Starting with a transparent image, this video shows what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2,951 times.

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 from kingcosmonaut3000 on Vimeo.

Of course, I like the shots of the Datacenter and the RNOC.

Head End: How Cable Gets to Your House from Space from Time Warner Cable on Vimeo.

When I was a small boy, my father spent five or six months setting up a miniature train at our house in the utility room. It had a couple of levels, a switching station, and a control board. It was awesome!

One of the best parts, at least to a budding geek like me, was the underside of the system where he installed lights to illuminate the wires. I have excellent memories of spending time just looking at that part of the set up.

I just now saw a video of the largest model railway in the world: Miniatur Wunderland. Simply amazing.

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.

I have an HP TouchPad. I like the interface in webOS. It is integrated with my online accounts: box.net, dropbox, picasa, flickr, Google Docs, Office365, Facebook… I go look at my photos and all my photos from these services appear seamlessly.

Hey Apple, Google, Amazon: Do this in your next release, you will be a big winner.

Now HP is having hangover thoughts about shuttering the service because they were able to sell a mess of units when they were priced properly. The marketshare owner can make a lot of things happen… if done right it works well. If not, it can be a massive failure (hey Netflix, I’m talking about you).

I hope someone picks up the innovation that webOS brought to the world. Along with the TouchPad, I have an Android Tablet and an iPad 2, so I have a good perspective on what works… webOS is an excellent mobile platform. I want the best for it, even if it is broken off into patent pieces.

Ah Blackberry… you have served me well the past decade.

It is time to move on… Why? There are lots of reasons: small screen, slow device, 15 minute reboots after every application upgrade, random system failures, to name a few.

What you see in the picture is the latest reboot required by an app upgrade. That screen was there for close to 20 minutes, so I figured it there was enough time to take a picture and post this entry by the time the device returned to usable (that is a metric I’ve started tracking: MTTU – Mean Time to Usability). The device just came back up, so I was close.

So, Blackberry, thank you for all the memories. I hope you can find a way to return to your greatness. I hear there is an existing mobile OS available - maybe you can cut a deal with HP…