Just when you think that Google can’t out do themselves…They go and pull something like this!
It is actually to commemorate the First landing.
Update: Zoom in all the way.
Podcasters stats surge because of iTunes…
I have heard a lot of Podcasters talking about their surge in listenership since iTunes 4.9 was released. I am sure that is taking place some, but I wonder how much of the surge is not new subscriptions to podcasts as much as it is people “Previewing” their show from within iTunes. I believe that would count as a download…
Just thinking out loud.
Birthday Boy!
Happy Birthday to Kevin Devin. He runs the In the Trenches Podcast, the podcast for sysadmins.
Happy Birthday Kev!
Hey Yall, Watch This!
It seems that the Southern American English has been explained. Now you can understand me.
My southern accent comes and goes depending on who I am talking to. However, no matter what I can’t loose “Yall” and “Fixin to”. I can turn it up a notch if I am speaking to someone that is also genuinly southern.
I love to hear people that speak southern, but I can’t stand it when someone fakes a southern “Drawl” and tries to pass it off. I am sure the british probably feel the same when an American tries to fake a british accent too.
Visit the article to read the whole thing.
See yall. 😉
Do You Speak American . Sea to Shining Sea . American Varieties . Southern . Sounds | PBS
Some of the grammatical differences between SAE and other varieties are well known. For example, most Americans immediately recognize you-all and yall as distinctively Southern second person pronouns, and many would know that fixin to, as in “I’m fixin to eat breakfast,” is Southern as well. The latter represents a modification of the English auxiliary system that enables Southerners to encode an aspectual distinction grammatically that must be encoded lexically elsewhere: “I’m fixin to eat breakfast†means that I intend to eat breakfast in the next little while.
Deep Impact: Not the Movie!
Deep Impact is a NASA project to impact a comet with a projectile, and have it expel gas and material into space so it can be analyzed by the fly by part of the Deep Impact.
This morning I was checking out NASA’s site to see how Deep Impact faired…and it looks like it did exactly what it was expected to, and this video shows it. Amazing.
Congratulations! You are the 100th Post!
I had to put something for my 100th post on my blog.
How you like me now?
Is this for real? I think that this is hilarious if it is.
Weare, New Hampshire (PRWEB) Could a hotel be built on the land owned by Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter? A new ruling by the Supreme Court which was supported by Justice Souter himself itself might allow it. A private developer is seeking to use this very law to build a hotel on Souter’s land.
More on the Implosion
I have had a lot of people asking how I did that…
What I did was I had 2 cameras. One was in my office in the Charlotte Plaza which is next door to the implosion, and the other at the Bank of America Corporate Center. (You can see where I was here mouse over the image for notes). I set up camera number 1 on my Mac mini in my office on Friday since they would not allow me in my building on the day of the implosion. On Sunday I set up camera number 2 in a conference room on the 46th floor in the BofA Center. Just before the implosion, at the 2 minute warning, I used VNC and logged into the Mini that was attached to Camera 1 and kicked off recording directly to it’s harddrive via iMovie. I then started recording on tape the camera that was with me. As the implosion took place, I started snapping pictures with my camera at the same time.
Afterwards, I edited the video on my Mac Mini and Voila. It was a lot of work, but well worth it.
You can view the video it here (Quicktime Required) and the Photos here.
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Building Implosion in Charlotte
On Sunday morning about 7:30a on June 26th, the old Charlotte Convention was imploded, and I was there.
I shot video from two different angles, one from my Office which is directly next door to the implosion, and one from the Bank of America Corporate Center.
The visual that I had was amazing, especially so close. The BofA Center was shaking from all the vibration…
I will post some video soon**, however here are some pictures that I took. I will post a few more of these also.
UPDATE: Here is some video and information from WSOC on the implosion
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Fan Films, To boldly go…
In my never ending quest to find something more…something other than the 2 year release cycles of my favorite movie franchises…I have found that Fan films are alive and well on the Internet.
Last night on Technorama (the podcast I co-host), I talked about Fanfilms. I mentioned several really good home made productions. Grayson (Robin is Avenging Batmans death, and is faced with a conspiracy), BatMan : Dead End (A mix of Scifi and Batman) Troops and others…You can find links to all of those at the Technorama Site.
Now something that I forgot to mention…Star Trek fan films. There are some interesting ones coming down the pipe.
Over at New Voyages, they are producing episodes as if it was the forth season in the TOS time era. They have recast Kirk, Spock, and Bones (before you flip out, it is pretty well done) and the set and costumes look great. I just read that Walter Koeing is reprising his role as Checkov in an up coming one…
Now also over at New Voyages they have a links page that links to other Star Trek Fan projects. Some of note I would like to point you in the direction of…
Star Trek: Intrepid
Starship Execter
Also of interest… is Hidden Frontier. I looks like they actually have 6 seasons of episodes already. Set in the TNG era, it looks like they sacrificed building their own sets, and did a lot of green/blue screen. I will have to watch a few. Something else that I thought odd. If I am not mistaken, the theme music is from Galaxy Quest. Now, wasn’t Galaxy Quest sort of a spoof on Star Trek? Ironic.
Anyway, there is plenty here to spend a rainy day looking at.
BTW Got something interesting you like as far as Fan Films go, let me know.