Sunday, December 25, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Cincinnati featured in "Ides of March" film, kinda
Somehow Cincinnati was left out of the credits of the new film The Ides of March, the movie released the first weekend in October only credited Michigan as the only filming location. Oops! There are obvious scenes in the film that feature Cincinnati:
This was filmed on the skywalk in Downtown Cincinnati.
This shot is from 4th street in downtown.
Photos from RottenTomatoes.com
If you're nosey, here's an article of the producer apologizing to Cincinnati.
"Ides" Producer Apologizes to Cincinnati:
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2011/10/07/ides-producer-apologizes-to-cincinnati/
Hopefully the city will be credited on the DVD release.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Quote of the Day
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Quote of the Day
Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Video: Suits & Cyphers
Kanye West, Pusha T, Big Sean Cyhi Da Prynce and Common from the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards. Minus the canned cheering (come better, BET!) this is a great clip:
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Happy Birthday, MP3 (via @HistoryChannel)
Jul 14, 1995: A revolutionary new technology is christened "MP3"
Representatives of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) were not in attendance at the 1995 christening of the infant technology that would shake their business model to its core just a few years later. Known formally as "MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3," the technology in question was an efficient new format for the encoding of high-quality digital audio using a highly efficient data-compression algorithm. In other words, it was a way to make CD-quality music files small enough to be stored in bulk on the average computer and transferred manageably across the Internet. Released to the pubic one week earlier, the brand-new MP3 format was given its name and its familiar ".mp3" file extension on this day in 1995.
The importance of MP3, or any other scheme for compressing data, is made clear by some straightforward arithmetic. The music on a compact disc is encoded in such a way that a single second corresponds to approximately 176,000 bytes of data, and a single three-minute song to approximately 32 million bytes (32MB). In the mid-1990s, when it was not uncommon for a personal computer to have a total hard-drive capacity of only 500MB, it was therefore impossible to store even one album's worth of music on the average home computer. And given the actual connection speed of a then-standard 56K dial-up modem, even a single album's worth of music would have taken literally all day to transfer over the Internet. In this way, the nature of the CD format and the state of mid-90s computer and telecommunications technologies offered the music industry a practical barrier to copyright infringement via Internet file-sharing. But then came MP3.
Over the course of the late 1980s and early 1990s, several teams of audio engineers worked to develop, test and perfect the standard that would eventually gain the blessing of Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG). Their approach took advantage of certain physical and cognitive characteristics of human hearing, such as our inability to detect the quieter of two sounds played simultaneously. Using a "perceptual" compression method, engineers were able to eliminate more than 90 percent of the data in a standard CD audio file without compromising sound quality as perceived by the average listener using standard audio equipment.
Suddenly, that digital copy of your favorite pop song took up only 2-3 MB on your hard-drive rather than 32MB, which in combination with the growth in average drive capacity and the increase in average Internet connection speed created the conditions for both the rampant, Winamp- and Napster-enabled copyright infringement of 1999-2000 and for the legal commercial distribution of digital music via the Internet. In the eyes of the RIAA, those are the conditions that also explain the 29 percent decline in the sales of music CDs between 2000 and 2006.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Video: Light Up
It's not the official video for Drake's "Light Up" but this is a cool interpretation of what the video could look like... if the rappers were female.
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Cancer horoscope for Jul 9 2011
Cancer Jul 9 2011
In a world where many people follow trends, fads, and the opinions of the majority, you are a true original, Moonchild. Sometimes, though, that leaves you feeling like an outsider, and that can be lonely at times. You may now be tempted to follow the crowd toward a conclusion or a choice, but you really must follow your own heart instead. A true representative of the Cancer tribe has impeccable integrity - so if you lose sight of your own moral code or you accept an opinion that isn't your own, then you will not feel good about yourself. Follow your heart.
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Video: Google Chrome
From the youtube page for Google Chrome:
Lady Gaga builds one of the world's largest fan bases by using the web to talk directly and openly to her community. This film celebrates Lady Gaga's special and unmediated relationship with her fans, the Little Monsters. The making of this film is a demonstration of the power of the web in its own right. The entire project, beginning with Lady Gaga's shoot in NYC on May 8th, to shipping materials to the television networks for air, took 10 days. Within hours of the release of her new single "Edge of Glory" on May 9th, fans began uploading videos on YouTube, making the song their own by dancing to it, singing it and playing it on all kinds of instruments. Lady Gaga then posted a message on her website asking for more videos to be used in the film project. Fans responded within minutes and uploaded hundreds more videos. Back in the editing room, in real time as fan videos streamed in, editors were putting them into the film. The film was completed on May 18th in time to air during Lady Gaga's performance on the season finale of Saturday Night Live, and to also live on the web.
