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As far as I know this is not Photoshopped. Supreme Court nominee’s kid gets DOWN at the press briefing the other day.
Also, what kind of outfit did they put him in? The whole “life was best in the 50’s” theme these Republicans have got going is quite creepy.
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Wednesday, July 20th • South Street Sea Port • 89 South Street/Pier 17 • New York, NY • FREE SHOW • ALL AGES • 7 pm • with Army of Me • www.northernstate.net
Previous coverage here: northern state cold rocked the party
Over this last trip I did a little unpaid modeling work. I did a “business traveler” and an “Asia hiker”. I developed a character; I named him Sven. Sven is married (see the ring) and was a total primadonna, natch.
This is an outake — the guy in the back ruined it. Photo taken at “the long bar”, Cathay Pacific lounge, Hong Kong airport.
My iTunes dual soundcard tip from back in March seems to be no longer valid with Quicktime 7, at least with the public preview.
They actually removed the ability to select a specific sound device for use by Quicktime. I sent them an email, but Apple, not being a company known for taking feedback, hasn’t acknowledged the receipt of my email, let alone addressed it or, gasp, fix the issue.
I’m pretty peeved about the functionality being removed, but a whole not more peeved by the fact that there is nothing I can do about it.
BAR-Honda F1 car to run at Bonneville:
BAR-Honda, at the request of sponsor Lucky Strike, has announced their intention to run one of their Formula 1 cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats. The goal is to run a car that’s as close to F1 specifications as possible, aside from aerodynamic trim and the addition of required safety gear such as a parachute. The run is planned to take place sometime in October, with one of BAR’s junior drivers taking the wheel. The team expects the car will do at least 250 MPH.
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Cool.
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Current F1 engines are 3.0 liter V10s. The FIA governing body has decided to move to 2.4 liter V8s or rev-limited V10s in 2006. They site cost-cutting and safety as the rationale, but I’m not thrilled about the change — I worry about the change in engine note.
Cosworth, the ex-Ford engine manufacturer has a little mpeg up on their site of the early version of the new F1 engine revving up to 20,002 rpms. The sound is incredible. You think that it would surely shatter itself in a million pieces at 16,000 by the sound. 20,000 is amazing to hear. I have been told that F1 engines spin so fast that a traditional tachometers don’t work, so it is all based on harmonics.
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Lamma Island, Hong Kong, China SAR.
Took an opportunity over the weekend to get out to one of the outlying islands of HK for some hiking. On the way to the beach, in a bit of a damp valley, there were these huge spiders everywhere. This was one of the medium sized ones that I could get close enough to for good perspective shot. Upon reflection it might not have been smart to use my Amex because if that spider had made a move for my hand I would have dropped it in a heartbeat and it was headed for a good 15’ drop from there. Although maybe American Express could have used my story in one of those travel commercials.
Not wanting to pay the ridiculous fees charged by the hotel from Hong Kong back to the states, I decided to pack some extra gear and try to find a better way.
Boy howdy this is great.
If you click to see the Flickr version, you can see my annotations that point out what’s what more clearly, but along the bottom of the image are the essential components. I connect the Linksys wireless (and wired) travel router to the hotel’s high speed ethernet connection. Then I attach my Vonage ATA packed up and brought from home and connect a $6 Radio Shack old-people-special POTS phone (with extra large buttons). Open up the laptop, connect to my wireless router, open up the browser, and hit the hotel’s “click this button to charge 24 hour internet access to the room”. Pick up the phone, get a dial tone, call anywhere in the US & Canada for f-r-e-e! The quality is impeccable. Absolutely no lag whatsoever.
Granted I have to pay the hotel’s internet charges, but there was no question I was going to be doing that anyway. The only downside of all this was the amount of equipment needed, especially having to plug everything in.
I signed up for Skype and brought a headset as a backup solution, but my initial tests using this method were really disappointing, especially in the lag-time area.
Eagle-eyed readers might spot Emily’s Holga camera. Interesting things Holgas.
I just got nauseous (or is it nauseated?) thinking about the long-term damage GWB is about to do with his replacement suggestions for new supremes.
