I actually made this site a few months ago. I just forgot to announce it. No, I lied. I actually made this in 2007, but back then it was a Konfabulator widget.

LazyAlarm is a simple alarm/timer/countdown site. You just type when you want an alarm and it does it. You can add messages, make them repeat, and change the alarm level all through natural English. And bet best part is you don’t have to endlessly click to make it do what you want, as opposed to every-alarm/timer-site-I’ve-ever-found-and-tried-to-use. It was dealing with these frustrating sites that got me to re-make my old widget for the web.

I’ve got it set up as a desktop web application myself.

There are of course a few bugs/features I haven’t gotten around to implementing:

• ‘0′ (zero) should trigger a countdown, not ‘0s’
• changing alarm levels and adding repeat shouldn’t reset countdowns
• some time parsing could be improved

July 22nd, 2010 | pics plz | No comments

Hmmm, I think that for every environment and every situation, there exists a minimum density of pens such that the average time it takes for a someone looking for a pen is less than the amount of time before frustration sets in.

1. d = minimum density of pens
2. p = density of people
3. v = average velocity of user
4. t = mean time between pen usage
5. f = time it takes for user to get frustrated
6. k = konstant

d = p • k • v² / f / t

For me, I think that d is around 0.25 pens/m² in my standard environment.

Now to calculate how the probability density function relates to the pen density function and write it up in a portable document format.

April 7th, 2008 | Finish Writing Me Plz, Nerd, pics plz | No comments