I was very happy when I saw that Poi Dog Pondering was playing at The Continental. I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed them…
I had a lot of fun shooting this due to the projections on to the band stage that were part of the show.
I Can Has Video (in my pocket)
I remember getting access to a super 8mm camera back in high school and shooting some film of a field trip. I also remember the pain of getting the film developed and then having to arrange to borrow a projector just so I could show the film to my classmates.
Ever since then I have been nothing more than a spectator as video production has become more and more accessible to the common man via video tape recorder, mini disk and now digital cameras.
On our last vacation I considered taking a small handheld video DV camera with us just to have, but even the newest palm sized devices were going to be too unwieldy and I opted to forgo the video in favor of my preferred medium of digital still photography.
Now it appears that Pure Digital Technologies has come up with a device to lure me to the dark side. Meet my new friend, the Flip Mino.
Very impressive specs. It runs about 4 hours on a charge and records up to 60 minutes of video.
Internal Memory: 2GB (60 minutes)
Screen Size: 1.46″ (transflective TFT)
Screen Resolution: 528 x 132 pixels
Video Resolution: 640 x 480
And the size is right. 3.94″ x 1.97″ x 0.63″ (H x W x D) it fits easily into your pocket making it as readily available as a small camera phone.
It’s also very easy to use. Out of the box all I had to do was charge it up and go.
The software for managing and editing your videos installs right from the device and it make sharing and uploading of your videos quite simple.
1978 Czech song Jozin z Bazin
Apparently this song is all the rage in Poland right now and totally worth watching from beginning to end….
The Lyrics in English
I drive Skoda 100 to camp here on Orawa
So I hurry, take a risk – go through Morawa
The monster lives there, comes out of the bog
Eats mostly Prague citizen, its name is Jozin (Joseph)
Chorus: Jozin from the bog creeps through swamp
Jozin from the bog closes to the village
Jozin from the bog edges its teeth
Jozin from the bog bites, strangles
To defend Jozin from the bog, who could imagine, only works a plane with manure (white powder)
I was driving through the village on road to Vizowice
The village mayor greeted me, said to me during drinking Sliwowica
‘The one who will bring Jozin dead or alive
gets my daughter and a half of National Agrarian Farm
Chorus
I said: ‘give me a plane and powder, mayor,
I’ll bring you Jozin, I see no trouble about that’,
Mayor helped me, in the morning I went up in the sky
The powder from the plane prettily fell on Jozin.
Chorus
Joe Swamp is now all white
Joe Swamp escapes from the bogs
Joe Swamp has turned to stone
For Joe Swamp, this is the end
I caught Joe and now I have him, woohoo!
Cash is always good so now I’m selling him to the zoo
Do a Youtube search on Jozin z Bazin to see various new versions and adaptations of the song…
Urban Stonehenge
As I was wrapping up an early morning test of the video conference gear with our team in Bangalore I noticed the downtown Houston skyline emerging from the post dawn mist.
Either image is well worth clicking to see the full size version. Even more worthwhile is this:
DÃa del orgullo friki
It’s Nerd Pride Day.
Shouldn’t there be a parade or something? I want a parade….
Basic rights and responsibilities of nerds
Rights:
1. The right to be even nerdier.
2. The right to not leave your house.
3. The right to not have a significant other and be a virgin.
4. The right to not like soccer or any other sport.
5. The right to associate with other nerds.
6. The right to have few friends (or none at all).
7. The right to have all the nerdy friends that you want.
8. The right to not be “in-style.”
9. The right to be overweight and have poor eyesight.
10. The right to show off your nerdiness.
11. The right to take over the world.
Responsibilities:
1. Be a nerd, no matter what.
2. Try and be nerdier than anyone else.
3. If there is a discussion about something nerdy, you must give your opinion.
4. Save any and all nerdy things you have.
5. Do everything you can to show off your nerdy stuff as though it were a “museum of nerdiness.”
6. Don’t be a generalized nerd. You must specialize in something.
7. Attend every nerdy movie on opening night and buy every nerdy book before anyone else.
8. Wait in line on every opening night. If you can go in costume or at least with a related t-shirt, all the better.
9. Don’t waste your time on anything not related to nerddom.
10. Try to take over the world!
Prom Night
The second annual Disco Expressions Prom Night at the Continenal Club was a huge success.
Sam and crew from Wear It Again Sam had setup shop in front of the club so that patrons could purchase vinatage 70’s style clothing since the show was billed as “Prom Attire Required.”
A lot of people showed up in costume and many more availed themselves of the makeshift clothing store out front. Everybody (with the exception of a handful of obnoxious party-goers hogging the front of the stage and being generally unpleasant) seemed to be in the spirit of things and were genuinly friendly and festive and had no problem getting into the spirit of things.
The rest of the photos from the event are here.
New Weezer Video
Via Laughing Squid
Pork and Beans by Weezer, A Mashup of Internet Memes
This is not the first time Weezer demonstrated their tech savvy nature. In 1995 their video for Buddy Holly was included on the Window 95 CD and featured some pretty state of the art video effects that made it appear they were playing in Arnold’s Diner of Happy Days fame.
This has everything to do with why we use the song Buddy Holly performed by Moog Cookbook as the theme song for Technology Bytes…
Happy Eris/Defenestration of Prague Day!
May 23rd is known by Discordians as Eris Day.
Eris is the Greek Goddess of Chaos for the Golden Apple of Discord incident wherein she instigated the Trojan War.
May being the fifth month and five being the number of chaos (the first break in the stable order of four), and twenty-three being particularly significant amongst Discordians.
Today is also the 70th Day (Pungenday) of the Season of Discord and the anniversary of The Defenestration of Prague in which a few royal officials were thrown out a window of Hradcany Castle by some noblemen, but survived the fall by landing in a cart full of manure and is central to the start of the Thirty Years’ War in 1618.
