Archive for June, 2012

Don’t invent, discover.

June 20, 2012ZipologyLeave a comment

This is one of the better articles I’ve read on the internets.

I found several things quite interesting in the Magician Teller’s witty letter to a fan.

Here are a few take-aways with my own spin added.

1. Acknowledge fate, luck, or God’s providence in your life. I choose to believe in the latter.

2. Then be thankful. If you chose to believe that you are NOT in control of your life, art, work or craft, you will have no choice but to remain humble.

2. Start something you love. If you work hard at it and don’t give up, you might surprise yourself and find your calling and hence refine your craft unexpectedly.

3. Stay committed to your craft. By continuing to work at it you will discover many things. Your work can become a discovery.

4. Find heroes outside of your craft. Apply to your work what you find compelling about them.

5. Add the element of surprise to your art. It can’t be overstated the power of surprise

Discover for yourself what that means for you.

Here, now, read the entire article. Enjoy, my bastard sons and daughters.

14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic.

Lazy but Talented?

June 18, 2012BloggingLeave a comment

So sad.

Saw this shirt the other day.

I’m very disappointed in Nike. This sentiment does not represent me and my wife and my 6 children. We are a family of athletes.

Whatever happened to ‘Just Do it?”

Run from it or run to it.

June 14, 2012ZipologyLeave a comment

“I took the thing that scared me the most and made a career out of it.”

- George Lopez

More sites like Pinterest

June 9, 2012BloggingLeave a comment

As I’ve written before, Pinterest is hot and still is.

It’s kinda interesting now to see all the wanna bees come out. Most are pretty lame.

However, as time goes there have been some pretty cool sites come around that behave a lot like Pinterest with a twist and look pretty good!

Some of these sites have been around longer than Pinterest, but somehow still get compared to Pinterest.

Here are four of my new favorite Pinterest like sites:

Honorable mention:

Crranky is my site by the way. I think it has potential…

Game of Drones – HBO GO says No.

June 7, 2012BloggingLeave a comment

Sigh.

I have always held out a little hope for HBO. I have a soft spot in my overly entertained soul for them.

Why?

Two reasons:

1. They make the best dang TV series’ on the tube.

2. HBO Go.

HBO GO is awesome. It’s their web based offering of all of their monthly (lame) movie programing and all of their most recent (awesome) series’.

I can watch their content the way I WANT to watch their content – when I want and on what device I want. Most all of Hollywood doesn’t care about what I want.

However, what the market wants from HBO, HBO will not give – that is, HBO GO only. HBO has stated at least for now it will not allow you to only subscribe to HBO GO and not separately from the cable HBO subscription.

Nice.

Hmm. I wonder if Netflix is working on a subscription cable TV model. No?

I wonder why?

The market does’t want their programming that way.

Keep it up HBO and you will soon find yourself on the outside looking in. Just like the rest of Hollywood.

Why Parents should fear Microsoft’s SmartGlass

June 5, 2012DadologyLeave a comment

Does you teenager play Xbox? Duh. A better question is, when doesn’t your teenager play Xbox?

As a parent, we were cautious about allowing our teen boys to have an Xbox Live account. The thought of having complete strangers having audio conversations with our boys was a bit unnerving. I’ll pause here to allow you think dwell on potential of this technology for a moment…

Yeah, pretty scary.

We dealt with it by setting some rules. When we first got an Xbox Live account we did not allow them to have audio headphones. This means they could play live but could not have conversations with anyone. We then progressed in allowing our older son to use an audio headset with the stipulation we was only allowed to play with groups of friends he knew. Believe it or not this worked pretty well. And we know and therefore has a certain degree of trust in his choice of friends. We also know all our boy’s friends’ parents.

We got it all figured out (not really) until now.

Now parents have to deal with Microsoft’s new Xbox technology SmartGlass.

*sigh*

To add to your nightmare, Xbox will add video capabilities to you child’s late night gaming activities! Oh joy!

(Now you have been able to video chat on Xbox prior to SmartGlass and there is much more to this SmartGlass technology than just video sharing – like accessing the web! I’ll save that for another post.)

But here is the biggie. Your precious little tike’s, Xbox Live account will not only be able to connect with other video SmartGlass account, it will be able to connect to Microsoft Windows 8 accounts!

Now not just gaming nerds and teen boys will be able to video chat with your son, now you have desktop weirdos to deal with too!

Please be cautious parents. Our job is getting more difficult everyday!

And we thought dealing with texting was difficult!

Zombies, Cannibals, and Lebron

June 2, 2012BloggingLeave a comment

Are you concerned about the impending Zombie Apocalypse?

When are we going to lock up all these freaks running around eating peoples faces?

Will LeBron James ever win an NBA championship?

No? Don’t care?

Then apparently you don’t spend much time online reading the “latest”?

I find it interesting how trends get started and spread.

One of the better books I’ve ever read is by my fav author Malcom Gladwell. I also really like his hair.

It’s called The Tipping Point.

If you do happen to be concern about the three important questions above, think about how those started and spread. For those of you who don’t know, I won’t spoil it for you. For those of you who don’t care. I admire you.