POW: PIcture of the Week 10
Did a short out of town trip to present at a sister college. I was hosted by a colleague and her cat had a very fun habit of playing catch with a small rubber duck.
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POW: Picture of the Week 9
My friend got a new scooter!
It is red!
Really red!!
It is big!
It might look like a motorcycle but it is a scooter.
So cool!
I tried on her helmet but that is as far as it went.
Six Word Techy-Feely Statement: What is your little story/slam about technology and you?
It started, I think, with the Six-word biography from SMITH magazine. That is now a book (Six-Word Memoirs at SMITH Magazine)
Then, I saw that Title 9 (one of my favorite “dream about owning the clothes” catalogs) had a Six Word slam for your fitness statement. 6-Word Slam | Timeout with T9
So, I figured that, hey, three (or more) can play at this game.
What is your six-word take on how you use/like/destroy/dislike/or/whatever technology?
Here’s mine:
Testing, tweaking, trying, cool, it works
POW: Picture of the Week 8
Oh my, I’m delayed again. I think the daily project was a much stronger motivator for this but anyhoo – here is my photo for last week. Went to pick up my new work lappy from my friend who was traveling to town for her son’s tennis tournament. I managed to squeeze off a shot during the second set.
Woot! WWDC Keynote Live Coverage
I have outdone myself with my coverage options while eating my lunch:
Live TV from Leo Laporte’s TWIT Live
Live TV from Bwana.tv
Twitter feeds via Summerize
TechCrunch RSS
Engadget for photos
Oh yeah! Why did I bring grapes for lunch instead of an apple??
POW: Picture of the Week 7
Oh, I so wanted the video to turn out but 30 seconds of black just didn’t quite cut it. We went out to the GSMNP and into the Elkmont area to witness first hand the nature spectacular that is the synchronized firefly display that happens for about 3 weeks this time of year.
We wandered around the area as she told us stories of the Elkmont community and how all of these little cabins came to be sadly ruining from neglect. Then, up the trail and sit down facing the “stage” of a hillside. After it got dark, we started to see a few flickers of light here and there. Then, more. Then, more.
Then, slowly but surely – they started joining up. On – blink, blink, blink, blink – and then, darkness. About 5 seconds later – another set of blinking. It was so fascinating. The group of 20 in the class quit chattering, we quit eating our snacks or messing with our packs.
We just sat.
And marveled.
At least, I did.
It ranked up there with some of the other highlights of my life in nature like seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time and poking my head up through a big rock slide that we creekwalked through to see a huge waterfall right before me up in Pisgah National Forest.
Words really don’t do it. Photos really don’t do it. My little video camera didn’t do it at all – too dark but I have a feeling it wouldn’t be able to capture it either. You just have to be there.
I have heard about it for years but never gone. So glad I did. It is worth it. Go!!!
(SIDENOTE: A local TV station has some video but, as I suspected, it doesn’t quite show up like it does in person)
Chumby – Hitting the Big Time
Okay..I first wrote about the Chumby back in December 2006…see the My Chumby page link up to the right. That’s the one. I built my virtual Chumby and it is still on that page.
Today, I found that David Pogue covered the Chumby in his video podcast for the New York Times/MSNBC a couple of weeks ago as well as others at the NYT.
So…that means….Yay!!! They are available now. Yay!!!
In the immortal words of ICHC:
more cat pictures
Vuvox Collage – my first go
Got into the private beta for the new collage tool from Vuvox. Pretty cool stuff. I used some photos from my 8 hour layover at the Nagoya airport on my last trip to Japan. See what you think. This is a tool to follow and explore much more!
NOTE: (6/4/08) – Removed the embed since it was autoplaying the music and now the Vuvox editor is all askew in my monitor so I cannot get to the properties to turn it down or off. So, you can watch the collage here:http://www.vuvox.com/collage/detail/32670
