so the trailer for the bill maher/larry charles documentary “religulous” is up and it may be the greatest thing i’ve ever seen.
literally counting the days.
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so this weekend i hung out with the pretty girls at the world-famous rose bowl flea market.
i came home with a ridiculous red-neck-inspired sunburn and an awesome patio-umbrella complete with onboard digital-goodness.
the iphone’s camera caputred some of the fun.
also, where the hell did i put the aloe?
so it’s become a tradition for me to make predictions on the eve of any Apple Expo Event. being that tomorrow is the WWDC, I shall once again either completely UNDERpredict or OVERpredict what Steve Jobs will have to say to the Apple-masses tomorrow morning.
here are my official predictions:
- iPhone 2.0: the long awaited 2.0 firmware will be announced as “final” and bring all sorts of 3rd party application goodness as well as full-on Exchange support, etc. also expect a few more “apple developed applications” in this release. it will be available for download…IMMEDIATELY.
- MobileMe: say goodbye to the overpriced .mac service and say hello to the all new premium offering from apple bringing over-the-air syncing of personal email, contacts, etc. MobileMe will be available for purchase…IMMEDIATELY.
- 3G iPhone: no more shall iPhone users be frustrated with lousy Edge network speeds when away from WiFi. Assuming that the major carriers (AT&T as well as international carries) will need time to field test the new hardware, expect to be able to pickup the new 3G iPhone in “later this month.”
- GPS: throw in GPS and crazy Google Maps integration when the 3G iPhone ships…oh and while i’m at it…video recording, MMS (dear god let them include MMS) and a ‘lifeblogging app’ in the new version for good measure.
- OS 10.6: given that this is a developer’s conference expect to hear about Apple’s next iteration of OSX and a complete LACK of PowerPC support. Sorry legacy users.
- Total OS Integration: expect his Steve-hood to emphasize tighter integration between the mobile and desktop versions of OSX and the new online offerings in MobileMe.
i’ll update this post after the keynote address and we can all collectively laugh at my complete and total lack of understanding of what the hell apple chooses to do with their multi-billion-dollar-company.
so i’ve never been a fan of PDA (public displays of affection) but if we—as a society—are going to agree that it’s cool for a couple to make out at a baseball game, park, movie theatre, etc, then we must agree that said PDAs cannot exclude lesbian/gay couples.
this post is in reference to the nonsense that transpired in Seattle’s Safeco Field during a Mariner’s game.
You can read the full story here and look at a super-serious-looking photo of the woman involved here:
apparently a couple of chicks were kissing it up and some under-sexed-soccer-mom got nervous that her kids would turn gay (or worse yet atheist!) if they saw two girls kissing.
mom-of-the-year proceeded to throw a big-fat-hetero-fit and had the all-vagina-couple reprimanded by the kid making minimum wage as an usher.
total nonsense.
frankly if i were god for a day, i would ONLY allow lesbians to kiss in public.
of course this wouldnt settle anything, but i would be god for a day and god can do whatever the fuck he wants!
so the problems with twitter over the past 3 weeks have been rough.
tonight after the latest network outage, i found this message on my twitter profile page.
needless to say, i havent screwed around with my phone settings for months, but was wondering why my friends that i follow on my iPhone were suddenly so quiet.
if you’ve been missing your nearly hourly dose of ME then check to make sure that your phone settings are still groovy with twitter. (i’m looking at you @supertiff, @yesisaworld, @lcarter97, @st0ney, @gst0ne and @irinaslutsky)
so random-playlist-shuffle-mode on iTunes has been picking out some cool music for me tonight. in the past, i’ve had a notoriously love/hate relationship with the shuffle button; tonight all is forgiven.
busterthedog is peeling around the apartment intent on giving his squeaky-tennisball hell. i fear the squeaker may not survive the night.
outside the june gloom is threatening to make good on its promise to break up with springtime and shower us with rain.
tonight’s a random night, so here are some random photos from Madison to go with it.
ok so i was updating my facebook junk and the advertisement in the left column was the following:
now, i’ve met a fair share of “christian singles” in my time but NONE of them looked like her.
