The Momma Loves Gringo

In a couple of days the momma and I will take a short road trip to visit a friend/colleague of hers to work on one of her projects. At first I was confused when the momma told me that her friend has a chocolate lab. The momma works in a lab so I naturally thought they had some research going on that involved chocolate. Could chocolate somehow prevent or ameliorate neurodegeneration? I’m sure that would make a lot of people very happy (and the momma surely would win the Nobel Prize)! However, I just got some even better news. His chocolate lab is actually a dog!

Just look at that cool way he wears his “slobbage”! When the momma and her friend are at work, us two dog dudes will be hanging out all week together. I’m way psyched about that!

 

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Tags: chocolate, dogs, holiday, research, science

These are the momma’s 13 favorite computer games (various platforms) of all time (you’d probably need an older computer to play many of these):

• Half-life

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• Grim Fandango

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• Castle Wolfenstein

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• You Don’t Know Jack

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• No One Lives Forever

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• Apeiron

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• Scarab of Ra

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• Hoyle Word Games

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• Hoyle Board Games

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• Scorched Earth

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• Black Dahlia

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• Alpine Ski

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• Creatures

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Tags: computer, games, trivia

Project Implicit

We heard about this project on the news. It is an online study from the collaboration of researchers at Harvard University, University of Virginia, and University of Washington. There are over 90 randomly chosen tests in political, ethnic, sports, and a variety of other categories. One tested the momma’s bias between boxers and briefs!

• More information
• The link to test your hidden biases: Project Implicit
• You may be surprised with what you learn about yourself!

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Tags: bias, ethnicity, implicit, political, preference, psychology, research, social, test

The earlier ticktots.com had lists of free mac software. We give it to you again in the category of audio. Since the momma is currently using Tiger, all of the software listed is Tiger compatible, however, there may be compatibility with Leopard or Panther in most of these applications.

• AudioSlicer: an mp3 splitter
• AutoRate: iTunes rater according to how often a track is played and how often a track is skipped
• Breakaway: Stop/start iTunes depending on whether headphone jack is inserted
• DrDJ: DJ software
• The Filter:
• iTunes2web: create beautiful web content from your iTunes music library
• iTunesShut: shuts down Mac after iTunes playlist has finished
• JewelCase: turns iTunes into a visual jukebox
• Join Together: automates joining of iTunes tracks together
• Moody: tag music files for playlists based on mood
• Orator: text to speech
• Quicktunes: places current iTunes track name and artist in menubar
• Say: text to speech
• Senuti: transfer songs from ipod to computer (donationware)
• SizzlingKeys: control iTunes with global hot keys
• SoundSource: fast audio input/output source switcher
• ThisWeekOnXM: view XM radio programming updates
• WordPod: an intuitive way to read books on your iPod

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Tags: Apple, audio, audiocity, computer, free, itunes, list, mac, music

Hola!

The momma and I are addicted to these TED talks. This 20 minute presentation is by Robert Full, a biologist who studies the specialized foot structures of various species (e.g., geckos, cockroaches) for engineering of improved movement of robots. How cool would it be to work in HIS lab?!?

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Tags: foot, science, TED talk, video