nick humphrey blog

html suggestion - bookmark hyperlink with pixel value

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:45:00 +0000

would be cool if you could have a link like:
http://vg.no/#1100px

and it would open that page and then scroll down 1100 pixels.

pixmania - på lager == de bestiller varen fra et annet land

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:36:00 +0000

for noe tull, jeg bestilte noe fra pixmania og det sto at varen var på lager. på ups pakkesporing viser det seg at varen ble sendt fra frankrike!

cool colin powell quote

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:42:00 +0000

i don't know if he really said this, but who cares, the quote is cool:

pissing people off is both inevitable and necessary. This doesn’t mean that the goal is pissing people off. Pissing people off doesn’t mean you’re doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

source: The Benefits of Pissing People Off

brian regan - pretty funny guy

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:01:00 +0000

youtube him

adult linux humor t-shirt

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:48:00 +0000

i just made this t-shirt:
http://www.zazzle.com/sudo_blow_me_tshirt-235582841707912883

WWLDD? TEE SHIRT from Zazzle.com

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:56:00 +0000

i designed this t-shirt =)
WWLDD? TEE SHIRT from Zazzle.com

dropbox

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:11:00 +0000

a friend recommended dropbox to me the other day so i signed up to check it out.
got a mail from them today:

We noticed that you signed up for Dropbox a while ago, but never installed the software.

hey dropbox, did you also notice that you offer 2GB disk space? when you offer 5TB, then i'll lift a finger.

dactyl spondee

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:55:00 +0000

I had read in some book or other that the most favourable name for becoming famous was one consisting of a dactyl followed by a spondee, as at the end of a hexameter: like Jeremy Taylor.

or
Nicholas Humphrey
=)

blogger/blogspot get with it already! links to links!

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:30:00 +0000

why the heck doesn't blogger autoconvert urls to clickable links? such a pain to highlight a url text and then paste in the same text just to make it a hyperlink. get with the times google!

risenga svømmehall hjemmeside

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:05:00 +0000

holy crap, det tok lang tid å finne frem til denne siden. her finner du hjemmesiden til risenga svømmehall

mx44 tutorial

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:51:00 +0000

mx44 is similar to zynaddsubfx in the way that you control it using midi and it produces synth sounds.

to install it just do:

sudo apt-get install mx44

to use it:
1. start qjackctl
2. start vkeybd
3. start mx44
4. in the jack connections window (in qjackctl) connect mx44 to system in the Audio tab and then vkeybd to mx44 in the ALSA tab
then start pressing keys in vkeybd to hear sound

locked in locked out

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:12:00 +0000

our car has keyless entry/start which means that we just have to have the key in our pocket and we push a button on the door and it opens. we turn the ignition and the car starts, without a key.

when i drove home today and got everything out of the car and pushed the button to lock the car it locked, but i immediately felt like "how is that possible, i don't remember having had the key?"

when i needed to get my jacket out of the car later that night i noticed that the key was sitting on the drivers seat. i tried pushing the button on the driver side door to unlock the car, but nothing happened. i prayed that i would be able to get the door open, but nothing happened right away. i went back inside the house. later on i felt like i should go out and try one more time and that i should try to rock the car and push the button at the same time. i got to the car, grabbed the roof rail by the driver side and started to rock the car back and forth as hard as i could while pressing the button on the door at the same time. after about 5-6 "rocks" the door opened =)

today we signed the contract for the sale of our property in ormåsen. i'm waiting to take down my ads until the money is in the bank though. we also sold the baby buggy after we got home. 2 good sales today =)

ikke kjøp fra meeter.no

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:32:00 +0000

http://www.prisguide.no/shop_review.php?shop_id=300&act=review
mange dårlige erfaringer der
jeg skulle kjøpe 8gb microsd kort fra dem siden det sto at de var billigst, men jeg er glad jeg leste reviewsene før jeg bestilte...

Nicotine patch, the human body, sex drive and ADHD

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:21:00 +0000

notes from an email from a doctor in the USA in response to our telling him we give our son a nicotine patch to treat ADHD (recommended to us by an ADHD/Autism expert in Stavanger, Norway):

There are 3 sets of nerves-------Somatic--largest---Motor nerves to muscle.

-------------Sympathetic----mediated by Norepinephrine (a close relative of Adrenaline)--stimulates heart, blood vessels, gut, etc.

-------------Parasympathetic---mediated by Acetylcholine (AC)---controls automatic body functions---breathing, heartbeat, peristalsis, etc. When stimulated, AC is released at the nerve Junctions (Most nerves have 2 or 3 segments, rather than 1 long nerve) & at the nerve endings, where it produces a response in the end-organ. There are receptors in many organs in the body & also the brain, which then respond to the AC that is released.(The AC is then quickly inactivated by an Enzyme---Chlonesterase, so the reaction does not continue unless further activated from the Brain. The Receptors are of two kinds, Nicotinic (react as if given Nicotine) & Muscarinic (react as if eating certain mushrooms), & the response depends on which receptors are more prevalent or are stimulated more (not all respond in the same way).

