Get ready to start asking what color the Apple in the upper left corner is to novice users over the phone to figure out what version they are running.
While unboxing my iPhone headset in front of an LCD display, I noticed the newton rings in the plastic packaging that the headset ships in and thought it might make an interesting photograph. I set the headset in the plastic packaging in front of my 22 inch Cinema Display showing a plain white screen (photoshop with blank file, hit f twice and tab to hide the palettes) and set my Sony T30 to macro mode. Since the light coming from the LCD display is polarized, the stress lines in the plastic are visible as newton rings. To fill in some details I used my 60 gig iPod screen for a bit of fill light. You can see the reflection of the iPod screen in the wire mesh of the ear piece.
Ever wonder how many human eyeballs it would take to balance a scale with an Airbus 380?
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Figure out how many average bowel movements equal Tom Cruise at the Weird Converter
My wife and I just installed shiny new 40" LCD flat screen HD television. Here are a few first impressions:
- There are moments of sheer stunning picture quality
- Set up is complicated, we went through multiple phone calls with the TV support line and with the cable company to get it working on HDMI, and in general I think I understand more than most people
- The HD universe of content is really small, we get about 10 channels in HD
- Now nothing is on in different ways - "Nothing on in HD" - "Nothing on regular TV"
- I already miss my Tivo, we went with the cable company DVR until the Series 3 Tivo drops a bit more in price
- I hooked my Mac Book Pro, made me glad we went with a 1080 set. Within a few minutes, we were watching movie trailer via Front Row. The quality was very good, I am more of a believer that the iTunes Store can sell HD tv content that will look great on this set
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I just spent an hour or so creating a spreadsheet for my brother's baby pool in Google docs. I have to say it is pretty impressive. Again. like Vox, you must use Firefox instead of Apple's Safari. I was able to create a working spreadsheet and publish it to the internet, and for the most part I felt I was working in Excel on my local machine. There are a few things that I missed from Excel (like the pull a corner down to replicate values through cels feature), but that was pretty minor. You can see the spreadsheet here. Can the future really be on the network?
2007 - The years are really just clicking on by, aren't they? I can not believe that we are now 7 years into this decade and we still don't know what to call it. The Zeros? The 2000's? the Aughts? Anyway, Happy New Year. I resolve to post more often.
