Kris Brower

Fantasy Players

2009-09-03T10:43:00.001-07:00

Play Haley Off Keyboard Cat

2009-06-01T07:09:00.001-07:00

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2009-04-21T12:52:00.001-07:00

Recipe Puppy is the #1 bookmark on http://delicious.com

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2009-04-21T12:50:00.001-07:00

Recipe Puppy is the #1 bookmark on http://delicious.com/

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2006-08-20T18:06:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder when cops give out the most speeding tickets. I did a little bit of analysis on traffic data in Virginia and posted my results.

Speeding Ticket Analysis

I also posted the data for other people to analyze.
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The best times to break the speed limit

2006-08-20T17:46:00.000-07:00

This study of Virginia traffic tickets gives the average speed of traffic violations, and what days of the week and what months the most tickets are given out. Your best bet seems to be speeding on a Friday in December.

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2006-08-19T16:15:00.000-07:00

I was searching on Google today to make sure a submission to one of my website’s was unique, and I was surprised to find that Google suggested that I should be searching for he instead of she.

Here is a link: google search for: as she flew and a screenshot:

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2006-08-11T12:50:00.000-07:00

Firefox likes to crash nowadays. Its getting irritating. I think I am going to switch to something else for the time being. Maybe Opera?
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2006-08-07T22:34:00.000-07:00

When I got sick after returning to my house for the first time in a year, I thought it was a coincidence. I joked about being allergic to my house, and at my latest well checkup I found out I actually was. I think its my cat...
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2006-08-06T23:08:00.000-07:00

I just updated Lilly Lavner\’s website with lyrics. Check them out!
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2006-08-04T09:34:00.000-07:00

I was getting tired of the my websites green color. I changed the css around a bit and now its blue. I like it much better now.
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2006-08-04T08:31:00.000-07:00

I have recently started forwarding all of my mail to Gmail, and I have been added a few filters that make checking my mail so much better.

The main thing I did is filter anything with unsubscribe in the text to a mailing list folder and for it to skip the inbox. Gmail does a pretty good of filtering spam, but it doesn\’t filter the mailing lists that I rarely want to read. I tend not to use the unsubscribe links, because some spammers verify your email address with these links.

One other thing I do is use Gmail as a ToDo list. I filter everything with [ToDo] that is sent from my email address into a ToDo folder and it skips the inbox. It is really nice to have a ToDo list in your e-mail. One less thing you have to check.

If you don\’t have Gmail, just ask and I will send you an invite.
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2006-08-04T08:21:00.000-07:00

I have compiled a list of the major websites I completed this summer at Haverford College. You can see them in the portfolio section of my website.
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2006-08-03T11:51:00.000-07:00

I have been working on a friends webpage for a few weeks now, and I think it is now officially live.

Check it out here:
Lilly Lavner
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2006-08-02T16:05:00.000-07:00

My valid.
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2006-08-02T15:45:00.000-07:00

I made a few minor updates to the RSS feeds of this website(krisbrower.com), and I soon will soon be doing a major redesign.

I also did a major update to the nodes I search on filleritem.com as well as a minor update to the actual page and the buy.com filler item finder. Hopefully there will be a lot more results that are actually appealing as filler items. There certainly will be a lot more results to choose from(about 8x as many).
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2006-07-13T20:14:00.000-07:00

I made this cool little translator, which takes sentences and alters them based on lexical data. I only wish I could parse a sentence and figure out the part of speech.

see the translator | digg this
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2006-07-09T16:02:00.000-07:00

really?!?
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2006-07-09T15:41:00.000-07:00

Tastes good to me
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2006-07-06T11:24:00.000-07:00

I have created a filler item finder for amazon.co.uk.
Digg this

More filler item finders are in the works.(not just amazon)
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Get Free Shipping at Amazon.co.uk

2006-07-06T11:10:00.000-07:00

Just enter the amount that adds up to Â£15 and it returns a list of items close to that price.

