Superfluous Redundancy

Lol. RT @shawnmummert: RE: “high-end bars”. All bars are high-end until the first bad...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:22:04 -0500

Lol. RT @shawnmummert: RE: “high-end bars”. All bars are high-end until the first bad month. Then: college nights and wet t-shirt contests.

Celebrate with STYLE! (Seen and noted, via Thadd and Milan)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:05:00 -0500

Celebrate with STYLE!

(Seen and noted, via Thadd and Milan)

Typical Blackboard behavior, buying up all the competiton: http://tcrn.ch/bu9NAu (via...

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:10:00 -0500

Typical Blackboard behavior, buying up all the competiton: http://tcrn.ch/bu9NAu

(via @Starbuck3733T)

Car on harrison ave engulfed in flames

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:53:01 -0500

Car on harrison ave engulfed in flames

Java will be the death of me. [Code, not coffee.]

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:46:27 -0500

Java will be the death of me. [Code, not coffee.]

RT @DSCole312: Anybody know what’s being set up on Pete Rose Way?...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:46:00 -0500

RT @DSCole312:

Anybody know what’s being set up on Pete Rose Way? http://tweetphoto.com/13734195

Forbes ranks University of Cincinnati’s campus among most beautiful in the world....

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:23:16 -0500

Forbes ranks University of Cincinnati’s campus among most beautiful in the world. http://bit.ly/cl0YCI

YouTube dropping IE6 support this Saturday. Google Docs and Google Sites already dropped support. RT...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:56:00 -0500

YouTube dropping IE6 support this Saturday. Google Docs and Google Sites already dropped support. RT @consumerist:

http://con.st/10002950

Thanks for the birthday messages! @Twitricia @A_Crutch @mojojacob

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:03:00 -0500

Thanks for the birthday messages! @Twitricia @A_Crutch @mojojacob

Twelve year old girls dressing as hipsters… The world is ending.

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:40:33 -0500

Twelve year old girls dressing as hipsters… The world is ending.

Eyes are dialated after eye exam. Can’t drive. @johnyungphat to the rescue!

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:40:33 -0500

Eyes are dialated after eye exam. Can’t drive. @johnyungphat to the rescue!

I know it’s springtime when my house start emitting the “old house in the...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:40:33 -0500

I know it’s springtime when my house start emitting the “old house in the springtime” scent.

We’re working on new recordings, and this is Jon’s...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:22:00 -0500

We’re working on new recordings, and this is Jon’s song “Beyond the Silence”. I’m pretty impressed with my Omnichord parts starting at the 3:45 mark.

Credits: Jon Dennemann (vocals, guitar, mixing). John Yung (bass, keyboards). Travis Estell (drums, Omnichord).

15 YouTube Killer Features of 2025

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:04:01 -0500

blogoscoped.com:

In the year 2025, perhaps we’ll be seeing:

2. YouTube Speech Dubbing

What it is: When you watch a foreign language short film on YouTube, the voices will automatically be dubbed into the language of your current content preference. You won’t even notice people aren’t speaking your mother tongue.

How it works: Behind the scenes, Google’s YouTube runs a speech-to-text program, followed by machine translation, followed by text-to-speech. To make the outcome more seamless, face recognition understands who is speaking and slightly adjusts the lip movements of the speaker so that it looks like the person really says the translated tone.

9. YouTube Change the Cam

What it is: When watching an archived news report on YouTube – say, a press conference by the president – a camera symbol shows up in the bottom of the video. Click it, and the same press conference will be displayed from another camera angle.

How it works: YouTube checks, rather fuzzily, if the specific audio track of a clip has matches in other clips. If it finds other clips, it checks if the video differs substantially. If that’s the case then YouTube figures it’s the same scene shown from a different angle.

(Posted via web from taestell’s posterous.)

Really weird experience at Virgil’s in bellevue… Mad Hatter characters walking...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:05:00 -0500

Really weird experience at Virgil’s in bellevue… Mad Hatter characters walking around…

How to Make High Speed Rail Fail: Don’t Connect the Lines

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:50:00 -0500

infrastructurist.com:

We want high speed rail to succeed in the U.S. For one, there’s a lot of time, money, and other resources that have already been spent, or will be soon, on HSR. Also, it has enormous potential to galvanize travel, communities, economies of scale, and even the national economy, not to mention create thousands of desperately-needed jobs.

Which is why we get worried when we hear about HSR plans that are already entering deeply-flawed territory. Like the scenario in Florida, where no agreement has been made about connecting the planned Orlando-Tampa HSR line (which, as you’ll recall, got a whopping $1.25 billion of the federal HSR funds) to SunRail, a 61-mile project that’ll be built on existing CSX tracks from DeLand to Poinicana, running through the east side of Orlando.

According to current plans, the HSR line will follow Interstate 4 and have five stations — none of which link to the SunRail. Which could severely hinder the ability of passengers to use the HSR line to get to their destinations, and consequently put a severe damper on the number of people who use both lines. What’s the point of spending millions on separate train lines in the same area if there’s no way to switch between them? The The Florida DOT is reportedly worried about slowing down travel time on the HSR line — but if passengers aren’t able to access the train with ease, keeping up a lightning-fast speed won’t matter, since no one will ride the train. Plus we’re willing to bet that the average passenger would be willing to add 5 or 10 minutes of travel time for an opportunity to transfer between lines.

(Posted via web from taestell’s posterous.)

urbancincy.com: There are many things to get excited about when it comes to Bockfest that go beyond...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:09:00 -0500

urbancincy.com:

There are many things to get excited about when it comes to Bockfest that go beyond the wonderful, oh so wonderful, beer. Some of that excitement should revolve around the many great events and features of the celebration this weekend. While Bockfest truly does not start until Friday evening, things get an early start today. Take a look a UrbanCincy’s Bockfest celebration picks below to start planning out your Bockfest lineup.

Bockfest is going on all weekend long (which also happens to be my birthday weekend).

(Posted via web from taestell’s posterous.)

RT @bryonmartin: Want to be in the #Bockfest Parade? Show up @ArnoldsBar before 5:30pm today to buy...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:16:00 -0500

RT @bryonmartin:

Want to be in the #Bockfest Parade? Show up @ArnoldsBar before 5:30pm today to buy a @CincyStreetcar T-Shirt and be par …

John playing guitar for some new recordings. (Via my phone.)

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:16:00 -0500

John playing guitar for some new recordings. (Via my phone.)

Public safety spending consumes Cincinnati's indebted budget

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:26:00 -0500

Public safety spending consumes Cincinnati's indebted budget:

As Cincinnati faces a $51 million operating budget deficit for 2010, with the chance of the deficit worsening in 2011, many Cincinnatians and local leaders are looking for ways to close the gap without further cutting into already slim programs elsewhere…