Listening to this on my Sonos right now and am being blown away by the solo.
Charlie Parker, After You’ve Gone
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Tom-Tom Hit
A commercial, yes, but how funny!
Mocha, cat of an obsessive nature
Our cat Mocha is delicate and obsessive. She cleans herself on the hour for 25 minutes then wants to play “red light” – laser light – until she falls over panting. When she is in a loving mood she wants the inside of her ears prodded until I scratch her brain.
Updated to webOS 3.0.4 77
Whoa! 3.0.4 *77*! It is the 77 that did it for me. That is totally geek-sexy. Not!
Compare: iOS5, Honeycomb, Ice Cream Sandwich (okay, that last one just doesn’t rattle my cage, I must say). Even “Mango” from Windows Phone has some ring to it.
Come on HP! Leave with a bang. Call it webOS 7. Better yet, call it webOS Seventy Seven. Or Agent 77.
Hover boards and flying cars, soon to follow
This is for real. At some point we’ll get the elusive flying car, I’m sure.
More information over at It’s Okay To Be Smart.
…The time has passed
In a previous post I commented how it was time to move on from the decade (closer to 15 years – yikes) old Blackberry crutch.
Today is the day. I was a tad disappointed that the elusive iPhone 5 wasn’t part of the recent announcement, but I was impressed enough with the changes to the iPhone 4S that I knew it was time.
I’ve been running the Galaxy Tab 10.1 along with other Android devices and, while my inner-geek loves the flexibility of the Android OS, I find the straight-forward user experience of the iOS devices better. I expect that Ice Cream Sandwich, the next Android OS, will bridge the gap, but it may take one or two more releases of Android to jump in front. (aside: did you know that the Android OSes are named after desserts in alphabetical order? Jellybean… Jello… Jam… what is next. I’m sure it will be yummy.)
Of course, Windows 8 will be a disruptive factor. I installed the developer build on an older Lenovo tablet and for the first time had a really good tablet experience…in between system crashes. But, hey! it is an alpha build, so that is to be expected.
Anyway, within the first few minutes of getting the new iPhone I asked it (Siri) to find me the nearest Starbucks. It worked great. While there is voice-enabled features to the Blackberry, each time I tried I ended up with something two steps left of what I wanted, so I gave up. Once I get over the semi-embarrassing idea of randomly talking to my phone, I expect to use that feature a lot.
Better bandages
Oooh, you have a shark bite? Here, I have a bandage for that…
Optical Illusion
Around the earth in 60 seconds
Assembled from pictures taken at the International Space Station. Courtesy science educator James Drake.
I really like the lightening shots in the clouds. Hope this give the SF movie makers ideas on the next planet shots.
Al’s Ironical Song
It is ironical, mostly because it will be highly forwarded.
I thought long about sending it to a few people just because it is funny (the line about urban legends and Snopes is particularly so), but I thought I’d post it so people can choose to watch or not, no delete key needed.