October 10 2010
Tin-Tin
Update: I am reminded 101010 is binary for “42” (the answer, of course, to life, the universe, and everything), a very cool coincidence that makes the date even more special and portentous.
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August 8 2010
Dearborn Homecoming
The tradition continues. This year’s grand finale, recorded Saturday, August 7.
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June 27 2010
Hey, I’m on TV!
I joined the other technology fans on Thursday, June 24, to upgrade my iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4. I didn’t go over board; I could’ve lined up at six (having reserved a phone the week before), but I didn’t show up till around nine AM. I stayed in line for four hours, getting my new phone right around one PM. As I got close to the store entrance, Fox 2, WJBK, showed up to shoot some video, and I ended up in the background of a couple shots. You can recognize me, on the extreme left, by my malformed Benjamin Franklin physique.
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June 11 2010
My Nephew, The Doctor
My nephew Joe got his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine on Tuesday. Here are some videos I shot, the first one is the “hood ceremony” from Sunday, at Chene Park (and coinciding with the air show on the Detroit River); and the second one is the commencement itself, at Fox Theatre in Detroit.
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June 5 2010
Newspapers in TV Shows
From Izismile.com (found via Whedonesque.com). Looks like Ed O’Neill really likes this newspaper. Thirteen years on and he’s still reading the same page!
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May 30 2010
Out My Window
Lightning footage, shot on my Kodak Zi8 on Thursday, May 27.
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May 1 2010
Picture of the Week
I’ve been enjoying this picture so much this week that I feel I should just copy it from Tumblr and post it here. It really is a delightful and heartwarming image of Spring…
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April 17 2010
Steve Jobs is a Stupid Dumbass Idiot
For quite a while I’ve been patiently waiting for Apple to support Blu-ray drives or allow Blu-ray playback in their Mac line. I’ve heard how licensing Blu-ray is a “bag of hurt” but assumed all those problems would be worked out in time. Today, I see someone wrote to Steve Jobs about this very topic, and Jobs shot back this short, simple, taunt of a response.
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I cannot fully illustrate how fucking infuriated this makes me. Jobs’s alternative to Blu-ray is YouTube?! For one thing, Flash on YouTube performs like shit on a Mac. For another thing, YouTube might say it is 1080p, but it is compressed so much that the video quality is a laughably poor substitute for 1080p from a Blu-ray disc. In short, saying YouTube is similar to Blu-ray is like like saying a sheet of paper is a replacement for an iPad.
That dog don’t hunt.
Over the last few years, I’ve bought a Power Mac, a Mac Pro, a PowerBook, a MacBook Pro, a couple iPhones, and numerous iPods. I’ve talked family members into getting iMacs and Macbooks. I’ve spent a lot of money on this company. But I have gotten tired of waiting for them to upgrade their optical drives — or even to allow Blu-ray playback from some third-party vendor’s external drive. Windows laptops and desktops have had this capability for a couple years now, but it seems Apple can’t handle it, or, more likely, doesn’t give a shit. This has become readily apparent now, direct from the head of the company, in the form of a stupid, thoughtless, tossed-off comment. Well…fuck you, Steve Jobs. My next computer will be running Windows.
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