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City: Dallas
State/Province: TX
Country: US
Age:
34
Height:
5' 10"
Weight:
145 lbs.
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Dark Brown
Eye Color:
Hazel
Body Type:
Average
Ethnicity:
White
Occupation:
Professional Geek
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aboutMaxHedrm
Imagine something witty & clever here...
LOOKING FOR A ROOMMATE! :^) Let me know if you want more info.
Adventurous Versa-Top. Professional Geek & student @ UTD. Like playing with cars, boys, tools, electronics.
If you don't have a face pic, don't bother. I prefer to see a guy before meeting.
I'm bored, looking for cute, young(-ish) guys to hang out & have fun with or maybe date. What fun means just depends on the person & my mood.
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A blog focusing on Politics, Cars, Gay/Queer Interests, Music, Arts, Travel, Quotes, Religion...and anything else that comes to mind.
- How cute! (8/25/10) [View | Hide]
 Microhyla nepenthicola - micro-frog from Borneo
I want some. they are adorable. Apparently these micro-frogs breed in vegetarian pitcher plants in Borneo. They are less than 1/2 an inch long.
Though, they aren’t the smallest. That honor goes to a little Cuban frog called Eleutherodactylus iberia that is about 1cm long.
 Eleutherodactylus iberia - smallest frog in the world |
- People's Choice... (8/2/10) [View | Hide]
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I entered my book in the photography[book]now competition & the People’s Choice segment has started. Vote for me! 
Here’s the book:
UPDATE: Not sure, but it may make you sign in, which means signing up for an account. Grrr. Sorry about that. Still vote for me, but only if you want or already have a blurb account. FWIW, the books are good quality & the software is easy to use. 
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- iPhone 4 Review... (7/18/10) [View | Hide]
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I actually intended to post this about a week after I got it, but I slacked.  Since I’ve waited so long, I’ll go ahead & make it brief & start with the Cons…
Cons
- Of course, everyone knows about the antenna issue. iOS 4.0.1 did seem to make the antenna meter a bit more accurate (now I get about 3 bars max at my house instead of bouncing between 5 & 1), but of course the hardware issue is still a hardware issue.
- Case availability, as usual, is terrible. It’s improving now, but still a bit lacking. Luckily the 3G cases kinda sorta fit. I finally ended up going for a cheap case that is a bit too padded. It nearly doubles the thickness of the phone. This lack of cases is especially bad, considering the ‘antenna issue’.
- Multitasking can be a bit annoying - particularly that non-multitasking apps go to the launch bar too. It would be nice to be able to exclude apps from multitasking so they actually exit when you exit them. There are some apps that just don’t need to be backgrounded.
- Proximity sensor issues - when talking on the phone, the sensor doesn’t always sense that the phone is by your head. This might have improved a little with 4.0.1, but not much.
- Weird audio bug - after using an app with its own volume level, such as Pandora or YouTube, you have to reboot to adjust the ringer volume. This was resolved with iOS 4.0.1.
- They skimped a bit leaving out the microfiber cloth that came with the 3G. Perhaps the oleophobic coating is supposed to make this unnecessary.
Pros
- Seriously fast. This is even more pronounced since my 3G was running iOS 4 and had seemed to be slowing down even before that. Even little things like contact scrolling are noticeably faster. The iPhone 4 may pay for itself just in app launch time.
- GPS seems faster & more accurate. GPS based apps lock on a lot faster than with the 3G.
- FaceTime works great once you turn it on. It seems that some phones default to having it off, others have it on. I’ve used it a couple time now & it’s pretty smooth.
- Text is gorgeous. No, really. Small text on the new screen is amazing. Reading on the new phone is a lot more comfortable than the old one.
- The new cameras are pretty good stuff too. The video quality & photo quality is quite good for a phone. One oddity with iMovie is the inability to split clips. That seems like something that should be doable. Perhaps implementing it in the interface was too much of a challenge. I’m hoping to get it after launch. Along with the ability to put titles over photos. & upload 720p to YouTube.
Those’re the basics. In short, yes it’s worth it. The only long term issue is the antenna debacle. Perhaps they’ll come up with a more permanent solution than using a case. Oh, another thing: Developers, update your apps. Especially the icons. The bundled Apple apps are so much purdier than most of my 3rd party apps.
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- The Brothers Grimm on Blu-Ray (7/18/10) [View | Hide]
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I tried to watch The Brothers Grimm on Blu-Ray yesterday using the PlayStation 3. I got an error that the video could not be played. That was a first. My PlayStation is up to date & this is nowhere near a recent Blu-Ray. So, I tried to go to the site that the disc label directs you to, BVHEBluray.com, to be redirected to a page of black text on a black background. The black text was just a list of movie titles. There is a link for a text-only version, but of course it’s a page not found.
So, I called. Closed of course.
