There is a little known fact about sleep apnea that most people don't realize. I've been using a Bi-Pap machine (in case someone is unaware, it's a machine that has a mask that I put over my nose, the hose goes to the machine and the machine pushes air into my lungs so I can sleep at night because my airway closes when I sleep) for a couple of years now and when I wake up every single morning I have a dry mouth (due to some medications, so say the people at the C-Pap Company) and also my nose is dry.
My bi-pap machine has a little tank filled with water which is on a heater also known as a evaporator. The heat heats the water and then the air pushes the evaporated water into my nose and lungs so I don't wake up with a dry nose, throat, lungs and mouth. Well, it doesn't work that great. As I said it's due to my medication but I don't know. I mean, my nose is always so dry that it starts hurting. I'm always sniffling because of the dryness and I am also doing this half twitch, you know like Samantha in Bewitched, I don't do the full twitch, just half to try to I don't know actually why I do it but I'm always doing it lol.
So tonight I was flossing and I went to look for toothpaste and came across this tube that looked like toothpaste but it was Vaseline so I squirted some on a Q-Tip and put it inside my nostrils around inside there to cover up all the dry areas. It's only been a few minutes and it is already starting to help. I never thought about that before and I'm glad I saw it.
I don't normally use Vaseline (hush you) because it's a female product in my opinion. I remember watching my mom after she got out of the shower and had her nightgown on and she just started smearing that stuff all over her legs and arms. She had psoriasis so I don't know if that's why, because her legs and arms were dry from that. But she also would put it on her face full of make-up and she would use a wash rag to wipe it all off and all the make-up was gone. So because I've never really had a need for it I don't buy it. But it is a good product I guess.
If this works with my nose then perhaps I might think about buying some more if I run out of what I have. I'm really sick of all this dryness in my nose.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
KFC Weekend Special
Starting today until Tuesday Feb 17th, KFC has a weekend special for President's day. Although their weekend special seems to be about 6 days. Anyway, the commercial says that you get a whole chicken which is 8 pieces, mashed potato's and gravy, cole slaw and 4 biscuits all for $12.95.
Well, it's kinda false advertising. A whole chicken would consist of 2 breasts, 2 thighs, 2 legs (drumsticks) and 2 wings. We went there today and the pieces were 4 thighs and 4 legs. Not exactly a whole chicken.
Personally it doesn't matter to me. 2 pieces of chicken, mashed potato's and gravy, cole slaw and a biscuit is enough for 1 meal. Chip bought an extra order of Macaroni and cheese, the family size and I added 4 apple turnovers (2 for him and 2 for me).
We don't normally go there because they are a bit expensive compared to Albertson's chicken dinner which is like 8 pieces of chicken and 1lb of salad (cole slaw, potato salad or macaroni salad) and a package of 4 Hawaiian rolls for like $5. I do prefer KFC over grocery store chicken but I just can't afford it.
It was good though mmmm mmmm so good.
Well, it's kinda false advertising. A whole chicken would consist of 2 breasts, 2 thighs, 2 legs (drumsticks) and 2 wings. We went there today and the pieces were 4 thighs and 4 legs. Not exactly a whole chicken.
Personally it doesn't matter to me. 2 pieces of chicken, mashed potato's and gravy, cole slaw and a biscuit is enough for 1 meal. Chip bought an extra order of Macaroni and cheese, the family size and I added 4 apple turnovers (2 for him and 2 for me).
We don't normally go there because they are a bit expensive compared to Albertson's chicken dinner which is like 8 pieces of chicken and 1lb of salad (cole slaw, potato salad or macaroni salad) and a package of 4 Hawaiian rolls for like $5. I do prefer KFC over grocery store chicken but I just can't afford it.
It was good though mmmm mmmm so good.
Joaquin Phoenix on David Letterman
On February 11th 2009, Joaquin Phoenix was a guest on the David Letterman show. Wow, was he messed up. This guy who was once gorgeous now looks like the unibomber. Take a look.
