life, coding, technology, outdoors, photography
Earlier this evening, Sony announced (via Twitter) that they would be at the gdgt event this week and show off a demo of a new game.
Sweet! From there, it kept being retweeted by members of team gdgt, just to see how far we could push it.
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Six degrees (what?!):
Seven degrees (now we’re just getting ridiculous!):
It’s like a good old fashioned game of telephone.
Off to New York City this week to help out with gdgt’s east coast launch party on Thursday. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to NYC (last visit was in 2007) and I’m looking forward to it. Unfortunately, there will be little time to play this time.
Weather is supposed to be good though!
And apparently, I do need to make time to check out Shake Shack. Their burgers are supposed to be pretty good.
Found on Geary Street in San Francisco. I’ve always thought this building was creepy looking to me. Shot with an iPhone 3GS and filters added with Best Camera.
Earlier this week, my parents took some photos of Tanker 910 flying over their house while fighting a fire near their home. Tanker 910 is a converted DC-10 that is specifically equipped to drop fire retardant.
Here is video of Tanker 910 making drops near another fire near my parents’ house earlier this month:
And here is another great video of Tanker 910 making a drop in 2007:
Here are a few more photos of this beautiful aircraft flying by my parents’ house this week:
The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.
I posted this on Laughing Squid last month but apparently forgot to post it here.
In November 2007, Christoph Rehage set foot from Beijing, China with a goal of walking to Berlin, Germany, a distance of over 4,500 miles. He created a short video called “The Longest Way 1.0“, documenting his journey over the course of a year and featuring self portrait photographs he took each day on his trip that shows his hair and beard getting longer.
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).
Last night, Kerry surprised me and took me to see the King Tutankhamun exhibit that is currently on display at the de Young museum in San Francisco. This is an exhibit I’ve been wanting to see for a long time and it was an absolute blast.
It’s hard to believe some of the artifacts on display were so well preserved and over 3500 years old. I mean seriously, how much of the stuff that we have today will still be around 3500 years from now and be in immaculate condition. (Note, my mom mentioned all our plastic products. Hah, good point I guess.)
Anyway, it was a fascinating opportunity to peer back in time and contemplate what life was like so long ago.
Bonus: We bought print outs of our cartouche, allegedly spelling out our name in hieroglyphs. Here is “David.”
