log entries of timotheus

This is a rant.

A couple days ago my good friend maiki twittered about listening to his iPod via a bluetooth headset, and how much he enjoyed it. My response was “I fricking hate bluetooth headsets”. And we are talking the white fury pumping through your veins hatred. It was such a strong response I was a little surprised. I thought I’d sit and talk about bluetooth headsets, and why I am not a fan.

My biggest grievance with bluetooth headsets is I feel they are a waste of electricity and lithium. A corded counterpart will work just fine, but we don’t want to deal with that. After being used for, lets say 300 recharges the inner rechargable battery will be fairly shot, and you’ll have to replace it. I can reconcile using materials like this for devices like cellphones, because they need to be portable. But to use some of our limited resources to make batteries for wireless headphones, just because we don’t want to hassle with cords seems wrong to me.

I am not saying people should throw their bluetooth headsets away; the material has already been used to create it. When it comes time to replace your headset, maybe think about just going the corded route.

That is all; rant is over.

Wow, turn your head and there goes 19 days since the last update. Since my last entry I have probably eaten at least 100 cookies, since they are being baked in massive quantities by family and friends. I have yet to meet a cookie I haven’t eaten. It just seems impolite.

I have most of my holiday shopping done with, there is just one more present I need to order for my Dad. I know what it is, just haven’t made the order yet.

Speaking of my Dad, him and my Grandmom are coming back to visit on the 29th, so I have under ten days to get the house clean. It isn’t bad, the only part I would consider needing the most help would be the back room, and that is because I use the dinner table to hold all my papers, books and stuff. I need to go through and get rid of what I do not need in the pile.

Monday I am going to go to Loch Raven library, which I haven’t been to since I was ten. They are open 0900 to 2100, and I am hoping to get there when they open and put down some serious word count.

I hope everyone had a good wrap-up of their semesters if they were in school, and are looking forward to the winter break.

Things are moving very quickly for me now. There is a sense of urgency in all my projects I’ve been working on that wasn’t there before. Listlessness is at an end.

I’m not sure how this change came about, but it was definitely a mix of several things. I’m not ready to explain it, because I can’t. Maybe I will one day.

I have so many things I want to do, and the future is uncertain as always. If I can work on these things that I feel are important, and also bring me joy, then why postpone their creation?

Also, I made a pretty big decision a couple weeks ago. In this decision’s aftermath, there has been a sense of peace that I rarely feel. It is similar to when I decided to move to Baltimore one year before I actually did. As soon as I made that decision, it always felt exactly like the right thing to do, and I never second guessed it. It is the same with this decision. Also, I’m running into little things everywhere that reinforce that it was the right decision. It is very calming. I feel like it is a permanent change to the makeup of my character.

Mobile Stocks is a simple WAP page designed to easily allow a user to check the stocks they own, and see how they are doing for the day. No data is stored on the site, everything is done in the URL. To use:

-Go to: http://hithlonde.com/ms on your cell phone or other mobile device.
-On the main page, enter the stock and number of shares you own and hit enter.
-The next page shows you the info for that stock, and a place to add another symbol.
-Keep adding stock symbols in this way until you have your portfolio how you want.

And that is it. You can see the last price, the gain/loss for the day, the gain/loss factored into the number of shares you own, and the date. Underneath is a total, showing you what your overall gain/loss is for the day. It is recommended you bookmark the page, so you don’t have to enter all your stocks every time. You can refresh the page to update the quote information. Also, please note that quote data is delayed 20 minutes.

Mobile Stocks is WML-based which, although isn’t always pretty, should be compatible with nearly every cell phone or mobile device. One exception to this is the iPhone, which doesn’t support WML. The financial data comes from yahoo.com.