Optimus Maximus Keyboard: Want it ....

I wish I had $500 to drop on a keyboard. After many years of rumors the Optimus Maximus is finally on sale. Each and every single key is like a little LCD screen and can display anything you want. That means that fonts on the keyboard are all custom, you can put a little picture on the keys, whatever you want.



The video below (a little long) shows all the cool things you can do with it. I will begin taking donations to the get "Franklin this keyboard foundation" now.

Random Updates ...

It's been a few days since my last update so I guess I should write something. Warning this is all over the place.

I missed way too much class this week. I will try catch up with all my reading this weekend, I swear.

Work is going great. Today I was put in charge of drafting a complaint for an upcoming law suit. For the non-law people, a complaint is the first step in filing a law suit, I am actually writing the lawsuit, the document where I tell the other side why they should give me money. This is fun.

I had lunch today at the Standard. This is a classy restaurant/bar/hotel. I've been there before at night, but it looks so different in the daytime. It was described by my a co-worker as diner and I must agree, and expensive one.

On my way back home I met another Techer! I looked at her for several minutes before I figured out where I knew her from. I saw that she was a couple of pages away from being done with her book so I waited until she was done. In true Techer fashion as soon as she finished that book she took out another one from her bag. She was a Mole who graduated a couple of years before me and quit science like me.

On a completely different topic. I decided that I will go to Nicaragua this summer. I just the need final dates from Becky so that I can join her at the end of her volunteer work down there. I'm looking forward to this. The fact that I know I have a guaranteed summer position at works takes away a lot of stress and allows me to commit to summer travel.

Tonight as usually nothing planned. Saturday morning class usually keeps me home Friday nights. Sadly, 8:30am work meetings will also keep me in Thursday nights. I guess I should be happy I at least have Saturday.

Baby Girl....

I spent a large portion of my Saturday night not at a random club, or bar, or party, but holding a new born baby girl.

I loved it.

I got to meet Lucy, Jim and Ami's newborn daughter last night. I drove down to San Diego yesterday and missed most of the welcome home baby party they were having because of traffic (it took me almost 3 hrs to get to SD!), but at least I got there in time for a surprise engagement announcement.

Many at the party went out to dinner afterwards. Here I got to meet many members of the Ami's and Jim's family that I had not met before, or don't remember from their wedding. Afterwards I spent a few hours at the apartment talking to Jim/Ami and holding Lucy. It was almost midnight by the time I left. A day well spent. Here is a picture of me and Lucy: (the rest here)

Story Time...

One of the thing that really sucks this term is that I have Saturday class. This is the tradeoff for not having class on Tuesdays and Friday so that I am able to work on those days. The class is actually not bad, I'm learning how to draft technology contracts which will be immensely useful to me. My professor doesn't really do any socratic method, he barely even asks questions in class. One of the reasons for this is that he loves telling stories. I will share one now.

When he was working as an attorney in the 80's he had a client who was developing some type of horror video game. They wanted to display random horror films clips throughout the game and needed help acquiring licenses for this. They really wanted to use clips from The Rocky Horror Picture Show so he went and talked to the studio about a possible deal.

The guy he talked to was really excited, but said that he needed to talk to his legal department and get back to him. A couple of days later he called back and told him that he would not be able to offer him a licensing deal. My professor asked why. The studio guy said that it would cost too much money to go back and renegotiate with all the actors to allow for third party licensing for new media. My professor said that it shouldn't be a big deal since this is going to be a non-mainstream game and will probably not even sell that many copies. To that the studio guy said this, "When the studio originally made the film it was not expected that movie would be a success, as such, the actors were paid the bare minimum per day since they were mostly unknown actors. When the movie became a success it was a huge surprise to all and the studio made millions from it. The actors got nothing and were very upset because they did not get to share in the success of the movie. Basically we screwed them over, and we are afraid that they are going to do the same in negotiations over new distribution media, so we rather just not bother."

So in the end lawyers killed the idea of a Horror Picture Show video game. The professor's client ended up using clips from foreign silent movies already in the public domain. This was cheaper too, but I still like to the possibility of a much funner (totally made up that word) game.

Killers-Move Away

[Can't sleep, so here are some lyrics to what I am listening to]

Don't worry bout what might have been

Just tell your woman that you're sorry

And you jumped out of your skin

Listen closely to your motto

Don't worry bout what might have been

Tell the jury that you're sorry

And just jump out of your skin

I wanna jump out of my skin

I wanna jump out of my skin

And watch the clouds

-Killers, Move Away

Happy Valentines ....

On this Valentine's day I sent somebody flowers (happy), learned that my huge crush from middle school got married (sad), talked to a girl who told me I was her first boy dance (happy), and read about mathematical meat (happy?), surpassed temptation (again one of those secret things, but overall sad), and watched my favorite movie (happy).

Overall a good day I guess.

First Day of Work ....

Today was my first day of work at KBK, a good first day. It took me a while to get settled, but everyone was nice and I look forward to working with the people there.

I have like 5 subjects I want to talk about. All about suing random companies under various theories, but I will refrain myself since I am not allowed to talk about ongoing cases. This will suck for me, but at least I get to have fun in the office. I will probably funnel my excitement about the cases with a couple of memos to the boss about what I think the relevant issues are.

In other news, I decided to give up facebook for a week. There are three main reason for this, first I waste too much time there. Second, I did not want to be tempted to log to the website while at work. The last reason is a bit more personal and I will give bonus points to any friends who can figure it out, but I highly doubt they will. I like secrets.