With the season end of all my favorite TV shows I went hunting for something to watch on Hulu.com tonight. Right on the front page was Land Of The Lost, one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. Hulu is becoming a treasure trove of movies and TV shows. It’s no wonder the Internet providers in the U.S. want to put a cap on your Internet bandwidth. With all the movie and TV content making its way to the Internet, eventually people are going to figure it out and start watching. Hulu is the king of it all, no close competitors in sight.
With all the attention Twitter has gotten with celebrities like Ashton Kutcher and Oprah signing on some might say it has gone mainstream. I say it went mainstream this morning when I found references to it in two of my newspaper comics. Zits and B.C. both had Twitter references in their strip today which surprised me. Not even Facebook has gotten the kind of momentum that Twitter now has in the Internet and pop culture meme. I am not really sure why, because though I have a Twitter account, I cannot figure out what to do with it.
My favorite podcast, TWIT (This Week In Tech), has been talking about Twitter for almost two years now so it has been around the tech culture for quite awhile. Now, it looks like Twitter has truly gone mainstream.
Not much good television these days, especially if you don’t have cable. Chuck is one of those rare shows that gets it right. Good writing, inside jokes, action, romance, comedy. So this is my little campaign to have NBC renew Chuck for at least one more season.
Being a geek and a dad I watch the GeekDad Blog. Like the Tweetbot post the other day I often find very interesting topics there. One of the topics today was a blog called 1001 rules for my unborn son. This topic of the blog is advice from a father to his son. Now, I don’t necessarily endorse everything the blogger has to say, but I appreciate his sentiment. What 1001 pieces of advice would I give to my sons?
I saw a cool article on Geekdads about something called a Tweenbot. A Tweenbot is best described as:
Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.
Check out the video to watch how people interact with this little guy.
Let the grunting begin, because we are at Man Camp 2009. It looks to be a great weekend with activities like a zip line, full court gymnasium, paintball, trap Shooting, and archery. On top of it we get to grill our own steak, there is a MAN LOUNGE with March Madness basketball games, great worship and a speaker! I will post pictures as time allows.
You know your blog is neglected when you don’t even stop by to look at it once and a while! I thought I would just make sure some joker had not hacked it, when I saw my Merry Christmas post. Pathetic. I am starting to wonder if Facebook isn’t the death of the individual blog. It is alarming how many people are congregating to Facebook. I see a lot of the same type of activity that I used to see from blogs. I guess Facebook just makes it simpler. Personally I think a blog has some of your own personality in it. Even if you are creating a blogger.com blog you can at least pick out the themes you like.
The adopters are still out there blogging strong. Go adoption bloggers!!
Perhaps no one will read this since it is not on Facebook… perhaps I should go post the link there!
Not really sure if anyone watches this blog considering there has been no activity for so long. Merry Christmas to you few readers. Maybe 2009 will give me the time to write more about the things that interest me.
We are so used to our sunrise, but the Japanese JAXA probe has caught the Earthrise in a high definition video. I was blown away watching this video. I guess it is because it reminds me of what an amazing gem of a planet we live on.
There is a new band out there, unofficially, called Forgotten Freedom. You can check out their music at http://purevolume.com/forgottenfreedom. Okay, I will confess, these are my boys and I am being the proud papa. However, I think I have a reason to be proud, because these boys are really talented. They have had the ultimate opportunity to be in a recording studio with a great recording engineer so check out Shadow Closet Studios. Shout out to Paul for his willingness to work with these boys. May you get many lawns mowed, kids watched, and a fence painted in return for your hard work. To see these young men grow in their music is really awesome to see and I will support it as best that I can. Watch out for a Forgotten Freedom website and more music to come!!
So if you happen to see my website the last couple of days it was DOWN! I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 using my hoster’s one-click install and I was getting:
Warning: array_key_exists(): The first argument should be either a string or an integer in /somepath/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 176
What was funny was that when I went to search for this error most of the hits were on pages exhibiting the same problem. I found what I thought was a fix in the category-template.php file. Not knowing a ton about php, but knowing a lot about code I tried to fix the error by doing this:
if(array_key_exists(’category’, $categories))
See if it works for you, but for now I am not upgrading anymore of my WordPress websites!
For you MEB members check out the top of my web page for the Songs tab. Click on that tab to listen to all the latest songs we will be singing. All songs are streamed so you can only listen! If you have any questions about the songs before our next practice contact one of your leaders. My email address is
shawn at shawneverly.com (remember to replace ‘ at ‘ with @).
Oh, and check out my crazy cousin in the video below.
Follow the link here to an article I happened to stumble upon (literally). It is a picture of earth from one of our probes looking back as it journeyed out of our solar system. Pretty small huh? This photo was shown as part of a lecture by the late astronomer Carl Sagan. He used this photo to show us how small we are on the cosmic stage. Pretty humbling when you look at it and really it should be. We have a tendency as a race to get full of ourselves and make silly things important. Ironically when I look at this picture I am drawn to a different conclusion than Mr. Sagan who said, “there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.” The universe points directly to the one who can help us, the creator himself. When I look up to the sky and see the vastness of our universe I take comfort that God is in control. Mr. Sagan and I do agree on something though, we do have to take responsibility for our lives and work together on this little dot. It may seem small from far away, but it is every bit significant to all of us who live here so we need to truly make the best of what we have been given.
To all those who had to “hit the road” yesterday and those who stayed home to clean up after the chaos, I wanted to say thanks for the great times. Times like hanging out at Guitar Center and Sheel’s, sitting out on the back porch sipping Margaritas and laughing, for the music and skits. What great times we had. Hope everyone gets home safe and takes home great memories. Lastly, to the meeting of Beer School I say, Ya mas, Skal, and Dosvadanya! We will see you all here next year, but in the mean time something to remember the occasion.
