The Daily Thing

HDR does to photography what Thomas Kinkade did to painting. The majority of what you see is over-saturated, poor examples of people not knowing how to use their equipment. I mean, c’mon, grass is NOT supposed to look like that. Don’t get me wrong, there are some really good HDR images. I think knowing how to use your camera in the same situation would have yielded a much better result.

I’m not going to show an HDR image with this post because I don’t want to hurt any particular persons feelings but you can check some out on Flickr.

I find it amazing that you can uninstall stuff on a Windows machine but it doesn’t leave. As an example we’ll say…Symantec. I uninstalled the suite because I use AVG (a very nice free antivirus) and it’s still there. Worse yet, it’s now active where before it was turned off. What…the…HELL.

My computer. My choice. I don’t want the program. It should be easy to remove. THIS is why I like the Mac. You don’t want a program simply drag it to the trash. It’s gone. Finito. How awesome is that?

Ever since CBS took Schoolhouse Rock off the air in the 70’s I’ve been looking for something to fill the void. Something that would help me remember the little “Cliff Claven-esque” factoids I know and add a few new (albeit useless in most regards) to my repetoire. Ask Yahoo! filled the void nicely. So nicely, in fact, it had garnered the top spot on the my iGoogle page that also doubles as everyone of my browsers home pages. But, like all Yahoo! projects (read: flickr, delicious), it was only a matter of time until Yahoo! fucked it up.

Ask Yahoo!: “Ask Yahoo! is teaming up with Yahoo! Answers to bring you Ask Mike. It’s another way to pose questions, get answers, and (hopefully) learn a thing or two. Please visit us at our new home on Yahoo! Answers, and join our network today.”

Ask Mike…errrr…ummmm…Ok Mike. No offense. I’ll see ya’ later. Give Yahoo! our regards and tell them to keep up the good work.

NOT! (Cue outro music: “Another One Bites the Dust“)

If you’ve been following the news you’ve no doubt heard that the wildly popular YouTube video sharing site has signed a deal with Warner to distribute music videos, behind the scenes footage, and interviews with artists on their site. This is a huge step for the record industry in realizing that the new frontier of revenue is web content.

Unfortunately there’s a dark cloud to every silver lining. From the article in SFGate, the San Francisco Chronicles online edition, “YouTube is developing technology that will allow the artists to authorize their songs for use, track them and receive royalties. YouTube plans to introduce the technology, which television networks and movie studios will also be able to use, before the end of the year.”

Hmm…that sounds an awful lot like another piece of spyware/malware you’ll be downloading to your machine.

Oh well. It was a good idea at first. Good luck with that.

I’m coining a new word: “grossitude”.

Think of it as a measurement of the grossness of something. The scale is very similar to the Richter Scale and the “Hot Chick” scale.

1 – Sitting in ABC gum.

2 – Stepping on a snail.

3 – Catching your parents having sex.

4 – Finding cat poop on the bottom of your shoe.

5 – Catching your parents having sex and someone is tied to the bed.

6 – A dead, bloated corpse.

7 – Hershey squirts before you could make it to the bathroom.

8 – Someone else’s hershey squirts.

9 – Catching your parents having sex and your mom is wearing a strap on.

10 – Two week old chicken and dumplings that have been sitting out on the counter and have begun to grow fungus and give off a disgusting funk that, when opened, sets off the Hazmat detectors put up by Homeland Security.

I would have opted for any of the others but having to clean up number 10…*barf*.

Tags: humor

Adam Curry was right….MTV SUCKS. I got this great error message when I tried to view content on MTV.com. How can you leave out a large segment of computer users?

“We’re Sorry.

In order to offer a broad selection of full-length music videos on-demand and free of charge, MTV Overdrive uses Windows Digital Rights Management (DRM) to protect videos from unauthorized re-distribution.

Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Windows Media Player Plug-in for Macintosh does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available for Macintosh, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works on a Mac.”

I guess I don’t need to pay to have your station on my tv then or buy any of the products shown on your station. Excercising my right as a consumer, I am.

Something I’ve noticed on Flickr: people like to take pictures of food.

It’s very strange. It’s almost as if they’re saying “God, I can’t believe I’m going to eat this.”

Keep that statement in mind next time you’re browsing someone’s pictures on Flickr. It’s particularly funny when you see a photo of less exotic food like….say…McDonald’s french fries. Still works though.

“God I can’t believe I just ate stale cardboard with simulated potato flavoring extruded into a fry shape and deep fried in oil. Mmmm mmmm good!”

I don’t know about the rest of you but I’m so fucking tired of trying to code for browsers that render shit funky. Here’s the deal, if you don’t support standards in a non-funky kinda way we’re not going to support your browser anymore. You won’t have a market share if no one is supporting your browser.

Take your “new” browser, throw it out the window, and start over. If you hurry you can still make it to market by the time your operating system comes out. You’ve got problems and we’re not going to put up with it anymore. If you don’t get with the program we’ll use our consumer clout and take you out of the game.

I feel better now. Did I leave anyone alive?

The new BSOD (Blue Screen of Death for all you non-techies) is the “Fatal Exception Error”. Oh yeah, the whole platform doesn’t crash like Win9x would, but you still have to restart or forget working in the application you were just working in because you’ll get the error again.

Moving to the Mac now. I hate losing 2 hours of work. I know, I know, I usually save multiple times when I’m working but I was on a roll with the long piece of code I was working on. Oh well, f#$% it. Water under the bridge. Back to work.

Coffee

(If you’re a geek and you ‘view source’ you’ll get the joke. If not, well…)