July 19, 2009
Ann
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Some of the simplest toys are the best. You don’t see these in the stores anymore. I used to spend hours obsessing over Wooly Willy, giving him super long nose and ear hair, making curlicue beards and eyebrows, devil horns and drag-queen hair.
I’m glad they still have hula hoops. “You know? For kids.” They’ve got to keep that one around because somebody somewhere figured out it was just good exercise. But they’ve even come up with an electronic version of that with the Wii Fit. I’m not complaining, though, I love my Wii Fit hula hoops. Some kid came over and broke my real hula hoop about seven years ago, and it may be time to buy a new one.
It might’ve been the same kid that threw my nekkid Barbie down into the flood canal like she was committing suicide off a super high balcony. He was so cute and looked at me with innocent eyes, like he was sad he “dropped” her.
Anyway, I was having a moment of nostalgia and just thought I’d share, especially since I haven’t written out here since January when I was talking on singing about singing. I have since become quite the hypocrite, having embraced another childhood memory, The Carpenters Now & Then
album, which only has cover tunes and songs about singing. Go figure.
July 9, 2009
Dan
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I’m sure I’m going to field some questions on Google’s new operating system. Not to mention people wondering why Google has released two operating systems in two years.
Google Chrome OS is basically a lightweight version of Linux + Google Chrome and is being targeted at the PC, laptop and netbook market, whereas Android is more about portability. They are even targeting cable boxes and DVRs with Android.
Here’s a big long article all about Google Chrome OS.
July 9, 2009
Dan
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Since I write about Twitter a lot, I thought I should try and become a bit more active on the service. The problem? Time. And Energy. Oh yeah, and remembering to go to the Twitter website.
There are a lot of really cool Twitter clients – I really like Tweetdeck myself — but none of them seem to offer the one thing I think would really be a cool feature: popping up every once in a while and asking what the heck you are doing. A smart app, of course, that can tell you aren’t playing a web game on InstantAction or surfing for porn on Bing – because Microsoft is awesome to give us all this porn to watch! — but when you aren’t doing much on your computer or iphone, it just pops up the message. Then, next time you pop on to do something, you can say what you’ve been doing.
Seems like a no-brainer to me. It would also keep me from constantly making a tweet while standing in line somewhere and thus trying desparately not to say ‘hate lines’ or something similar.
