Have you notice that there seemed to be more natural disasters in the past decade? More earthquake, more floods and tsunami, more infectious diseases. Adding to that all the man-made ones, wars, pollution etc. When will we learn?
Anyway, brought mom to Red Cross to do donation. I had meant to tell her that we can transfer money electronically, but thought better of it. Doing it in person brings one closer to the act itself.
Well done mom.
Of late, I am a little more paranoid with insurance coverage. Much of the fear came from what I have seen from my practice. That how chronic illness/disability can quickly erode one person's lifestyle, let along dignity.
Quote from The Science of Orgasm by Komisaruk.
“[From the Greek meaning] to swell as with moisture, be excited or eager” (Oxford English Dictionary, Simpson & Weiner, 2002a)
“The expulsive discharge of neuromuscular tensions at the peak of sexual response” (Kinsey et al., 1953)
“A brief episode of physical release from the vasocongestion and myotonic increment developed in response to sexual stimuli” (Masters & Johnson, 1966)
“The zenith of sexuoerotic experience that men and women characterize subjectively as voluptuous rapture or ecstasy. It occurs simultaneously in the brain/mind and the pelvic genitalia. Irrespective of its locus of onset, the occurrence of orgasm is contingent upon reciprocal intercommunication between neural networks in the brain, above, and the pelvic genitalia, below, and it does not survive their deconnection by the severance of the spinal cord. However, it is
able to survive even extensive trauma at either end.” (Money, Wainwright & Hingburger, 1991)
“An explosive cerebrally encoded neuromuscular response at the peak of sexual arousal elicited by psychobiological stimuli, the pleasurable sensations of which are experienced in association with dispensable pelvic physiological concomitants” (Kothari & Patel, 1991)
“A peak intensity of excitation generated by: (a) afferent and re-afferent stimulation from visceral and/or somatic sensory receptors activated exogenously and/or endogenously, and/or (b) higher-order cognitive processes, followed by a release and resolution (decrease) of excitation. By this defi nition, orgasm is characteristic of, but not restricted to, the genital system.” (Komisaruk & Whipple, 1991)
“A variable, transient, peak sensation of intense pleasure, creating an altered state of consciousness, usually with an initiation accompanied by involuntary rhythmic contractions of the pelvic striated circumvaginal musculature, often with concomitant uterine and anal contractions, and myotonia that
resolves the sexually induced vasocongestion and myotonia, generally with an induction of well-being and contentment.” (Meston, Levin, et al., 2004)
I think the most unfair thing about life is the way it ends.
I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time.
What do you get at the end of it? A death. What’s that,
a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You
should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an
old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young,
you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty
years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You go to college, you do drugs, alcohol, you party,
you get ready for high school. You go to school, you
become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities,
you become a little baby, you go back into the womb,
you spend your last nine months floating . . .
You finish off as a gleam in somebody’s eye!
—Sean Morey
Danny, whom I met during my Bummingrad visit is so entralled with my eeePC that he has requested my help in modding his. On top of my specs, he has asked for integration of a 3.5G HSDPA modem. Quite a challenge I must say, seeing that I can only find one reference on such modification and it involved a surf model (which has slightly different internal space configuration).
Danny ordered the touchscreen panel kit from kiddshop on ebay which just arrived yesterday. He also obtain the Huawei E220 HSDPA USB Modem from Singtel. The rest of the materials are obtained by me, which include a Belkin Bluetooth 2.0 EDR dongle and 4 port USB hub.
It took me just 30 minutes to stripped the entire eeePC down. Wow, I guess I had a fair amount of practice at that. Now comes the part of processing the parts destined for mods.
The touchscreen panel has been pre-prepped, though I wasn't quite satisfied with the result. The stand offs were left in place and not de-soldered and the trims were not even nor sufficiently short. Hence I told further step to clean it up further and attached the 30G lead wires.
After the picture was taken, I realised the pinout for the USB was wrong, and had to swap the wires. It's meant to be (from left to right) Black, Red, Green and White.
The Huawei E220 is a lot trickier. The torx screw securing the casing is hidden under the top panel which is stucked down with adhesive. I have yet to find a way to lift the panel without leaving tell-tale scratches. Anyway, with what i eventually did to it, it's unlikely you can return it for repair.
After removing the main board and the internal antennae, I went one step further to remove the mini-USB socket to reduce the overall hide. The SIM card is also stuck down by cutting a piece of industrial strength duoble sided form tape and trimming a hole in the middle for the contact points. Soldering the lead wires was quite a challenge but managed to do so despite my coffee-induced tremor.
The Belkin bluetooth dongle gets the same treatment plus some additional trimming to reduce the length.
Hopped over to Bali for a short trip over the weekend. Short is the operative word. I guess Bali really does deserve more time. Nonetheless, a good break. Pling, in her typical entuisiasm, has already posted the photos from the trip.
