish he kept the browser open to his blog. I remember doing that way-back-when I used the old ‘zikken’ subdomain on Blog*Spot. I don’t think I had any readers back then. I just left one of the Macs subscribed to my feed. I also left a videoblog post on one of the (video) iPods.

Relatively Unrelated Things

Published on November 18, 2005 in Notes, Photography, Shopping and Tech. 3 Comments

I’ve found out a few things in the past few days. As the title suggests, they are relatively unrelated.

  • My LC-A should ship by Monday, if not, I won’t even bother complain since I want the camera too badly. I’ve been wanting to get a “lomography” camera since more than a year ago.
  • I found my Game Boy Color.
  • I am hooked on playing Donkey Kong Land on my Game Boy Color. The color looks horrible on the Game Boy Advance.
  • You should never blow into your game paks. This might be what you were taught to do to your non-working games as a kid, but this just makes it worse since the metal connectors get corroded from the water vapor in your breath. Just take a cotton swab and swipe it a few times along the connectors in the game pak.

Well, I guess some of those were related to each other. It’s just that I rarely plan out my posts.

Games to Get

Published on October 28, 2005 in Geeky, Personal, Shopping and Tech. 4 Comments

Nintendo!

I really want a game for my Nintendo. I’ve never played with it. I guess that’s because I never got the chance to get games for it.

Since my mom is pretty happy that I finally went back to getting 90+ averages, she says she’ll get me some games.

My first choice is definitely that 3-in-1 I was talking about. I also want to get some other games, since you can get them for cheap on eBay. Maybe Legend of Zelda. Do you guys have any suggestions to make?

Weapon of Choice

Published on October 18, 2005 in Education, Geeky and Tech. 6 Comments


My PDA, originally uploaded by cafenut.

This is my weapon of choice for NaNoWriMo. I wanted to use it last year, but was too lazy to find batteries. I hope my English teacher lets me use it if we work on our novels on computers.