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Let Me Be Myself

May 27, 2010 - 10:59 pm - Posted by Sean

While poking around on my computer and listening to my Apple iPod using the shuffle feature playing random songs from my 4,000+ song collection, something happened…

Bam! Who knew that the Geico Caveman theme song was done by 3 Doors Down?

I didn’t until it started playing and I looked at the screen on my iPod… hehe… check out the actual TV commercial:

“Let Me Be Myself” by 3 Doors Down. I like this song, but never put two and two together. Side note, Liberian Girl by Michael Jackson is now playing. So random I tell you :)

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Stop-Motion NES Video

May 27, 2010 - 12:23 am - Posted by Sean

With 120+ hours of spare time up his sleeve, YouTube user bornforthis43 set up a camera, got some items from his garden and fridge, then made this awesome stop-motion tribute to the games of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The three minutes of footage is comprised of over 7,000 individual photos, and if you’re wondering, the games in order are Kirby’s Adventure, Contra, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man 2, and Super Mario Bros.

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Today is Towel Day – 2010

May 25, 2010 - 11:59 am - Posted by Sean

Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001) who wrote the awesome book “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.

On this day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honor. Do you have your towel with you today? I surely do. Remember, Don’t Panic!

For more information, visit the official towel day website.

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Play Pac-Man on Google’s Homepage

May 21, 2010 - 7:58 am - Posted by Sean

Today, on PAC-MAN’s 30th birthday, you can rediscover some of your 8-bit memories or meet PAC-MAN for the first time through Google’s first-ever playable Google doodle:

PAC-MAN's 30th Birthday! Doodle with PAC-MAN & Copyright 1980 NAMCO BANDAI Games Inc.

To play the game, go to google.com during the next 48 hours (because it’s too cool to keep for just one day) and either press the “Insert Coin” button or just wait for a few seconds.

Google doodler Ryan Germick and Marcin Wichary made sure to include PAC-MAN’s original game logic, graphics and sounds, bring back ghosts’ individual personalities, and even recreate original bugs from this 1980′s masterpiece.

They also added a little easter egg: if you throw in another coin, Ms. PAC-MAN joins the party and you can play together with someone else (PAC-MAN is controlled with arrow keys or by clicking on the maze, Ms. PAC-MAN using the WASD keys).

Update: Google Pac-Man lives on forever.

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The Vendor Client Relationship

May 18, 2010 - 2:01 pm - Posted by Sean

As most of my friends know, I’m a web and graphics designer. I also do custom programming and build website applications.

With my line of work, I have ongoing vendor and client relationships which brings me to the video below:

IMHO this video pretty much describes how the typical vendor client relationship can go – worse case scenario.

I’m sure as you watched this video, you were wondering:

Has Sean had client and/or vendor relationships like this video?

In my 12+ years of consulting, I can honestly say that the answer is yes, however they are not all this way because if they were, I would have stopped consulting a long time ago :)

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May 11, 1951: RAM Is Born

May 11, 2010 - 12:29 pm - Posted by Sean

59 years ago today the patent for computer memory was filed by professor Jay Forrester at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Without any further delay, Happy Birthday to the creation of RAM… and there was much rejoicing… yay!

So how should we celebrate this technological achievement by the team at MIT? Upgrading our computer’s RAM of course :)

Source: Wired This Day In Tech

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Wii Have a Dream

May 9, 2010 - 4:00 pm - Posted by Sean

A turning point in black history today. We now have a black Nintendo Wii. Yes Wii can :)

Video Source: Black Nerd Comedy

In other news, apparently President Barack Obama doesn’t know how to use an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3:

With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations, — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation…

News Source: Obama bemoans ‘diversions’ of IPod, Xbox era

In closing, to wrap up my May 9th, 2010 post, I want to say “happy Mother’s day” to moms all around the world.

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170th Birthday of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

May 7, 2010 - 12:01 am - Posted by Sean

Google pays tribute to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) 170th birthday with a Geektastic logo:

Google - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic era.

Tchaikovsky wrote music across a range of genres, including symphony, opera, ballet, instrumental, chamber and song.

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