Spring Symposium
I am here running by the seat of my pants in a vert tight 3 piece suit as these people stare at me.
Jump Street Video
This place is as awesome as it sounds. 30,000 sq feet of trampolines. 12 bux for an hour. (I was beat after about 15 minutes)
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A tad late to the party.
Some may think it's pretty amazing for me to have gone as long as I have without owning a laptop. Especially with my work, lifestyle etc. But honestly being as mobile as I am, laptops were just too big and cumbersome. Essentially i felt they were a pain to haul around. I have borrowed laptops from work for business trips and conferences but they sat in the hotel room as a regular desktop might have. I have a smart phone and that was enough to keep me up to date on email, twitter and minor web research. I quite honestly had no desire for anything else. That was until about a year ago when Asus released their Eee line of ultra portable laptops. The concept intrigued the daylights out of me. And apparently the whole computer industry (everyone offers a "netbook" these days.) It's efficient, bare bones, cheap and most importantly tiny. As I read and heard personal experiences with it and along with the paradigm shift I had been experiencing to the "cloud," this concept was really starting to make sense to me. I really needed to get my hands on one and see if it truly was that perfect vision of what I had been creating in my head.
I had a great Thanksgiving holiday this past weekend I got to see my brand new nephew, sister, brother and sister n law. Every time my brother visits we get to geek out and part of that is the bag full of gadgets he is testing for his job. One of his current gadgets was, you guessed it, an Asus Eee laptop. I only needed an hour with this thing to confirm the image in my head. So.. Tiger Direct had an after Thanksgiving sale and I made the order. I hope to see it at my doorstep this Wednesday. I now have a reason to go to a coffee shop.
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Chiller Pillar
Twitter was down for "Database Maintenance" this morning. But this time it wasn't the "Fail Whale" but the Fail Cone or Chiller Pillar. I'm sure we'll see t-shirts with this image out soon if not already. Either way it should gain some traction today.
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We're Unboxing Anything
Have you ever seen one of those electronics unboxing videos? Usually created by those geeks who stand in line to be first to get the latest and greatest. After racing home they fire up their webcam or flip cam, hit record and systematically reveal the product from its packaging. Each video is explained in dire detail from how the product is sitting in a package to the number of bags and taped ends it has. They are sort of interesting to watch and have been over due for a parody. So a couple of us started a project called http://itsunboxed.com/ The difference, we unbox anything from a box of cereal to a tiny martini kit. Enjoy!
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Thin Air Summit Keynote
Dave Taylor giving a wonderful keynote on "Hearing a Voice" at the Thin Air Summit in Denver, CO
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Adobe Connect Beautiful Insanity
I've been administering Adobe Connect ( Formerly Macromedia Breeze ) on our campus for 3+ years. The interface is set up so that users can move, resize and shape it to their desire. It gives you the flexibility to control how your presentation is displayed. In most cases our users have taken a very basic approach having a "pod" for the webcam and a "pod" for their PowerPoint. There is also a "presenter Only" area I think of it as a staging area and it is rarely optimized. But it has great potential, users can use the "Presenter Only" area to prepare pods for the presentation or to have notes and cross presenter chat. Yesterday I was asked by a group of graduate students to join one of their meetings to help with some audio issues they were experiencing. I jumped in and was blown away. They took the complete opposite approach and utilized connect to it's fullest. I love seeing things like this. It displays the creativity and flexibility such an application can give a group of people.
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I hate to say it....
But I really like "Human" by The Killers. They seem to be one of those bands that I don't want to like but can't help appreciate. This song has a great video. Seems like they stole it straight from the Duran Duran play book complete with albino tigers, a band mask sequence and vast aerial shots.
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