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Morning Public Post: A nice weekend

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 1 Comment
2008.01.14

This weekend we had the stunning SkinnyWhiteChick, S.J. Tucker (aka s00j) along with stealthcello for an evening of music, mirth, and stories.

We didn’t realize that we could put 63 people in our basement. But now we have to figure how to raise the bar.

It was an honour for our first FreePeople concert to be s00j and stealthcello. If the wind is with us, it won’t be the last concert we host and we certainly will see these two beautiful women and hear their stunning music again.

Everyone seems to have had a very good time and I’d put a call out to anyone I didn’t know to drop me a line so we can keep in contact with them for future FreePeople functions.

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A late night plug and request…

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 22 Comments
2008.01.11

I haven’t announced it on LJ until now as there have been a tonne of other promotions.

Tomorrow evening the Amazing SkinnyWhiteChick S.J. “s00j” Tucker will be performing a house concert at the FreePeople House.

House opens at 6:30, “Venue” at 8, show at 8:30pm

Comment if you need directions.

I am posting because I’m looking for about 2-3 people I know to offer to come earlier to help with set up and some stuff around the house to make things run smoother.

So… if you want to volunteer or RSVP to come leave a comment. If you offer to help I send a return comment hopefully before 9am.

Thanks much!

See many of you tomorrow 😀

Edit: It took less than 2 hrs to get more than enough volunteers! Thanks so much!

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Technology DidjaKnows – Area Codes

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 9 Comments
2008.01.10

I used to have memorized a list of major city area codes. It was easy because they were all clumped with similar numbers

212-NYC 312 Chicago 412 Pgh 512-Austin
213-LA 313 Detroit 413 W.Mass
214-Dallas 314 St.L.
215-Phila

Coming across a page in wikipedia… I now understand why the big cities were all clumped.

The Area Code system started back in the days of Rotary Dial.

Instead of pressing a button to create a combination of two notes to identify a number, you turned a dial which would click the line for a count equal to the number. Thus “212” sounded like:
“Fwip-click-click, fwip-click, fwip-click-click”

As a result, the original area codes were passed out to cities based on population to minimize the amount of clicks you had to dial to get thru the the city.

So by clicks:

5 6 7 8
212 NYC 213 LA 214 Dallas 215 Phila
312 Chicago 313 Detroit 314 St. L.
412 Pgh. 413 W. Mass
512 Austin

In the initial plan, 605 (SD), 704 (NC), 803(SC) were the original losers with 21 clicks to dial (0 was 10 clicks).

With the advent of tone dialing, the reason an area code is assigned now is to reduce confusion among customers. This is why you get areas with 206, 425, and 360.

So nifty technology history.

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MEMEtime: S.J. Tucker – Lady Vagabond

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2008.01.09

MemeHistory
shimmeringjemmy & tailerouge -> tisonlyherself -> thatcaptjim
1_wolfsong
caliban1227

Directions:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, iPod etc. on shuffle. (MM: all my mp3s)
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS
4. Press one more time, and use that for your post’s title.

And these are my results

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Uh, oh. Guess I better revisit…

Filed Under: Uncategorized by Lord Andrei — 2 Comments
2008.01.09

So, Monday I made my annual MacWorld predictions.

At that time (oh, so long ago) I said:
The iMac got its facelift, the books got theirs… It’s the tower’s turn. Expect HD-DVD/Blu-Ray (whichever side Apple thinks is winning) as a Build to order choice on the high end.

And then Tuesday Apple gives a relatively quiet speed bump to the MacPro towers and XServes.

So… what happened to BluRay/HD-DVD? What happened to the new form factor.

There are a couple things that could be read into this.

  • Could Apple be happy with the Tower form factor?
  • Could a new form factor not be delivering as planned?
  • Could the announcements planned for next Tuesday be so big that something had to get bumped out.

Yeah,. yeah… but what about the New DVD formats? It’s possible Apple didn’t get the licensing hammered out. It’s possible that Apple will announce it as an add-on/external offer. (Which as an AppleTV V1 owner would be appreciated)

So… BluRay/HD-DVD may have taken a back burner. The Pro Towers may not see a face lift. But this also lifts credibility that the focus on a non-tower announcement is likely.

Or not. With Steve you never know until the Keynote is over.

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