The tradition continues. This year’s grand finale, recorded Saturday, August 7.
The tradition continues. This year’s grand finale, recorded Saturday, August 7.
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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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.
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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Lightning footage, shot on my Kodak Zi8 on Thursday, May 27.
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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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.
My God—it’s actual text!
From WDIV. Supposedly, my nephew Joe is somewhere in this video…
]]> I seem to like these clips, where a bit of profanity slips by the network censors. I guess it illustrates how harmless it is when they actually hit the airways, how pointless it is to try and camouflage them. Also, it’s funny to hear the E! censor try to bleep the word and fail so badly.