There was a video right here from YouTube of Joaquin Phoenix on David Letterman but CBS forced YouTube to take it down due to copyright infringement.
By the way, this is my 500th blog post YAY WOOHOO! Eh, whatever.
There was a video right here from YouTube of Joaquin Phoenix on David Letterman but CBS forced YouTube to take it down due to copyright infringement.
By the way, this is my 500th blog post YAY WOOHOO! Eh, whatever.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
My Last Kindle Obsessed Post.... Maybe
Ok, 1 last thing about the Kindle. I know I mentioned in my first Kindle post about how you can email your text files to your Kindle but as I read more about it I find out more stuff.
It's not just text files. It's also pdf files so if you have a manual in pdf format then you will have it on your Kindle. Sometimes if you buy like a DVD player or a printer or whatever, I'm pulling at straws here, you can go to that manufacturers website and download the manual in pdf format. Well, who wants to sit and read the manual on the computer? Especially if the hardware you need to read about is in the other room. Say it's your tv's manual or your washer and dryer. You can just download that and send it to your Kindle and it converts it to Kindle format so you can read it.
I'm not sure if the Kindle puts your e-books, e-magazines and e-newspapers in categories or not, I think it would be a good idea though because if you get e-newspapers you will want them to be stores in there in folders. Like say you get the LA times and the NY times. Well, you don't want them to be in the same area as everything else like your books. If you get the newspaper and magazines on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis then the list will be too long so if you want to search for the book you are reading you have to scroll through the list of stuff.
Ok getting back to what I was talking about with sending text and pdf files to your kindle. You can also download free e-books and send them to your kindle. Oh and I read you can send pictures too. Now, I'm not too sure about pictures with black and white technology. I think I would much rather enjoy my pictures in color so that would certainly be something I would want to have but somewhere down the line when it has color. Right now I have all of my photo albums cropped to widescreen 3x5 for my PSP and the pictures are pretty small so when I go to show them off it's still a good size to look at but you know, it's still small. But at least I can carry all of my pictures. But you can't see them in the sunlight on my PSP.
Oh that reminds me. You can read your kindle out in the sunlight and it shows up just like a regular book thanks to e-ink. The screen isn't shiny either so there is no glare from the screen. If you are using a cell phone or pda or something as an e-book you have to cover it with your hands to be able to see it outside in the sunlight. Well, the Kindle with e-ink allows you to actually see what you are reading. And since it doesn't have a tv type of a screen you can't see it in the dark but the new Kindle 2 has lights around the page I think on both sides. Or maybe that was another e-book, I don't remember now, I'm getting them confused. I did see a Kindle light that clips to the kindle but it was made for the Kindle 1.
Ok, I can't make any promises that I won't obsess any more about this. I've pretty much touched on everything that I can think of but who knows, maybe tomorrow I might read about something that I didn't know and obsess about that. Maybe my obsession will have so much text that you will have to convert it all into pdf format and it will be so long that it will be your next e-book or e-novel. Maybe I'll shut up about it. Who knows.
It's not just text files. It's also pdf files so if you have a manual in pdf format then you will have it on your Kindle. Sometimes if you buy like a DVD player or a printer or whatever, I'm pulling at straws here, you can go to that manufacturers website and download the manual in pdf format. Well, who wants to sit and read the manual on the computer? Especially if the hardware you need to read about is in the other room. Say it's your tv's manual or your washer and dryer. You can just download that and send it to your Kindle and it converts it to Kindle format so you can read it.
I'm not sure if the Kindle puts your e-books, e-magazines and e-newspapers in categories or not, I think it would be a good idea though because if you get e-newspapers you will want them to be stores in there in folders. Like say you get the LA times and the NY times. Well, you don't want them to be in the same area as everything else like your books. If you get the newspaper and magazines on a daily, weekly or even monthly basis then the list will be too long so if you want to search for the book you are reading you have to scroll through the list of stuff.
