Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
NaVloPoMo #8: Teen Poop Squad
I felt like making a Teen Girl Squad ripoff, but I don’t know Flash. So I used PowerPoint, and PowerPoint sucks, and the transitions took way too damn long on export and the audio is a bit out of synch. So here, it’s a kinda sucky cartoon. It also has a healthy […]
1 Comment » - Posted in NaVloPoMo by shelbinator
Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Evacuate! Or not.
After the Virginia Tech shooting, Georgia Tech, like many other universities, went to work on implementing an emergency broadcast system involving email and text message alerts designed to freak people the hell out and add to the chaos. Today, we tested that system. About half an hour ago, everyone who had opted into […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Local News, Random, Scary by shelbinator
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
NaVloPoMo #7 - Critical Mass, August
Critical Mass in Atlanta for August. A couple-few hundred cyclists gather for a casual ride through downtown, midtown, and parts thereabouts, blocking traffic like nobody’s business. Music provided by my iPod and some crappy but totally sufficient speakers that cost $8 at Ross.
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
More new media navel-gazing
In a video posted today, wacky quasi-conspiracy theorist Davis Fleetwood, who was one of YouTube’s guests at the debate in Charleston, reports that he’s been hired by the Kucinich for President campaign, making him, he believes (and I can’t dispute) the first “videoblogger” (whatever that word means) to be hired by a presidential campaign.
See, […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Job Hunt, Media, Netroots, Rant, YouTube and such by shelbinator
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
NaVloPoMo #6: Oh that thing again?
Another late entry, but if the sun ain’t up yet, it’s still yesterday to me. A question for the peanut gallery: got any snappy retorts for the inevitable eye-rolls from the non-geek squad when you say you “have to go” do your silly little video crap?
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
No Daily Show
But at least the Writers Guild strike brought Ze Frank back.
No Comments » - Posted in Culture, Geekery by shelbinator
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Feng shuitastic
For the last few months, I’ve had randomly recurring insomnia — sometimes once a week, sometimes four nights a week — that I thought was going to be the death of me. Literally. It isn’t just lying there all night staring at the ceiling, it’s waking up at 3 a.m. and getting stuck […]
6 Comments » - Posted in Geekery, Get physical, Homelife, NaVloPoMo by shelbinator
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Pretending to be a reporter in South Carolina
Since no one is watching videos on Huffington Post yet, I thought I’d try my hand at a regular ol’ article and see if it generated any more discussion. Yeah, it’s long as hell, but (1) it’s about Joe Biden, so what’d you expect, and (2) Obama got an OTB novella, too, so nyaaah.
Now […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Job Hunt, Local News, Media, Politics by shelbinator
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Serendipity in Greenville
Greenville, SC, is a lovely town; if you ever have the occasion, I suggest a weekend getaway there. I would not, however, suggest any kind of getaway in Islamabad.
While I was in Greenville interviewing Senator Joe Biden about Pakistan, among other things, General Pervez Musharraf decided to suspend the constitution in Pakistan and declare […]
1 Comment » - Posted in (In)security, Job Hunt, Local News, Media, Photo, Politics, Travel by shelbinator
Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
NaVloPoMo #3: The Wandering Reporter
I caught a ride with the Biden campaign from one end of the day’s campaign events to the other, knowing full well I probably wouldn’t get a ride back — and as usual, they were running late and had to make a mad dash to the next city in the opposite direction of my car. […]
