This is great news. I wish these people the best.
Check out this article from the LV Sun. I’m located at 3rd and Coolidge, so I would be very happy to call Cirque du Soleil “neighbors”.
 http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2007/aug/23/566644571.html
Hey, I have been sporting this laptop bag by Kensington for about 4 or 5 years, it’s a top loading black bag with an embroidered Apple logo on it. I got it because it fit my old 17″ powerbook, which was pretty unheard of back then. And it was on clearance at Fry’s, so I snagged it.
Well, now I’m rockin’ a new MacBook Pro 15, and I don’t need the oversize old beat up bag anymore – so I hit up Timbuk2.com tonight and designed a new one – and according to their email order verification: My new bag is gonna ROCK!
I highly recommend these bags – I messed with some at REI today, and decided to customize my own online instead. Fun! I like companies that know their demographic, and are confident enough that they can use slang and the word “damn” if they so choose.
Here’s the link to their site, so go there and buy a bag. Damn it.
Last weekend I had one of those assignments I get called for each summer, where I jokingly walk around saying “tough gig” or “my job sucks” The annual Miss Rio Pageant at the Rio was back, and it was a blast for the third year in a row. Special thanks to Lisa and Twila from the Rio.
The event moved from the convention center to the VooDoo Lounge this year, and I’m about 50/50 on that. The 24 or so ladies lined the hallway into the lounge, which was a pain for me to shoot, but I think the guests liked the accessibility. I don’t know if the girls liked it or not. They were beautifully dressed in evening wear, and I think there were more photographers than contestants this year, as every guest had at least one digital camera. Generally, everyone was really nice.
Saturday night is the bikini competition. This year, I honestly had no idea who would win. Norm had the story, but didn’t run my photo online. Not sure if it ran in the paper. Lisa Angeline ended up winning the title and the cash. She was very nice, and posed for some shots after the win.
I’ll have some posters availalbe in the next week or so. Email me if you want to buy one, or if you were at the event and need a photo.
courtesy of the Nightwatchman (Tom Morello) blog on MySpace:
“This year At&t did live webcasts of the Bonnaroo festival in which they
censored several bands any time they spoke of Bush, etc. The Nightwatchman
was one of those artists who got censored when he spoke of being
sick of the Bush Administration. At&t are trying to deny that they did this,
so what we need is a captured stream of the At&t free webcast.
We need a fan who used one of the many recording technologies that
allow you to record a stream you are viewing on your computer so we
have some proof. If you have this, please send a message.”
I thought I hired AT&T to carry my cell phone signal, but apparently, they also filter politcal information, as well. What a bargain! Seriously, this is bullshit. I hope there are consequences for this.
Well, good. Nowhere to go but up.
I read today at Geek.com this announcement from Vonage. The author closed the article like this: “Since it has a good product at a great price, there will always be potential for growth.”
To the author: Have you used Vonage? I have. I hate it. In fact, my assistant was on the phone with Vonage Customer Support (transferred SEVEN times) for two and a half hours this afternoon to find out how we could cancel Vonage altogether. Solution: “Did you reset your modem?” Puh-lease. Daily. (Note: I reset the modem 3 or 4 times a week, usually on the occasion that I get a phone call to come through to me, then drop it, or when my clients tell me that they’ve been trying to fax me unsuccessfully for 3 hours, or god forbid- try to leave me a voice mail).
I supported Vonage like I do many “new-school” technologies that stick it to the monopolistic big businesses that boost consumer’s rates annually and generally never do anything but “work.” (I did the same over the last ten years with SIRIUS, DirecTV, TiVo, Adobe InDesign, Apple OSX, Palm Products, and so on…) The main difference between these progressive companies and Vonage: They stand by their product, they have excellent customer service, and they are willing to swallow their egos and give you your money back if their product blows. Vonage is the opposite. Bear in mind that I’ve only had Vonage since June – it’s early August as I write this. I’ve been hung up on. I’ve been transferred to India where English wasn’t even a 3rd language of the “specialist,” and I’ve taken 2 “how-did-we-do?”surveys in 4 weeks.