Ok getting back to what I was talking about with sending text and pdf files to your kindle. You can also download free e-books and send them to your kindle. Oh and I read you can send pictures too. Now, I'm not too sure about pictures with black and white technology. I think I would much rather enjoy my pictures in color so that would certainly be something I would want to have but somewhere down the line when it has color. Right now I have all of my photo albums cropped to widescreen 3x5 for my PSP and the pictures are pretty small so when I go to show them off it's still a good size to look at but you know, it's still small. But at least I can carry all of my pictures. But you can't see them in the sunlight on my PSP.
Oh that reminds me. You can read your kindle out in the sunlight and it shows up just like a regular book thanks to e-ink. The screen isn't shiny either so there is no glare from the screen. If you are using a cell phone or pda or something as an e-book you have to cover it with your hands to be able to see it outside in the sunlight. Well, the Kindle with e-ink allows you to actually see what you are reading. And since it doesn't have a tv type of a screen you can't see it in the dark but the new Kindle 2 has lights around the page I think on both sides. Or maybe that was another e-book, I don't remember now, I'm getting them confused. I did see a Kindle light that clips to the kindle but it was made for the Kindle 1.
Ok, I can't make any promises that I won't obsess any more about this. I've pretty much touched on everything that I can think of but who knows, maybe tomorrow I might read about something that I didn't know and obsess about that. Maybe my obsession will have so much text that you will have to convert it all into pdf format and it will be so long that it will be your next e-book or e-novel. Maybe I'll shut up about it. Who knows.
Amazon Kindle 2
In my previous blog about e-books I talked about the pro's and con's of e-books. Well, most of the day I've been obsessively researching e-book technology and I have to say that I'm really excited about the future.
E-books use e-ink. They don't hardly use any power so the battery lasts a whole week. You turn it on, press the menu and find the book you are reading, and by the way it shows in that menu the page you were on so you don't have to find where you were at, it keeps it bookmarked from the last page you were reading. Then you click the book you want to read and start reading. Once that page is loaded it stops using any of the power from the battery. You can have it sitting there for an hour on that page and it won't use any power. Once you press the button to turn the page then it uses power to turn the page then you see the words change and then no more power usage. The battery will last basically a week before you have to charge it at all. And when you do charge it, it takes about 2 hours to charge.
If however you are flipping through the Amazon website and flipping through pages of a e-magazine then yeah, it's going to use a lot more of your battery and it will probably last 2 or 3 days before needing charged.
I love the idea of waking up every morning and the newspaper is already downloaded on your kindle.
It would also be good if the catalog companies would deliver their catalogs directly to your Kindle so that you don't have to 1, wait for them to come in the mail and clog up your mail box and 2, waste paper when you throw it out. This way you can flip through them then delete the file when you are finished reading it. That is if you decide you want to, you can keep it if you want.
Another thing I want to obsess er um I mean discuss is the hard drive. The previous Kindle 1 from last year only has a 256mb hard drive allowing you to store 200 e-books but the new Kindle 2 has a 2GB allowing you to have a hell of a lot more. I don't know exactly how many but it's a lot. Can you just imagine maybe in another year or 2 when they come out with the Kindle 3 it might have 2TB. Then you will have a crap load of books and magazines and newspapers. You won't ever have to delete anything because you will have tons of room.
As I said in my last post, I'm waiting for it to be cheaper, in color and have touch screen. Well, I watched a video today of the guy who invented Amazon talking to Martha Stewart and she kept mentioning color e-ink and he said it was in the labs. Not their labs but in labs period. Well, I've been seeing e-books with color e-ink so I know it is possible and I'm sure in Kindle 3 it will have color e-ink.
My other issue is about the touch screen. I think is is a lot better than buttons. I saw an e-book from Dvice.com that was touch screen, all you do is press and drag the page and it turns the page, or you just press the right side of the pager to flip it. And also when you are on the website trying to buy a book you touch the screen for the keyboard and it comes up so you can type the name of the author or book title. I think the Kindle keyboard is just too much. Although it does have more of a use than just buying books, you can make notes in your books. You can also highlight sentences.
