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by Sam Harrelson
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Looking Forward to the Year of Google Voice
A Google executive said the company has only scratched
the surface of what it plans to do with Google Voice, the phone management
application that lets users route calls to all of their phones from one unique
number.
via eweek.com
2010 is going to be the breakout year for Google Voice.
Personally, it’s been the most revolutionary app experience since I opened GMail for the first time on April 6, 2004.
I can’t wait to see how the service improves.
Game Room in Holiday Vacation House
Converted horse barn in Candler, NC… Game room has bar, built in
Wii, 60 inch plasma tv, Rockband, pool table, wifi, pinball machines
AND a disco ball.
Sokushinbutsu
When the bell stopped ringing, the tube was removed and the tomb sealed. After the tomb was sealed, the other monks in the temple would wait another 1,000 days, and open the tomb to see if the mummification was successful.
via en.wikipedia.org
Fascinating.
I’ve heard many references to the “living mummies of Japan” but had never read much on the practice.
God bless Wikipedia’s “Random Article” feature that I use (frequently) when I need a 2 minute break from whatever else I’m doing.
Now back to work.
GoogleDNS vs OpenDNS Again
Wow… you go, Charter.
Looks like I'm switching back to GoogleDNS from OpenDNS for a little tryout (I have noticed some visible lag lately).
Picking Bananas
I’m (finally) reading Thomas Pynchon‘s Gravity Rainbow over the holiday break.
With paragraphs like these, how could I resist?…
“Pirate has become famous for his Banana Breakfasts. Messmates throng here from all over England, even some who are allergic our outright hostile to bananas, just to watch – for the politics of bacteria, the soil’s stringing of rings and chains in nets only God can tell the meshes of, have seen the fruit thrive often to lengths of a foot and a half, yes amazing but true.”
760 pages of that.
Good stuff.
The New Lost Generation of pseudo-Minimalists
Go read the whole Internet-Age Writing Class Syllabus…
“Instant messaging. Twittering. Facebook updates. These 21st-century literary genres are defining a new “Lost Generation” of minimalists who would much rather watch Lost on their iPhones than toil over long-winded articles and short stories. Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness. All without the restraints of writing in complete sentences. w00t! w00t! Throughout the course, a further paring down of the Hemingway/Stein school of minimalism will be emphasized, limiting the superfluous use of nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, gerunds, and other literary pitfalls…”
Students must have completed at least two of the following.
ENG: 232WR—Advanced Tweeting: The Elements of Droll
LIT: 223—Early-21st-Century Literature: 140 Characters or Less
ENG: 102—Staring Blankly at Handheld Devices While Others Are Talking
ENG: 30—Advanced Blog and Book Skimming
ENG: 231WR—Facebook Wall Alliteration and Assonance
LIT: 202—The Literary Merits of Lolcats
LIT: 209—Internet-Age Surrealistic Narcissism and Self-Absorption
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MH Loves the Moon in Her Room
Seriously, the “Moon in My Room” nightlight/learning tool is awesome.
We set it up in her room tonight after looking at the (real) moon with her new telescope and then doing a quick (hey, she’s 2) lesson on the moon via Google Earth. Yeah, she’s doomed to be a geek.
Anyway, it has a remote and cycles through all the cycles of the moon.
Definitely the ultimate nightlight!
I Wish All My Asheville Friends Were Using Gowalla
I finally got around to installing Gowalla on my iPhone (since Asheville isn't cool enough to be a trendy FourSquare city yet).
Gowalla could be an amazing little application and feels a great deal like Twitter did when I first started using the service in 2006 and saw the potential but couldn't get anyone besides SF geeks to use the service.
So, if you're in Asheville (or not) join up so we can make great use of Gowalla locally.
And once you do join up, friend me up.