links for 2005-08-07
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How to get good black and white results from a digital camera.
links for 2005-08-05
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Interesting puzzle that was possibly created by Einstein. I am going to try and solve this on the airplane this weekend.
links for 2005-08-04
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Hold the door close key and the floor you want to go to at the same time and be taken right there, no matter how many schmucks are waiting to get on below you. Awesome!
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Popcorn is my new favorite application. Finally something that makes burning DVDs simple. If you have a video that’s bigger than a single layer disc can hold, Popcorn automagically resizes it to the best quality that will fit. Genius.
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Some friends of mine got featured by a local weekly. Great stuff, I always enjoy their shows.
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I went to King’s Island today so I was able to ride The Beast. It’s a classic and was great. We rode in the back, something that this site says is only for the brave: “Like being drug behind an ugly enraged runaway wildebeest.”
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Handy hack to disable some of those pesky popups that get around FireFox’s existing blocker.
links for 2005-08-02
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Pagerank for photos! Flickr rocks.
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“Connexion by Boeing said Monday that it has worked with Intel to certify that Centrino-based laptops will work with its in-flight wireless broadband systems.” Oh man oh man I hope my PPC will work! What ever should I do?
CarbWire is for sale
CarbWire is for sale. Been meaning to do this for a while. I’m up in Ohio (with the CarbWire cofounder, Larry) so this was a perfect time. Great resource and it still gets lots of press. I even did an interview with NPR today that aired nationally.
Update: ProBlogger gave up some linkage and I found out that CarbWire has over 28,000 MyYahoo subscribers. That’s insane!
links for 2005-08-01
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Aktins is having some net-cash problems.
links for 2005-07-31
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My dad’s off to Asia again. This time to more places that I have never heard of. I need to go take a geography course.
links for 2005-07-30
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Interesting plug-in that changes the UI of MovableType. I’ll have to try this out.
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Planet X? Now for the debate of what qualifies as a planet. My astronomy teacher used to say he didn’t count Pluto because it was too small.
Airport security
I’m at the airport on the free WiFi (way to go Tampa!). While going through security today there was a woman in front of me that was arguing that the Delta rep had told her that she was allowed to bring on lighters, but only if she kept them in her purse (they are, as she said, prohibited in checked luggage). The security staff held back laughs and noted that in fact she has reversed the idea–lighters are banned in carry on luggage and can only be put below in checked luggage. But the passenger was convinced that it was only logical to allow lighters in the cabin but not under. I love people!
Phil Hendrie is a genius
I have been digging Phil Hendrie quite a bit lately. I have listened off and on for years (probably six or seven now, I grew up on the AM radio dial) but now I have been catching the shows I miss online. Hendrie is the most talented personality currently on radio, bar none.
For those not in the know (something I suggest you change) Hendrie has a few interviews per show. Usually they involve an insane guest and irrate callers. But as LA Weekly puts it,
The hook — the kicker, as they like to say in Hollywood — is that Hendrie does the voices of all his guests, some 40 regular characters in all, while the callers themselves are real.
Hendrie ties in the characters amazingly well. They come in different races, sexes, ages and political stances (and are performed in real time without the aid of anyone else). The only uniform fact is that they typically say very offensive things. The first time I listened, when I was a mere tween, Ted Bell of Ted’s of Beverly Hills was on to talk about his policy of reusing food from guests at his restaurant. Why would we throw out half a plate of good food? That’s what stir fry is for. I was hooked even though I wasn’t quite sure what the schtick was (that in fact it was an interview with one man).
I watched a webcast of his show to see him in action and it’s quite the workout. He uses a regular phone to voice the characters (to simulate that they are calling into the show) and a regular radio mic for himself. He is almost flawless in delivery.
Here’s the first hour from a recent show to illustrate what I’m talking about. Hendrie is both characters in this conversation and it was performed live (just from notes). In this clip: Brad Rifkin’s Hollywood Party Experience company sent a Natalie Holloway impersonator to a little girls bats mitzvah. If you’re easily offended, steer clear. The last half of this clip involves Phil just driving the caller crazy, making absolutely no sense.
Start listening!