Science! 1

Alright everybody, I said I'd do a post about the Myo, but I think I'll expand it to just generally cool science stuff that I've been hearing about in the vastness of the interwebs.

The first order of business, as previously stated, is the Myo. Developed by Thalmic Labs and worn as an armband, the device allows the user to interact with electronic devices such as tablets, phones, computers, etc. with an advanced form of motion-sensitivity. If you watch the video, it makes it look like you're using the force to control the devices around you. I cried actual tears when I watched the video. Maybe I'm just a loser. At any rate, this device not only uses motion sensors to accomplish its intended purpose, but also monitors the shifts in muscle along your arm as you wear it. This way they can get around programming individual gestures for everything and just use base poses and go from there. The developers project that at its most advanced stages the Myo will be able to allow players of videogames to play them by actually acting out the actions they are called upon to perform. For example, loading your gun no longer requires the pressing of a single button, but instead the removal and replacement of a cartridge. This, in collaboration with other devices such as the Oculus Rift, could give gamers a full virtual-reality experience. And also PTSD.
But the point is that full-on virtual reality seems to be on the way. I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for this for years.

Beyond that, I recently came across a software called Spritz, which is designed primarily to increase the reading speed in wpm from and average of 220 to any number you'd like. I tried it for about five minutes and got up to 500. It seems silly and a little over-the-top, but it's pretty neat stuff. While 500 wpm was a little uncomfortable, I did fine all the way up to 450, and that's twice the average reading speed.
My understanding of the purpose of the software is that it is designed to increase both the reading speed of the user and also the retention rate of the user. I have no idea if it works because they really don't have anything substantial up on their site. It's all just blurbs about why Spritz is great. It seems to me that it works, though, and I'm very excited to see where it'll go in the future. I hope you will be too.

I plan to have Science! posts up pretty regularly. I think you'll be able to expect them about once every two weeks or so. No promises as of yet because we're only just starting, but I'll do my best.
Avante!

Post Number Three! Or Two? Who Knows? Numbers are for losers anyway. Here- Secondary Introductory Post. There.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Aim for the Cat, a humor/entertainment/media/what/commentary blog hosted by myself, Tomás González, and my brother, Phillip Leon. As I mentioned in the title, this will serve as a secondary (albeit slightly more complete) introductory post. Secondary to the post my brother ran recently. I will give brief descriptions of both of us, as well as dictating what I imagine will be the content of the blog.
My name (again), is Tomás González. I'm known here and there as CommanderZel and I run a few things, like a tumblr and a couple of youtube channels, to which I shall post links. This will be my first foray into the grand world of... Well... Journalism, essentially. I have come to see blogs more as amateur reporting on current events and the like than anything else. Whether others share my views or not, that's where I stand. So these will be documentations of my life, my brother's life, our worlds, the worlds of science-fiction, fantasy, gaming, and whatever else we feel like writing about.

So now I'll get into serious introductions:

I am Tomás. Again. Still. Whatever. I am an eighteen-year-old entity (I'm male and identify that way, I just feel weird calling myself a MAN because it seems so masculine and socially expected and stuff and I just don't really gel with that image, being an actor and singer and stuff. But we'll get to that) who lives in Northern California. That might seem like a lot of information, but I'm an adult and I feel comfortable with it. I won't give my brother's information because that's his business. At any rate, my hobbies include: Rock climbing, reading, acting, singing, playing guitar (terribly), gaming, and lazing. My brother enjoys the same things sans rock climbing and playing guitar, as far as I know. I like music in general, but specifically metal and Irish music. I listen to a lot of Prog Rock and Prog Metal, some heavy electronic music, a bit of symphonic metal, fantasy metal, whatever. Lots of Irish folk, a huge amount of classic rock, and a tiny bit of current pop. My brother likes the Tron Legacy soundtrack. That's about all I know. Although it's a fantastic soundtrack and if you haven't listened to it or seen the movie, I strongly suggest you do both.

In high school I did a lot of performance art. I took three hours of assorted performance art my freshman year, four hours my sophomore year, and five my junior and senior years. My brother's on the same track. Now I know it sounds like I probably got beat up a lot in high school, but my school actually had this really phenomenal arts magnet program which basically made our school the biggest high school in CA north of San Fran in addition to giving arts students of every kind a fighting chance. I received a college-level education in two performance arts for free, what with my school being a public school and all. It's an amazing school and I had a phenomenal time there.

I do have a girlfriend. I'm saying this in case she comes up in future posts (I have no doubt that she will). I won't name her in consideration of her privacy, but this will serve as a sort of introduction for her. She loves Disney in all its' forms and she loves to sing. She genuinely has the most beautiful voice I've ever heard in my life and I really do believe that she could be a broadway star or something someday. I also have no idea if she'll read this.

Apart from all that, there is one thing that my brother and I cherish above all other things:
NERDDOM
My brother and I are massive dorks. In our spare time we hypothesize about Star Wars and other sci-fi wonders, we geek out about things like Myo (I'll be writing a post about that next week, I think), and we talk about movies like The Lego Movie, which was fantastic and if you think otherwise you should leave.
To put things into perspective, I wear a lego earring.

I think that adequately prepares you for the chaotic mess that will soon be our blog.
Avante!