Trey's Guide: Giving Bad News

It's never easy to give bad news, there's all the emotions and tears and other mucuses to deal with... yuck. Luckily, it always helps to cut the sorrow of bad news with a little bit of humor. I've found that by writing the bad news in the form of a letter, running it through an online translator, and then translating it back in to English, you can still get the news across, but in a comical way.

Here's an example going from English to Japanese and back:

Sally,
I, think very regrettably that must tell this to you with this way but think that your father has liver cancer and do not live period over 2 months. It is certain that he feels pain very terribly the middle when this world is remaining, although he is in a cherry mind now. You can take comfort with the fact that he loved you less at least and whether or not is not really important that be to for last from day to day in neighborhood. Your children to I to 'hello' and said that talk please, and their grandfather to die about to be. that

the sweetheart
Trey

As you can see, the recipient will still be saddened from the news of her father, but can always laugh along with you at hilarious grammar faux pas. This method can be great for telling people about:

• Break-ups
• Family Deaths
• Unknown Adoptions
• Toilet Errors
• Invasions
• And Many More...
  

Trey's Guide: Meditation

In these troubled times of economic rig-a-ma-rolls, polito-spastic news cycles, and climate cycle change-abouts (made up hyphenated words make me seem quirky right?), I've decided I'm going to start publishing some of the wisdom I've collected over the years in to easily digestible blog posts. Ready, set, Consume!

Trey's Guide to Meditation:

I've found a bunch about meditation already online, however most of it seems to be written for pansies. Also, none of them really seem to encompus the method I use to relax. By following my simple steps, you should be able to completely forget about everything that has stressed you in your life.

1. Make sure your room is almost completely sound-proof (limiting ambient noise to about 15-25dB). The chamber I use can be found here.
   
2. You can not relax with your pants on. I debated weither or not to add this to the guid, as it is completely obvious, but I have no way of knowing the kind of characters that read this thing.
3. You may cross your legs, but I recommend against it, because man-up. Whatever you decide however, and this is important for men and women alike, dont' sit on your own balls. This will have very detrimintal effects on your relaxation.
4. As you begin to meditate, try to clear all thoughts from you mind. You may, however, find random thoughts creeping into you consciousness. I find it helpful to imagine you are firing a large rocket at your thoughts and having them be violently obliterated. It is perfectly acceptable to make sound effects with your mouth if you so choose.
5. As time passes, and the voices in your head have been repressed for a while, you will notice that they will begin to all scream very loudly and merge in to one orange ball of fury in your mind. You are now in your most relaxed state.
6. You should regain consiousness within two to three days. It is normal to wake up in a location diffrent that you remeber, possibly with several small animals laying dead around you. You should always meditate with a cell phone in your pocket so that you can have a friend find you to bring you home.

I've found that if you run through these simple steps several times a week, not only will you feel more relaxed, but you will be also have a false since of wisdom that will allow you to write helpful articles on the internet.

A better picture of the new project

So, I've been wanting to do this for a while now, but I think I'm going to make a WREK logo out of LED's. The dimensions for the board are about the same as the old smaller WREK logo stickers. Getting the circuit board fabricated and the parts should run about $60 and it should take about 3 to 4 weeks to get it all together. Let me know if you want one.

A little music for fall break

ENSEMBLES/Otomo Yoshihide

Any one want to guess what this is going to be?

Caldonia!

Hobbies Hobbies Whoo

So I found this good article about riding your bike on the road in traffic. It's a quick read but it's good stuff, especially if you're biking in Atlanta.

Also, I built a "bike light" (I use the quotations because its about twice as big and half as bright as it should be to be useful) with my Arduino. It's got 3 modes: All On, Blink, and Wave. There's even a button to advance through the modes, so yeah, who's cool now?

Someone has also come out with a cheap touchscreen/oled kit to use with the board so I might have to come up with a project to use one of those. If your interested in getting started with electronics or micro controllers as a hobby, I'd definitely go with an Arduino over jumping straight into something like a PIC. There's tons of tutorials and cool projects you can do for not too expensive.

I've definitly been nerding out today.