Magic for a Magical Holiday
My friend Palmer is an incredibly talented magician, and studied for many years with the famous Slydini. Below is a delightful video of Slydini performing one of his signature misdirection routines. Michele and I were treated with Palmer’s performance of the routine over a decade ago at a delightful dinner with friends at a small, [...]
Birthday Greetings from Joe Cocker
Awesome.
A nice quick after-lunch diversion
Impressive. Via Ace.
Holiday Reminder
Tomorrow is an important holiday. Be sure to remind your special lady. Steak – Watch more free videos
The Fastest Jet Ever
Take a few minutes and read this great story about the SR-71 spy plane. Major Brian Shul: “I loved that jet”
Get Scalzi’s Old Man’s War – Free!
John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War is now available in eBook format for free! I’ve really enjoyed this one and the sequels. More free eBooks coming, just follow the link.
My MacWorld Predictions
Here are my predictions. I don’t expect a 2nd generation iPhone yet… but do think a refresh to the current model is likely. 1st Prediction: iPhone RAM increase to 16 GB. Looking at Apple’s history with the iPod, they followed the initial model design with a smaller version. I think this is likely with the [...]
An unusual talent
This is pretty cool. Via BoingBoing.
This is kinda… creepy…
My step-daughter’s 9th grade English teacher, “Zrinka”: She’s the first lady to appear on stage (the tall blonde) on this first video clip. The next three clips are fairly short… appear to be some sort of amazon-fetish kind of thing…
Halloween Skit at the Office
A coworker did a hilarious music video for today’s Halloween contest at the office. He won. Great job, Garth! Update: For my iPhone-enabled readers, who can’t get to the embedded YouTube content, here’s the link to the video.
Sonny Rollins
Via PowerLine: I liked this so much I bought the Saxophone Colossus (with Bonus Sampler) on iTunes. Great stuff!
Simply Beautiful
Here is amazing video of a three kite performance by multiple kit world champion Ray Bethell.
And now for something completely different
Something light and fluffy to end the work week.
Note to self: set Tivo to record Firefly in HD
I’ve previously blogged about the sci-fi series Firefly. Great show, unfortunately only 15 episodes. Plus a cool movie. Now comes news that Universal HD will broadcast the show in 1080i high definition. I’ll be setting our DirecTivo HD receiver to record them all.