Yet Another Man’s Blog

I don’t watch SNL much anymore, but I must admit Andy Samberg cracks me up, especially with his music videos.

I was at work yesterday while the inauguration festivities were going on, and couldn’t break away to catch the inauguration on CNN Live.  I had it Tivo’d and watched when I got home.  I have to say, I think he gave several great speeches throughout the day, and it was really neat watching him soaking it all in at the various balls that went on last night in DC.  I have a few friends who were lucky enough to attend, and I can’t wait to see their pictures and hear stories about the whole experience.

In between balls, I heard he was able to break away and give an executive order to stay all current cases in Guantanamo Bay for 120 days while they review the current cases.  It’s about freakin’ time!

This is absolutely insane.  This video shows the Secret Service’s Yukon XL, which protects the presidential limo, complete a with Dillon M134D Gatling Gun, a six barreled, electrically driven machine gun chambered in 7.62mm, capable of firing 4,000 rounds per minute.

This squirrel was found in a Minneapolis neighborhood drunk from eating fermented pumpkins.

I really don’t think this guy is going to be able to have children.  Unless of course he didn’t want to, then hey — mission accomplished.

12-Year-Old Boy Scouts Volunteer To Give Women Breast Exams

I know it’s late in the month, but for those who don’t know, it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  If you have a few extra bucks, consider making a donation to the Susan G. Komen For The Cure foundation.

Or, at the very least, educate yo self, foo!

Save the Tatas

This past weekend John P, Aaron Phillips, and I had the opportunity to visit the BlogWorld 2008 Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center, so that we could promote the Grid Virtual Private Server offerings and enterprise migration services to the thousands of bloggers present at the conference.

It was a great opportunity to present our server offerings not only to those bloggers who are preparing to leave their shared hosting provider in favor of the Grid, but also to those who are currently on multi-server clustered environments with other providers, looking for better offerings and support on a more scalable platform.

We also shared a booth with two of our clients, Woopra and Automattic (WordPress).

After getting settled into the hotel, John P, Elie, Jad, and I headed out toward Fremont Street, which is what is referred to as “old school” Vegas.  Most of the casinos and hotels in the area are from the 1960′s, but what I found really cool was the canopy covering the entire street.  What I didn’t realize though is that they do an audio/video presentation every hour on Vida Vision, the equivalent of 1,200 plasma tv monitors.

After the conference, I spent Saturday and Sunday with the LT and Woopra crews casino-hopping.  Highlights included MGM, Caesar’s Palace, Harrah’s Piano Bar and the Bellagio light and water show, which I recorded on my Powershot digital camera.

The ATTIGO TT was created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. For his final year project he’s created a touch screen turntable that lets DJ’s loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same as a standard turntable, making the physical interaction nearly the same. Where this takes off is in the flexibility and features included right at your fingertips, no longer locked up on a computer screen. The ATTIGO TT is currently a working prototype, and Scott is looking for manufacturers to partner with.

Final Product // ATTIGO TT from Scott Hobbs on Vimeo.

How cool is this? Great videography and audio by Blu.