Think hard before you switch to Vonage. Take it from me, I’m stuck with ‘em for another 4 weeks.
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P.S. I just read another story on Geek.com announcing Ooma, another Voice Over IP service coming soon. Look into that instead. I know I will.
That’s the world’s question to Barry Bonds. No, wait- That’s my question to the hundreds of drones following around the man who may or may not have used steroids or HGH or the Clear, or … whatever – to break sports’ most sought after record (therefore nullifying the record’s stance in sporting folklore). You missed the story – you wrote, you speculated, you got the blinds pulled right over your eyes…. The story is the demise of baseball. It’s at best a second-tier sport.
Congratulations to the NFL: you are America’s pastime. You know it, too. You’ve invested hundreds of millions in summertime football – the AFL, the XFL Canada or Europa something or another – whatever initials you choose, summertime is all yours. Congrats for recognizing that America’s former pastime ate itself. Bud Selig smoked it like an expensive cigar. Remember when your sluggers doubled their size right after the strike? Yeah, that’s when you should’ve stepped up. I realize that you were more interested in the Brewers at that point, because you owned them, but all partisanship aside, you could’ve done something about it. You could have saved baseball. I’m sure it was difficult with the soon-to-be-president of the USA looking the other way. (Nice job, George).
You fat cats killed my favorite sport.
I don’t blame Barry. He took what you gave him, Bud. Whether you can prove it or not.
I sympathize with the poor Giants fans. Cheer all you can tonight, folks. You won’t win the pennant with Barry on board. EVER. He’ll keep doing his own thing. His contributions vs. his salary will keep you out of the playoffs until he hangs ‘em up. You know it. All 23 Giants know that every other team has 24 players. Some of them might even run out a fly ball to first base.
Hang Them Up. Not a minute too soon. Karma’s coming for you, Barry. You too, Bud. Hang ‘em up, both of you. Our sport needs a future, and neither of you deserve to be a part of it.
I thanked nicemac.com a few days ago for introducing siriusmac – a free application for SIRIUS listeners who use mac OS X…
Apparently, the developers are whining at each other. The project has been terminated. So far, my application still works beautifully, but they’re not supporting it at Nicemac anymore, and it’s disappeared from the top downloads at apple.com, too.
Personally, I’m disappointed and angry. I really – REALLY- like this app! It’s been on all day every day since I installed it. I guess the guy that did most of the work didn’t get credit in a newspaper article, and the one guy that did get credit (a student) had other motives that they can’t agree upon.
Aside from the SIRIUS-subscribers-slash-Mac-users who don’t have it yet, the real loser here is SIRIUS. (See, I told you not to overlook the Macintosh market … still want me to use IE 5.5 or Netscape from 2001?). Maybe someday you’ll get it together for all of your online listeners. You’ve been outdone by amateur programmers! Once these guys implement QuickTime and iTunes support – (theoretically iPod and iPhone support comes with that) your players, such as the Stilletto, will be rendered OBSOLETE. Sorry, suckers! I’m onto your (lack of) development tactics. The lesson is pretty clear, SIRIUS: either continue being a progressive technology, or eat dust of those who are.
Downtown Vegas is at it’s best on nights like last night. I highly recommend getting there next month.
Last night was also our first “First Friday” party at the studio. I was pleasantly surprised that so many folks stopped by. For those of you that made it over – thanks for coming by. We moved the party at about 8 over to Fremont Street, where Rachel and the crew from Racket Magazine threw a pretty sweet Open Bar party at Brass Lounge. We finished things off at Beauty Bar for their monthly party, The Get Back. Now I have a headache.
In other news, we just expanded into another office, and I’m getting excited to start designing the room. Off to buy some furniture and paint. Hopefully, that will be ready for September’s First Friday party. Next time, I think I’ll go easy on the free beer. Cheers!
If you’re down for some good rock n roll, check out my friends, Cherry Hill, next weekend. Maybe I ‘ll see ya there.