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Appending/Prepending a delimited list

2006-07-05T07:59:00.000-07:00

I find this useful sometimes

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2006-06-27T12:11:00.000-07:00

This is just an FYI. Don’t use rel="nofollow" with Azoogle Ads. You will not get credit for any leads. I had these links up for 5 days and got about 100 clicks and no leads before changing it back to links without the rel="nofollow". Within 1/2 an hour I got a lead.
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2006-06-23T12:53:00.000-07:00

I hate any sort of greeting that I can not answer back with "alright", "ok", or "good". The reason why I hate these greetings is because I automatically respond with one of my automatic responses, and it does not make sense at all.

Joe: Hows it going, Kris?
Kris: Ok.

Pete: What\’s happening, Kris?
Kris: Alright.

I wonder what Pete thinks when I say that.

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2006-06-22T06:31:00.000-07:00

I have a meeting at 10am with a professor. The game starts at 10am. What was I thinking???

Hopefully I will catch the second half.
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How will You Die?

2006-06-20T20:49:00.000-07:00

Take a short quiz and find out how you will die.

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2006-06-19T21:45:00.000-07:00

I think the referee in the USA v Italy game Saturday confused a lot of people as to the soccer offsides rule. I currently have the #1 position for the search term "soccer offsides" on Google, and I saw a 400-500% increase in hits for that page on Saturday. Come on REF!
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2006-06-14T15:59:00.000-07:00

I did not think I could be this stupid.

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2006-05-12T15:31:00.000-07:00

I was fiddling around with the Google Gadget API which allows you to make gadgets that users can add to their personalized google homepage. The Gadget that I made calculates the odds one hand is going to win over another. If you want you can add it to your homepage by clicking the link below.

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The Misspellilizer

2006-05-12T09:18:00.000-07:00

Trnalstaor wchih rgrreeanas the mldide of the wrdos in a senentce so that tehy are miseplled, but sitll readlbae.

Translator which rearranges the middle of the words in a sentence so that they are mispelled, but still readable.

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2006-05-10T18:06:00.000-07:00

Actually the competition is ongoing. Which of the tricollege schools are more popular on google? Currently Swarthmore is is the lead, with Haverford trailing close behind.
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How much has Party Poker raked from you?

2006-05-06T17:58:00.000-07:00

If you play party poker, this tool allows you to see how much they have raked from you. It might be nice to send them an email asking for some of it back after the tool calculates the amount.

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2006-05-03T11:53:00.000-07:00

I was doing the da vinci code contest on google to waste time and I noticed day 14 required an Atbash translator. This also does other sorts of decoding.

enjoy
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2006-05-01T18:46:00.000-07:00

When updating Thunderbird, if you might get a message that says your extensions are being installed and that it could take a minute, but it never actually finishes. This happens because Thunderbird does not always install on top of the old versions or update shortcuts. Just update the shortcut and you should be fine.
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2006-04-26T11:04:00.000-07:00

I am testing the crossposting system to see if this links back to the original page.
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2006-04-26T10:55:00.000-07:00

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2006-04-20T13:29:00.000-07:00

I am working on an improved online directory for my school and I was angered by the way the current directory is set up. It is set up so that you can never tell what part of the name is the middle name and what part is the first name.

For example, if Billy Bob Thorton went to Haverford, he could appear in the directory in several ways depending on what name he chose to be called. He could be listed as:
1. Thorton, Billy Bob(wants to be called Billy Bob)
2. Thorton, Billy B.(wants to be called Billy)
3. Thorton, B. Bob(wants to be called Bob)
4. Thorton, B. B.(wants to be called something other than Billy or Bob)

In any case, it is impossible to know whether Bob is a middle name or part of the first name. It would be listed the same either way. I guess it does not really matter, but it makes my database of names in the improved directory potentially incorrect.

