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It’s Monday, but it isn’t…

Dave — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 17:17:53 +0000

I’ve been messing around with the ridiculously cheesy (but pretty fun) Songify app on the iPhone which auto-tunes spoken word and applies it to a backing musical track.

I thought I’d make my own musical debut. Rebecca Black, watch out!

It’s Monday. (Only it isn’t, because I’m dumb and recorded this song this morning — when it was actually Tuesday.)

[MP3 link]

Money Origami

Dave — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:25:32 +0000

There are some pretty cool designs here!

[Via Evan]

Word of the Day game

Dave — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:58:50 +0000

My sister and I have been playing a little game that involves texting each other a sentence based on Dictionary.com’s word of the day.

It’s especially fun when we start trash talking each other using past words of the day.

Adult beverages

Dave — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:01:06 +0000

My sister is in town! So, of course we have to celebrate.

Cat Piano

Dave — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:09:09 +0000

Amusing app for messing around with our pets.

Cat Piano via iTunes.

Fighting dirty in Scrabble

Dave — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:51:08 +0000

Recently, I downloaded a game for the iPhone called “Words with Friends.” It’s very similar to Scrabble, with a different board and slightly different letter values (one would assume to avoid Scrabble’s IP lawyers).

Many of my family and friends are playing the game and we’re all having fun trying to best each other’s scores. I like to think I have a good vocabulary, but apparently I don’t know how to effectively play for points, as evidenced above by the 60-point bomb that Kerry dropped on me, two moves into the game!

No matter though. I’ll just have to brush up on the following video, “Fighting dirty in Scrabble.”

Ovo by Cirque du Soleil

Dave — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:46:03 +0000

Last weekend, Kerry and I saw the latest Cirque du Soleil show, Ovo, which is currently playing in San Francisco. It was stunning! This was the second time I’ve seen a Cirque du Soleil show and it was every bit as impressive as the first time I saw it! I’m pretty sure my mouth was hanging open the entire time.

Here’s the trailer for the current show.

One of the coolest parts of the show was towards the end, when a number of actors started using a series of trampolines and running up and down a wall. It looks incredibly fun! (Unfortunately, an awesome video showing the Cirque crew practicing this routine was pulled from YouTube)

Colonels!

Dave — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:54:16 +0000

Highly amusing clip from Stargate Atlantis.

(Via Mark Rebec)

Anvil Shooting

Dave — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:45:17 +0000

A ridiculous video showing a guy shooting an anvil into the air.

[Via Kottke]

Rolling my own URL shortener

Dave — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 05:50:46 +0000

Thanks to the popularity of micro-blogging sites such as Twitter, URL shorteners are popping up everywhere. Bit.ly, one of the most popular shortening services, has raised over $2 million dollars in funding!

Despite their popularity, URL shortening sites are by no means a permanent fixture on the internet. A perfect example of this was tr.im, which announced last month that it was shutting down (and taking down all the links users had generated with it). Fortunately, tr.im decided to reverse its decision soon after. However, this shows how potentially vulnerable these services are.

For fun (and peace of mind) – I decided to experiment with creating my own URL shortener for personal purposes! This would allow me to periodically backup my database of links and also serve as a way to bookmark and share content that I find interesting. Plus, I was able to acquire a fun URL as well.

Say hello to dave.ly!

If you see links from it, you know it’s from me and is something I thought was interesting enough to share! Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. I’d like to do some more things in the future as well (i.e., show a list of the most popular links).