It’s been ten days and already a lot has happened in 2009. I’m now a graduate graduate student at Lewis University. I finally got all the photos from my October 2008 trip to Colorado onto Flickr (ok, actually that was late last year but still…). My employer has changed and now I work for “National City now a part of PNC”. And I finally upgraded this blog to Wordpress 2.7.
I plan on writing a longer post on my trip – maybe a bit of a narrative – and of course embed slideshows of the photos I took. I have a lot of raw video to go through as well but I’m waiting for iMovie ‘09 to get it all put together. I really want to use some of those cool new map transitions – Indiana Jones style!
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The sixth photo from the sixth page of my Flickr photostream on December 4, 2008. What does it mean? I’m not quite sure.
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My eight-year-old cousin came in for Thanksgiving from Texas. We had a great time. Here are some photos of our Turkey Day.
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Here’s a link to the Flickr photoset of my trip to the Chicago Auto show yesterday. Enjoy!
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My Apple TV finally arrived today. I ordered the 40 GB model which was shipped from China on Friday. From China. On Friday. They tried to deliver it yesterday but I had it going to my work address and we were closed for MLK day. They tried delivering it on Monday. It came from China. On Friday. Now that’s freaking amazing. Anyway, I took the obligatory unboxing photos. There’s a Picasa Web flash embed after the jump. There’s also a video that’s currently encoding on Vimeo – I’ll post the embed for that after the jump as soon as it becomes available. More on my first Apple TV impressions later. Also, I have thoughts on the Macworld 2008 keynote as well…maybe at some point I will have time to type them out.
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Just got back from my two-day Christmas marathon with my Illinois-based family. I will be heading out to see my actual family (Iowa-based) on the 29th. I’ve posted a Picasa slideshow embed after the jump of our Christmas Eve gift exchange. Video should be added soon.
Also, Happy Christmas to all…hope you got everything you wanted and more!
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I never miss a chance to play with someone else’s Javascript, especially when they’re giving it to me free of charge. If you like what you see below (that’s an example of the “cover flow” effect), head on over to the site where I found it: CVI-Projects.
And here’s another cool Javascript effect from the same site – this one simulates those “Web 2.0″-look icons and graphics we all love.
Finally, here’s a great link to a “lab” that allows you to see what all of the available effects can do although I’ve already put my two favorites to use. Best of all, they work in all major browsers and simply don’t show up in browsers that don’t understand the Javascript used. Current and backwards-compatible. You can’t lose!
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My vacation photos are now available! Here is a link to the album on Picasa:
Vacation 2007: Mall of America & Norman, OK
Of course, there’s a Picasa flash embed after the jump if you’re so inclined. Click away!
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The trip to the Mall of America was, for the most part, uneventful in that nothing bad happened. In fact, it was rather fun. We stayed at the Ramada Mall of America in Bloomington, MN, which is right across the street from the mall and IKEA. We were also fortunate enough to be chosen as one of the five “Guests of the Night,” which entitled us to a variety of prizes including two reduced all-day passes to The Park at MOA (which used to be called Camp Snoopy and is slowly transforming into Nickelodeon Universe). While there aren’t that many rides, it was very uncrowded on Monday so my sis and I were able to ride most of the rides several times. It was a nice chance for she and I to occupy ourselves while mom did the shopping. That’s not to say that we didn’t shop – I picked up a few things at IKEA, Bow Wow Meow (pet stuff), and made a stop at the Apple Store.
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The photos from the White Sox game on September 16 are now available on the site.
There is a Picasa Web Albums flash embed after the jump.
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