CALENDAR : introduction

a concept prototype of iwanwilaga's Bio-Calendar (hungarian version)

I collect huge amount of data from my life, by photographing and noting my daily biological actions such as eating, sleeping, toilet using, yawning, sneezing and so on. Every time, i occur to do these methods, i take several special* photos of them, which contains the important timedata** and other details. By using these photos, i'm allowed to reconstruct and visualize my history - at any rate - by biological aspect.

THAT IS IWAN'S BIO-CALENDAR How do i imagine this ? There is a calendar-like surface (picture on the top) which shows 1 month at a time, by 24 hours of a day horizontally (as the x axis) and by up to 31 days of a month vertically (y axis). A banch of colorful lines with different longness are representing the time-length of each action i did at that time. Sleeping is green, time spent in front of the computer i yellow and so on..

MULTIMEDIA SURFACE This calendar would act as a multimedia surface, by moving the cursor over a line or icon, the photo, video, or other source will be displaysed, which that current data belongs to. So that way, we can lookover my whole month without a mouse click.

ONLINE I have to build the straightest way to ensure keeping the life-database online, so i should update it daily and can be checked by anyone who visits my website.

DOING MY LIFE EASIER The reason, why i want to design a software explicitly for my personal data types/formats is the fact, that this kind of documented lifetyle requires extreme capacity and enormous time, which i have only if i find solution for the easiest, fastest and most economic life-data management what can exist (if i want to live a normal life besides). This time, i manage my daily bio-diary by the help of several different softwares and files, like excel, access, photoshop or adobe flash. I want to get the end of this chaos also by developing my universal software. Just like the Google Analytics for website statitics. It should be personal google-like life-analytics application for me, and for all, who wants to note and record some patterns of their life.

TECHNICAL DETAILS I will get this BIO-CALENDAR application to work by using Adobe Flash CS3 - actionscript 3 for creating the user interface, the calendar itself, and PhP + MySQL for storing the data online and get accessible for different kind of users.

*: all kind of action have it's special way to record.
**: meta-data(exif): all digital camera record the values/parameters of the taken photo.

Wikipedia - ONE WAY at a time !

Wikipedia is like Kung Fu (in my estimation), requires an incredible self-discipline. "Try not to surf", "Dont get lost". Not to choose other 3 ways instead of the one you started to walk on. Using Wikipedia is a serious "business" for me, just like using the internet. I will explain it later..

Once (and not at first) i caught myself on jumping beetween articles by clicking on the links, before even scroll down to the second chapter or to the history of the current article. That's not the best practice, only confuses me. I decided to make stirct rules for myself.

To compensate my 'handicap' i set:

RULE 1 : I HAVE TO READ the current article ALL THROUGH before opening any links from it.

I can open them into new tabs, but only can go to read them when i finished the current article that i am reading.
This causes a long row of new tabs, new articles which are waiting for reading...but in the most cases i just stressing on how much they are, and when will i get time to get the end of the continuosly growing line of articles.

RULE 2 : To create a useful hierarchy in my mind i have to draw an article-tree to see about the main topic and it's subarticles, how they are connected and which thing goes from which.

example: the "file-system" article and it's children (hungarian wikipedia)

Greatest washing-up for 22 years ?

It's worthy to mention it, that i live in a dormitory. As we know, living in a dormitory has some special effects in every people's life who once tried it. For example some of us are ready to leave food materials in the dishes after eating - for days, weeks.. The pictures below shows an example of this event. This happens when people doing everything in the summer instead of being at home and having a few hours to keep their living-area clean. So that, it' happened that i suddenly jumped up from my computer and told my room-mate, "Boldy, (his name) now i will do the washing-up, so let's find all the dirty dishes in our area !" (i told this phrase in hungarian of course..) Then we collected everything from the balcon, and from our room. It took me 1 hour and 5 minutes to wash-up everything.

• 10 plates

• 4 cook dishes

• seweral cutlery

• 3 dishes i aborted to clean. I simply couldn't do that ! %) (no special equipment)

i used 3 kind of washing sponges. One of them had killed in operation. Some adhesive, gluey creep ended it's lifetime. Not the quantity, .. the quality, that counts! I will never get to know, what kind of materials i succeed to remove from those dishes. Maybe photos help us.

SZiget Statistics Team (SZ.S.T)

Dávid Lovas(on the left), and me (iwan) on duty

I'm pretty good at illogical behavior, like going out, under the burning sun in an antigas suit* in the early afternoon and standing under the strongest sun-power exposing myself to the fatal temperature. We managed to do exactly this at Sziget Festival, Hungary, 14,Aug,2008.

We took apart in a project as 'statistics agents' working around our professor's (János, Szirtes) art-installation. We collected people and asked them to take a seat at a table in front of a video-camera. Meantime we stand behind them and noted some parameters about them. Such as : if he/her Hungarian or not, smoker or not, drunk, excited, or has any extra attributes..

The primal syptom that i observed on myself is the fast acclimatization (readjustment is better word) to the changed climate, to the terminated vaporization of my skin. The first half an hour was critical, of course we got totally sweltered in 2 minutes, however we only wore shorts under the antigas suit. But after 20 minutes the increasing suffering/passion stopped and remained constant. After a while i started to feel myself almost good enough. I drunk only 1.5L all along the time while this suit was on me. My firm belief is that i lost at least twice more water, maybe 3 litres or more !

*: "adequate wear to survive a germ warfare". I bought these suits from a Hungarian, who lived in the USA, when the WTC terror happened, and when everybody bought there this kind of costumes by scare at the panic-time.