E-books use e-ink. They don't hardly use any power so the battery lasts a whole week. You turn it on, press the menu and find the book you are reading, and by the way it shows in that menu the page you were on so you don't have to find where you were at, it keeps it bookmarked from the last page you were reading. Then you click the book you want to read and start reading. Once that page is loaded it stops using any of the power from the battery. You can have it sitting there for an hour on that page and it won't use any power. Once you press the button to turn the page then it uses power to turn the page then you see the words change and then no more power usage. The battery will last basically a week before you have to charge it at all. And when you do charge it, it takes about 2 hours to charge.
If however you are flipping through the Amazon website and flipping through pages of a e-magazine then yeah, it's going to use a lot more of your battery and it will probably last 2 or 3 days before needing charged.
I love the idea of waking up every morning and the newspaper is already downloaded on your kindle.
It would also be good if the catalog companies would deliver their catalogs directly to your Kindle so that you don't have to 1, wait for them to come in the mail and clog up your mail box and 2, waste paper when you throw it out. This way you can flip through them then delete the file when you are finished reading it. That is if you decide you want to, you can keep it if you want.
Another thing I want to obsess er um I mean discuss is the hard drive. The previous Kindle 1 from last year only has a 256mb hard drive allowing you to store 200 e-books but the new Kindle 2 has a 2GB allowing you to have a hell of a lot more. I don't know exactly how many but it's a lot. Can you just imagine maybe in another year or 2 when they come out with the Kindle 3 it might have 2TB. Then you will have a crap load of books and magazines and newspapers. You won't ever have to delete anything because you will have tons of room.
As I said in my last post, I'm waiting for it to be cheaper, in color and have touch screen. Well, I watched a video today of the guy who invented Amazon talking to Martha Stewart and she kept mentioning color e-ink and he said it was in the labs. Not their labs but in labs period. Well, I've been seeing e-books with color e-ink so I know it is possible and I'm sure in Kindle 3 it will have color e-ink.
My other issue is about the touch screen. I think is is a lot better than buttons. I saw an e-book from Dvice.com that was touch screen, all you do is press and drag the page and it turns the page, or you just press the right side of the pager to flip it. And also when you are on the website trying to buy a book you touch the screen for the keyboard and it comes up so you can type the name of the author or book title. I think the Kindle keyboard is just too much. Although it does have more of a use than just buying books, you can make notes in your books. You can also highlight sentences.
Digital books, Newspapers and Magazines
Have you seen the new e-books that are coming out? If you go to www.dvice.com you can see the new Kindle 2 along with 5 other e-books. This is the future of reading people.
I see some pro's and con's to this whole concept. The pro's that I see are a more green way of reading. You don't have to worry about the fact that they are cutting down trees for your reading pleasure. All your newspaper and magazine subscriptions come straight to your e-book automatically on the date they are normally delivered to your doorstep or mailbox.
But the con's are that if you want to buy a magazine that you see at the grocery store at the checkout counter, you can't because they are all gone. That's the beauty of buying those rag magazines is that you normally wouldn't buy a subscription, you just get 1 magazine. And the newspaper is sorta similar, some people don't want it every day, they just want 1 paper. And you won't be able to clip out an article and paste it in a album showing that you were in the newspaper. Instead now you have to go to the newspapers website and search for that article and print it out. Or you can just take a picture of the article up on the screen on your e-book.
But on the other hand, if you are able to take a screen shot of the article then said article will never turn yellow over time.
**HUGE EDIT** I took out how I talked about a huge flaw in the discount and the edit about how there is a discount but some books don't. I guess if you buy a book with a huge $20 discount you can't complain when a book costs more than the actul paperback. In those cases, just buy the paperback.
Me personally, I look forward to the digital conversion. The Amazon Kindle 2 connects to their website so you can search for books and you don't have to pay for the connection to the internet. And I SO look forward to the newspaper being digital because maybe if there is urgent news you might get an evening edition. Who knows.
