Official Hiatus
Posted on April 27, 2008I been busy lately with work and everything else, and haven’t had much to put here in a while, so I think it’s time I (temporarily) shutter the blog. Maybe for a month or so, so I don’t have to worry about it, and can “recharge”. Meanwhiles, you can keep up with me at Futurabolditalic, Twitter, and Flickr. And I’ll be back eventually.
News Hottie of the Week: Anjali Rao
Posted on April 23, 2008
Anjali Rao co-anchors CNN’s prime-time evening news and business show, ‘World News Asia’, live from CNN’s regional production center in Hong Kong. She also hosts ‘Talk Asia’, the half-hour regional chat show, that features revealing, in-depth interviews and topical discussion with leading business, political and entertainment figures.
Rao has been an anchor/correspondent for CNN since joining the network in January 2006. In her career to date, Rao has covered a broad portfolio of major news stories including the attacks of 9/11, the Asian tsunami, the aftermath of the Bali bombings, the war in Iraq and the South Asian earthquake. Prior to joining CNN, Rao worked for a decade at broadcasters in Australia, Asia and Europe. She started her career as a producer and reporter in Hong Kong, where she was born. She was educated mainly in the UK where she received a bachelor’s degree with honors in Sociology and Media Studies from London’s City University.
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Daily Tidbits
Posted on April 21, 2008Modern Drunkard has a list of the best drunks of the old west, including this awesome story about Wild Bill Hickock.
…One of the ruffians asked Bill if every bumpkin on the plains picked his teeth with a Bowie knife. Bill tipped his hat back and said, quite calmly, “No, but we all know who our mothers are.” … The five hooligans rushed Hickok, he doffed his hat and turned his pool cue heavy-end-up. About 15 seconds later, Hickok stepped across the five broken, bleeding thugs, and resumed his drinking, picking up the story he’d been telling right at the point he’d left off.
Autoblog posts about a Fiero that’s also a boat. What can’t the plucky little mid-engined Pontiac do?
Jim Cramer, who’s show Stop Trading I watch even though I don’t understand the stock market, has this to say about a possible Apple product:
Cramer also said that a new Mac product, Conversation, will bring Apple to the forefront of instant messaging. He said the product will be similar to the iPod in its impact. “The analysts don’t see it because the analysts don’t use it,” he said. “I think this is a gigantic product.”
Cramer, not normally known for starting Apple rumors, may be talking out of his ass here, or maybe just discovered iChat on his MacBook and got confused.
Finally, Nebraska’s favorite band, Loup River Waltz & Street Choir, will be playing a show with the Bellflowers at the Zoo Bar tomorrow night. I will be sure to be there, with camera in tow. It will be awesome.
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Daily Tidbits
Posted on April 18, 2008Pingmag has an interesting interview with the inventor of the Tenori-on, a sort of light box midi sequencer.
Today’s Diesel Sweeties knows the power of a good mustache.
Autoblog today points out the Chinese-built Lifan, a (very ugly) MINI knockoff. It’s got an 87hp 1.3l engine, five doors, and even rips off the MINI’s wheels.
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Daily Tidbits
Posted on April 17, 2008At Francesco Explains It All, we reminisce over beloved ’70s tv episodes.
* Already in trouble for trying to bootleg a Doobie Brothers concert, Rerun is forced by bullies to illegally record a KC & The Sunshine Band show while Raj and Dwayne are left to wonder why only the whitest bands in America come to play South Central.
* Battlestar Galactica emphasizes its Egyptian mythology parallels with an awkward cameo from Anwar Sadat.
There’s a new Charlie the Unicorn. Shuuuuuuuuuun. (In case you missed the original.)
Boing Boing linked to an Arts Journal weblog post about the most unwanted song ever. Synths, tubas, bagpipes, kids, holidays, an advertisement for Walmart, it’s got it all. And it’s kind of catchy. The post links to a couple of mirrors of the mp3.
Free mp3! For a short time merge records has available an mp3 of She and Him’s “Why Do You Let Me Stay Here”. She and Him is a project with my future girlfriend Zooey Deschanel and some unimportant guy. It’s a catchy song.
Finally, at work, we got a bottle of root beer schnapps (the wrong kind of root beer schnapps, too, so we have to send it back). I put the call out for recipes and DB came back with the Glass o’ Shit. Thanks for that DB.
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News Hottie of the Week: Stephanie Elam
Posted on April 16, 2008
Stephanie Elam is a CNN business news correspondent. Her reports can be seen on Headline News and CNN International. Previously, Elam was the co-host of Black Enterprise Report, a program focused on business, career and financial education. Elam began her career in financial news as a copy editor for Dow Jones Newswires in New York City. Next, she joined Bridge News, an international news service. In 2000, she traveled to London and Mumbai, India, to help establish overnight coverage.
