June 2005 Entries
Tech solution needed:
Corey asked me to post this dilemma i told him about a few weeks ago, which he has been thinking about but can't up with a solution to. Hopefully his savvy blog followers will have suggestions for a program.
Here's the email:
I need to find an easier method/ program for doing my work.
As i'm developing a conference, the agenda, done in word, is constantly changing. I move sessions all around, change the times, etc. here are examples of inefficiencies that take up tons of time
-- If I change the start time by 10 minutes, i have to go back and...
The Tag Heuer Professional Golf Watch.
The deal was that Tag was paying Tiger all these millions to be their shill and he wasn’t wearing a watch while playing, which was when most of his camera time occurred.
So they worked with him to develop a special “golf watch”. It has a rubber band, and an integrated clasp in the face so it is more comfortable, weighs less than 55 grams. And the crown is at 9 o’clock as to be more comfortable with your wrist cocked back during the golf swing.
I checked with my normal watch dealer and...
I love the Flickr blog. Just the right amount of content. Just the right blend of marketing and “hey, this is cool” legitimacy. They had a post featuring some trucks, which inspired me to post this very special one from my own library, taken in India this February.
Is it a truck, a bus, or a hotel? Yes, it is all of those things. Check out the triple decker sleeping cells — a’la one of those Japanese capsule hotels.
My previous post in praise of diet coke elicited this comment:
Diet Coke is fine, but steer clear of the Coke Zero. 6 ounces of it and it's like I injected olestra straight into my body.
I haven’t explored this with scientific rigor, but I too had serious distress stemming from my first 20 oz of Coke Zero.
This post is also serving as my test of Technorati tags: Coke Zero
UPDATE: The passing of time had made me curious about whether this was an anomolous incident or not. Plus my interest was piqued by the trivia that is Diet Coke (regular)...
I was just reading this article in the Washington Post about a morbidly obese guy and was stopped short by this little statistic:
Since Keitz was 18 (he is 39 now) and 250 pounds, he has gained 375 pounds, or 1,312,500 calories. That's 62,500 calories per year, or 171 per day.
Just 171 calories a day?
That's roughly equivalent to going to McDonald's and ordering a double cheeseburger (460 calories) instead of a cheeseburger (310). Or a quarter pounder (420) instead of a hamburger (260). Or large fries (520) instead of medium fries (350). Or a large Coke (32 ounces, 310...
As one who grew up computer-wise in DOS, I still break out the cmd prompt now and then.
One that I use that I never see mentioned is COPY CON filename.ext
The point is that it lets you create a file and put some text in right there, without having to open Notepad or whatever. It is useful if you want to create a file with an obscure file type. Note, you type what you want then hit F6 to save. (Logical right, F6, duh)
Anyway, this is my submission for obscure error of the week:
C:\>copy con test.txtthe quick brown fox jumps...
Meet Dave (right)
Somehow it became a punchline to say … “or Dave gets hot sauce in the eye” at work.
Friday night, money is being offered to make a phrase reality. To everyone’s surprise, the offer is accepted.
Painful to look at isn’t it? That’s genuine Tabasco brand hot sauce.
ooooooh
Ow. What was he thinking?
A quick call to poison control confirmed that a rinse in the sink was all that was needed, but he should be prepared to go to the emergency room. Fortunately that wasn’t needed and many minutes of washing eventually meant that Dave could see out...
I have completed my second round of photo assisting for Emily Wilson Photography aka the girlfriend.
My duties included:
The lugging of heavy crates full of equipment, moving furniture around
Folding and unfolding of stands, plugging in lights, etc. Fortunately this shoot didn’t require one of those reflective dishes that fold onto themselves in a way that makes amateur photo assistants look really silly.
Standing in for the talent to test lighting. I was going to show these to you, but I had old school white tennis shorts on, with my leg up on a chair (I had no guitar!, wtf) and I look...
Check out this hand knit Formula One seat cushion with Rothmans and Elf logos. Circa 1989? Not sure.
The guys in front of us at the Montreal Grand Prix have been going to that race for 23 straight years.
Went to see Iron & Wine on Friday night. VIP. @ Webster Hall, which is an interesting venue, cause from what I gather, they put all the shows on early (fine by me) and then turn the place into a straight on discoteque afterwards. My favorite part was hanging out post-show and watching them lower the trapeze into place (that’s for the gogo dancers of course).
