chrispirillo: Some Windows Vista to Windows 7 upgrade installation attempts are failing. http://bit.ly/1yJMWr [Happening to you? This should help.] — 9:30pm
What’s the weather like in your neck of the woods? In Seattle, it’s almost always rainy (which isn’t a cliché – it’s largely true). A few months ago, sunshine finally broke through the clouds – and while some dismiss the appearance of Al Roker at a local Sharper Image as coincidence, I knew it was too good to be true. The moment was captured on digital film.
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I’m having honey roasted peanuts for dinner tonight. Mind you, they’re completely nutritious! Sugar, honey, fructose, corn syrup… hey, wait a second! That’s all sugar! Since when did sugar make a good dinner? Well, I could wander downstairs and reheat some leftover pasta – but this bag was much more convenient. Thank goodness it was only a small bag, or I would have consumed twice my body weight in honey roasted peanuts. Yeah, if it’s not obvious to you yet – Ponzi’s out of town this weekend. The dogs? They’re at my feet, watching me eat dinner. Then again, can this be considered dinner if I didn’t use any flatware? It’s just me… eating my nuts… again.
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Dude! If you have any of the following pet food products (made by Menu Foods) in your pantry, THROW THEM AWAY IMMEDIATELY:
In last night’s email newsletter (picks@lockergnome.com), I linked to a video question submitted through my EyeJot video widget. Recently, Aaron asked a question about Uninterruptible Power Supplies. I suggested getting a unit that included Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR), subsequently hyperlinking everyone to a classic story on UPS batteries. Fellow Lockergnome subscriber Brian Newell submitted:
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This video interview features MSR’s Jasha Droppo:
I have been with Microsoft Research since July, 2000. My primary task has been to explore different techniques to make ASR more robust to additive and channel noise. Other projects I’ve worked on include general speech signal enhancement, pitch tracking, multiple stream ASR, novel speech recognition features, MiPad multimodal interface, cepstral compression and transport, and the WITTY microphone.
“I grew up Catholic – then I grew up.”
I wrote that for the first time a few years back (and still find that statement somewhat humorous, given that I once considered becoming a priest). You could likely blame my University education for this fall from faith – after discovering that most world religions are dominated not by spirituality, but by politics, money, and power. Prove me wrong. :)
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I’m sipping my first cup of coffee for the evening… which means I’m going to be up LATTE!
Yeah, I’ve got too much “work” to do before crashing (physically, not Vista-literally). Coffee helps get me through the day. This cup has been brewed at home with a French press (and a grind specific for the French press). I’d much acquire my coffee directly from the local Peet’s store than make it at home. For whatever reason, no matter what I try, I can’t get the same flavor from a homebrewed cup of coffee! Seriously, I’ve done it all – and I’m tired of buying expensive coffee machines only to discover that they can’t come close to helping me match the flavor I always get from a Peet’s barista. I’d rather drive across town for a great cup of coffee than stay at home and make a mediocre one.
Leo and his crew invited Ponzi and me up to Vancouver today to help them kick off his new show, “The Lab with Leo Laporte.” We drove in late last night, and will be returning home before tomorrow morning (likely, taking off this evening). Cat Schwartz is up here, too! It’s just like old times – almost. We’re on a real, “live” television set – but the energy is different. Then again, it would be impossible to match the spirit we once had at together at TechTV. Still, this is the next bestest thing – if only momentarily.
I interviewed Al Roker a few weeks ago. Not really a big deal – unless you consider that I wanted to be a “weatherman” when I grew up. Seriously. No joke. Look at that freakin’ cloud, man!
According to nobody, here are the top ten things that Twitter can do:
Michael DiBenedetto from Next Next Entertainment sent me this announcement a few hours ago:
March 19th is the fourth anniversary of the war. And here’s an interesting perspective on Iraq… it’s a web documentary series about life in Baghdad – shot by Iraqi filmmakers. My company in NY helped produce it and is now distributing it online. I thought it was something that you could give an interesting take on and that your readers would appreciate. Also feel free to embed the videos. After four years of war, it’s about time to take a moment to focus on regular Iraqis and what they are going through. The life of the everyday Iraqi is the great untold story of this war. And with this series and its viral potential, we can change that. If enough people in America see this, it could potentially affect in its own small way the way Americans see the Middle East. It’s also interesting from a distribution standpoint… we’ve effectively crowd-sourced our distribution by putting the videos online and asking our viewers to help us spread them as far and wide as possible.
How long unitl Fox News picks up on this… CNN? MSNBC? Whether you’re “for” or “against” this war, it’s happening. The dentist’s perspective sounds eerilie familar (and makes you wonder if there should be a war on wars).
I did something I haven’t done in a while – opened up the toll-free line (1-888-PIRILLO) to enable you to record your thoughts on the latest Internet addiction, Twitter. According to the unofficial wiki:
I was a late-blooming R.E.M. fan (attatching myself to their style not long after Yankovic parodied “Stand”). Now, I can’t imagine my life with out ‘em. I blasted Ethan Kaplan a quick IM to suggest a few things they could do with their YouTube account, and he told me that R.E.M. just debuted a song there a few days ago. How cool is that? No, I mean… the song is great, as you would come to expect – but the bigger story is that it debuted outside of traditional media boundaries. Weird Al did the same thing a few months ago (albeit, on a different video network – an “exclusive” that was quickly circumvented).
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