2006-04-19T11:07:00.000-07:00

2005-11-26T21:26:00.000-08:00

In this dream I find myself trying to find a familiar face to sit with at some sort of banquet. Everyone is dressed a little strangely, and I seem out of place with a polo shirt and jeans. I sit down at a table of some girls one of which I don’t really know but recognize from high school. They give me evil disgusted glares, and I ask if I should move to a different table. No one responds, which I take to mean I should leave immediately.

I get up and somehow find one of my friends from college to sit with. She is dressed very strangely, and I ask what this banquet is for. She claims it is a celebration of our strangeness.(the we are so strange dinner) After that I notice another friend from college. She has a huge bowl of spaghetti in front of her and seems worried that I do not have any food. In a childlike tone she asks if I want any food.

2005-11-20T14:19:00.000-08:00

Last night I dreamt I was in the gym. I had never been to this gym before, but I felt like I was in a college somewhere. I am not sure if the gym was crowded or not, but I did not notice any other people there, and I never had any competition for the few machines I tried to work.

I was having the hardest time with the bench. The space around the bench was very crowded with other machines, and every time I tried to lift the weight, the actual bench was either too high, too low, or not aligned correctly. Eventually I gave up trying to use the bench and searched for a long time for the machine that works your pecks.

Eventually I found the machine I was looking for in a completely different room that I was surprised to find. I started to do the exercise after adjusting a very weird weight selection thingy. Instead of being a long metal pin that went through the weights, it was made of multiple pieces of plastic which held the weights together in a way I still do not understand.

After doing a few reps I noticed my bio lab partner sitting across from me in a chair that you would find at an airport terminal. She tried to give me a hug, but I refused because I was too sweaty.

2005-11-17T07:33:00.000-08:00

2 seperate dreams today.

The first was short and relatively normal. I went to get my haircut with my mom and sister at some sort of salon. The hairdresser did a terrible job, and I kept on complaining to my mom that I could of got it done cheaper and better with my friend this upcoming weekend. She paid for my haircut and then gave me money for the tip. For some reason these long triangular pieces of glass were worth three dollars. I was not able to find either of the people to whom I was supposed to tip, so my mom ended up having to do it.

Then I was the main character Akeem in the movie "Coming to America". I was really frustrated because I wanted to play this board game "Settlers of Catan", but I had no one to play with. My servants always let me win, because they were afraid of my wrath. I tried playing on a computer, but I got bored of that easily. The mother that Akeem has in the movie suggested that I go America to find opponents, and presumably thats what I did.

2005-11-15T10:17:00.000-08:00

From now on I am going to post dreams that I have. Mostly because I want to remember them, and my dreams tend to be crazy/weird. Anyway here is the first:

For some reason I am at the beach with my entire extended family. I think we are celebrating something for my second oldest cousin, because he has a lot of friends there with him as well. Everyone except for me begins to drink beer straight from the case. My cousin mentions that it is just like head.(lionshead - Note: I have never heard this expression before) My little cousins all want me to push them up and down in rocking chairs and are really happy when I do.

After the beers are finished we go for a swim. A strange alien like machine brings an inflatable slide and an inflatable trampoline. The slide is left very far out to sea, and my second oldest cousin swims to get it. The trampoline is headed to the shore, and I swim to get that one. At this point I realize my oldest cousin is not in the dream at all. When we retrieve the inflatable things, my grandparent make it seem like they should get to go on them first.

At this point my dream shifts to being back in the place where everyone else was drinking beers. There is a stand similar to the ones found in highway rest stops with very good looking food in it. I pick out something that looks like a rib, but it turns out to be bacon. I look for a long time for chicken fingers, but there are not any. Instead I choose this toasted sandwich with fried onions and bacon on it. There were other things on it too, but I forget what they were. It looked delicious.

2005-10-03T14:01:00.000-07:00

I am excited for fall break. I am going to BU to see a friend from high school. We are going to a busta rhymes concert which should be interesting. I am going to be out of my element there.

Why does everyone insist on using my first and last name when they see me. Do you realize that I do not know your last name?

