Category: miscellaneous

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…

So it’s not like I don’t have anything better to do but today I signed up for both Facebook and Twitter.  Not sure what I’m going to do with either yet, but another one in the long list of experiments.  So far, I really like the simplicity and mobility of Twitter, but it is obviously…

I am in the middle of deciding my next mobile device and like everyone else in a similar situation am closely looking at the Apple iPhone.  The one catch to the iPhone is that the only way for a 3rd party to get an application on it is through the web browser.  As I look…

It’s been about 3 months since we launched our presence in Second Life. Since our launch at UGS Innovation Connection alot has happened, both in RL and SL. Our acquisition by Siemens was closed and we have updated our island identity to reflect our new corporate situation. The number of visitors is staying fairly steady…

After we came back from dinner last night there was a visitor waiting for us last night: a gray fox. It was very tame (a little too tame actually) and we got really close to it. We fed it some scraps and it sat and waited very patiently for more. Once it realised it wasn’t…