Adventures in Meyr Land

So long TV!

Hello projector. Yes we finaly finally made the move from CRT/LCD/Plasma, whatever, to the shear sheer delight that is the overhead projector. Pictures will eventually be posted but sufice suffice to say all is right with the AV gods.

Yes the projector is only 720p. But as was pointed out by a friend it is 1/3 the cost of the 1080p version, and you know in a year the 1080p version will be the same price as the 720p. Besides our couch is 20' away from the screen, maybe Lisa's bionic eyes can tell the difference, but sure as hell can't.

Oh and to crissen christen this new system we HAD to get a next gen dvd player, but that will be the next post.

This tool lets you upload a picture and skin it on a 3D model to make an avatar that looks like you or whichever supermodel you fancy. You can then make it say different things with a less then optimized voice engine. When done you can upload it to myspace if you choose to use that poison.

Jonathan one of my friends up here in Seattle posted this today, he has dove head first into the blog, social networking world for his summer internship. Glad he's keeping it up even at the tail end.

After much coercing and bribing I was finally convinced to dive into another social networking site. Ok really I got a couple of good recommendations from friends that this site would actually be fun and useful.

Enter facebook.

It was officially announced today that the upcoming iPhone will be youtube compatible. What does this mean you ask?

Practically speaking you'll see a lot more people sneaking around trying to find free wifi to get their video fix. But it also raises the question of how closely Apple and Google have been working together, especially since the iPhone doesn't support flash video. Somehow Apple has convinced youtube to provide H.264 versions of all their videos instead of the flash video they use for the rest of the web. Now this is consistent with Apple's operating procedure but its interesting that Google agreed. Do they think the iPhone will be that big of a market for youtube? Is it setting the stage to incorporate youtube into iTunes?

So I finally got around to setting up Drupal on the server. I've been meaning to switch to it for a while now. The other blogging software I as using was ok but nothing to write home about. And no I didn't copy Chris, well maybe a little. I'm contemplating whether or not its worth the time to migrate the old posts. I guess if I get bored some night it would be a good project but right now I think their going to stay put.

The new site is still taking shape. I'm including my little bro this time around, two meyrs are better than one after all.