bshirley “Leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I’ll be back again.” “I took a trip on a Gimini space craft, and I thought about you.” Well, I’m not leaving on a plane or a space craft, but instead on a rail-guided transportation vehicle. But I will be thinking about you. My 31-day Amtrak adventure … Read more
I was video chatting with my co-worker in Virginia, fellow FlipSide5 jack-of-all-trades Mike, and he decided to show me his quite impressive collection of iPhone OS devices. Different hardware versions of iPhones and iPod Touches with different versions of the operating system on them. Useful for testing the various possible compatibility issues, but really useful … Read more
I was checking out the new Carrie Ringwald of Molly & the Ringwalds Facebook page and on the right of the screen was this advertisement (seen to the right). I was quite humored.
I thought this Hulu image for a recent episode of Bones was just server gone bad, but it’s the actual correct image for the episode. Several times during the show Agent Booth hallucinates that Stewie from the Family Guy is talking to him. It’s reasonably humorous, and fits into a longer arc plot line actually. … Read more
Here’s some test video I shot with my new Flip MinoHD. It’s my nice bucolic back yard in the Houston Heights: three miles west of downtown Houston, one of the larger cities in the United States. I did a slight amount of editing with iMovie (not iMovie HD – if anyone knows the difference could … Read more
John D Was my roommate in Webster in the early 90s and the first resident of my house in the Houston Heights (I was living out of town when I bought it.) He now resides in the San Francisco area and has tempted me with the Maker Faire to bypass Los Angeles. I called up … Read more