May I have a Large Container of Coffee?

March 16, 2007 Leave a comment

How did I miss ‘Pi Day‘?

Well, I did. It was yesterday. Actually, the day before, as it’s after midnight.

March 14th (3.14, pseudo-Euro sense; while ‘they’ use periods to separate months and days, our European friends state DDMM versus MMDD).

The phrase ‘May I have a large container of coffee’ is how I approximate (they’re still calculating) the value of Pi (count the letters in each word, yielding 3.1415926).

Clever, eh? 😛

Along those lines, you could approximate ‘Pi Second’: March 14 at 1:59:26 pm (although I’m not geeky enough for that).

Celebrate Pi Day with your fellow math geeks!

In the news:

This has had me going around in circles.

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It’s Spring!

March 7, 2007 Leave a comment

Well, almost.

Okay: a few more weeks, but in the interim, it feels like it. Outside (70 degrees in Seattle, San Francisco and Dallas) and inside, by coincidence.

So what have I been singing? Well, my litany of ‘spring’ songs, of course. Starting with: "It might as well be spring":

I’m as restless as a willow in a windstorm,
I’m as giddy as a baby on a swing.
Why should I have spring fever,
when it isn’t even spring?

I’m starry-eyed and vaguely discontented
like a nightingale without a song to sing.
Oh why should I have spring fever,
when it isn’t even spring?

I keep wishing I were somewhere else
walking down a strange new street.
Hearing words that I’d never heard before,
from a girl I’m yet to meet.

I’m as silly as spider spinning daydreams,
as jumpy as a puppet on a string.
(but) I haven’t seen a crocus or a rosebud,
or a robin on the wing.
Yet I feel so gay,
in a melancholy way,
it might well as be spring.

Fitting.

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Information Snacking in the real world

March 3, 2007 1 Comment

I’ve been talking and posting about my concept of “Information Snacking” for some time now; this is where the user is finally at the center of their data consumption, instead of trapped in an application or a specific device. We want to call up our data whenever, wherever we want it. I called this out explicitly in “The next thing: Minis, Flakes, et. al” some time ago.

The battle is continuing: whatever you call them; widgets, gadgets, blocks, panels, slabs, stickies or foos, a user’s data will be exposed in a manner that it can be hosted on their start page, and viewed on their PC, phone or other device.

The user is elbowing their way to the center, and the site(s) that facilitate this action with a framework will ‘win’ the next great set of eyeballs on the Web.

Some posts in the news:

From sound bites to bits and bytes, we’re all grabbing what we want, when we want it from the Web. We are choosing the timing and our venue to suit our needs and wants.

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Snow Day!

March 1, 2007 Leave a comment

Snaps from my front porch:

house Winter 2006 Front Door Stitch

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Michael and Ignigknot, just chilling

February 2, 2007 Leave a comment

I’m in LA, chillin’ with the guy who wreaked so much havoc in Boston this past week:

Ignigknot20070202

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Take the "Serenity" Character Quiz

December 30, 2006 Leave a comment

I miss "Serenity" and the "Firefly" series. I just took this quiz (linked below). Turns out, I’m:

Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)

Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)
80%
Derrial Book (Shepherd)
80%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)
60%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)
60%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)
40%
Alliance
40%
Wash (Ship Pilot)
20%
Inara Serra (Companion)
20%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)
20%
River (Stowaway)
20%
A Reaver (Cannibal)
0%
Honest and a defender of the innocent.
You sometimes make mistakes in judgment but you are generally good and would protect your crew from harm.
 

Quiz: "Which Serenity character are you?".

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What are you doing / watching in New Years Eve?

December 30, 2006 Leave a comment

We’re planning a very quiet NYE celebration; some sort of a movie marathon, one bottle of nice champagne and four bottles of sparkling apple cider.

Some picks from the web:

What are you doing / watching?

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Always good to get home

December 25, 2006 Leave a comment

Vacations are fun, but it’s always good to get home.

Even this time.

This time is different because we’re returning to a house where we lacked power for four days; to a freezer full of food that needs to be tossed (we tossed the refer before we left).

Oh: the refer-tossing? The garbage guys didn’t pick up the can, so it’s been sitting outside for the past 8 days. Why no pickup? The can was ‘too heavy’.

Wimps.

I moved the can to the curb. They drive up and use this heavy-duty mechanical arm to dump the can, so I’m not understanding this.

I am understanding that I’m going to have to transfer a half can of week-old food in a questionable state to plastic bags.

Yuck.

Maybe then, the delicate little garbage elves can deal with the pickup.

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Firefly: Back in the ‘verse

December 8, 2006 Leave a comment

Great article in Wired: "Firefly Reborn as Online Universe".

I’m such a fanboi!

The company staging the Firefly universe as an online game is Multiverse, who signed a deal with Fox. Multiverse posts about the project in a press release: "Firefly is coming to the Multiverse!"

Firefly enjoyed only a single season in 2002 before being canceled after only 11 episodes. Fans, known as the Browncoats lobbied incessantly on sites like FireflyFans.net for the show’s return.

In 2005, a feature movie that takes place shortly after the timeline in the series "Serenity" was released to $25 million domestic gross, according to BoxOfficeMojo.

Granted, I’d love to see the show back on the air, but reality bites 😦

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I get the Warhol Treatment

November 26, 2006 Leave a comment

Take a peek at the Warholizer, and turn yourself into a pop icon!

MichaelWarhol20061126

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