The only issue I have with this whole idea is that they are so freakin' expensive right now. $359 for the Amazon Kindle 1 and 2. Ok, why is the Kindle 1 still $359? The Kindle 2 has a bigger hard drive and 25% more battery life, it's also thinner and lighter. The kindle 1 has 256mb hard drive, the kindle 2 has 2 GB. Yet they are both the same price? That makes no sense. I think they should bring the price down on the Kindle 1 as an incentive to buy it as a starter e-book for people who can't afford it. Then later when they want to upgrade then they can buy the Kindle 2.
What I am waiting for are 3 things. The price to drop, color and touch screen. I watched a video on the Amazon Kindle site where the guy who created Amazon was on Martha Stewart and she kept asking about color and he said that it's in the labs so it is going to be in a future e-book. Let's hope there will be touch screen soon too for the Kindle. I went to Sony's e-book site to check prices and they are way more than Amazon. I'd much rather have the Kindle in that regard.
Add: I forgot to mention that one of the pro's of the Kindle is that you don't even need a computer to buy and download books, magazines and newspapers. And if you want a document to be on your kindle you just email it to your kindle account and it converts the file to the kindle file so you can keep it there. So you aren't just limited to Kindle books, if you buy a book somewhere else (or if someone gives you a copy of an e-book) you just email it and it converts it.
I see some pro's and con's to this whole concept. The pro's that I see are a more green way of reading. You don't have to worry about the fact that they are cutting down trees for your reading pleasure. All your newspaper and magazine subscriptions come straight to your e-book automatically on the date they are normally delivered to your doorstep or mailbox.
But the con's are that if you want to buy a magazine that you see at the grocery store at the checkout counter, you can't because they are all gone. That's the beauty of buying those rag magazines is that you normally wouldn't buy a subscription, you just get 1 magazine. And the newspaper is sorta similar, some people don't want it every day, they just want 1 paper. And you won't be able to clip out an article and paste it in a album showing that you were in the newspaper. Instead now you have to go to the newspapers website and search for that article and print it out. Or you can just take a picture of the article up on the screen on your e-book.
But on the other hand, if you are able to take a screen shot of the article then said article will never turn yellow over time.
**HUGE EDIT** I took out how I talked about a huge flaw in the discount and the edit about how there is a discount but some books don't. I guess if you buy a book with a huge $20 discount you can't complain when a book costs more than the actul paperback. In those cases, just buy the paperback.
Me personally, I look forward to the digital conversion. The Amazon Kindle 2 connects to their website so you can search for books and you don't have to pay for the connection to the internet. And I SO look forward to the newspaper being digital because maybe if there is urgent news you might get an evening edition. Who knows.
The only issue I have with this whole idea is that they are so freakin' expensive right now. $359 for the Amazon Kindle 1 and 2. Ok, why is the Kindle 1 still $359? The Kindle 2 has a bigger hard drive and 25% more battery life, it's also thinner and lighter. The kindle 1 has 256mb hard drive, the kindle 2 has 2 GB. Yet they are both the same price? That makes no sense. I think they should bring the price down on the Kindle 1 as an incentive to buy it as a starter e-book for people who can't afford it. Then later when they want to upgrade then they can buy the Kindle 2.
What I am waiting for are 3 things. The price to drop, color and touch screen. I watched a video on the Amazon Kindle site where the guy who created Amazon was on Martha Stewart and she kept asking about color and he said that it's in the labs so it is going to be in a future e-book. Let's hope there will be touch screen soon too for the Kindle. I went to Sony's e-book site to check prices and they are way more than Amazon. I'd much rather have the Kindle in that regard.
Add: I forgot to mention that one of the pro's of the Kindle is that you don't even need a computer to buy and download books, magazines and newspapers. And if you want a document to be on your kindle you just email it to your kindle account and it converts the file to the kindle file so you can keep it there. So you aren't just limited to Kindle books, if you buy a book somewhere else (or if someone gives you a copy of an e-book) you just email it and it converts it.
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