I returned today from a two-day sojourn to Kansas City. Yesterday was an all-day National Auctioneers Association Education Institute Board of Trustees meeting. Today was a joint session with us and the Board of Directors.
I’ve taken to announcing myself by saying ‘Hi’ in the style of Buzz Burbank, newsman from the old Mike O’Meara Show, which itself was formally the Don and Mike Show. In any case, yesterday during roll call I said ‘Hi’ which was mistaken by the rest of the trustees as ‘Aye’ said in the style of a pirate. It’s amazing how quickly my ‘Hi’ became ‘Arrrrrrrg’, the new way to take role in professional organizations. It may take me a while to live that down.
I’ve endured the freeze warning safe from the comfort of my desk, where I’ve been coding all day long in my underwear. I took a break for a few hours to watch Stargate, and I have no idea why I’d never seen it before. It is was a great work of science fiction, and seeing James Spader play a dorky hieroglyphs expert was an comical change from the poon-hound he’s been playing until recently as Alan Shore on Boston Legal. I’m looking forward to starting Stargate SG-1, though I’m nervous about a ten-season series.
After the movie, I started coding and watching Showtime’s Dexter on Netflix. I had no idea what the series was about, so the subject matter came as somewhat of a shock. It’s a fascinating little series which I’ll probably use as something to watch while I work.
I’ve got Twitalytic installed, thanks to some recent updates which reduced the complexities to within my skillset. Now you view over a year’s worth of tweets on one page. It also has the benefit of caching not only my tweets, but also those of my friends, so that should something ever happen to the service, they’ll be safe and sound on my new server at Media Temple.
Tomorrow I’ll be off to Kansas City for a two-day meeting with the National Auctioneers Association Education Institute trustees.
25 JanuaryBideo puts a price on user generated content A new site launches today and aims to use the auction method of marketing to allow users to sell news-related video to interested parties. We think it’s an interesting use of competitive bidding, and worth a look. Here’s the release.
January 18th, 2010 – New Orleans, LA – Bideo.com is a revolutionary online media exchange where [...] read more…
24 NovemberCode Monkey from Manhattan, Kansas
Jonathan Coulton via last.fm
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It’s rare that we make available recordings of cover songs. Sure, we play them, but we’re usually not very proud of it. Here’s a delightful song that we actually enjoy playing. It’s written by a guy named Jonathan Coulton called Code Monkey. You may recognize it as the theme song to the [...] read more…
7 FebruaryTwitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07 is watching House #
Demonoid http://ff.im/-feQIG #
Gonna Swim In On This http://bit.ly/9XL9C1 #
Junk Tank http://bit.ly/aX1vNt #
What a dreadful pun http://bit.ly/cSbq2q #
I Know One Little Kid Who’s Going To Get Smacked With A Ruler http://bit.ly/9VAXsn #
A First Taste Of What The Google Tablet’s Interface Will Look Like (Pics) http://short.to/15jqm #
I just became the mayor of The Pub [...] read more…
In the last video we posted, CNN covered how Fox promotes the protests of our administration rather than covers them. CNN thinks there’s an important distinction, and I can’t help but agree.
Today’s nugget features proof that Fox not only promotes the protests, but they attempt to exacerbate them. The lady in the green is a Fox producer.
Thanks to Valleywag for providing more Fox coverage that makes you wonder why self-respecting person would watch Fox News or believe thier propaganda.
They used to be fodder for only shows like the Daily Show, but now Fox News has become so ridiculous and outright silly that other news agencies are realizing that the Fox News downward, falsehood-spreading spiral is actually news itself.
RT @zacbrownband: Dear PETA - Plants are living creatures too… Bacon had a mother but so did Pickle. It takes life to support life – welcome to the planet.
