Category: miscellaneous

I took my first trip since the dreaded return flight from N.Y.C. out of JFK in June this week. I had to fly down to Plano for a few meetings on Tuesday and stayed over night for a few more on Wednesday. I flew back last night and got a pleasant surprise in the form…

Not that it wasn’t interesting before, but now that voice is active all over SL, I think things are going to heat up.  One of the things I think has limited use as a collab platform is that until now you had to use text chat for most communications.  With voice now it becomes a…

It really is amazing the quality of animation that independents can produce. Everyone got all caught up in the simple (but hilarious) flash work that the JibJab guys put out at the last election. I think the “gentleman’s duel” below is on par with any big budget Hollywood cartoon. (Warning: NSFW link below) Video A…

.!. Being a few weeks into my experiment on Facebook one of the issues I have run in to is how closed off it seems to be.  If anyone wants to see most of what I am doing on Facebook, they have to join Facebook.  One thing this has lead me to do is only…

So what is a sure sign that the summer is coming to an end, it’s county fair time again.  Tonight I am heading over to the local fair to check out the junior contest horse show and eat a few dozen funnel cakes.  There’s nothing better than watching an 8 year old cling for dear…

Seems to be a lot of Rube going around these days. Boing Boing: Japanese Rube Goldberg videos American Outlaws move

Well its been a few days since I have signed up for Facebook. So far so good, but this article comes along and has given me a whole new set of things to try. One thing I have learned in these 3 short days is you have to decide why you are on facebook: is…

So I have been posting videos to youtube for over a year, and I have finally devolved into posting cat videos like everyone else. At least this one has the potential for some violence 😉 The story behind this video is last night when I got home there was a line of wild turkey hens…

I just updated my N800 with the new Mozilla browser and it’s great. I can get the full version of Google reader (I was having to use the mobile version), Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps (with side view) and even Google Docs. Why did I want one of those UMPCs again? Gorillas in the Mist: The…