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Friday, December 27, 2002 |
Car TV
this was my car last night with the TV in it.... |
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The Friday Five... With the Friday Five being back online this week, I'm going to actually do it... 1. What was your biggest accomplishment this year? Hard to say. Maybe getting serious about this blogging thing? There were some big moments, but those were mostly private. It may also have been the Requiem concert in November. 2. What was your biggest disappointment? Not getting extra pay for working my ass off at Boot Camp in September. 3. Will you be making any New Year's resolutions? Not ones I will likely keep. 4. Where will you be at midnight? Do you wish you could be somewhere else? Not sure yet. I could be in Erie, or I could be in Virginia. Decisions are yet to be made.
5. Aside from (possibly) staying up late, do you have any other New Year's traditions?
Keeping the cork from the champagne bottle. Writing the year on it and keeping it on my desk at home. Kind of a good luck token to the fates. |
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Creative Commons Some folks may have noticed that there's a new addition to the sidebar... It's my very own Creative Commons license. If you maintain a blog like this, you might want to think about putting this on your webpage.
Creative Commons is a neat idea that not nearly enough people are catching on to just yet, but it gives you the control to make sure that your work is properly attributed down the line, or given away for free if you so desire. Spiffy, yes? Take the power of the license back from the lawyers and give it to yourself! |
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Ah yes, the State of Virginia. Sic Semper Tyrannis reads the motto on the Flag, and that's what John Wilkes Booth said when he shot Lincoln in Ford's Theatre at the end of the Civil War. Now, the folks in the South (and don't be fooled, Virginia is most definitely the South) seem to remember the Civil War a bit differently where history is concerned, frequently referring to it as the War of Northern Aggression, and groups like the Sons of the Confederacy still wave its racist flag. Because let's not be fooled by their turn of the words, this was still a just war. Thinking otherwise is foolhardy. Just ask these folks. 10:27:52 AM comment [] 
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About two years ago, I experimented with the idea of video as haiku. Apparently, now someone's been doing this on a regular basis. A dutchman by the name of Luuk Bouwman has been working on a site that is basically blogging, but via video. But the ability to push video at people with broadband is a double-edged sword. Just because you can doesn't mean you should do it. The problem that I found was that it was very difficult to convey meaning and experience by 30 or 40 seconds worth of video. As hard drive space, and web space, increase in size, I suppose it becomes possible to expand that vision capability and lengthen the stories you're able to tell. Then again, are you sure you really want to watch a five minute clip of someone else's life? Before you say "Hey! That's what you're doing right here, but different," let me say this: Video and Text are different mediums with different requirements. Text is easy. You have the option to do a lot with text, like skip over sections and head straight for the last paragraph to see if it's any good. Video isn't that easy. Video requires much more in the way of "processing power" where the processor is both your CPU in your computer and the one in your head.
Then again, this could turn into big business like the feng shui guy in Antarctica by KSR. Two days in a row with the KSR references...you'd think I'd read like his whole collected works and really enjoyed them or something... |
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