GO WHALE!
I know I haven’t posted in a while, and I don’t have much of an excuse other than I’ve been too busy. But, all that being said…
THE WHALERS WON THE STANLEY CUP! The sweaters may be red and they may be called the Hurricanes, but the team will always be the Hartford Whalers to me. 🙂
Saving for the monkeys
“Maybe God just turned to one of his cherubs and muttered something like ‘I don’t roll like that,’ because it seemed funny.”
– Scott Adams from What’s My Lion?
You must see
Some choice clips from YouTube discoved while Alicea and I were avoiding sleep this evening…
Baby gets it ON!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxaTJ1B1e68
The Matrix stinks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUvhW1xodqQ
Anything from
http://www.askaninja.com
urban ninja
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2kJZOfq7zk
evolution of dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg
it’s YOURS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cSRpu7bI04
krazy mooves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSoVKUVOnfQ
What is podcasting
“Podcasting is like a factory feeding apple pies to whales.”
Cool goes mainstreem
Holy crap. I’m sitting in my office right now listening to NPR’s Morning Edition. All of a sudden the Rocketboom theme song is playing and then they’re interviewing Amanda. SWEET!
What’s that smell?
Robert Scoble just posted that he “discovered” HDTV is rotting [his] brain.”
Alicea and I started rotting our brains a few years ago when we got a Toshiba 34” HDTV. It’s a perfectly flat 16:9 CRT (traditional glass tube) because the flat panel screens were $10k or more back then. But our 180–pound TV is beautiful just the same. 🙂 Why watch a mindless show when you can watch the same mindless show in HD?
After a while you get obsessed with all things HD. The DVD must be high quality. Cable TV must be high quality. Argh – why can’t I get HD from my Media Center computer? Because the computer is too old to recognize a computer via it’s DVI port (the cable box works though).
One of these days we might have to get a new TV so we can get computer content in HD. THAT’s obsessed!
Anybody want a 34” HDTV?
Thinking outside the box
Now this is what I call thinking outside the box. Some brains from an MIT-based startup have developed a turbocharger that runs on ethanol. What’s the big deal? It can make a 1.5–liter 4 banger act like a 3.0–liter V6 while consuming less gas. All this for under $1000 and the ethanol tank could run for months on a single fill.
Check out AutoBlog (and their source) for more details.
All the talk about hydrogen is nice, but what are we going to use until that’s ready? And how is hydrogen the answer, seeing as it has to be kept so cold and is so volatile (think Hindenburg). I remember hearing somewhere that there is a lot of energy required to get hydrogen in a form that can be used in a car … so you’re basically just transferring pollution from many little sources to fewer BIG sources.
Let’s think outside the box – is hydrogen really the answer? Someone tell me. 🙂
American icon is changing
I’m not 100% sure how I feel about this. Monopoly is a classic game, and now they’re going to change the board? I assume Boardwalk and Park Place will stay the same … right?!? On the other hand, making the game relevent to todays kids makes sense.
I do agree with replacing the railroads with airports. I wonder what you get once you get Logan, Kennedy, O’Hare, and LAX … other than a lot of headaches! 🙂
Monopoly was introduced in 1935 and now, in 2006 is getting ‘modern’. The board will be updated with the names of landmarks, streets and neighborhoods from 22 cities rather than Atlantic City landmarks and streets. The railroads will be replaced with airport names as well.
You can vote at the company’s website.
Read @ Blogging Baby
Officially a BAD idea
This is officially a HORRIBLE idea. It will be the first device where it can literally hurt if the thing crashes. That being said, I can see their point I don’t always feel the vibrate feature of my Blackberry. [Note: I nearly wrote “I don’t always feel the vibrator…” – too risky.] 🙂
Of course this opens up new opportunities for message alerts on your mobile device. The only question is will the helpdesk notification be more painful or less painful?
Motorola patents cellphone shock BUZR
If you need to turn that ringer off in a movie theater or meeting, but find that the ol’ vibrate mode just isn’t doing it for you anymore (or if you need a surefire way to wake yourself up in the AM), Moto has the answer: shock mode. [continues @ Engadget…]
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