I prefer the newest EP Woman King to the slower, older stuff.
Announcing the Emily Wilson Experience
I helped my extraordinarily talented girlfriend build a secondary site where she could showcase some of the images that fall outside the boundaries of her portfolio and her strictly professional site Emily Wilson Photography.
Full text(and photo) RSS feed here
The site uses .text also, since that’s the devil I know. I tried going straight to Community Server, but I’ll wait for 1.1. I was going to invest more time in making the skin cleaner, more elegant, but since CS uses different skins, I’ll wait until after the upgrade. For now, the pictures speak for themselves.
Enjoy.
NY Times: The space shuttle Discovery returned to the launching pad today after technicians replaced its fuel tank with an enhanced model.
Why don’t they talk about the actual astronauts anymore? Back in the 80’s we knew them all by name, who was the pilot, etc. I suppose a large part of my memory comes from the Christa McAuliffe buildup, but still. Do kids in elementary school know the names of the pretty dang brave people going up in the next space shuttle?
If I was on that mission, I’d be pissed. Where’s my David Letterman appearance or my live...
I thought I had mentioned this before, but I only use Dell Performance keyboards that were made between 1997–2000 (roughly), the white ones that have the full mechanical feel. None of that quietkey bullcrap for me. I stockpiled a few when I left my old company (ZEFER) and have used them exclusively since. Well, you can imagine what 8 years of daily use does to a beige keyboard in terms of filth. I bought specialized keyboard cleaning stuff from the impulse buy section at CompUSA, but it was a huge pain and only cleaned the surface and vacuuming isn’t real...
Slate’s Today’s Papers from the other day:
As the Post fronts, the House Appropriations Committee proposed hitting the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with a 25 percent cut next year and the elimination of all federal funding in two years.
The very first thought that came into my head, was Family Ties and how mad the dad would be. It might have even qualified for “a very special episode” or a Jump-the-shark move the family to LA where they opened up a Video Store or something.
Tangentially here are the top JTS moments for Family Ties:
Birth (Andrew)
50
Mallory's boyfriend Nick joins the...
The weather report for this weekend’s Formula One Grand Prix in Montreal calls for lots of rain. In past years, I’ve been under-equipped and paid the price in discomfort.
Since F1 races are all weather(*), it might mean a few hours of being rain upon whilst sitting on aluminum bleachers where umbrellas are most unwelcome.
I knew I wanted something relatively hard-core, and got the idea to check out industrial type solutions. Froogle showed up a few items for Carhartt that looked absolutely perfect. They have a coat and bibs made with “50 mm, polyester backed PVC for total waterproof protection”...
Michael Gartenberg - Is Newsgator poised to become the "RSS Company"
We've positioned NewsGator to be the RSS Company to help you get there first..
[via NewsGator Daily]
I too believe that NewsGator is really well positioned to be a dominate force in bringing RSS to the masses.
However: Have you tried to buy anything from them lately? I bought my copy of NewsGator for Outlook way back when the process was just 1) put in a credit card 2) download Newsgator 3) enter serial #. Now they have Consumer Edition, Business Edition with Standard, Gold and Platinum for each. I don’t normally get...
Terror from the Inside:
"If you don't like that, I'm sorry." Jon Bolton, Bush nominee for Ambassador to the UN, discusses the United Nations with humility and patriotic aplomb. [via MetaFilter]
Classy piece of video Mr. Bolton.
Hot on the heels of Time’s RSS writeup that I mentioned the other day, they’ve got a three page (online ver.) piece on Wikis.
This time I won’t copy and paste the whole thing, but it is a great primer on the subject.
Time.com: It's a Wiki, Wiki World
Last minute, but here’s some Upcoming.org info:
David Sedaris
Wednesday, June 1, 2005 (7:00 PM)
Barnes & Noble Union Square
33 East 17th Street (Google Maps)New York City, New York 10003
The hilarious writer-raconteur reads from his new collection of essays, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.7 p.m.; Barnes & Noble, 212-253-0818.
http://upcoming.org/event/20664/
Mom says:
Did you hear that you have a new nephew? Cael Robert Henderson
IM: preferred mechanism for delivering news of nephew births since 200?
Congratulations to my brother Brian and his wife Kama.
Now playing: Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Gu - Í Dansi Með Þér