were there to be more “christian singles” that looked like this, then i might consider converting…or at least pretend to convert…or at least been willing to celebrate easter.
so was i always swimming in the wrong ‘christian singles’ dating pool or is this ridiculous?
so i finally got back from my week long trip to madison, wisconsin.
it’s taken nearly 24hours, but i’m finally unpacked and most of my laundry is done. in retrospect, i should have made use of the hilton’s laundry services b/c a weeks worth of dirty clothes does not make for a nice smelling suitcase.
also, busterthedog has finally realized that i am back home for good and is once again his playful, well-adjusted-self. (it was touch-and-go for a while though)
to welcome me back to campus, my department asked me to give two lectures in the neuroscience course today. being the meticulous planner that i am, i waited until yesterday to finish up 45 slides on the hippocampus, the papez circuit, long-term potentiation, etc. yeah…so that made for a long night last night. my poor planning, however, was not my fault…it was actually sam and farnaz’s fault for dragging me out to one too many “events” while i was away in Madison.
the good news of the day is that the lectures went smashingly well and everyone was giving me high-fives and ass-slaps afterwards. the high fives were cool, but if one more med school professor slaps my ass i’m going to start feeling weird about it.
i’ve also got about 60 photos from downtown Madison that I’m editing with the help of various adobe photoshop products. here are a few to tease you with until i finish with the rest.
so did you guys catch last night’s ‘daily show’?
the guest was former bush-whitehouse-troll scott McClellan. before McClellan came out the real hilarity ensued when Fred Schneider from the B52’s gave his interpretation of how the audio version of scotty’s book should have sounded.
if you need me, i’ll be busy listening to old b52’s tracks the rest of the evening.
today i find myself in Madison, WI attending the 2008 Conference of the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS). i’ve been in Madison for roughly 36hrs and—so far—the state’s capitol has been pretty cool.
my hotel is located right up against the Menona Lake and the $20 per night I spent on the lake-view-upgrade was totally worth it. (here’s a photo from my hotel room)
last night as i was walking around downtown Madison, i kept noticing that WI license plates all said “america’s disneyland“.
“what the fuck?” i thought, “…that’s pretty damn arrogant considering that disneyland is the happiest place on earth and all.”
today as i passed the cars parked alongside State St i realized that the plates actually said “america’s DAIRYland” which makes a whole lot more sense…you know b/c of all the cows.
so remember about a month ago when I was babbling on about the new weezer album? and everyone let out a collective *yawn*?
well, how do you like the first video off the red album? huh? that’s right.
so guess what today is? watch this video with the sound turned UP and hang out until at least the 1minute mark, where it really kicks in.
you can call me dr. onelonelysuccess.
Ph.D FTW!!!!
“…when the smoke came out our mouths on all those hooded sweatshirt walks, we were a stroke of luck. we were a goldmine and they gutted us.” -Bright Eyes “Gold Mine Gutted”
so when i was only barely holding my self together, i had a friend who could do a once-around-the-room and change the fortunes of everyone in attendance.
she was brilliant; hers is a life bordering charm and innocence.
she was a goldmine and they gutted her.
tomorrow night, ben harper & the innocent criminals are going to be performing “fight outta you” on last call w/ carson daly. this is a good reason to own a tivo and to set it accordingly. in fact, i’m blogging this so that i wont forget to do the same.
unlike the last time that benharper was on last call, i didnt go and see this taping. if, however, you want to take a walk down memory lane, then you should read these posts:
- ben harper is cool, carson daly is not :: April 26, 2006
- last call w/ carson daly :: April 25, 2006
arent memories fun?
damn the video for deathcab’s single “i will possess your heart” is awesome. let’s see…hot hipster chick walking around in slow motion CHECK…band playing in the freezing cold with wet instruments CHECK…3 minute long bass-line intro CHECK.
i liked it so much i bought the full-on-high-quality-version from iTunes for $2 and that rarely happens.
so having your friends on twitter is the best. i’ve explained it as being in an ‘always on IM session‘ with my buddies/family. nick, however, got blasted the other day by his girl for being a twit-a-holic.
he explained a recent twitter-related-encounter w/ his girlfriend in the comments section of this post.