Then I tried to submit feedback using the link at the bottom of the black page. Upon submitting the feedback I got an error that Safari couldn’t connect to the server. Nice. It finally went on the 3rd try, but now I’m annoyed, so I’m posting this just to let Buena Vista Home Entertainment know how incredibly incompetent I think they are. Apparently Disney sucks a the Internet. And technology in general.
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- Thirst... (7/5/10) [View | Hide]
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I saw this quite a while ago, but finally getting around to posting it…
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- Toad Orgy... (6/30/10) [View | Hide]
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My first upload to YouTube. Incredibly boring, but I did it all on the new iPhone.
Around a dozen toads attempting to mate in my rain diluted, but still chlorinated swimming pool. I hope they don’t expect their endeavors to be successful. It’s amazing how loud they are.
I’m not looking forward to skimming out all the eggs tomorrow.
UPDATE: I rescued 15 live male toads this morning … 3 dead ones. One of which was the female. :^/ Most of them were in the skimmer. So I had at least 18 out there last night.
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- Payment... (6/18/10) [View | Hide]
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So, BP burst a pipe, make a huge mess, is fined & has to pay for the cleanup. The L.A. Lakers win a game, their idiot fans make a huge mess. I think the Lakers should be subject to fines from the NBA and pay for the damage done. On top of any criminal actions against the ridiculously stupid fans.
Just a thought.
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- We'll Be Back Soon. (6/15/10) [View | Hide]
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Not soon enough, dangit!
I was up a bit late anyway, so I thought I’d brave the extra half hour just to see if they enabled the pre-order at midnight Pacific. It looks like they’ve started the process at least. *sigh*
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- Rules to live by... (5/16/10) [View | Hide]
- Target Market? (5/7/10) [View | Hide]
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Is M•A•C Cosmetics targeting gay men & drag queens now?
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- The Book has Arrived... (4/24/10) [View | Hide]
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I got the book Friday. It turned out pretty nice. And the disorientation works nicely. Flipping through it, there is no way to tell the front from the back or the top from the bottom.
The paper isn’t quite as glossy as I expected, but the overall quality is quite nice. I think I’ll be making more blurb books in the future.
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- 1700 miles down... (4/23/10) [View | Hide]
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I decided to do a little math now that I’m at 1700 miles in the Golf. My average mpg in the Golf so far is 38.9mpg. The TT average is 23.2mpg. So, in the 1700 miles I have on the Golf, I have used 43.7 gallons of diesel … and, now that I’m using B5 (95% diesel, 5% bio-diesel), it’s really only 41.5 gallons of fossil fuels. for that same 1700 miles, the TT would have burned 73.3 gallons of premium unleaded. So far I’ve saved 31.8 gallons of dino-juice. Not only that, but the diesel tends to run about $0.10 per gallon less than premium unleaded, so I’ve probably saved about $85. That doesn’t sound like a lot per mile ($0.05), but it should add up. It’s nearly 1/3 of my car payment, and about $1000 per year.
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- Final Project... (4/16/10) [View | Hide]
- 39.4 (4/9/10) [View | Hide]
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My second tank was 39.4. I probably had a little more highway use with this tank. It also helped that I got 43.8 mpg (indicated … it seems to read low) one morning on the way to work by sneaking in behind a truck on 114.
So, my “lifetime” average is up to 38.5 now.
I’m trying out the B5 from Green Spot Market for this tank. It’s pretty convenient, just the other side of the lake.
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- pseudorazzi (4/5/10) [View | Hide]
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http://maxhedrm.montebellopark.com/blog/index.php/pseudorazzi/ This is a project for my Photography and New Media (ARTS-3340) class this term. But it has been fun to do, so I may continue it. From the About… Think of this as an alternate reality. A series of candid photos of complete strangers, with stories added from someone’s warped imagination. Sounds like fun, no?
Names, places and even faces have sometimes been changed to protect the (not so) innocent. While the photos are true (mostly), the text is pure fiction (in most cases — who knows, perhaps the fiction is accurate).
The inspiration for this project actually came while wandering the Dallas Auto Show and occasionally getting interesting candid shots of people in addition to the cars. The most interesting things about the entire project was that I was mostly unnoticed while wandering around with a digital SLR and a 55-250mm zoom lens. I had a couple people apologize as they walked through a shot, and one general comment as I walked by ("Now that’s a photographer” or something like that).
WARNING: This is a work of fiction. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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- Half right... (3/30/10) [View | Hide]
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From my fortune cookie today:
You have common sense and a lot of charm.
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- 37.7 (3/29/10) [View | Hide]
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37.7 mpg isn’t too bad for my first tank. I need to tweak a few habits I think, to bring that up a bit. I need to find a spot to put the smaller version of these over in the sidebar…
So the Golf gets 62.5% more miles per gallon of fuel than the TT. Plus the fuel is cheaper (diesel is running about equivalent to mid-grade gasoline & the TT takes premium).
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Comment left on: 6/6/10 3:32 PM
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Comment left on: 6/6/10 3:31 PM
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