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.
Best 5 minutes I spent all week.
This short 5 minute podcast is great! Wichita Rutherford interviews Bluegrass stars, and it isn’t your normal boring interview either. He makes it fun by goofing around with them, rather than just talking.
It will leaving you wondering…”My 5 minutes are over already?”
Definitely worth a listen.
5 minutes with Wichita
I Got To Get One of These!
Whoa! This guy built an F-14 model…that flies! It isn’t exactly small either. Check it out below… I could have done with out the 80’s Top Gun music though….
Congratulations! You are the 100th Post!
I had to put something for my 100th post on my blog.
Holy Cow! Google has Earth in beta!
I just downloaded Google’s Earth program, it is awesome! It is like Google Maps on Steroids. You can place pins on your map, notes, print, zoom (fly in) and tilt the image to your liking.
Very cool.
Google Earth – Home
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in — Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.
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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iTunes with Podcast support
iTunes 4.9 is available for download now! It supports podcasts out of the box, and I think that this is great for anyone new to the medium.
I installed it and found that it was easy to start building a list of podcasts that I was subscribed to. One notable feature I like is that there are options for what to keep, so that you don’t fill up your harddrive with shows that you are done with or didn’t listen to. Also, it keeps your podcast shows separate from your Library of music. To me that is a awesome. I often loose shows when they are mixed in with the general population, unless the genre is set to “Podcast” or something.
There are a few notable things that I believe could use improving. One is importing of OPML lists, and maybe some smartlist capability, however I think that this is a step in the right direction…