impossible alien bill

Tonight was one of those interesting moments in television channel scheduling. I didn't get home until quite late and flicked on the box. Then I spotted that ITV was running Mission Impossible 2 and concurrently Sky was showing Kill Bill 2. And over on another channel was Alien. Nothing for it but to regain the missing hours of the early evening by watching all three at once.

Now I've seen them all before so a real-time edit isn't too difficult, keeping up with the plotlines and channel hopping between the 'alien popout' and our heroine kicking her way out of a coffin, whilst still being able to see the elaborate choreography of the motor cycles ridden by Tom.

Blippy.

Tag: television, time compression

Fallaces sunt rerum species

I see Doris posted a picture of another of her encounters, this time with Dubya and the Pope, but had managed to clip off an important part of the shot.

Above, see Doris's original photo, but then, below, see the full picture - and guess what? there's my distant relative Bishop Rashbre, reading from one of the early manuscript blogs. The room where the picture was taken is the famous deo Bloggarium - which was also featured in da Vinci Code author Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons".

Quite a co-incidence!


Tag: pope, dubya, rashbre

rashbre.tv - i don't

I'm still experimenting on how to get video rendering for internet to look good.

My attempts last week were fuzzy compared with Rocketboom so I'm experimenting with 3ivx after checking out Amanda's vlog.

wannabe

Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want,
So tell me what you want, what you really really want,
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really
really really wanna zigazig ha.

Thank you, Spice Girls and this is brilliant fun...Thanks, Aginoth, for inventing it.

Googalise a search with your name eg. 'XXX needs' and then 'XXX wants'. Write down 10 of each and pass it on.
Doesn't take long...

rashbre needs:
rashbre needs threadless T shirts
rashbre needs a Los Angeles photographer
rashbre needs a travelling wanderer
rashbre needs mentoring, healing and studying the soul
rashbre needs to brainstorm ideas
rashbre needs a news on demand video player
rashbre needs a sensitive and empathic component of psyche
rashbre needs to pony up part of the cost of room and board
rashbre needs the time and date you observed the fireball tapes
rashbre needs pretty extensive notes

rashbre wants:
rashbre wants a wireless acquisition
rashbre wants loadsa airflow (!)
rashbre wants 5000000 members (!)
rashbre wants to figure out the value of the x's
rashbre wants the heart to be free
rashbre wants to create a long term discovery
rashbre wants to groove the night away
rashbre wants to talk to you
rashbre wants to go jungle massive
rashbre wants to be happy

So there.

Party guests

I see Doris was invited to the Queen's party the other day - Well, amazingly, so was I! - and I see in Doris's photo she just caught me in the corner of the shot - I'm behind the cream and black hats top left. Doris managed to be centre stage, but she is looking over at me!

I put this onto flickr at 750x427, because I wondered if Doris & I were missing any other blogger guests who had also been invited but we couldn't spot on the first view of the picture?

UPDATE:
Doris's camera has a motor drive and a split second later the next shot also showed Christina and Clara from Craziequeen's, who had been doing some freelance waitressing on her day off - oh, and I see harry and wills have already got those logitech drink headbands...

UPDATE 2:
Doris was finding it difficult to spot me in the clamour. All eyes were on her gown. For any detectives amongst you, I've enlarged the area of the photo where I'm standing...

dude you wanna be a rabbit ?

I thought the podfume was amusing, but this $120 Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP is for real. It lets you run videoconferencing and create on-the-fly animations and avatars of your expressions.

Phillip Torrone has been hacking into this and gives a comprehensive demo above.

Click to see more.

Here's a screenshot as a rabbit with wiggling ears and eyebrows.


Tag: podfume, quickcam, vlog, video, orbit, face tracking

podfume - wear your music

beta
amazing
different
revolution
chic
spectacular
indie
get
beautiful
decadent
flip
unique
change
integration
now

yup


Tag: podfume, rocketboom, vlog, ipod, fireant, indie

Watching The Detectives

Someone's on to me. They're trying to shake me down. They're running a make on me. Next it will be a photofit.

But I can live in the margins, Debra.

On the edge.


Nice girls not one with a defect,
cellophane shrink-wrapped, so correct.
Red dogs under illegal legs.
She looks so good that he gets down and begs.
She is watching the detectives.
"ooh, he's so cute!"
She is watching the detectives
when they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
They beat him up until the teardrops start,
but he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart.

Long shot of that jumping sign,
Visible shivers running down my spine.
Cut to the babe taking off her clothes.
Close-up of the sign that says,"We never close"
You snatch a tune, you a match a cigarette,
She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet.
I don't know how much more of this I can take.
She's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake.

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.
Now fear is here to stay. Love is here for a visit.
They call it instant justice when it's past the legal limit.
Someone's scratching at the window. I wonder who is it?
The detectives come to check if you belong to the parents
who are ready to hear the worst about their daughter's disappearance.
Though it nearly took a miracle to get you to stay,
it only took my little fingers to blow you away.

Just like watching the detectives.
Don't get cute!"
It's just like watching the detectives.
I get so angry when the teardrops start,
but he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart.
Watching the detectives.
It's just like watching the detectives.

Thursday Thirteen V20

1. I admit I cheated this week and posted this on Friday. But instead of calling it Friday Firteen, I'll just call it Thirteen, this week.
2. I was out until after midnight on Thursday and therefore didn't have time to post anything.
3. I was with Liz and Victor at a riverside venue until around 23:30.
4. Earlier in the evening, Victor and I had visited another location but had arrived around 45 minutes late. Thats because we'd left the previous place 45 minutes late. Oh dear.
5. I was also out until after midnight on Wednesday. We were in Bloomsbury and ate Thai food.
6. I had my first meeting on Thursday at 07:00, so didn't get so much sleep.
7. My Friday also starts with an Italian meeting at 07:00.
8. I have mastered running 4 way video conferences using fancy equipment, and did so with UK, Frankfurt, Paris and Copenhagen on Wednesday morning. Only problem was, that I thought Copenhagen was Stockholm. No wonder they ignored everything.
9. I had another Video conference with Munich, but the Munich room was in use. I called Claudia, and could see her visit the room full of people, because the VC was switched on but no-one had realised. Spooky.
10. I tried to attract their attention by moving the distant camera, but no-one noticed. Spooooky.
12. I can understand why people have little covers on their video cameras after that.
13. My iMac has a camera built in, with no cover. A little green light shines whe it is use. I hope it always shines when it is in use.

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Tag: Thursday Thirteen, free link friday

OTA: Wordless Wednesday

shafted or just lost?

I watched the end of the first series of Lost, where they opened the hatch and stared down the shaft.

Then, tonight, they've finally descended into the shaft, which took a whole episode. It seems to lead to the living quarters of an old science project improbably supported by an old apple 2 computer.

Whatever technology was there has obviously gone wrong and now looks as if the system needs to be reset every 108 minutes, as part of an emergency protocol.

I know part of the idea is to make this series entertaining and complex, but when we take 2-3 episode to descend into the shaft, I wonder if the pacing is correct.

you call that a telescope?

Dr Who's recent episode (the one about Victoria and the telescope) was set in Torchwood House, which has its own website. Theres a special area where you can get access to the telescope's controls, but to do this you have to type in a password. (Its "Victoria").

The point is, this website describes a fictional location in Scotland in a fairly plausible way, and has been dropped into the internet by the makers of Dr Who. Take a look - and I believe there's a few other sites sprinkled around, linked to other episodes. Clever, or what?