My new Favorite Video. Too cool for words!

They need to make a longer version. I don't get to watch long enough.

New Year's, a funeral dirge

2009, good riddance. Go, be gone with you. Away!

Augmented Reality

Somebody, anyody, tell me why I need augmented reality. I have my hands full with the default plain vanilla kind.

Iranian Protesters & Their Cell Phones Show Us Their Revolution

God bless the protesters in the streets of Iran. Talk about "fight the power". Despite the Iranian government's best efforts at net censorship news from citizens in the streets continues to make its way out. Cell phones and especially photos taken with cell phones are everywhere.

Gizmodo has a good piece on this phenomena.

Gotta love it.

phones with keyboards = better language

As more and more cell phones have keyboards, texting and email has evolved from "CU L8R" et al. to real English with punctuation no less. Thank you, thank you.

RC plane w/video camera + fireworks!

OK. Let me get this straight. We've got a video camera on an RC plane with jokers on the ground shooting fireworks at it.


I have only two questions: was the pilot try to avoid the fireworks or fly into them and was beer involved?

Christmas

Any day when people around the world stop, share, and love those around them is a day to be celebrated. A true holiday.

Found While Holiday Shopping

Xmas '09

I'm only partly through gift opening but so far the pocket breathalyzer has a slim lead followed closely by clever tea making setup + mug sporting caffeine molecule etching. If I could only put the breathalyzer online like a webcam...

I hope Santa was as good to you. Now on to the rest of the prezzies...

Christmas Spirit, the t-shirt

Measuring Spoons 1, Jerry 0

Jokes on me: I just read the markings on the measuring spoons I've been using for YEARS. It's a TEAspoon, not a TABLEspoon. Explains some of my cooking results...

HP computers are racist?

Give yourself a holiday present. For free!

When I sat on The Big Guy's lap this year I asked for a SSL/TLS certificate. here's how to get one for free.

Dovetails nicely with my New Year's resolution: OpenVPN

Chrome & Broken Web Sites

Webmasters, fix your shit. If your site doesn't work with Chrome I'm surfing elsewhere. I'm tired of reaching for IE cuz your shit don't work.

My first tattoo

My present to myself. Michael accompanied me.

Dedicated to Mr. Wolf, my elementary school French teacher. When I made a boneheaded comment he took me aside, pulled up his sleeve, showed me his tattoo from the concentration camp, and told me he could never hate someone for who or what they are. This man survived the Nazis, facing some of the worst humans can do to each other, and he transmuted that hatred into love and compassion towards an ignorant kid years later. God bless him.