Ah west coast. I would love to head that direction right now. Somewhere safe where I can retire. :)
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December 18, 2010
December 14, 2010
First Movie Filmed Entirely by Cats
Cats, Video Cameras, and officially an item added to Kala and Billie's Christmas Wishlist.
October 15, 2010
July 28, 2010
Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
The below video has a few language moments, so I'd call it NSFW, unless you have some quality headphones.
I wandered across this great video by the Axis of Awesome tonight on the DistractoMatic site. It reminds me of an old band I used to play with in Minneapolis. We went by the name The Loyal Yokefellows. It was a fun group that had some pretty mixed musical influences. Pat O'Neill used to have a routine where he could take any Christian Praise and Worship Song and connect it to Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison. Ah, those were the days. Anyhow, Video:
I wandered across this great video by the Axis of Awesome tonight on the DistractoMatic site. It reminds me of an old band I used to play with in Minneapolis. We went by the name The Loyal Yokefellows. It was a fun group that had some pretty mixed musical influences. Pat O'Neill used to have a routine where he could take any Christian Praise and Worship Song and connect it to Every Rose Has Its Thorn by Poison. Ah, those were the days. Anyhow, Video:
July 7, 2010
Double Rainbow: The Song
This was pretty fun. Perhaps I have an attachment to rainbows given my stint on the Youth Encounter team to India/Nepal named Rainbow of Promise back in 2002-2003.
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June 11, 2010
June 2, 2010
May 30, 2010
MC Chris Video - Twin Peaks
MC Chris is great. There is a bit of NSFW language in the song, but the video is well worth it. So throw on the headphones and rock out.
I found this great video for his song Twin Peaks over at Urlesque.
I found this great video for his song Twin Peaks over at Urlesque.
April 22, 2010
That man can dunk
I think my favorite part of this video is that his friends quickly rush over... with camera-phones.
April 12, 2010
KittehRoulette
Somedays you just aren't intended to be productive in the off hours. For those days, there is KittehRoulette.
March 27, 2010
March 17, 2010
December 9, 2009
November 30, 2009
November 27, 2009
Thanksgiving
One Hundred Million Years Ago, the Pilgrims landed on top of Plymouth Rock. They proceeded to take their belt buckles and place them on their hats in reverence for the great fortune they had. After a harrowing year of settling in what they rather carelessly called "The New World" they realized, winter was a-coming. Since they were the first settlers of this new world, they were quite surprised when the people they had yet again carelessly referred to as "Indians" (we now know that is a baseball team) came to them bearing gifts of Honeybaked Ham (tm), mashed potatoes, green bean casserole (with the onion crispies on top), and of course the main dish Cool Whip (tm) to top the pumpkin pie. After the party ended and the years of massacre between these new settlers and the non-baseball playing "Indians", and a few rather touching cartoons about Pocahontas, and other heroes were made... We sit down to remember that if you put your hand on a piece of paper, spread out all of your fingers, trace it with a crayola, it looks a bit like what elementary school city kids are told turkeys look like. If you put a belt-buckled hat on that turkey you have a Thanksgiving Centerpiece. Happy Day of Thanks everyone.
June 11, 2009
Birds on Water
Birds on Water
Originally uploaded by newcoventry
I snapped this picture of two barn swallows in Lucerne, Washington.
March 10, 2009
Reinventing Risk Ratings: Notes
Notes from the session titled:
I just don’t trust you: how the Tech Community can reinvent risk ratings.
by: Toby Segaran (Metaweb), Jesper Andersen (Open Data Group)
There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. There’s the US and there’s moodyu’s bond rating service… And believe me; it’s not clear sometimes who’s more powerful. – Thomas Friedman 1996
Credit agencies are broken safety net.
Our economy is fueled by debt. Moody is the gatekeeper to that debt. Credit risk measures trust. People are good at fufiling their obligations.
Our system promotes gaming.
4 most important problems facing. Moody’s, S&P, and Fitch provide ratings. You pay to get ratings. Companies will pay to get the best rating. This is a lot like bribery. But it is pricing.
Our Risk Rating System has a patent without the disclosure. They have no incentive to say who’s method is better. They just want us to trust their ratings. What does AAA rating really mean? It doesn’t really tell you what risk factors are involved.
After Lehman declared bankruptcy Moody’s downgraded them from AAA to C. This is not good. We need transparency. We need to know the method. We need full disclosure of how companies get ratings.
Lack of Ecosystems create bad ratings. Risks are hidden. Good predictions are ignored because our system rewards the ignorance of problems until it is too late.
Beverly McClean. Celbrated after the fact. She wrote for Newsweek for 6 months at the rating agency took notice. John Paulsen: He made the single biggest Hedge fund return in 2007. He figured out that the ratings on CDS was wrong. We have incentives for secrecy.
Single Sourced Information Creates Bad Ratings.
$45 Trillion problem. It has to be solved now! A lot of dangerous problems. A lot of big problems. Engineers don’t have problems, they have requirements.
FRS: Rating creation needs to be accessible, open, diverse, and transparent.
Ratings should be a commons. Risk management is way too important to be a competitive advantage for a company.
Freerisk is an… Authoritative Data Source, User Contributed Data Source, Set of Contributed Algorithms, Testing Frameworks.
Open Data: Consume data that’s on the web and publish it for others to use.
