Super Bowl Sunday, Super Tuesday, YahooSoft?
Somehow the New England Patriots were upset by the New York Giants 17-14 today in Super Bowl XLII. Turns out that Plaxico Burress wasn’t too far off with his 23-17 score prediction. I guess a 19-0 season was impossible. I knew it was over for New England when, on the final Giants drive, on third […]
Funny videos, monster fish, technology
Today I have a bunch of links to funny videos (mostly from YouTube), some useful/interesting technology and software links, and a few other random things to mention. Funny Videos Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again. Modesto, CA residents turned out for the city’s annual Ninja Parade, where no ninjas were seen for the […]
Barack Obama, Bill Gates retires, habanero salsa
On the heels of Hillary Clinton’s huge comeback win in the New Hampshire primary over Barack Obama, ESPN columnist Bill Simmons reports that he is “leaning toward voting for the Clintons (and really, they’re a package deal)” for the following three reasons: They’ve been in the office before and made all their mistakes the first […]
Happy New Year: On dying consumer technologies
A few thoughts on dying consumer technologies for 2008: Copy-protected music is almost dead. The demise of copy-protection software has finally almost arrived. Warner is the third of the four major music corporations to move away from digital rights management (DRM) software. In large thanks to the influences of Amazon MP3 and Radiohead this year. […]
Happy Holidays: UNICEF, pecans, Google, magicJack
Happy Holidays, everyone! Yesterday we had some snowy driving when returning from Washington on I-84 (in between The Dalles and Hood River), but that was nothing compared to the beating the Midwest has been getting this December. Reminds me of why I moved to the Mid-Willamette Valley and out of the freezing snowlands. You need […]
Glow-in-the-dark cats and other amusements
I have a few random stories/videos to share that I found last week: Glow-in-the-dark cats This was interesting: South Korean scientists clone cats whose genes have been altered so that they glow in the dark. Because of the red fluorescence protein in their skin cells, these cats look reddish under ultraviolet light. View reports via […]
Back from Florida, with links
This week I returned from Florida, where great times were had in the Orlando area, Miami Beach, and Key West. Since I last posted in mid-November, a lot of links have been visited. Here are a few good ones: Science & Politics I stopped by the NASA’s Kennedy Space Center while I was in Florida. […]
Smokey the $1000 housecat: A Hemobart story
This 1500-word post is all about our pet cats, Smokey and Eli. Yes, that’s right. 1500 words. About our cats. Welcome to a rare break from posts about popular culture and random Internet nonsense. This story is mostly about Smokey’s near-death experience and, more generally, about the housekitties. I had been waiting to write about […]
Imagination, How It All Ends, Google wireless, Muse
I have six things to mention today: 1. I will soon be reviewing the independent film Imagination by Eric and Jeffrey Leiser for Filmometer.com. They’ve let me know that a DVD screener of their three-year effort is in the mail. After invitations to a number of film festivals in 2007, additional theatrical openings of Imagination […]
Freeware media/MP3 players, laughing baby, movies
As of this month I’ve lived in Oregon for six years. Now here are some random multimedia links for you. Freeware media/MP3 players Just in case any of you are sick of bloatware media players like Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, and QuickTime/iTunes that hog system resources and are always trying to update themselves against your […]