Soon after joining Bridge, Elam began her shift to broadcast news by covering corporate earnings for Nightly Business Report, PBS’s business news program. She also joined a select group of Bridge journalists reporting regularly on WebFN, a streaming financial news site. Eventually, WebFN hired Elam, making her the site’s only full-time reporter in New York. Elam began reporting from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, covering the markets’ closely watched daily activity and interviewing the NYSE’s wide range of visitors from chief executives and politicians to music moguls and Olympians.
Elam graduated cum laude from Howard University with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism.
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iTunes Stats
Posted on April 12, 2008My Top Ten Played Songs in iTunes
4th Avenue Jones - Fabulous Dramatics (53)
Tiefschwarz & Matty Safer - Warning Siren (43)
RJD2 & Ric Ocasek - Through the Walls (42)
Buck 65 - 463 (37)
The Decemberists - 16 Military Wives (33)
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend (32)
Berlin - Erotic City (30)
10cc - I’m Not in Love (30)
Miri Ben-Ari - Sunshine to the Rain (29)
David Bowie - Space Oddity (29)
Looking at my iTunes library, I notice a weird trend in my most played songs. A lot of them make sense (The Decemberists, Bowie, or RJD2, for example) but others are songs that I wouldn’t expect. 4th Avenue Jones, I haven’t listened to in months that I can recall. The same goes for Miri Ben-Ari. And I certainly wouldn’t have expected 10cc to make the list, catchy though they may be. It may be a matter of songs/sounds I once was really into have now fallen out of favor, or perhaps I was just in a mood then. Except for that Berlin track. I’m not sure what’s up with that.
News Hottie of the Week: Brianna Keilar
Posted on April 9, 2008
Brianna Keilar is a correspondent for CNN based in Washington D.C. Keilar joined CNN as a correspondent for CNN Newsource, providing breaking news coverage and reports from the nation’s capital. CNN poached Ms. Keilar away from CBS News where she was an anchor, reporter, and producer for a CBS newscast that aired on MTV’s college network. Before that, she was a reporter in Yakima Washington for the local CBS affiliate, KIMA. She was also a morning show personality at the time. She graduated from Berkely with a bachelor’s degree in mass communications and psychology. Keilar was born in Australia, further proof that Australian girls are super f’ing hot.
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Nintendo DS
Posted on April 7, 2008
I picked this up last week because I didn’t have much to do. It’s a neat little device. I got an iPod White model and a copy of Super Mario 64 DS. A repackaging of the Nintendo64 game, it’s pretty much consumed my free-time for the past few days. In the game you play as Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario, and the goal is to collect 150 gold stars by solving puzzles and defeating enemies. To put some scale to this task, after playing for nearly a week I’ve collected 24 of those stars. I’ve already had to check GameFAQs’ walkthrough to figure some stuff out.
On top of that, I picked up Brain Age 2 and Assassin’s Creed today. I haven’t tried Assassin’s Creed yet; it’s a spinoff of the very cool looking console game designed for the DS as a prequel. I look forward to trying it. Brain Age is a massively popular game in Japan that is catching on here in the states. Designed by a Japanese neuroscientist to improve mental acumen, the game measures your brain’s ability to think and response using a quotient described as your “brain age”. I’ve already done my first day of Brainaging, and my brain age is a sad 44. However, through the games daily training programs (you start with three and are able to unlock more as you progress) you are supposed to improve that ability. It seems to have some affect at least, after a little bit I did become quicker at the exercises. Maybe it’ll make me smarter or something, we’ll see.
The DS is a neat device, and I think it’s proof that Nintendo remains an innovator in gaming. Sony and Microsoft may have the advantage in pure processing power, but Nintendo is able to explore what’s fun and different in gaming.
News Hottie of the Week: Nalini Sharma
Posted on April 5, 2008
This week’s news hottie of the week is Nalini Sharma, of Canada’s CP24 CityNews, along with last week’s NHotW Jee-Yun Lee. Ms. Sharma is a weather specialist, a “weatherist” if you will, for the network. Born in East York, Ontario, Ms. Sharma has lived and worked in Toronto for most of her life. In the early 90s she worked as a news writer at local station the in London, Ontario. She later moved back to Toronto and worked as a reporter for Broadcast News before being recruited to help with the start-up of Millennium Media Television. She stayed at MMTV for 4 years and produced more than 400 episodes of various shows before joining “BT-Breakfast Television” in August 2003.
A graduate of Ryerson’s Radio and Television Arts Program, Nalini enjoys reading immensely. She reads everything from cookbooks to travel journals to medical periodicals. She also calls herself a “Great Cook” and calls watching Bollywood movies her “guilty pleasure.”
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