Because I am committed to try EVERYTHING L2W2 during this summer of discovery, I signed up for LinkedIn, and filled in what amounts to an online resume on steroids. And then I got to the part about "Ask for Recommendations." Isn't that something people would ask for if they are looking for a job, or are selling some service or product? That's not me, but still wanting to go along with the exercise, I sent out the message asking my buds for recommendations anyway. And here's what it felt like...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Chien Danseur
A friend sent me this video a while ago. As I came across it tonight, I noticed that it was in French. One of the choices was: "Ajouter a mon blog," which I figured means "Post to my blog." When I clicked on the blog bug, I got two choices: "lien avec video" and "lien permanent." The first code copied the actual video; the second was a link to the URL. Hope you enjoy it/Espérer que vous l'appréciez! (With an assist from freetranslation.com)
http://www.koreus.com/video/chien-danseur.html
http://www.koreus.com/video/chien-danseur.html
Monday, July 21, 2008
Ahhhh, the Cabin in the Woods
Our new deck at the cabin is finished! http://picasaweb.google.com/SheilaL2W2/NewDeckAtTheWoods?authkey=ltQn9Fjl2Wg
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Ironic
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Fooling around some more, this time with glitter type. The graffitti widget was easy because it saved as a photo. This one saves code to a clipboard. I'm not sure how to post it without the code showing!
Fooling around some more, this time with glitter type. The graffitti widget was easy because it saved as a photo. This one saves code to a clipboard. I'm not sure how to post it without the code showing!
Tagger Envy
I was fooling around with www.glittertools.com and decided to try my hand at a little graffitti tagging. Lots of other widgets there too. Enjoy!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
DOY's Totally Next Level Video Wall
On Monday, Dennis Brack and I slogged up 95 to Philadelphia to shoot the cover for the Fall issue of Development magazine. I was expecting a fun ride filled with Dennis's war stories (he is president this year of the White House News Photographer's Association), and at our destination, the Comcast Center, a spectacular skyscraper developed by Liberty Property Trust in Center City Philly. I knew we would find a gorgeous building -- what I wasn't expecting was the HDTV video wall that filled the lobby, and cast a spell on scores of passersby, drawing them into the three-story atrium, where they stood transfixed by the images, music, movement, surprises, that delighted and amazed them -- and me. Everyone's reaction was exactly the same -- the show stopped you in your tracks and your mouth fell open in silent wonder. Then you smiled. And kept smiling for as long as you watched.
This video from Channel 3 in Philly will give you some idea of what we saw. It's worth a trip to Philadelphia just to see it! For some reason, this is the link posted by Channel 3, but it doesn't go to the correct broadcast. Click on it anyway, then just put Comcast Center into the Search box and it will pull up a link to the right video!
http://cbs3.com/video/?id=60450@kyw.dayport.com
This video from Channel 3 in Philly will give you some idea of what we saw. It's worth a trip to Philadelphia just to see it! For some reason, this is the link posted by Channel 3, but it doesn't go to the correct broadcast. Click on it anyway, then just put Comcast Center into the Search box and it will pull up a link to the right video!
http://cbs3.com/video/?id=60450@kyw.dayport.com
Sunday, July 6, 2008
High Tech 4th of July
Last week, I received a pair of goofy looking 3-D glasses from architecture firm Hickok Cole. It's part of a continuing campaign -- an anniversary of some sort, but I can't remember exactly what. Anyway, I almost threw them away, assuming they were just 3-D glasses and I didn't have use for them. Aha! At the last minute, I saw that they were for watching fireworks. I had never seen such a thing, but I predict that next year we will ALL be wearing them on the 4th of July.
Somehow the plastic lenses splinter light into all colors like a prism. This makes watching fireworks a Timothy-Leary-like 3-D experience. Typically, fireworks bore me after around five minutes. First, seeming merely repetitive and then somehow progress into being disappointing, until the Big Finale. But this 4th of July, I lay on my back, my 3-D specs on, saying Wow, Wow, Wow, over and over, for the whole show. The only thing that interrupted my revery was having to share the specs with Al, so he could begin his own litany of Wow-ing.
Can't wait to check out Hickok Cole's Web site this week, to see what others say about their fireworks glass experiences. Now THAT'S a successful marketing campaign.
P.S. We also had a uniquely West Virginia high tech cooking experience on Independence Day -- beer can chicken. Basically, you put a beer can inside a whole chicken, stand the thing upright and grill on medium for one hour and 20 minutes. No watching, no basting. Totally delicious. Here's the high tech part -- we actually have a contraption that looks like interlocking bell curves on a stand. You can do without this, but it makes the chicken just a little more stable. Ah, technology!
Somehow the plastic lenses splinter light into all colors like a prism. This makes watching fireworks a Timothy-Leary-like 3-D experience. Typically, fireworks bore me after around five minutes. First, seeming merely repetitive and then somehow progress into being disappointing, until the Big Finale. But this 4th of July, I lay on my back, my 3-D specs on, saying Wow, Wow, Wow, over and over, for the whole show. The only thing that interrupted my revery was having to share the specs with Al, so he could begin his own litany of Wow-ing.
Can't wait to check out Hickok Cole's Web site this week, to see what others say about their fireworks glass experiences. Now THAT'S a successful marketing campaign.
P.S. We also had a uniquely West Virginia high tech cooking experience on Independence Day -- beer can chicken. Basically, you put a beer can inside a whole chicken, stand the thing upright and grill on medium for one hour and 20 minutes. No watching, no basting. Totally delicious. Here's the high tech part -- we actually have a contraption that looks like interlocking bell curves on a stand. You can do without this, but it makes the chicken just a little more stable. Ah, technology!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Why the Video Didn't Work Yesterday (Probably)
As I stared in frozen incredulity at the equally frozen YouTube video at yesterday's staff meeting, I was stumped at what the problem could be. I, and others on the Learn2Web2 team had watched that darned video several times at our desks, without any hiccups. Why did it choose "show time" to fail???
After the meeting, Jorge and I went over the possibilities for what went wrong: Maybe we shouldn't have viewed it in full screen? Maybe we should have run the video once before the presentation, just to make sure? Maybe Verizon was having a problem, or YouTube?
The funny thing was that the answer was right there on the screen, the whole time. Did you see that little pop-up message on the bottom right? Microsoft had some updates that it wanted to install. At home (and maybe in the office too -- Jorge, correct me if I'm wrong), my computer is set to let Microsoft do automatic updates during the middle of the night. But now I remember that each time I wake up my laptop at home, that also wakes up the Update Gremlin and I can't do anything on the computer until those updates are done. I think the Update Gremlin paid us a visit yesterday, and sabotaged our YouTube video.
Does anybody have any other theories about what shut us down?
After the meeting, Jorge and I went over the possibilities for what went wrong: Maybe we shouldn't have viewed it in full screen? Maybe we should have run the video once before the presentation, just to make sure? Maybe Verizon was having a problem, or YouTube?
The funny thing was that the answer was right there on the screen, the whole time. Did you see that little pop-up message on the bottom right? Microsoft had some updates that it wanted to install. At home (and maybe in the office too -- Jorge, correct me if I'm wrong), my computer is set to let Microsoft do automatic updates during the middle of the night. But now I remember that each time I wake up my laptop at home, that also wakes up the Update Gremlin and I can't do anything on the computer until those updates are done. I think the Update Gremlin paid us a visit yesterday, and sabotaged our YouTube video.
Does anybody have any other theories about what shut us down?
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