Intermural soccer is the best thing ever. I love to dribble. I wish I had not lost my soccer ball.

2005-09-08T13:44:00.000-07:00

A lot of stuff has happened since I last posted. I quit soccer, became a good student(for now), and bought an ipod nano. Maybe thats not that much stuff, but I could make a long post if I was not so lazy.

I feel really bad for New Orleans. What can I possibly do? I donated a little bit of money, but I still feel terrible.

I also made some SNEELANKA shirts. More about that later.

2005-08-25T06:24:00.000-07:00

as predicted soccer preseason is killing me

2005-08-20T03:46:00.000-07:00

I leave for school in a few hours. Soccer preseason is going to kill me.

2005-08-18T07:33:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I went for a run. I am trying to get in shape for soccer, and I went for about five to six miles. I usually run half about that distance, but I was going slower than I usually do. I hadn’t gotten much sleep the night before, but I was feeling fine, until the end of the run. I felt like I had to go to the bathroom which was a little odd because I had been running for about five miles and probably was dehydrated. My right foot also lost feeling, but I think that was just a coincidence.

I had to go pretty badly, so I went straight to the bathroom. To my surprise something unexpected came out: Blood. I know, "gross". As you can imagine this freaked me out. At this point I had no pain, so when the nurse on the phone started asking questions I made it seem like it was not too serious. Shortly after that the pain arrived. My dad was about to take me to the emergency room when the doctor called back. I answered his questions and he made it seem like I should be more scared than I actually was, but told me that I could wait until tomorrow to visit a doctor as long as the pain didn’t get any worse. I was pretty happy about this because I had no desire to sit in the emergency room for hours. That night I continued to urinate blood, but the pain went down so I was able to sleep fairly easily.

This morning I visited the doctor. After the examination the doctor talked to me for awhile. The first thing he said was usually when this sort of thing happens to older people it usually quite serious, but with younger people the diagnosis is most times not as bad. Then he went on to tell me that he didn’t think I had cancer or a tumor in my kidneys. I hadn’t done any research into my symptoms so this was not very comforting. Then he sent me straight to the hospital to do some more tests “STAT”. There I got another urine test and a blood test. I had never had a blood test before, and I have never given blood. I expected it to be like an IV which I hated, but it was not bad at all. I also found out that I am O positive blood type, which means I should probably be donating blood since that blood type is a universal donor. I go for an ultrasound later today. Wish me luck.

2005-08-15T15:21:00.000-07:00

I had to reinstall everything on my sisters computer because she was whining about it. This in itself is annoying, but the fact that it was a Dell laptop makes it even worse. A bunch of little things Dell does with their comptuers drive me crazy. Why do you put the activation number for windows on the bottom of the laptop???? It is very difficult to copy from the bottom of a laptop directly to a screen.(I was forced to write it down twice) Why are the resource cds not labeled correctly?? I went through about 10 of them before finding the right one. I also hate windows and norton antivirus. It takes hours to update the software.............

2005-08-14T00:51:00.000-07:00

I am playing some online poker to see how much I can make before school starts again. So far I have made about 200. This is the third day. I feel dirty.

2005-08-11T14:16:00.000-07:00

I found this little tool that automatically stitchs together pictures into a larger picture. I didn’t believe that it would work so I tried it. I took about 30 pictures from the center of my room and tada the program stitched them together into one awesome image.

Here is the result:

You can even see the duplicated bits on either side.

2005-08-01T15:07:00.000-07:00

A week or so ago I posted some code for a flash collision script written entirely in the drawing api. I have made this script into a little game. Please note that this sometimes does not work in mozilla based browsers(like firefox), because of a bug in their code not mine.

enjoy

2005-07-31T18:36:00.000-07:00

My mother keeps telling me to watch out for sharks, when I go on a road trip to florida. I keep telling her that getting bitten/eaten by a shark would make a great story.(as long a I survive) Wish me luck.