I have found a good listing of the Nicotinic & Muscarinic effects in the Brain, but unfortunately the effects are all listed together, so I don't know for sure which is which, but since [your child] has been diagnosed with ADHD, then I think the Muscarinic effects might be some of the following------difficulty concentrating, restlessness, anxiety, or emotional lability. In any case, the Muscarinic effects could be counteracted by Nicotinic effects, which actual Nicotine could provide. Of course in the USA that is too easy, so there are drugs which cost an arm & a leg to treat Children or Adults with ADHD.

i personally use the nicotine patch to lower my sex drive and it seems to work great. i use half of a 7mg patch. my weight is about 77kg, if that has any value. i found out that the patch can reduce sex drive only by accident, because my wife told me to wear the patch myself to see how it affected my body since we were going to give it to our son.

in the meantime i have found this article about nicotine being bad for the arteries:
Your Sex Drive: 6 Essentials | Anti-Aging | Reader's Digest
where they say among other things:

Nicotine, on the other hand, is an enemy of the arteries. Nicotine not only promotes the formation of atherosclerotic plaque in the penile blood vessels but also constricts them.

i wrote this doctor in the USA to ask his opinion and this is his reply:

Though I have not treated Autism, or prescribed the Nicotine Patch, I can give my thoughts from reading of Medical Articles.

Yes, long term, heavy use could lead to Arterial damage in any arteries:, penile, renal, coronary, carotids. This applies mostly to heavy smokers for 20-plus years. With [your child], the considerations are these:
1): If there is an imbalance in body Chemistry, the bad side effects are less likely to occur. The difficulty here is knowing how much to give. The smallest effective dose is the goal & it may be acceptable from time to time to reduce the dose to see if symptoms recur, because over time he may need less.
2): As stated, use the smallest effective dose & not for more years than necessary. Some effects of overdosage or toxicity are: dizziness, falling, sleeping problems, vivid dreams, rapid or irregular heartbeat, or diarrhea.

Since your doctor is a specialist in Autism, my advice would be to follow along with him. Nicotine does not always work, but the same is true for the high-powered new drugs on the market, & they also have side effects. So if the Nicotine is working, I would say stay with it for a long period, but at a minimum dose.

UPDATE: i just read up on atherosclerosis

Cigarette habituation: A major and modifiable risk factor for atherosclerosis and is associated with an increased relative risk of dying from vascular disease. The mechanisms are complex and likely multifactorial and result in endothelial dysfunction and a relatively hypercoagulable state. This increased relative risk rapidly and significantly is reduced with smoking cessation. The relative risk is reduced to the extent that the incidence of coronary heart disease in people who have recently quit smoking is similar to that of people who have not smoked for at least 2 years. It should also be mentioned that air polution in recent years has gained increasing recognition as a contributing modifiable risk factor in the urban communities. The mechanism is thought to be through the participation of combusion derived nanoparticles acting through proinflamatory or alternatively direct cardiac toxic pathways.

it seems to me that this is talking about physical smoking of cigarettes, not the nicotine drug itself, since they bring up air pollution.

tele2 sheriff - 15 kr for å laste ned forsiden til vg.no i mobilen sin nettleser

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:03:00 +0000

tele2 sheriff skal liksom være billig, men les først datatrafikk priser.

12 kr per 1 Megabyte

forsiden til vg.no i dag var på 1.3 MB så det blir ca 15 kroner for å besøke vg.no i browseren. jeg tror det koster like mye å kjøpe avisen.

tesla bailout

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:27:00 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvzOdYVw6Pw
i like emforty2's comment:

we should have given tesla the $45Billion GM bailout

hdr - booooooooooooring

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:12:00 +0000

anyone else getting tired of hdr pictures? man i am...

gmail, youtube and funnordie.com all not working

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:50:00 +0000

is something seriously wrong at google?

gtick - ubuntu linux metronome app

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:57:00 +0000

pretty handy little bugger:

sudo apt-get install gtick

yatm - linux cli audio player - increase decrease playback speed in realtime

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:40:00 +0000

...without effecting the pitch! really cool =)
on ubuntu linux:
sudo apt-get install yatm
press + or - during playback
run man yatm for reference guide

you can also do this same effect using audacity: effects > change tempo

flickr groups about linux music production

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:55:00 +0000

here are some groups i've created on flickr regarding music production in linux:
Music Production on Linux
Audacity - free audio editor and recorder
Hydrogen - advanced drum machine for gnu/linux
Ardour - digital audio workstation (daw)

tempo rubato - changing / variable tempo

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:39:00 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubato
tempo rubato is a tempo where the speed changes, it can get slower or faster and is not constant like l'istesso tempo, which means keep the same speed.

fiddler on the roof, sabbath prayer scale

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:20:00 +0000

from what i can hear, the scale used in the song is (i haven't analyzed the whole song so maybe there are additional scales used):
C D Eb F# G A Bb
C D Eb (e flat) F# (f sharp) G A Bb (b flat)
can also be written like this:
C D D# F# G A A#
C D D# (d sharp) F# (f sharp) G A A# (a sharp)

download the midi file

from what i can find on the net this scale has several names:
Hemavati
Blues (Rag Madhukant)
Romanian, Gnossiennes
Dorian Ukrainian \ Romanian \ Gnossiennes - Heptatonic
Harmonic Minor - Mode 4
Bb Augmented
Dorian #4 (Harmonic Minor)

it is a beautiful sounding scale =) a definite favorite =)

geourl.org - find neighboring website gps coordinates

nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:10:00 +0000

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nick.c.humphrey@gmail.com (Nickleus) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:09:00 +0000

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