Hey so last night kim was kinda in a bitchy mood and I told her she was dumb and she was all, “Im dumb? At least I don’t go online and talk to jeffs dog on that chat thing you do. Youre the dumb one. I saw what you were writing. Why? Whats the point? Why don’t you figure out how to do the laundry right instead of wasting your time on that lame shit?”
for the record, kim’s a cool chick but this was just comedy gold!
does anyone else ever get made fun of for people who havent drank the twitter-koolaid?
so today i decided to buy myself a graduation present, and here it is:
yep. i bought myself a new vacuum.
you see, despite being an ocd-stricken-clean-freak my entire life, i’ve always just “gotten by” with bargain basement vacuum cleaners. well no more, bitches! this beast of cleanliness is the bissell 3910 momentum and it’s a bad ass. amazon was having a nice sale on the unit and i got it w/ next-day shipping for just under $100.
it will be here tomorrow—just in time for a good cleaning before the family starts showing up this weekend—and i’ll post a more thorough review then.
are you as excited about this as i am!?!? i bet you are!
in a continuing effort to streamline my web2.0 existence, i’ve made a few changes to how i share my wildly interesting mobile photos with the world.
basically all i want is to be able to post an image from my iPhone and have it propogate to Facebook, Flickr and send out a Twitter alert complete w/ link. previously, i was just uploading any mobile photos to directly to my Flickr account and then having my blog update my recent flickr photos into a nice row of thumbnails (which you can see at the top of this page).
not content with having to upload photos to multiple services, i’ve decided to go with a service called Twitxr (pronounced twit-cher).
emailing a photo from my iphone to the twitxr service posts the photo on my twitxr profile page—but more importantly—sends out a link to the photo via twitter, posts a copy of the photo to flickr (complete with geotagging info) and uploads a copy to my facebook profile.
i settled on Twitxr b/c they have a publicly available API that will allow for growth and community support; in addition, they also have a decent iPhone client that will hopefully benefit from the iPhone SDK.
now that you’re aware of all of my behind-the-scenes tech wranglings, you can finally go about your day in peace.
stumbled upon this picture today and for the first time realized that my childhood obsession with ‘gilligan’s island‘ may not have been as innocuous as i once thought.
in related news, i spent the entire day in the med lab doing basically what you see pictured in this photo…except no coconuts…and no mary ann.
so since its the weekend (and no one visits this site on the weekends) i decided to do some blog housekeeping. here’s a few of the changes/modifications i’ve made to your favorite blog on the entire internet:
- Added the “Web Two-Point-Ohhhh” section to the top of the sidebar to conveniently list all of my profiles from across the world-wide-internet. Quick links to twitter, facebook, flickr, etc are all nicely organized for your perusing.
- Integrated the Disqus blog commenting system which has all sorts of bells & whistles that should making posting comments and keeping track of the compelling conversations that follow a d-r-e-a-m.
- Video Comments!!!! One of the perks of disqus is that they are partners with seesmic and allow for YOU (yes you!) to leave a video comment on any blog post! Simply click on the comments link of any post, click on “Record a Video Comment” and BAM the seesmic software pulls up your webcam and lets you easily record your thoughts of love and admiration for ME.
- Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5.1 and read up on how to cleverly integrate photos into the blog. Using the built-in Gallery in WP2.5+ and nick stakenburg’s incredible Lightview javascript library, I’ve got an easy to implement and dead-sexy gallery system in place.You can see this post for a demo.
- Went through and cleaned out all the stray files and unnecessary uploads from my FTP server & backed up my entire server. Organization is a good thing.
- Installed the WP-Cache2 plugin to speed up loading of the blog b/c you guys have more important things to do than wait around for my blog to load.
- Installed the Wordpress Backup plugin and scheduled daily/weekly backups of all of my content b/c like sand through the hourglass, these are the blogs of my life.
As my lack of a social-life permits, I want to download all of my Flickr sets to individual WP Gallery posts and whip up a gallery page so that all my little snowflakes are never more than a few clicks away from all that is ME.
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