Oooohhh…Fox has announced Office Space will be hitting Blu-ray on February 3, 2009. This will be a MUST BUY for me as I love this movie. I’ve owner 2 copies on DVD (original and special edition) and now I will buy it again!
Monthly Archive for October, 2008
If you have early voting going on in your state and you haven’t yet voted get out the vote. obama. Remember that it is extremely important to exercise your civic duty. obama. Please don’t believe that the election is going to be a landslide. Every vote will count. obama. Enjoy your night and I will be back with some Halloween videos later. obama.
obama. Check out this cool Electoral calculator. obama.
Have fun and vote! See you later…
In Beta 2 of iPhone OS 2.2, developers are finding that the following cool features are present, but may or may not see the light of day with this release:
- Google Street View
- E-mailing of current location
- Downloading of Podcasts
The last one is what caught my eye the most. I would LOVE to be able to download my podcasts directly on the iPhone as I would have much less reason to ever dock as I already get mail, calendar, contact changes via IMAP or push (well, push-y sync).
This would be a great feature and I hope they ship 2.2 with all of this enabled soon…
Ben saw the cupcakes before he left daycare and he asked us about them continually for the next 1.5 – 2 hours before we went back for the Fall Festival. When he finally got his cake he didn’t waste anytime and seemed to thoroughly enjoy it 
I totally thought this video should have been redubbed to “Oh Yeah” by Yello. Don’t pretend like you don’t know the song; just think Matthew Broderick in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off!
Rock!
Unfortunately, once I mixed it in, the video seemed somewhat taudry. It was just wrong for the setting so I dropped it, but still the song totally fits the cupcake eating and Ben’s complete obsession with getting “my cake”
I found this at John Gruber’s Daring Fireball and I think David Sedaris makes an excellent comparison. I’m not normally a big Sedaris fan, but I did think this take on undecided voters in this election year was right on the money!
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
Just to be clear, I used to be very fond of McCain if not an out and out supporter. However, his decisions and behavior in this election show me that he has no strongly held beliefs that cannot be thrown out the window in an effort to amass power and position. Sarah Palin as VP is a joke and her place on the tickets shows that his “maverick” nature is simply reckless ill-informed choices without thought to the consequences. Honestly, I’m just as frustrated with the Republican party as with McCain and I think they need a good thrashing to maybe learn that this country is not God, Guns and hating/mistrusting those different than you. America is a melting pot; pure and simple. We have all sorts of people and ideologies within our borders and I hope this election shows that inclusion trumps fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
Heather posted a good write up on our Sunday morning at the NC State Fair. I have to say the crowds got to me and I’m quite sure that Ben’s slight bratty behavior didn’t help, but all in all it was a good time. She already posted the video below, but I liked it so much I decided to include it here as well. Unfortunately, I had to carry that Dora around much of the fairgrounds as Ben ate or played. Oh well
Testing out the new polling feature…
[polldaddy poll=1000813]
UPDATE: Poll disabled as I’m not with WordPress.com anymore
Vint Cerf endorses Barack Obama based upon their shared belief in net neutrality…
Dear Bill,
Thank you for contacting us.
Because the Flip Video Program has been designed to work on the 32-bit systems, we cannot guarantee full functionality if used on a 64-bit system. At this time, we do not have information regarding the development of an application for the 64-bit systems.
We hope this has adequately addressed your question.
Thank you,
Flip Video Support
That is the answer I got from Flip (after a couple of back and forths) when asking why I couldn’t get reasonable quality out of their “Movie Mix” feature (starkly reduces quality and lowers resolution to 320×240) or why their codec doesn’t work in Windows Movie Maker (seems to for others, but they’re probably on 32 bit).
This is simply not an acceptable answer in this day and age. 64 bit Vista is a VERY mainstream OS and came on almost every laptop I looked at. Developers, you can no longer be lazy and ignore compatibility.
Oh well, editing in iMovie ‘08 works great, so no biggie there, but I want to be able to use either platform successfully 
http://www.vimeo.com/1961374
http://www.vimeo.com/1961434
I bought the ‘Cars’ hat for Ben earlier this year while on the North Carolina Coast. Heather then got the idea to dress Ben up as a race car driver for Halloween and bought the ‘Cars’ jumpsuit. Tonight, he tried it on for the first time and loved it
Oh, and as far as the pain train goes…Blame Heather for that and just check this out to understand.