Curtis Bridges

The Setup I love this site; not only does it have some major geek heroes on display, the web design is gorgeous. I love the horizontal picture ribbons for each interview, I love the content of each article. It is simply amazing the exact specs of the machines that most of these people use everyday and the awesome quality of their work. Very inspirational. Now it is time for me to get to work on something tangible and stop wasting time with TV and random web sites!

ThinkGeek sent me their monthly love-gram via email today, and in addition to their usual array of awesome geek toys, was this: Moshi Voice Activated Clock Check it out in action!

It is amazing to me, how divisive eReaders have become - I just don't see the controversy. If publishers are dissatisfied with their margins for books sold in the eReader market, the simplest solution is to find a way to sell higher volumes. Profits for eReader content increase far faster per unit than equivalent print units. It costs nothing to produce units #2 through #1,000,000 electronically. Even at a theoretical dollar per unit cost of print media, that's $1,000,000 of lost profit in manufacturing and shipping. Don't be underhanded in how you sell your products or your consumers have the power to react in a manner detrimental to your business. Deal with the modern realities of social media and electronic distribution or lose your bottom line. It really is that simple. "I speak from pained experience as an author when I say that we have absolutely no say on when our books are released, in what format and at what price." Delayed electronic edition Wh...

This is a topic I've committed myself to for a week now (informally) and since I've decided to strive for this path, I've found a few websites with some helpful information: http://www.becomingminimalist.com/ http://mnmal.tumblr.com/ http://minimalmac.com/ http://simpledesks.tumblr.com/ I'm finding it easy to convert my computers, installed software, workspaces, and design but having a much more difficult time changing my life . Despite that, I am finding myself a lot more productive around the house and have a much happier wife with the small changes I've managed so far.

A truly inspiring and very astute look at gamers and the gaming mentality.

A fun look at man's getaways:

http://www.predators-movie.com/ Robert Rodriguez will do this right, I have confidence in him. Predators

A follow up relating to my previous blog post: Google TV Should Finally Push Apple TV Beyond A “Hobby”

F I N A L L Y. Google and Partners Seek Foothold in the Living Room - NYTimes.com At least, I think so. Meaning: when this was 'announced', my immediate thought was that AppleTV will finally get a swift kick in the ass to implement some new features and finally develop as a platform, less as a hobby. I have said for so long that AppleTV was poised to be the next big thing. Apple has not prioritized it properly, placing it on the back burner while they addressed iPhone (which was important) and now the iPad (which isn't). Enter Google; Apple's new worst enemy. If Google enters the market, and aims at one thing: getting media to the TV, both from within the household: Ripped CDs 'backed-up' DVDs Digital photos and maybe more importantly, from without: Movie streaming from NetFlix, Apple, Amazon Online videos from YouTube, Hulu, etc. Music streaming from Pandora, Last.fm, etc Download audio and video podcasts (ok, maybe more for people like me) But most import...

Check this out, it looks amazing. Since I am in the software industry, and I know how difficult this is to implement, I'm amazed at how well done this is.

Corporate Information - Our Philosophy A very interesting read, worth the time to see what Google's founders envision for their company and its products. Nobody can argue that Google is bringing a very different approach to computing, I love their products but it can be scary how much data they have in their hands. I keep trying to decide if that is good or not. It is certainly convenient to have virtually all your data in one place, in the cloud, but is it smart? Currently, I think so. At present, I am using many of Google's services: Google Search GMail (w/Tasks) Google Reader Google Docs Google Calendar Picasa and Picasa Web Albums Blogger Buzz Google Voice Google Wave There are certainly replacements available for all of these but none are as convenient or cost effective. I just have to decide how much data I want in one place.

Happy Meal is ageless: no decay in a year on a shelf - Boing Boing Ya, I'd say they bake in enough preservatives, don't you? That stuff HAS to build up in your system, and it can't bode well for long-term health. This is seriously scary.

Stick with this to the end, it is extremely well done.

Ty Warren thinks long term Ty Warren is one example of the types of players the Patriots pride themselves in calling one of their own. I wish we had more of them.

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/15-noteworthy-websites-that-changed-the-internet/ I would amend this list; as far as I know, Slashdot.org was the first “news portal” that I ever used. I suspect that is very true for almost all tech-types.

alexalbrecht : This is beyond EPIC, Leo is the man!

Out to breakfast with the kids. They are very impressed that they got travel coffee cups for their OJ.

There really isn’t anything much cuter than a 5 year old singing, “Hey There Delilah”.

Casey: Daddy, can you get up and come downstairs with me and I will play trains and you can do whatever you want. Me: You got a deal, mister!

Honestly, eTrade’s commercials were getting old to me but this new one was a nice return to form.

I’m amazed, I’ve never seen throughput levels like this before. I was so amazed, I double checked my speeds on speedtest.net. That being said, go-go-gigabit to my doorstep please!

http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=485 A very interesting argument against Apple. I still have mixed feelings about the companies direction despite using their products.

Giz Explains: How You're Gonna Get Screwed By Ebook Formats I really enjoyed this description on what ePub is and isn't. This is good to know in the coming eReader "wars".

New Cisco Router I’m not sure it will ‘change the internet as we know it’ but it certainly allows a little room for growth in the future.

You can call what major motion picture studios and TV manufacturers are doing ‘3d’ but until you can accomplish what this guy did (on a standard LCD by the way) it just isn’t the real thing. This is how your eyes work, anything less is just trying to steal your hard earned money.

Lifehacker: 9 Ways to Handle Interruptions I need all the help I can get, so tips like these in this article can be very helpful.

I think my five year old daughter is trying to tell me something. Wow, it starts early…she asked if we could hang it outside our house. I told her to send it to her grandfather.

Tech Savvy Students <3 eReaders This market for eReaders seems like such a no-brainer to me; the cost of manufacturing such low run text books is ridiculous, I always hated spending $80-$120 for a book that I would use for 4 months and then rarely would ever pick up again. I can remember always having a large backpack with 30 pounds of books slung over my shoulder, walking around campus. You bet, I would have been an early Kindle DX owner!

I wish I had pirate ship bounce-house to play on when I was a kid.

Stop making it complicated! All very good advice. I am currently reading “Getting Things Done” by David Allen, and will finish it despite this article so I can compare and contrast the two but I suspect it really does boil down to just making things simple and just doing.

Jamie Oliver presents Food Education The Naked Chef gives a presentation on food education. The wheelbarrow of sugar representing sugar in school milk was a great idea.

I saw this interview from a few years ago about The Goonies and I just wanted to share it with everyone.

Neil Patrick Harris agrees to Smurf movie Say what??? A SMURF movie??? What???

Flash is leading security exploit

CNN on 'Real Food' Very interesting idea, my father always grumbled about this when I was growing up and it has only gotten worse now that I am a dad. Real food is so hard to find!

mnmal : Why DRM doesn’t work . All the old time readers know that I really really hate DRM. It just doesn’t work. I don’t support piracy, that’s bad, but DRM is NOT the solution.

CNN on social media and news More Americans get news from Internet than newspapers or radio, survey says.

How to Help Your Focus “There’s a really simple tip almost everybody can use to increase productivity tremendously. Not only is the tip free, it might even make you a bit of money. *And* it’ll make you smarter. It’s really easy, there’s only one step involved: Sell your TVs.” (via mnmal )

Evidently the Dunkin’ Donuts kids think I’m an excessively heavy butter user with my bagel. I guess it is time to get back into that running regiment.