Computing the Wild: Interfacing with the real world

Nothing short of amazing is the technological process and creativity that engineers and visionaries are creating.  Tonight I watched as someone potentially miles away was able to play with a rubber ball, watch as a table detected a phone call and shuffled it into the owners view, and allowed a designer to create a model car, all within the confines of a desk.

I admires the researchers and programmers that are moving us towards the future.  Their out of the box thinking is what makes people really awesome.  These are the kinds of people that will make the big break through.

Don't just accept things as they are, see what the possibilities are and make them a reality :)

How Habitica Is Changing the Game

Today's shower thought is dedicated to taking a look at the how Habitica is changing the game and for task tracking.

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Habitica is a new app that the gang started playing which connects the idea of task tracking with rpg avatars.  The novelty is that as you complete your self-assigned tasks, you also gain the ability to find and equip stronger gear, and hatch magical beasts to up your swagger.  As you gain more levels and equipment, you are able to tackle 'quests' which lets you and a party fight 'monsters' to get even bigger awards.  But you also have to fight yourself, as you are able to put negative tasks and habits that will take away from your life.  Assigning yourself tasks and not doing them is also detrimental to your health.

You can already see how this can get easily addicting.  Create tasks, get the satisfaction of earning something for completing them, and be rewarded in the form of in-game currency and drops.

What I find interesting about this app is that while the task tracking basis of the app is bare minimum, and at sometimes frustrating to reflect your intention, what it does excel at is motivating you to complete tasks by having that reflection component.

1. The app keeps track of your 'health', which is a direct relation to how you are keeping up with your priorities.  In times that you are doing well, your health stays strong, while when you are missing tasks, your health begins to drop.  This lends itself to a couple situations: Either complete more of your tasks, or to dedicate yourself to fewer expectations.  At the end of the day, it will help you balance yourself out and you can find what works best with what you have.

2. Motivates you to add more things you'd like to do, and allows you to reward yourself by incentivizing completion of such tasks.  Do good, get rewarded.  Pretty simple.

3. Tasks are Social now.  By completing tasks in a party, you are helping your friends complete the mission.  It's been researched that by helping others, you are generally more happier than helping yourself.

Men Fashion: HBD

Men's Fashion, How bout dat

This is more of an essentials video that leads to her other content.  Still good advice though. For the most part I think I have a lot of the items on the list, but I do need to check out the sport coat, laced boots, and tie bar to up my wardrobe. Overall I think my style has matured a lot since college, and hoping to expand it even more.  ++Dark wash jeans, they're my new favorites!

Maintaining a Cast Iron pan

Maintaining a Cast Iron Pan

Of course this whole blog stuff would be started off by a cooking video. This video was short and to the point for explaining how to properly season and take care of a cast iron pan.  I for sure haven't been taking care of my things the way I should.

Things I learned in this video:

1. Leaving water residue on the pan after cleaning will cause rust spots.
2. For rough cleaning, use a steel wool sponge.
3. Glazing the pan is that you lightly cover your pan with oil and you heat it max in the oven and let it break down on the surface.
4. Salt and hot water can be a good way to lightly wash your pan off.

Start of Blogging

As part of Habitica, I think that it would be cool to start tracking the stuff that I do on the internet. Nothing too serious as usually.  I think it would be good to form ideas and opinions, and to better understand the what I come across.