Eleven
November 15th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
…and I’m back from the Rez!
Arizona/New Mexico/Utah was cool, got back in last night around midnight. So waking up this morning was fun. Pics from this weekend to follow shortly. But in the meantime, this is neat. Yesterday Twitter released a video visualizing all the tweets around the world mentioning 11.11.11 (each “1″ signifies activity referencing the date, the size of the 1 correlates with the volume of tweets.)
Pretty cool to watch the 11:11 wave ride across the world (can you tell which countries don’t use the 24-hour clock?)
Dent the Universe
October 5th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I want to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why else even be here?
~Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
Happy Labor Day!
September 7th, 2011 § 1 Comment
Late, I know.
Lexington has been making an effort to do more community events, and the Friday of Labor Day weekend was a good one. Welcome to the Fest of Ales.
Look at all those beer pourers. For $25 you got a mini glass and 20 tickets (about 7 beers, if you used them all…which no one did) to try out a whole bunch of different brews. The whole town was out, it was great. And people wore great shirts.
Unfortunately, the Fest underestimated how many people would partake (and how many of their pourers would adopt a “one for you, one for me” policy) and ran out of beer a little early. So a group of us headed to a bar for one more drink.
It was there that I witnessed one of the more amazing mobile apps currently on the market: Roqbot. For a fee, it lets you re-arrange the order of the queue on the jukebox in a bar. So obviously Paul’s friend who had the app started playing “Who Let the Dogs Out” every other song. He is already responsible for having the app banned in 3 bars in town.
Anyway, it was there that things degenerated pretty quickly.
We left before it got too ugly.
The previous week I had told a friend that I would join her on a bike ride Saturday morning with the Bluegrass Cycling Club. BCC was offering a 10 mile (family ride), 30 mile, and 56 mile option. My friend and I were doing the 56 mile ride (even though I hadn’t been on my bike since Steelhead, it got a little jacked up on the trip home and I just got it tuned up last week).
Paul was going to do the 30 mile option, since he hadn’t ridden his bike in like 5 months, but after some mild harassment he gave into the 56 miler too. So we pulled our not-unhungover selves out of bed at 7:30 and headed out to the country.
The weather was gorgeous.
…but then it got hot. Really hot. And the shade disappeared.
We were getting baked. Paul started to suffer. The last 15 miles weren’t pretty. The rest of the weekend was recovery.
Oh, and I came in from my run today and decided to turn on the local news while I stretched and this was on TV.
Apparently I’ve been away from local TV for too long, I had NO IDEA stuff like this was seriously still on. The soundtrack was amazing.
Color in Kentucky
March 31st, 2011 § Leave a Comment
Color is coming to UK.
This location-based mobile app has been getting quite a bit of attention largely due to the $41 million the company raised pre-launch. And this weekend, they will be in Lexington for the Final Four game.
So if you’re in town this weekend for the game (or even if you’re not), download the app and give it a try (for Andriod users, the app has been finicky, but the company is updating it today so it will hopefully ready to roll by this weekend.)
For a demo of how Color works, go here.
Update: I downloaded the app in NYC, but apparently no one else in the bar I was at did, so I got to look at…my own pictures.
The Joys of Technology
March 22nd, 2011 § Leave a Comment
I’ve started listening to podcasts on my longer runs (it’s been hard to get my NPR fix since my 80-mile daily commute came to an end), but only after an extended battle with my iPod shuffle.
The new shuffle is way more complicated than it needs to be when it comes to podcasts (IMHO). After a few failed attempts to try to get my playlist to play both podcasts and music (considering I worked with tech companies for the last 3 years I should probably be more embarrassed about how difficult this was for me…), my very resourceful, very handsome husband took time away from studying neuroanatomy to get on Google, figure it out, and explain it to me.
So for those of you who have the new shuffle and are either too lazy or dumb (like me) to read and understand the instructions Apple provides online, here is how to do it:
- Download the podcasts that you want to listen to
- Drag each particular podcast episode that you want on your playlist onto the separate “Podcast Playlist” (dragging them onto a normal music playlist along with your songs doesn’t work, only the songs on that playlist will play)
- Select the playlists you want on your shuffle, including “Podcast Playlist”, and sync your shuffle.
- Start up your shuffle, keeping it on the “play in order” setting.
- When you want to change from what you are currently listening to to another playlist, hit pause and hold down the voiceover button. It will run through all of the different playlists you loaded onto your shuffle. When it names the podcast that you want, just hit play. Note: if you have chosen episodes from different podcasts (ie: NPR Fresh Air and ESPN Pardon the Interruption) these will come up as two separate playlists, even though they are both on the Podcast Playlist.
- Enjoy Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Ta da! Magic.
