you really need to take a look at this.

from kxan in austin tx via this article.

I like the links to the helpful zombie information they provide on the site. the youtube links, however…

…is 1680×1050.

I was taking the train home last night, listening to my ipod when a lady started talking to me.

“are you listening to music?” she asked.

“yes. yes I am,” I replied.

“you can get that even when we’re underground?” she asked.

“oh… yeah, this isn’t a radio. it’s an ipod,” I said, holding up what clearly looks like a 5th generation ipod (black).

“so you can get music even when we’re underground then?” she followed-up.

“yes.”

this woman wasn’t ancient, she looked to be in her 40s so it was a little bit unusual for her to not know what a portal recorded music listening device was. and not to be mean, but to be kind of mean, I’d like to state that according to wiki the first cassette-based walkman went on sale in 1979.

have you heard? microsoft applied for a patent on a real-time censor of audio streams and it recently went through. it’s supposed to recognize naughty words and mangle/bleep them in real-time as it passes through the system.

it’s intended for tv and radio broadcasts, like in interviews with… people with tourettes? andrew from top chef chicago?

this technology can get way out of hand. not just in terms of our own privacy, but the scariest thing is that we’ll no longer have awesome moments like these.

it’s migration season and hss is not immune to the ways of the bird — it has left the barren lands of blogger and settled in the warmer climate of wordpress! and it’s definitely not flying back in the spring.

if that made absolutely no sense to you, what I just proudly announced was that I switched my blog publishing system from blogger to wordpress. for us nerds it’s kind of a big deal.

I gotta credit mike for giving me the last nudge to push me over the edge to make the change. tack!

ever watch a clip on your windows media player and you see a shot you really like, and you’re like “oooh I wanna do a screen grab!” but when you try you fall flat on your face?

well fail no more!

hooray!

addendum: turns out this won’t work with dvd playback.

extremely funny clip, especially if you work in an IT capacity. or worked with non tech savvy people.

I’m not gonna lie, this entry was heavily influenced by mike’s post over here. it got me thinking . o O ( how many take on me covers could I find on imeem? )

answer: a shit ton.

so I picked some of my favorites from the bunch and put it together in a convenient little playlist. go on. indulge.

it’s my last day at this job and it just so happens my windows password expires today as well.

“Your password expires today. Do you want to change it now?”

“No.”