It shows how powerful connecting through the Internet can be.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
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This is the cover for the long-awaited Jay-Z & Kanye West album, "Watch the Throne." That's all I have to say about it.
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Food for thought...
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Quote of the Day
"If you don't let what you don't know stop you from doing your best in every situation, you will suprise yourself over and over in life..."
- Kelly Cutrone from her book, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside, And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Monday, May 16, 2011
Best Unsubscribe Mesage Ever (so far)
I subscribe to way too many e-newsletters. Most of the notices in the tiny print at the bottom are your standard notices, but this one definitely stands out:
If you'd like to be removed from this mailing list, let me know. Nobody like spam, whether it's mail or in the meat form.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Cancer horoscope for Apr 19 2011
Cancer Apr 19 2011
Is there something you wish to accomplish right now, or some dream you wish to fulfill, but every time you think about it you find a lot of reasons why it won't ever happen? Maybe you think it's a fantasy because you don't have the resources or the money, the time, the assistance, or the expertise. The good news is that right now you can fairly easily attain all you need to move forward. The bad news is that the only thing stopping you is... YOU. Get out of fantasy mode and start making things happen. That may sound simplistic, but that's what you need to do.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Cancer horoscope for Apr 3 2011
Cancer Apr 3 2011
Speak up today, Moonchild. You may not want to raise your voice or be assertive because you fear you'll make a fool of yourself. But the truly foolish thing would be to sit back and do nothing when you really need to represent yourself. Ask questions. Explore options. And say whatever it is that you feel you need to say. It would be far better to anger someone by speaking out than to suffer from regret for remaining silent. The ball is in your court, and you have a brief window of opportunity to state your case.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Text From Last Night
(513): Dontating $10 to the Red Cross relief effort in Japan for every car bomb I take tomorrow. Yes, buying me a drink just became a good cause.
Please focus your attention on the word dontating.p.s. this is not my text, I found it on this site ---> http://tfl.nu/kkfj
Monday, March 21, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Quote of the Day
“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
-Frank Sinatra
Actually, of all places to find a quote, I originally saw this in my Mom's crossword puzzle book. The remaining letters spelled out this quote.
Cheers!
=)
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Cancer horoscope for Mar 12 2011
If you recently lost your temper or became flustered and behaved in a way that bothers you - or you said things you should not have said - you have to forgive yourself. You're under a lot of pressure, and you really do have good intentions. You may not know how to handle a recurring situation that tests your patience and your skills. You can do better, but you'll need to learn more to be the absolute best you can be when this situation arises again. The bottom line, though, is that you care. That is obvious, and that's what's most important.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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I rarely wear my glasses these days. #TeamContacts
It was time for a (brief) break, at least for one evening.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Saturday, February 05, 2011
How We Use Our Phones [infographic]
An interesting infographic I found via popular social media advisor Chris Brogan on Twitter:
Learning About...
Ponzi schemes...of all things.
This article about JP Morgan Banks "involvement" with Bernard Madoff made me want to read more about Ponzi schemes (aka pyramid schemes). Here's the opening paragraph from the New York Times article about them in general:
In a Ponzi scheme, potential investors are wooed with promises of unusually large returns, usually attributed to the investment manager's savvy, skill or some other secret sauce.
See, you can learn new things everyday. J
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Quote of the Day
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." -Henry Ford Shoutout to @cheftee for sharing this quote!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Cancer horoscope for Jan 23, 2011
You may be a afraid to hope for the best in an upcoming decision. That's because that decision is out of your control. You have little say in it. Or so you think. But from the very beginning, and maybe even before, you have been focused on the outcome. You have felt positive vibrations, as though everything will be okay. You have imagined or fantasized about things working out well. And you have talked about it as though it was going to work out in your favor. You have exercised your control, Moonchild. And the outcome will be exactly as you hoped it would be.
Saturday, January 08, 2011
My Horoscope for Today
Daily Horoscope for Cancer Jan 8 2011 If you could jump into a time machine and travel forward, you would be able to see a very bright and rewarding future just ahead. You would know that your hard work paid off, and that the relationships you built have remained good and solid. You would also be able to see that by continuing to believe in the virtue of love and in the power of positive thinking you achieved a certain dream that others may have said was beyond your reach. Since you don't have a time machine, Moonchild, this is a little glimpse into the future, just for you. Copyright (c) DailyHoroscope.
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