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March 2010
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It's a camera phone picture. And I removed an extra person from the
background. But the Jenn's smile is completely authentic. :)
• Saturday was a good day.
• I did some cleaning
• I had some pizza
• I played with a robot that I drove around the apartment with a wifi camera
• Jenn and I took a walk outside
• We went and got some groceries
• We watched the Season finale(?) of Caprica
• It was a good day.
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Random Non-Sequiters
Monday is zooming along pretty quick. Caught up on a bunch of emails this morning, since I was out last Friday.
Looking forward to the evening.
And is it too early to say, looking forward to the weekend?
Videos
Incase you missed them, here's some recent videos I've upladed.
Tue 3/16/10 Walk on Path (above)
Thursday 3/18/10 Walking around the parkinglot
Friday 3/19/10 Leki foot Wrestling (above)
Saturday 3/20/10: Where'd my spring go?
Saturday 3/20/10 Leki is indifferent to the Roomba (above) (Jenn shot this one)
Sunday 3/21/10 Leki at the table
Sunday 3/21/10 At Celebration North to see Repo Men the Republican Health Care plan documentary
Sunday 3/21/10 Repo Men was abit dark
Let's Go Surfing
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Good Morning Sunday.
Had Friday off this past week. Four days is enough work. It's not enough to get all the work that needs to be done, done. But 4 days itself, is enough time for work.
Went out to a office function of Jennifer's at Peppino's downtown Friday night. Had a good time there. It was good to put so many of her workplace people's face's with their names and stories I've already heard.
Saturday, we ran some errands, and did some shopping. Checked out the new Hobby Lobby that moved from Jenison to Grandville. Huge store. Surfed a lot of internet, but really came up short on much interesting.
Saw this week's Caprica. At the end, the promo said that next week is the season finale. Only 9 eps, that's a bummer, would be nice if there were more, as Caprica is the only show we are watching in anything close to real time (ie: the day of or the next day after it plays.) Not really any shows I'm major excited about currently airing.
Read the first 3rd of Adam and Comfort's new comic project that they are working on as a brief hiatus between the first and second “seasons” of The Uniques. It's good stuff and it's going to be a fun story visually for sure too. I also listened to a 40 min interview with them this am. Scroll down to the player and then jump to the 1:20:00 mark and give it a listen.
Finally gave up on inkjet printers this week. Ordered a Color Laser Printer. We'll see how that goes, at least the ink cartridges won't be dried up when I need to print. Gotta, love toner that way.
Ordered a robot, Wowee Rovio too. It was up on Woot! Last week and I couldn't pass it up. Will likely terrorize the cat a little with it soon.
Let's Go Surfing
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Video Post
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Toys
When I read articles like this, it really sounds like they might be making this Green Lantern movie. *sigh* Sent to you by Chris via Google Reader: Ryan Reynolds? Green Lantern Costume Is Snug In All The Right Places [Green Lantern] via io9 by Meredith Woerner on 3/8/10 Last night at the Oscars, Ryan Reynolds let slip a few superhero details about working on the Green Lantern film in New Orleans. Specifically about his Green Lantern Corps uniform, and how it hangs on his new superhero figure. [Ryan Reynolds?] trainer Bobby was telling me that you?re really really working hard in New Orleans [/end quote]
Best bet, click the link at the top of this article. No link at top? then try this link
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Random Non-Sequiters
- Unless I tweet this, you won't see this.
Today is March 5th. This months blog page has been up for 5 days and has 4 unique viewers. Since I check my blog periodically from home and work, I probably account for two of those views. I'm pretty sure Jenn reads this as well. So that leaves 2 people out there who have been to this new blog page this month so far.
Now it's not all doom and gloom. 591 unique people have viewed at least 1 of the 4 or 5 years worth of pages on my blog this month so far. So this blog is definitely helping google answer some queries. But for the latest posts, well there's been two of you so far this month! So to both of you, I say thanks.
Now some of my blog's declining viewership proably rests with the fact that it's probably pretty boring of late. Sure there are occasional cat photos, and you'd think that'd be enough, but content has been sort of slim other than that. I'm willing to wager though that Facebook and Twitter are more the real cause of the decline. I think the tide has turned and people have now shifted their attention away from personal blogs and now get their information exclusively from the social sites, where the information comes to them and they don't have to go to it.
Which brings me back to my original statement: unless I tweet this, you won't see it.
People's time is valuable, and there is alot of social online content they need to keep up with, so in the new world, you've got 140 characters on twitter, or maybe sightly more, plus a tiny picture to make your pitch on Facebook.
There's probably a lesson in their for business too. People are busy, get to your pitch and get to your pitch quick. If its interesting, people will dig deeper, but if it's not, it's just one more thing in the stream.
Penguin books on the iPad
Watch this video below.
Have you watched it? Are you back? Great.
WTF? Isn't the above just that cheesy Interactive CDRom stuff from the early 90s? didn't we get rid of all that when the web came along? Is the above really what the upcoming iPad future is? I really doubt it. Stuff like the above is alot of work to create, and frankly it's just not worth it. You've been able to do all the above on the web via Flash for years, and rarely anyone does anything in this sortof interactive format. Don't get me wrong, some of the chat and social features are interesting, being able to leave comments on a given page, etc. But unless that's going to be policed you're just waiting for trolls to get nasty on something like that. But otherwise... color me unimpressed.
Video, where's the video
I got the WebOS 1.4 video upgrade on my Palm Pre this past weekend. I've posted a few so far. I want to do more, but video is so much more time consuming both for me to film and you to view, isn't? Still it's nice to have a mobile video option back.
Indy comics
My friends Adam and Comfort have launched their The Uniques comic spinoff web series: The Uniques Tales. There are a bunch creators line-up to contribute to the seriesnine issues avaialble the last of which is double sized, for only 99 cents each. There worth a read if you're interested in a smartly written and very nicely drawn superhero yarn.
Blue skies ahead
Second day in a row of blue skies in West Michigan. I'm looking forward to going home and taking another quick walk outside later on this evening after work. it's been cold and gray too long again in Michigan. this is a welcome change.
Have a good Friday! And if you are one of the two people who view this post without seeing it on Twitter, give me a shout out in the comments!
Lets Go Surfing
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