Wow – summer is fast approaching – the kids are gearing up to be released from their academic asylum’s and my father-in-law is also being pardoned for 35 years of servitude to the State of California in his capacity as a an academic teacher with Saratoga High School. A lot is funneling down the Teeple Highway this coming month.
But I digress for a bit to talk a little bit about a cool new app I happened upon. You might have heard it – HULU. The odd ball commercials where the star of a hit show turns out to be an alien in disguise hoping to fill our countless, endless hours with streaming content galore in the hopes of turning our already soft brains into an even more gelatinous pile of goo so they can suck it out with a straw while basking on the beaches in Maui or something like that.
The cool thing is… HULU really is cool and if you have a high speed Internet Access (3.0 Mbps line or greater, then you are in for a really cool treat. Don’t just go to www.hulu.com site, but look for the HULU desktop application within their LABS area. I downloaded this cool app for the Macintosh operating system and it really rocks. I get better looking video over the Internet than I do with my slingbox on my local network here at the house.
And… It is total video on demand – it works great!
Other things to report – hoping for some goodness from the ADC coming up shortly. Maybe a iPhone 3G version 2 release with 3.0 O.S. There is a rumor that the MacBook Unibody will be rebranded as a 13″ Macbook Pro. That is cool. It practically is already.
I am about 70 days away from our annual summer vacation to NewPort Beach, CA – looking forward to that and enjoying a nice weekend home with the family.
Peace and Love, Peace and Love,
B
The declination of an American Reality Standard is on the rise and it is the American Idol. With last nights reveal of the new American Idol as Kris Allen, I felt we have slipped past being a responsible viewing community to just choosing the worst choice. Not only was KRIS supposed to be gone and off the show 6 weeks ago, but the American Idol Favorite was not chosen. I almost feel like Kris is this years Sanjaya.
Clearly Adam Lambert has the more superior voice and control. I don’t fear for Adam – as Hard Rocker Daughtry from 2 seasons ago has made it himself and he was voted off in the #3 spot. I am sure that Adam will land a great contract. I think a great disservice was done to the recording industry and American Idol has lost a bit of it’s glamour.
Rock on Lambert. I, for one, do not believe I will be returning next season.
Bill
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It was hot today in the land of fake boobs and even faker smiles (that is California for some of the un-educated). The mercury saw a rising of about 96 in San Jose, CA, where I make my homestead with my wife and three adorable, lovely children.
But more than that, it was a day well spent with my kids at the pool, gardening in the front yard, picking up around the house and just feeling content with myself and my life. So much so, that I felt it prudent to spend the 78 degree evening (it is 9:17 PM right now), outside in my front yard, enjoying a stogie, watering some plants.
Thank you GOD for my life, my health, my family and more importantly my peace of mind that my decisions in life have been good ones and that we are continuously blessed. My wife and I have a lot to be thankful for.
Yesterday was a great game by my boys (Almaden Little League AA division Yankees), in which they held the Diamondbacks to 2-1 game (we lost unfortunately). I had a lot to do this past weekend for my father-in-law and the church, which I got out of the way yesterday, and cleared up my Sunday to be an easy cruise into the coming week.
I am looking forward to this next weekend and celebrating the Memorial Day Weekend with my family. We don’t realize how lucky we are in life to be in this land so full of promise and freedoms that many of us take for granted.
May we never forget the blood that was shed for our nation to help ensure that democracy would survive.
Have a wonderful week and try to roll with the current as the week sweeps us towards next weekend!
God Bless,
Bill