Translating my thoughts into words.
Steve Ballmer over the news after man throws eggs at him. He also says advertising is the new bedrock of Microsoft. And now we are hearing more and more about the cloud. Cripes. Microhoo gets back on track with alternative deals suggested. Child porn laws affirmed by the Supreme Court. Latest Pew survey about the Internet and American Life has to be totally wrong.
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RealLife by Greg Dean. A great strip, for those who enjoy webcomics and don’t know his work, by all means bookmark it now!
(BTW I forgot to hand out my evaluation forms to my students…)
We just saw the movie and I thought I would jot a few thoughts down. First, they took great liberties with the story, but as a movie it was very, very good. Second, I am not sure how many liberties they took; I am going to have to go back and reread the book (and I just read it to my daughter last month!). And finally,
Eddie Izzard as Reepiceep was bwrilliant!
I just came across this review (which panned the movie) with this “delicious”1 quote:
In this new, overwrought “Narnia,” we get villainous invaders known as Telmarines, who look like the fugitive offspring of the Spaniards in “Elizabeth: The Golden Age.”
He obviously didn’t read the book or listen to Aslan at the end of the movie either. They are the “fugitive offspring of the Spaniards” from Elizabeth’s day!
Some of you may have noticed that today includes a post from the famous Cranky Geek, John C. Dvorak! I am very pleased (and honored, truth be told) that Mr. Dvorak has decided to allow a few of us to carry his daily 5-minute tech podcast. So look for it here and be sure to check out his blog at http://dvorak.org/blog (take a drink).
Comcast upgrade works. Now I get as high as 22 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up. The numbers fall off when you go overseas. Apple rolling out 4 more non-exclusive iPhone deals. Yahoo being sued. It decided to conceal details for some unknown reason. Missouri woman now indicted for cyberbullying. Comcast still being accused of throttling bit-torrent. Sprint says 2008 WiMax. Yeah, right. I like the Aliph Jawbone. ASUS making all its motherboards "instant on!" Wow.
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I was directed to this video by Dave Kellett who is the creator of Sheldon (great strip!). The video lists many great individuals who either faced adversity and/or were told that they would never amount to anything, often specifically in the fields in which they ultimately became great.
Today is our medal ceremony, the day before graduation when we present medals to our honors scholars who are graduating. This week I have had to deal with many students who will not be graduating with honors for various reasons. All were upset, understandably, and many insisted that I didn’t know what they are truly capable of. I hope so, I hope they, like those in the video, go on to do tremendous things in their fields. What the video does not go into is the fact that each of the individuals, like Michael Jordan who, the video reminds us, when cut from the high school basketball team went into his room and cried, eventually came out of that room and worked harder than anyone else to succeed. Failure is not the end and rejection is not the final verdict. It may indicate that you are in the wrong field but it can also spur one on to work harder than they have before and so to reach their full potential.
This is just embarrassing.
A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo.
By PAUL WALSH, Star Tribune
Seems that one person’s smut is another person’s morning latte.
A Christian group based in San Diego found grounds for outrage over the new retro-style logo for Starbucks Coffee.
The Resistance says the new image “has a naked woman on it with her legs spread like a prostitute,” Mark Dice, founder of the group, said in a news release. “Need I say more? It’s extremely poor taste, and the company might as well call themselves Slutbucks.”
A creative option from the NYTimes OpEd by Gail Collins.
Given the Democratic Party’s innovative method of doling out delegates, all that’s necessary for her to snatch the nomination is:
1) A big, big win in Kentucky next Tuesday. Ideally, Obama should be limited to no more than 100 votes.
2) Oregon, scheduled for the same day, inexplicably breaks off and sinks into the Pacific Ocean.
3) Puerto Rico, clocking in on June 1, not only gives Clinton a huge majority, but also manages to become a state in advance of the vote
4) Finally, on June 3 as the South Dakota polls open, Thomas Jefferson’s head on Mount Rushmore comes to life and starts shouting, “You go, girl.”
Well, if that’s all she needs to do….
From The Wired Campus
If Monday’s earthquake in China has sparked an interest in seismology, and you happen to own a Mac laptop, you can transform your computer into your own personal seismic station. A free program from SeisMac takes advantage of the acceleration sensor inside you computer to register when it gets the shakes. The program was developed with support from the National Science Foundation and from the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, a consortium of nearly 100 universities.
It’s finally here! The MacBU has just released Service Pack 1 for Mac Office 2008. You can download the update directly from the Mactopia website (it’s large — about 180 MB), or launch your favorite Office app and select Help/Check for Updates. There are well over 1000 fixes and improvements in this release, including the return of custom error bars and axis tick manipulation in Excel charts. The full release notes are available online as well, so go check them out to see if we fixed your personal pet peeve.
Thanks Erik
My immediate favorite fix? Scrolling in the “Style” list (and others) of the pallet.
Chronicle of Higher Ed
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