Dude, Dude, what if …

I was listening to NPR and they played an interview with a futballer who answered a question misunderstanding vampire for umpire. After he realized the mistake he laughed and said please delete that.   And it struck me, 10 years ago, we would said erase.  I’m pretty sure whatever device they were using for the interview was a digital recording device and thus, yes you would say delete instead of erase.  However, back in the day, when we used tape, we would say erase.  This was pretty common expression really.  Erase a tape, erase a mark on paper, erase ones memory, erase from history, etc…    However, I’m hearing delete more and more often. Delete from the record, deleted from the scene, etc..  I do not expect it to take too long for delete to be the common expression to remove evidence of something just as erase has been for so long.  Lets remember the work ‘erase’ has been around since the 1600’s, according to dictionary.com at least, so I do not expect we will replace ‘erase’ with ‘delete’ all that quickly, but its already happening, and I expect the adoption of ‘delete’ over ‘erase’ to accelerate and more generations grow up in the digital age.

That’s my random thought of the day.

www.shouldiworkforfree.com/

So, if you REALLY want to get into the iphone space, all its takes is 100k and your in!  Thats the min bit BTW.  When I just checked, I did not see any bidders.  This should be interesting to watch.

..and here are the det’s

JBMJBM, LLC: http://www.jbrice.com/iphone
Company Offer Information : http://www.jbrice.com/sell
Ebay Auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200402082923&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:US:1123
Applications listing on iTunes Store : http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewArtist?id=303066118

I like this one, but the sound was poorly recorded. Shame. Still, what is a list without Azumanga Daioh?  Playing it in HD helps with the sound a bit.

Another Slide Show.

LIVE! PAX08 Concert – JoCo and Felicia Day Sing “Still Alive”

This is ok, but there is something wrong with how the music was recoreded. Autolevel FAIL from what I can tell.

This is not an animation but instead a robot (interbots). Cool though.

And here I think is the actually ending..

Japanese

Song as Miku is drawn

Others..?

And here is your screenShot…

So now I either get peoples twitter name (and then follow them) or give them my twitter name (@perivision) and then look for them in the address book of twittFilter. A nice feature of twittFilter’s address book is that it shows you your followers and followies based on time.  So that works out. Typically the Bio information and web link tells me WAY more then a business card can.

Not once have I asked for a twitter name and someone not have one.  Now agreed I’m in San Francisco, so the odds are pretty high whomever I come across will have a twitter account.  But its like linkedin and facebook. People almost expect that you have a presense somewhere and those services provide much richer information then a business card!

I should add (P.S.) that I not mean to imply business cards are on their way out completely. As Joel mentioned in the comments, there is something nice about getting a well designed card on nice rag. I think there could be a complimentary effect.  Already we are seeing people put their twitter names on their business cards.  I did that last year with mine. And if you ever exchange cards with people from the far east, there is something wonderful about the formal nature of offering and accepting the card.  That is where I think what we will see card becoming more of, a formal addition to using social media to exchange information.

There is one thing about the iphone that really bugs me though, and I’m surprised is not solved.  With the Palm, I could simply press the ‘address’ button for 3 seconds, and it would IR beam my information to another smart phone.  The iphone is the first smart phone I’ve seen that lacks that.  And we do not have a good replacement.  I have 3 different ‘business card exchange’ apps on my iphone, and I never think to use any of them, nor does anyone suggest using them.  Instead the most common solution to not having cards is: well, what your twitter name?  I get asked just as often as I ask for it.

I think we are on to something here.  How much you wanna bet someone will write a iphone twitter app designed to exchange information via twitter? … and I want a cut!

So I packed my ‘ol cassette player into my backpack and as I was just about to jump on the back of my motorcycle, it fell!  I still took it to work hoping it would still work.  No luck.  I went to our audio/video division.  So not only do we not have a single tape player in the whole building, there were some people (very young as you would guess) who paused at first saying back to me ..’ a cassette player???’

So I send out an internal email asking if anyone knew of once in the building.  And the 4 funniest replies..

4) what is a cassette player?

3) I found this in Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/zRl2W . they were all the rage in the 80s and early 90

2) Where’s the USB port to upload music to it?

…and number 1

>Where’s the USB port to upload music to it?

You need an adapter http://bit.ly/18JhWg

Love it!

BTW you can find really nice decks on craigslist for around 20-25 bucks.  I WILL get these tapes digitized!

So they send me a comic on the mail.  I’ve been busy, and sick, and thus did not bother to read it, but even if I was healthy, I doubt I would read it. But here are the first three pages for ye’all. .. and no, I did not even read these three pages.

Google Chrome p2

Google Chrome page 1