Oh Team Photo day …
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Awesome on soo many levels!
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The Content Farm: How to Calculate Your Age →
Your age is an important thing to know about yourself. You can’t go to school or drink alcohol or get into a good nursing home if you don’t know your age. But it’s hard to find out how old you are if you don’t know. Human beings aren’t horses; you can’t just cut us open and count the rings!That’s why you’ve got to use this method to find out what your age is.
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Wolverine? Or 2 Bat Men?
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“A pic I took yesterday of Christians protecting Muslims during their prayers#jan25 http://yfrog.com/h02gvclj” - @NevineZaki
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Volkswagen Commercial: The Force
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The beginning of the year is a popular time for people to start making resolutions. Personally I’m not too big on resolutions, but as I get older I thought it would be wise to start living and eating more healthy.
Being an ADD Gen Y’er I wasn’t too interested in taking another fitness class or nutrition class but instead was looking for a smart quick way to get fit and healthy. I came across Tim Ferriss’s new The 4-Hour Body book. I havent read the book yet, but would be interested to hear from those that have. Here are some of the things the book claims:
- How to lose those last 5-10 pounds (or 100+ pounds) with odd combinations of food and safe chemical cocktails.
- How to prevent fat gain while bingeing (X-mas, holidays, weekends)
- How to increase fat-loss 300% with a few bags of ice
- How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days, without steroids, and in four hours of total gym time
- How to sleep 2 hours per day and feel fully rested
- How to produce 15-minute female orgasms
- How to triple testosterone and double sperm count
- How to go from running 5 kilometers to 50 kilometers in 12 weeks
- How to reverse “permanent” injuries
- How to add 150+ pounds to your lifts in 6 months
- How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit
What do you guys think? Is Tim Ferriss all smoke and mirrors? Or has he found a quick hack to healthier living?
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Facebook Messages: Game Changer, More Like Game Snoozer
I like Facebook, I really do. I keep Facebook open all day, am a proud early adopter with an edu account, loved the news feed amidst the initial criticism, and was excited to upgrade my messages to the new messages last week. I soo want Facebook’s new messages to be the next game changer which will eliminate my need for email, but I’m afraid to say that the new messages is Facebook’s Wave and leaving alot of people asking, “So whats different from the old Facebook messages?”
Essentially Facebook messages brings all your messaging together through text messages, emails, and Facebook chat conversations. The idea is that once you start a conversation you can use any means of communication to continue the conversation. Facebook even gives you a facebook.com email address.
Call me old school, but I believe different means of communication are used for different scenarios and serve different purposes. Email is typically reserved for more formal, thoughtful, lengthy exchanges. For example if I’m typing an email to my sister asking her how the kids are doing, I wouldn’t want or expect to get a 160 character response via text message or a short chat response. Conversely if I’m sending a text message or chat I’m expecting a short immediate answer to a pressing question that does not require the length or delay of email.
Sometimes I may have multiple conversations using different mediums with the same person. In this scenario Facebook messages would make things more complicated. For example if I’m sending out an email to a couple people through Facebook messages, while at the same time texting one of those friends asking where we are having lunch, but also engaging in an IM conversation with them throughout the day; Facebook would conveniently yet confusingly mash all these conversations together in one long, out of context thread.
Like Google Wave, Facebook is trying to fulfill a need that sounds better in theory than practice. Emailing, texting, and chatting work very well independently and help us keep things in order and within context. If anyone is going to revolutionize the way we communicate I believe Facebook stands the best chance, but the new Facebook messages unfortunately misses the mark.
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What I’m Making for Thanksgiving
Since my folks are out of the country and only returning on Thanksgiving, I have been promoted (by default) to head chef. For Thanksgiving I’ll be preparing Boudin-Stuffed Turkey Breast.
If you need some help with cooking this Thanksgiving check out Saveur’s Turkey Cooking Guide or consider taking some cooking classes.
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Apple, Google, Roku, Boxee have it all wrong
Talk to any tech person and you’ll hear that cable tv is dead and the content on the internet is the way of the future. While I agree with this statement I think the current options are more smoke and mirrors than meat and potatoes.
Google TV appears to be more of a web browser on the flat screen and watching Youtube on my tv doesn’t seem very revolutionary or exciting. Roku, Apple, and Boxee tout the ability to stream Netflix, listen to Pandora, rent movies, and watch Hulu; yet these things are not anything I couldn’t do on my computer.
So if these companies want to know how to make a killer TV app that I would happily pay for here is what I would like to see:
- Ability to watch my favorite shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Comedy Central, TBS (Conan). Currently Hulu does a good job of this but they do not cover CBS, Comedy Central, or TBS. I would happily pay $10 a month for a subscription that has all these stations, extra points if you they have past seasons and no commercials.
- Live channels. Currently if I want to get any live channels I would have to buy a bundled package from Comcast when I really only care for a handful of channels. I would happily pay for an a la carte tv station subscription and have the ability to pick out the several channels that I would like to watch.
- The biggest draw back right now is none of these products offer a good sports solution. If the a la carte option were available I would purchase a subscription to ESPN and FSN, but a better alternative would be the ability to subscribe to all the sports teams that I care about - Huskies, Seahawks, Sounders, and Mariners.
I’m sure the big networks and cable companies have a vested interest in sticking to their money gouging ways. But hopefully with enough people turning to alternative means of consuming content they will pay attention and start listening to what the little guys want.
Do you currently own one of these systems? What do you feel is lacking? What would you like to see in a killer TV app?
