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Almost Heart Attack
Ok, my friend Aaron almost gave me a heart attack today.
We’re both going to the COMMON conference in a few days … and need to connect up. So we traded cell phone numbers.
Just to make sure I had the right number … I sent him a text message “Did you get this message”.
This morning I saw a message on my phone from Aaron that said “Who are you and why are you texting my daughters phone”.
Obviously I thought I had the number wrong … but even worse, I thought maybe I had pissed off some girls father … making him think I was a freek.
Well, turns out that Aaron was just having a joke at my expense … but it was a bit alarming.
I’m going to chalk it up to cultural conditioning.
Early Tech Support
Someone on one of my mailing lists posted this … it is hilarious!
Note: It’s safe for work … it even has subtitles, so you don’t need sound.
[tags]funny, support[/tags]
Bad Valentines Day Gifts
Dennis pointed this out … Amazon.com’s Bad Valentines Day Gift ideas.
Gods Inbox
Ginny forwarded this to me … pretty darn funny.
(apparently God uses a Mac … I guess nobody is perfect)
[tags]god, funny, email, inbox[/tags]
Owner’s Manifesto
- Meaningful and specific parts lists shall be included.
- Cases shall be easy to open.
- Batteries should be replaceable.
- Special tools are allowed only for darn good reasons.
- Profiting by selling expensive special tools is wrong and not making special tools available is even worse.
- Torx is OK; tamper proof is rarely OK.
- Components, not entire sub-assemblies, shall be replaceable.
- Consumables, like fuses and filters, shall be easy to access.
- Circuit boards shall be commented.
- Power from USB is good; power from proprietary power adapters is bad.
- Standard connectors shall have pinouts defined.
- If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.
- Screws better than glues.
- Docs and drivers shall have permalinks and shall reside for all perpetuity at archive.org.
- Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.
- Metric or standard, not both.
- Schematics shall be included.
Sad news …
With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which almost went unnoticed.
Larry LaPrise, the man that wrote “The Hokey Pokey” died peacefully at the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble started.
Shut up. You know it’s funny.
[tags]Funny, Hokey Pokey[/tags]
Brookfield Zoo
Well, as you can probably guess, Ginny and I went to the Brookfield Zoo today. It was a really nice day … not too hot, a bit cloudy (but not too bad).
Of course, one of the major reasons I wanted to go was to work with my new camera some more. It’s fairly different than the old one and I still need to get used to it.
One of the things I really wanted to check out is the frame rate (number of frames you can shoot in a second). Now it’s not entirely normal to refer to a frame rate for a SLR cameras, but in this case it’s applies. Actually, the proper term is probably ‘Drive mode’. As I have mentioned before, the frame rate on my old camera was quite low … 3 frames per second with a 4 frame buffer. The frame rate on the new camera is quite nice … as illustrated with this picture of a dolphin jumping out of the water. I was able to set the film on it’s fastest drive mode with the auto-focus in “AI Servo” mode (which means the auto-focus is constantly adjusting itself instead of trying to determine if the subject is moving), and I was able to catch a LOT of action.
I had to increase the light levels on the dolphin pictures, as I was using a pretty fast shutter speed, and the light in the “Seven Seas” exhibit was kind of low, but I’m pretty pleased with the result.
[tags]Zoo, Brookfield, dolphin, Canon 30D[/tags]
M. Night Shyamalan
If M. Night Shyamalan wanted to really freak people out … he should make a movie with a totally predictable plot.
People would constantly be looking for hidden meaning in each plot point … which won’t be there.
Maybe he should throw in a few red herrings … plot points that are just coincidence.
[tags]Movies, Shyamalan[/tags]
Net Neutrality
Ok, I don’t watch the Daily Show all that much … but I usually get a good laugh when I do catch it.
I found this clip, however, on the internet that’s pretty darn funny … it corrects some of Ted Steven’s … um … ‘errors’ that he made when describing what the internet is.