IT Director for a non-profit in Washington, DC. Man About Internet.
I went into the district yesterday for the big fireworks display and got a great spot directly beside the Washington Monument. I had no idea these would turn out as well as they did. Check out the entire set at the Flickr set I made of these 77 pictures.
Here are some of the best:
Note: I cropped these in order for them to fit in this post. You'll find the uncompressed origionals on Flickr of course.
I'm heading into the district today to take pictures of the fireworks w/ my camera & tripod. Be sure to check out my flickr tomorrow for the results.
Top Ten Videogame Weapon Ranked
You must watch this first, William Shatner doing Rocket Man, in order to get this, Stewie doing Rocket Man.
Probably the funniest video I've seen so far in 2006, an old episode of Who's Line Is It Anyway in which they use Richard Simmons as a live prop: The definition of hilarious. Check it out.
This happened about a month ago, and I had already seen these videos, I thought they were good enough to repost here. Seth MacFarlane was invited to speek at Harvard's Class Day this year prior to graduation. Most of his speech consists of him doing the voices of Peter, Stewie and Quagmire. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
Want to know what 45,000 bottle rockets going off all at once looks like? Really? Ok here you are.
This guy promised that if people would donate 25 cents to him on the internet until he reached enough to buy a new G5 Mac he would blow up his old G4. Well, he did it and his video of it is very well edited.
Story brought to you by 27B Stroke 6 over @ Wired Blogs. This story was brought to my attention by the wonderfull diggers at Digg.com.
Wired:
"Your Own Personal Internet
The Senate Commerce Committee deadlocked 11 to 11 on an amendment inserting some very basic net neutrality provisions into a moving telecommunications bill. The provisions didn't prohibit an ISP from handling VOIP faster than emails, but would have made it illegal to handle its own VOIP packets faster than a competitor's.
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explained why he voted against the amendment and gave an amazing primer on how the internet works."
There's one company now you can sign up and you can get a movie delivered to your house daily by delivery service. Okay. And currently it comes to your house, it gets put in the mail box when you get home and you change your order but you pay for that, right.But this service isn't going to go through the interent and what you do is you just go to a place on the internet and you order your movie and guess what you can order ten of them delivered to you and the delivery charge is free.
Ten of them streaming across that internet and what happens to your own personal internet?
I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.
So you want to talk about the consumer? Let's talk about you and me. We use this internet to communicate and we aren't using it for commercial purposes.
We aren't earning anything by going on that internet. Now I'm not saying you have to or you want to discrimnate against those people [...]
The regulatory approach is wrong. Your approach is regulatory in the sense that it says "No one can charge anyone for massively invading this world of the internet". No, I'm not finished. I want people to understand my position, I'm not going to take a lot of time. [?]
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck.
It's a series of tubes.
And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Now we have a separate Department of Defense internet now, did you know that?
Do you know why?
Because they have to have theirs delivered immediately. They can't afford getting delayed by other people.
[...]
Now I think these people are arguing whether they should be able to dump all that stuff on the internet ought to consider if they should develop a system themselves.
Maybe there is a place for a commercial net but it's not using what consumers use every day.
It's not using the messaging service that is essential to small businesses, to our operation of families.
The whole concept is that we should not go into this until someone shows that there is something that has been done that really is a viloation of net neutraility that hits you and me.
Mr. Stevens what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
This article comes to you courtesy of Dvorak's blog and the original article and how-to instructions come from, of course, MAKE magazine.
Last weekend we laser etched 3 more Powerbooks. We etched two 15″ Powerbooks and a 12″ - this time we etched a very cool bunny infused Tsunami, a NeXT logo as well as a subtle and elegant plum blossom. If you’ve wondered about the process, tools or just how laser etching looks - I put together some of the photos, links and files. Enjoy!
Ok. So this video podcast came out called AskANinja whichs consists of this "Ninja" who answers viewer email from a Ninjas perspective - it was pretty funny.
But wait...now the pirates have retaliated, due to the fact that the AskANinja people preemptivley stole the AskAPirate.com domain, the pirates have started up AxAPirate.com and its HILARIOUS.
So we now having dueling video podcasts, Ask A Ninja - a vodcast about ninjas and Ax A Pirate - a Vodcast about pirates. Wow. The internets, they roxors.
This article is an interesting read providing tons of tips on proper shaving and the proper tools needed.
Personally, as some of you may know, I highly recommend Kiehl's.