Walking Wilshire Blvd. What a neat idea to celebrate 10 years of LA. My ten year ‘anniversary’ was November 1st 2006. Should have done something.
Category: misc
007 title sequences YouTube, but better than nothing.
An addition to this blog post
Of course I had forgotten the semantics in the meantime, and google did not point me to my own blog. So with this entry I hope it will. Since one thing is for sure: I will need the screen command again, and it will also have forgotten how to use it.
In order to share one terminal session by two people on the same machine personA runs:
screen -S someName
the second person should be able to share the session by running:
screen -x someName
3.9 Million houses for sale. Average price at 221,000 US$. That makes for 0.861 Trillion dollars worth of real estate waiting to be moved.
Sizable, even if you compare it the US federal budget
Sony and Ericsson embark on getting us the TV watch again. That’s right, now that the PS3 obviously exists I have to find something else to hit over Sonys wide head. I think that the recent Nielsen Study makes allot os sense. There is just not much content that you want to watch on a tiny little device like an iPod or Zune for that matter. Microsoft hopes that the later one, being much better equiped for video, will benefit from a new usage pattern. I doubt it will be huge. I could see sports fans wanting to watch certain highlights when they actually happen. Or just around that time. But it needs to be easy and cheap.
Yet, I am hardly the average target group: this watch is not geeky to me. My geek watch would read 1164342294 right now. That’s the number of seconds since January first 1970. And yes being a real geek watch it would roll over when 32 bits are exhausted to express this in January 19, 2038.
The Washington post had a look at the Wii and the PS3. Makes allot of sense what they are writing. PS3 is pretty, but Wii has the better ‘fun factor’ for non hard core gamers it seems. I really wonder if people will get fitter, now that they will play standing. Will we see xbox and ps3 with Wii like controllers? technically that should be feasible. Guitar hero on PS2 was hugely sucessful and came with a guitar. Maybe there will be games for Xbox 360 that include it’s own set of Wii like controllers? Maybe Nokia comes out with a cellphone that does use the motion sensor not to write stupid message. Or, wait, can’t I use the motion sensor in my laptop? That’s actually a game I did not get around to write: The virtual Brio Labyrinth. try to get that ball around the parcour by juggling your laptop.
2 people could compete. It’s not that we not having ideas …
Some misc links:
the usual Sony drama around shipments of the PS3.
Cinemas dragging their feet and having generally no vision nor clue. I guess that if you business model is to sell thousands and thousands of tons of pop corn it can not really have a great influence on your creative mindset. Cinema operators probably see themselves more like hog farmers. It’s all about the logistics of getting the corn to the mouths.
Vanessa Williams says HD is not her friend. sqrt(pixelcount) + age of actress * secret Hollywood factor = constant