Becoming a nationally recognized statistical rating organization requires national recognition. We don’t need cash, we need passionate people.
http://freerisk.org/
I just don’t trust you: how the Tech Community can reinvent risk ratings.
by: Toby Segaran (Metaweb), Jesper Andersen (Open Data Group)
There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. There’s the US and there’s moodyu’s bond rating service… And believe me; it’s not clear sometimes who’s more powerful. – Thomas Friedman 1996
Credit agencies are broken safety net.
Our economy is fueled by debt. Moody is the gatekeeper to that debt. Credit risk measures trust. People are good at fufiling their obligations.
Our system promotes gaming.
4 most important problems facing. Moody’s, S&P, and Fitch provide ratings. You pay to get ratings. Companies will pay to get the best rating. This is a lot like bribery. But it is pricing.
Our Risk Rating System has a patent without the disclosure. They have no incentive to say who’s method is better. They just want us to trust their ratings. What does AAA rating really mean? It doesn’t really tell you what risk factors are involved.
After Lehman declared bankruptcy Moody’s downgraded them from AAA to C. This is not good. We need transparency. We need to know the method. We need full disclosure of how companies get ratings.
Lack of Ecosystems create bad ratings. Risks are hidden. Good predictions are ignored because our system rewards the ignorance of problems until it is too late.
Beverly McClean. Celbrated after the fact. She wrote for Newsweek for 6 months at the rating agency took notice. John Paulsen: He made the single biggest Hedge fund return in 2007. He figured out that the ratings on CDS was wrong. We have incentives for secrecy.
Single Sourced Information Creates Bad Ratings.
$45 Trillion problem. It has to be solved now! A lot of dangerous problems. A lot of big problems. Engineers don’t have problems, they have requirements.
FRS: Rating creation needs to be accessible, open, diverse, and transparent.
Ratings should be a commons. Risk management is way too important to be a competitive advantage for a company.
Freerisk is an… Authoritative Data Source, User Contributed Data Source, Set of Contributed Algorithms, Testing Frameworks.
Open Data: Consume data that’s on the web and publish it for others to use.
Becoming a nationally recognized statistical rating organization requires national recognition. We don’t need cash, we need passionate people.
http://freerisk.org/
Low-cost & Low-power computing - Mary Lou Jepsen from Pixel Qi
97% of adolescents alive today live in the developing world. What are we doing to serve them? If you want to change the world we need to figure out a way to give them a chance. Get the cost of computing and access to computing down. OLPC – thought to be impossible (Jobs, Gates, Dell). 1 Million children across the developing world have laptops as a result of OLPC. Who cares what CPU is inside of it, we just need a low cost, low-power machine with decent battery life.
Innovation: High-end, Hight-Tech Research at the top of the pyramid.
OLPC/Pixel Qi: Innovation at the bottom of the pyramid. If you can pull it off you can increase the base of the pyramid. Sort of like trickle down economics is high end innovation. Work at the bottom of the pyramid to help the bottom of the pyramid.
Low power is the real key. ½ the world lives without steady access to electricity. How to design something that can be human powered. 1-watt laptop (10x lower than next laptop up). Redesigning the screen. Why not just self-refresh the screen? Why is the CPU/Mobo/fan on in every computer in the room. Until you get a keyboard event or internet packet. Screen and audio are our interaction point. Human computer interaction.
OLPC is greenest laptop ever made (Someone tell Apple). Keys for designing efficiency are things you would do naturally for the developing world. Make it user serviceable. All screens should not be HDTV quality. Keys for portables – low power, sunlight readability, high res for reading, paper white. You don’t want to stare into a flashlight.
3Qi screen. 3 displays in 1. Full color LCD TV mode. Low –power, highlight color, sunlight readable transflective mode. Very low power, paper-white, sunlight readable, reflective e-paper mode. This is beyond the XO screen. Fully saturated color option. Reflectivity is key.
People want TV even if they don’t have power to sustain it.
The CPU wars are over; it’s the screen wars now. iPhone is basically a screen. That is where the future of hardware.
Innovation: High-end, Hight-Tech Research at the top of the pyramid.
OLPC/Pixel Qi: Innovation at the bottom of the pyramid. If you can pull it off you can increase the base of the pyramid. Sort of like trickle down economics is high end innovation. Work at the bottom of the pyramid to help the bottom of the pyramid.
Low power is the real key. ½ the world lives without steady access to electricity. How to design something that can be human powered. 1-watt laptop (10x lower than next laptop up). Redesigning the screen. Why not just self-refresh the screen? Why is the CPU/Mobo/fan on in every computer in the room. Until you get a keyboard event or internet packet. Screen and audio are our interaction point. Human computer interaction.
OLPC is greenest laptop ever made (Someone tell Apple). Keys for designing efficiency are things you would do naturally for the developing world. Make it user serviceable. All screens should not be HDTV quality. Keys for portables – low power, sunlight readability, high res for reading, paper white. You don’t want to stare into a flashlight.
3Qi screen. 3 displays in 1. Full color LCD TV mode. Low –power, highlight color, sunlight readable transflective mode. Very low power, paper-white, sunlight readable, reflective e-paper mode. This is beyond the XO screen. Fully saturated color option. Reflectivity is key.
People want TV even if they don’t have power to sustain it.
The CPU wars are over; it’s the screen wars now. iPhone is basically a screen. That is where the future of hardware.
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