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Great Day at the Lake

March 9th, 2010


The Great Day at the Lake
Posted 3/4/2010 9:35 AM CST

I’m thinking Sheboygan should have a wild card day this summer. Fourth of July rules like bonfires and pits on the beach, yet on a completely random day chosen by the Mayor.

The Mayor simply sends a twitter message declaring It’s a Great Day at the lake, the world retweets and texts the message, a link to a youtube video detailing the event is included, and the masses are mobilized for a flashmob super day of all that is Sheboygan County. No worries about weather, no advance tickets, just a great day at the lake.

Johnsonville could fire up the big grill, Old Wisconsin and Miesfelds could go old school, and Sparky could move his cart into position if he wants. Ty Gutschow and the boys from Larry’s could setup the beer pumps, Sargento could pimp cheese, you get the idea. Musicians would be encouraged to come out and play, drum circles could be formed, and coffee could flow.

Cost would be minimal because it’s a great day, no tents needed, no advertising, it’s a great day. Sheboygan’s miles of lakeshore would be showcased for the world to see. We could crowdsource a website documenting the day and the public could go live on our cable access. The whole thing can be cost neutral and potentially go to retiring municipal debt, the bottom line is nobody profits directly but the citizens. Companies that participate would find numerous benefits and would be allowed to recoup costs if they would like, or good will and notoriety.

Thousands of people could drive golf balls into the big lake, local businesses could sponsor cheesy contests and we could all have a great day. Crime would drop because nobody wants to be in lockup and miss the great day. Local products could be showcased as sculptures for the day and I, for one would have a great day.

This is a win, win, win, win situation, nobody has to participate, yet, this could be a modern day Woodstock on the water.

gowisconsin wrote:

I like!!! (except for the golf balls in the lake idea. Do you not watch Seinfeld? Oh yeah, no whales in Lake Michigan)
3/4/2010 10:55 AM CST
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The iPhone is Now Worthy: Parrot AR: Drone

January 6th, 2010

The internet on a phone, nice, games on a phone, ok, but can I justify $100 a month for this? No, my money and I say no.

A quadracopter drone with dual video cameras and wifi, ja ja, ja, Apple is about to sell a phone.

As the commisioner of the World Battle Plane Federation, I welcome you to the future of  public space aerial warfare, may the games begin.

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Ted Turner’s Droid Army

October 22nd, 2009

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Droid, I said Droid!

640×480 Video at 24fps, 5MP IS camera, microSD cards, dual noise canceling mics,  USB 2.0, and EVDO Rev.A (think different 3G).

Ted Turner should forget about running TNT and get me a gross of these suckers. Live Video everywhere, good enough video, the kind the rich kids watch on their iPhones.

If  the image stabilization works on video, if the network can handle this stuff, and if this thing is as good as a flip or better, this will be a paradigm shift that shouldn’t be ignored. Interchangeable batteries, my TV just told me this things got an interchangeable battery,  better.

I spent a good chunk of summer working with HD camcorders with specs like these and they are good enough. Good enough to gorilla tape on the side of the car while I drive, good enough to tape on anything and cover anything. Perfect, no, good enough, while the specs say DVD, the video says good enough.

Pipe me to the moon with an unlimited data plan that works as good as it would in a commercial and I will take those droids Ted Turner’s going to give me and change live at five, to live, always live or more importantly live when it matters. No satellite truck, just me, my army of droids, and good old gorilla tape.

Live is cool, yet on demand is better yet, this baby probably spits some form of h.264 yum onto the cloud where youtube or Qik could store the stuff in a no shit kind of way. No ingesting, copying, encoding, just on the cloud, the same cloud that is everywhere. Hours become seconds, the dark side of video storage and processing is gone baby gone and I can has beer while editing video, better yet, some intern can edit the video, heck everyone can edit the video, because the cost of production has just left the building.

If the pipes are willing, and the specs translate to real world goodness, droids will rule the world.

“Designers faced a fundamental paradox—make the droids overly intelligent, and they might rebel; yet make the droids not intelligent enough and they would be ineffectual”

Wookiepedia

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Nasa Delay Raises Questions About Moon Bomb

October 9th, 2009

Le Voyage Dans La Lune –  Georges Méliès - 1902

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Le Voyage Dans La Lune –  Georges Méliès - 1902 - watch in english french

NASA shoots the moon in a search for water and time stands still, as information is stuck in some unexplained bottleneck.

We live in real time,  communicate in real time, and watch stuff in real time, yet NASA spends billions on a big project and real time is transformed into “the lighting was bad and work needs to be done on images to make them easier to see”.  All of the data is already collected,  images and video have been captured and more than enough time has passed for a child with a laptop to process the imagery and data from NASA’s moon bomb. NASA’s “rocket scientists” said we would know in less than an hour. The sand has settled, time moves on, yet nothing has been shared.

This leads me to believe that no trace of water was found and NASA is trying to find an interesting spin on the data. At the same time, massive amounts of image enhancement are taking place, or NASA simply has no imagery  from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. The LCROSS had five cameras and four other pieces of equipment to look for ice or any form of water and somehow we have images so bad that we can’t even see them.

The next time NASA shoots the moon they should strap an iPhone onto the sucker and stream the video, yes, there’s an app for that.

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Revolution 9 – iPod + mobileme = The Medium is the Message

August 27th, 2009

The Medium is the Message

IPods suck, music, pictures, video, everything about an iPod sucks! That will change on September, 9, 2009, when Apple injects millions of BB sized cameras into the iPod line. A beefed up mobileme, WiFi, and the power of the cloud Apple will do nothing less than redefine modern communications. the rest of Revolution 9 – iPod + mobileme = The Medium is the Message

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Hydrogen Cars are Riversimple

June 17th, 2009

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“Pencroft: ‘And what will they burn instead of coal?’

Harding: ‘Water. But water decomposed into its primitive elements… yes, my friends, I believe that water will some day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it… will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light… Some day water will be the coal of the future.’”

Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island, 1874.

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Push Button Pizza

March 31st, 2009

Our good friends at Unilever came up with this machine that transforms money into pizza.

A true testament to automation, this vending machine goes from scratch to pizza in under 3 minutes!

Infrared is the cooking ray of choice here.

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HBO on Internet

March 29th, 2009

HBO will soon make its content available on the Internet, The New York Post reported in its Monday editions.

The service, HBO on Broadband, will roll out in Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wis., Tuesday, with the caveat that consumers able to access the service are either HBO subscribers or customers of the high-speed Internet service offered by their local cable operator, Time Warner Cable or subscribers to the roadrunner.com Internet service, the Post reported.
HBO on Broadband will offer 600 titles and 400 hours of downloadable content, including movies, documentaries and original series like “The Sopranos” and “Six Feet Under.” Every month the service will offer the entire set of an HBO series. The service will also feature sample episodes from every HBO original series as well as a “bridge series” ahead of a new season of a given show, the Post reported.
Newspaper Web Site: http://www.nypost.com

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