iDallas!I paid by the minute to chat with a pretty woman on a webcam while she took off her clothes. I was mostly curious to see what the experience was like, but I can’t say it was a chore. I don’t think it was worth the money, but it wasn’t a bad time. If you’d like to do some of your own ‘research’, send me an email and I’ll tell you the name of the site.
Interesting Rolling Stone profile on Justin Frankel, the guy who invented WinAmp and Shoutcast, was given $100M by AOL for them, and then created Gnutella and released it while working at AOL. He’s one of those enigmatic geek millionaires and I’m jealous.
Now, after killing the Hubble Telescope the US government (pick your favorite public official to blame) is planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of money they don’t have to send people to Mars. More details in this Wired article. It brings up the fact that several times more taxpayer money is spent on NASA than its deep sea equivalent, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). I think it should be the other way around.
So, why would our government be so much more interested in exploring Mars than under the ocean? I think it has more than a little to do with some sort of macho bravado or whatever. It makes us look cool or something because we can go to other planets. Also, it’s not like we could just take over the oceans if we wanted… all the land on Earth has been divided up already. If we want to take over more land, we have to go to other planets.
Those both seem like pretty simple-minded reasons, but I don’t really have that much faith that our administration would have any other kind of reasons for anything they do.
This is probably an old hat topic for all the weblogging types, but I still think it’s funny. I’ve been watching the things people search for when they end up on my website and it has been a pleasant source of amusement for awhile now. In the interest of sharing the amusement, here’s a short list of some recent ones:
things can fuel the desire to masturbate
tasteful adult movies for couples
seahorse halloween costume
spoiled americans i don’t think so
philippines holiday massage couple erotic
see through socks
in the future people will look back i think they will think it’s a real step forward and a turning point for our franchise
Strangely enough, that last one is really all one long search query.
Finally, a gadget to reduce the size of my wallet! Chameleon
Network has produced a device that can mimic any magnetic card such as credit cards and those supermarket
savings cards. It sounds pretty nifty, but I think they might have trouble selling it to the average Joe or
Jane. They are pushing it as being more secure than a traditional credit card because it has a biometric
fingerprint scanner and other security features.
xhref=”http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62545,00.html” mce_href=”http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62545,00.html”>Wired has some more info on it. I may not
be first in line to buy this thing, but I’m all for reducing the number of cards in my wallet.
Since I got my Tivo a year or so ago, I’ve been increasingly interested in the little recorded pieces of whatever show the tv is on right before the Tivo changes channels to record something. It’s usually the very end of some show or some bit of a commercial and it lasts for about one or two seconds as the channel is changed and then changes (it’s an annoyingly slow process). I’m also interested, though slightly less so, with the bit of the last commercial of a commericial break that you see when you switch back from double-fast-forward to play. It’s usually just the punch line and it’s sometimes pretty funny when taken out of context. I have a theory that the people who are in charge of timing the shows and commercials will start to figure out how to make sure us Tivo people always catch most of the last commercial. Anyway, I’ve started calling these little bits of tv Tivbits, which is sort of short for Tivo Tidbit. If you’ve ever thought about this phenomenon yourself, please let me know!
Short interview with one of my best friends from high school, Micah Scott, about the time he didn’t shower for a year and a half.
This Register article details a report called The Efficacy of Pop-Ups and the resulting effect on brands which is available here as a PDF. Apparently, it’s not just me that hates popup ads and from the sounds of it they may quickly start becoming an annoying part of Internet history. This news gives me hope for the future, haha.
We’ve spent about 5 full days in the super-dope submodern studio and now have 4 songs fully tracked out and in a listen-able state. We’ll continue with this schedule until we’ve done all 10. Then we’ll spend an additional half a day each completing the final mixes and adding any mastering touches we have time for. Hopefully we can have the whole darn thing done at the end of it all and then we can move onto getting it out to the people (who are almost definitely on the edge of their seats in anticipation).
I just found myself thinking about Dell after I noticed how prominently their products were being displayed on the set of 24. It was pretty much an even heat with Apple, which is interesting. Then I started thinking about what a match with Dell and Apple would be like. What if Dell started suddenly selling only computers with Apple operating systems on them? I pondered that for a moment and then realized Apple doesn’t care about that business and neither does pretty much anyone else. Dell is becoming king of a crumbling empire. Desktop computers are a thing of the past. Of course, if you look at Dell’s product lineup you’ll see that they know it as well. They sell a lot more than computers these days.
So, I’ve heard this all before of course, but for some reason I didn’t quite believe it then. I just couldn’t see how you could possibly do all the things I do with a computer without it. But now I realize that wasn’t really the point.
At this point, I could probably live for quite awhile with just my Treo and iPod. I mean, of course I could live forever without any of my belongings, but I could probably continue living basically as I do now for quite awhile with just my Treo and iPod. If I had to pick one, it would be hard… the Treo would definitely help me continue to make a living, but the iPod would keep me sane. Anyway, I bet lots of other people are just like me… this is the beginning of the end of our attachment to desktop computers.
So, now I’m starting to think about what part of this newly emerging technical world I might want to play a role in.