2005-07-30T11:13:00.000-07:00

You thought he might learn after the first time.

apparently not...

2005-07-29T20:23:00.000-07:00

Play 20 questions!
click here to play

2005-07-28T15:57:00.000-07:00

Wow now they are making robots that look like humans. FYI the robot is on the left.

2005-07-28T14:33:00.000-07:00

I left work a little late yesterday just as very dark clouds were rolling towards me. Whenever I try to wait something out I tend to just waste time and get the full brunt of the storm anyway, so I decided to just go and drive home anyway.

As I was leaving Haverford the wind picked up considerably. There is construction going on at the local private high school and the wind had kicked up so much dirt that I thought I was driving into pouring rain.(my vision isn’t perfect)

I got onto montgomery ave. without too much trouble, but that is when the real fun began. The wind was still blowing strong and had blown part of a tree onto all the westbound lanes. Unfortunately for me I was going west. In order to get around this tree the cars ahead of me were swerving into oncoming traffic whenever there was enough time to do so. I followed suit. The rest of the trip was relatively uneventful. Parts of trees continued to break off and hit my car/create smaller road obstacles and it eventually started pouring. All in all a fun drive home.

2005-07-28T07:21:00.000-07:00

My little brother was scared by the movie "Scary Movie 3", which is supposed to be funny. He kept on bothering me until the wee hours of the day. When my little brother can’t sleep, I can’t sleep.

2005-07-25T19:38:00.000-07:00

I used nothing but the macromedia drawing api to create a little flash movie that randomly creates balls, and sends them in a random direction. The balls have elastic collisions with each other and with walls. It is not perfect and needs some major tweaking. Here is the source code. Just copy it and paste into the first frame of a flash movie’s actionscript.

2005-07-25T10:01:00.000-07:00

Google clearly will win, unless Microsoft sues them and steals their employees.

2005-07-25T09:56:00.000-07:00

I highly recommend the StumbleUpon Toolbar.

2005-07-25T09:53:00.000-07:00

Work is coming to and end which means school is coming soon. This summer is too short.

2005-07-24T21:00:00.000-07:00

I have removed all the dead links from my site. What a pain...

2005-07-24T02:53:00.000-07:00

Check out my radio blog... not really a blog. It just lets you play songs in a very lossy format.

2005-07-24T02:23:00.000-07:00

Here are all the links to various places where you can see my blog from now on:
krisbrower.com
livejournal
xanga
blogger

2005-07-24T02:19:00.000-07:00

I think I have squashed all the livejournal crossposting bugs and it will finally post there.

2005-07-24T02:17:00.000-07:00

I now think I am actually posting to livejournal, xanga, and blogger!

2005-07-24T02:13:00.000-07:00

I now think I am posting to livejournal, xanga, and blogger!

2005-07-24T02:02:00.000-07:00

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2005-07-24T02:01:00.000-07:00

I am crossposting to xanga now hopefully.

2005-07-24T00:54:00.000-07:00

If you see this, that means this site has been moved successfully to a new host.(A Small Orange)

2005-07-22T13:38:00.000-07:00

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2005-07-22T11:59:00.000-07:00

I think it does?(I am posting from krisbrower.com to blogger)

2005-07-22T11:56:00.000-07:00

Live 8 was definitely an experience. It was really hot and crowded. My biggest impression was that some people do not really care about anyone but themselves, and they will push people out of the way just to get a view of the stage.

Getting a view of the stage is not the easiest thing either. Why did they put the stage behing a giant statue? Worst idea ever.

2004-05-12T17:11:00.000-07:00

Neato, google has their own blog!

http://www.google.com/googleblog/

2004-05-11T17:55:00.000-07:00

Is all fair in love and war?

2004-05-03T22:06:00.000-07:00

I am sickened by people selling gmail accounts on ebay.

On the other hand, I do want an account...

2004-05-03T14:16:00.000-07:00

My first blogger post.

I am interested in seeing how other blog tools work and am testing this out.