Archive for November, 2007
Friday, November 30th, 2007
GOP on YouTube: No snowmen, just a snowjob
Also posted at Huffington Post.
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Apart from Fred Thompson’s incessant “um”s and “uh”s (it must be the writers’ strike that’s got his tongue), my overwhelming impression of the questions selected from YouTube for the GOP by CNN was that most of the questioners were nearly as white as Mitt Romney’s […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, Video, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
GOP YouTube Debate
Watching these debates is a lot more fun from backstage, but oh well. Since I’m hoping to produce some kind of piece about this for HuffPost tomorrow morning, maybe I’ll use a live-blog thread as a scratch pad for my thoughts.
8:02 - Introductions by Gov. Crist. Duncan Hunter looked like he was about […]
10 Comments » - Posted in Media, Politics, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Grad school diaries, day 2557
Waxing philosophical whilst preparing for another NASA teleconference.
Quicktime version. Flash version. Original Blip post.
2 Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, NaVloPoMo, Random, Video by shelbinator
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Karaoke War Crimes - NaVloPoMo 25
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A prototype of a self-contained karaoke microphone was available for our beta-testing at a dinner party last night. Though it needs a little polishing in the software, the concept and the product — a mic you plug right into the TV set like one of those Atari-style joysticks — is awesome. Our singing, […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Cool things, Culture, NaVloPoMo, Video by shelbinator
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Surviving Black Friday
NaVloPoMo day 24. My girlfriend and I hit an outlet mall on Black Friday to make me look less slovenly and fashion-retarded. Thanks to increasingly obese Americans and the apparel-makers apparently coddling their egos by downsizing their garments, I am now a Small, after a lifetime as a Medium. Maybe it’s time to call an […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Culture, NaVloPoMo, Video by shelbinator
Friday, November 23rd, 2007
By the light of the silvery moon
After gorging on turkey and whatnots, we all took a walk along the beach (the Myrtle one). Turns out, if you do a 15 second exposure on ISO 800, you get some pretty cool images that look quite like daylight.
These were taken by nothing but moonlight at around 9pm. Giddyup.
1 Comment » - Posted in Cool things, Photo, Travel by shelbinator
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving NaVloPoMo
From Myrtle Beach. ‘Nuff said.
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4 Comments » - Posted in Culture, NaVloPoMo, Travel, Video by shelbinator
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
A day in the metallography lab
For NaVloPoMo day 20. This is one of the mundane tasks required before completing a PhD: cutting off lots of little slices of metal that you can then stick into an electron microscope, so you can then scratch your head at the screen and say “Well you can clearly see the micromechanisms of shear transition […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Cracktastic, NaVloPoMo by shelbinator
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Worst marketing job ever
At 10am CST, Sen. Joe Biden will be delivering an address on energy and climate security in Johnston, IA. Appropriately enough for an energy policy speech, he’ll be giving it at a gas station.
Inappropriately enough for anyone with an inner 12-year-old and the associated sense of humor, what appears to be quite the popular […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Culture, Juvenile, NaVloPoMo, Politics, Video by shelbinator
Monday, November 19th, 2007
NaVloPoMo 18 - Politickin’
We’re calling the 17th a write-off and launching into the 18th, even though I think it’s the 19th in the video. I was supposed to appear on a political BlogTalkRadio show, the Kudzu Vine, to talk about Joe Biden tonight, but they screwed up their show and I wasted 25 minutes sitting around on […]
