Auto-tuned love

Posted on July 6, 2009

Have I posted this music video before? I can’t remember. Doesn’t matter - watch it!

Regardless, I say this is the best music video I’ve ever seen, even though it’s definitely not one of Kanye’s best songs. After watching it a hundred times last night and today, I realize why it works so perfectly with Kanye’s auto-tuned voice - it’s a rough digital proximity of the original.

Medvedev

Posted on July 5, 2009

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has a video blog. They seem to be very scripted, and certainly not short (the one above is 5.5 minutes long), but it’s an interesting look at a world leader and country who’s fairly notorious for controlling information. If Medvedev can do it, why can’t our editor?

Palm Pre x3

Posted on July 3, 2009

This post has 3 purposes.
1) Talk about my new Palm Pre
2) Increase site hits by talking about the new Palm Pre.
3) Actually accomplish something at work since I have to open today. Palm Pre.

So yeah, I bought a Pre. After being on a few waiting lists around town (and having Best Buy suggest that I put down $50 to get on a VIP waiting list), I picked one one up the Sprint store in St. Johns Town Centre. I called Friday afternoon, they had one for me Saturday.

Despite my constant bragging on how much better the Pre is than an iPhone (and it IS), I have had a few gripes with it.

Gripe #1 Stupid dragging up to unlock. I know that Palm had to be different from Apple, but dragging up to unlock the phone is annoying. It doesn’t affect usability at all, but it does affect one-handed-ability-ness, which isn’t a word but should be.

Gripe #2 When I leave the Pre in the keyboard-out position, and the screen turns off, the only way to turn the screen back on is to hit the power button or keyboard button. WTF Palm. Why can’t I just touch the screen or shiny button at the bottom?

Grip #3 Re-positioning the cursor when I’m texting/emailing. So if I have written an email, but misspelled a letter a few words ago, I have to try and touch on the screen where to place my cursor. Again, not a huge deal, but it’s the most frustrating of the issues I have.

Other than those three, everything about the Pre is fantastic. The shape is perfect, the camera is bright and contrasty, the touch is flawless and the keyboard is great (for someone with skinny fingers, anyway.)

*update. Ok, my Pre just crashed for the first time. I don’t know what was happening, but the phone stopped responding for about 10 seconds and then restarted itself. God, let’s not make a habit of this.

Since I’m here…

Posted on June 28, 2009

I always hated the flashcard study aids game as a kid. The one where you write one stupid thing per card, mix them up and randomly pull one? Yeah, that.

In memory of that hated time, I am going to pull a flashcard game on you RIGHT NOW. All you have to do is look at these 4 random images and tell me how they relate. Not only is Nuinca.com fun, it’s educationrific!

Sike - they don’t relate! I mean, I guess besides the fact that everyone is human or a convincing robot clone. Farrah, Billy and Michael all died this week. I bought a Palm Pre.

Now, I am not saying that their three deaths were funny or meaningless or anything, I just need to point out that it’s weird that 3 super stars (shut up, Billy Mays was a super star in my book) all died in one week, and I really wanted to bury the lead until this sentence.

Done and done.

Diana’s story. Which happens to be far more factual

Posted on June 28, 2009

What’s below is Diana’s version of our meeting story. If you compare this to my version posted on thegingerandthegypsy.com, you’ll find that it is generally more acceptable.
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Jon and I met in a lower level math class, freshman year in college. Yup, the truth is out. I was in that class solely because dad made a quick move for us from Texas to South Carolina and I didn’t take the math placement test… or was it that I took it last minute, unprepared? I just can’t seem to remember… Jon was in there because… well, I’ll let him tell you that version of the story.

To sum it up, class was filled with partyers and students who thought Pi was only a fraternity/sorority symbol. Thank goodness my future partner in crime decided to sit next to me in the back of class. From day one, we became instant friends and survived that math class through note-passing and funny comics Jon drew for me.

Jon asked me to tutor him, which I believe was a plot to get to know me better since he was obviously intrigued by my sharp math skills and overall cuteness. Now that I look back, maybe fewer notes in class would have helped him with that grade… Jon and I were friends for about a year, and right before Christmas we started realizing that our friendship had become something more. The funny part is, I had convinced everyone (except for my parents of course, because they always know when I’m in denial) that I didn’t like this boy named Jon and I even remember commenting that I “pitied” the girl who dated him because he was very forgetful (ahem, my 19th birthday) and self-centered at times.

Well, I quickly realized that I just needed way to much attention (I know nobody reading this is surprised) and everyone to me is considered self-centered unless the attention is solely on me. Jon and I have been together for over 6 and a half years and Jon proposed on Christmas Eve on Bald Rock in South Carolina. It seems that cool things always happen around Christmas for us. Our marriage doesn’t mean the beginning of our lives, because we’ve already made that committment to each other 6 and a half years ago, but what it really signifies is the joining of our families. And if you know us, you know how much family means to us.

Nothing is more important than our family and friends. So we look forward to sharing this moment with you and we give a shout out to Mutlu, our teacher of that unforgettable special-needs math class which brought us together.

Divine inspiration

Posted on June 22, 2009

Something is trying to teach me something.

Not sure what yet, but at just over six months into this year, a number of shitty yet re-affirming things have happened. No need to re-chronicle what, dearest Nuinca.com readers, since you no doubt remember. Diana lost her job today. Yep - just like that.

Looks like she’ll work out this month (all of 8 more days!) and then she’s done. Maybe this is the year of numbers - 7.5% of shit, 401k times 0, 8 more days of therapy and 64 days before our wedding. If things don’t get better before then, August 25th shall still be a most rocking date.

Ready for a drink? Yes, I am!

Obama san

Posted on June 17, 2009

This video makes me so goddamned happy

it’s like Whoa

Posted on June 11, 2009

Today is the big day - bankruptcy or not for the company that owns my newspaper.

Eventually, every newspaper will have a day just like ours today, except today is all ours. What will happen? I really wish I could say. Extending our payment deferments by 14 days instead of the customary 30 seems strange and it’s easy to wonder if two weeks are enough to restructure for the big BK.

If it’s any clue, I was just invited to a company wide think tank meeting in Savannah at the end of this month. Will it be a picking up the pieces conference or a true future planning meeting? At this point, it doesn’t fucking matter.

See you tomorrow morning, TU, we’ll find everything out together.

Controlling the mystery

Posted on June 3, 2009

Despite all of the shitty things I say about newspapers and the industry, I have to admit - people still love having themselves in print. I haven’t convinced myself that it’s a permanence thing, but the effect is undeniable.

Examples? Of course.

Last night, after the taping of Urban Jacksonville Weekly, I had the paper put a big refer to our show, complete with a screen shot, on page A2. I didn’t tell the other UJW guys, because frankly, I didn’t think they would care. At 7:05pm, I received this text from friend and co-host Joey Marchy:

“We’re on A2 of the TU! I grabbed a paper and tweeted that.” And he did.

But hey, don’t worry, I’m not going all traditional MSM on you. I still know that newspapers are dying and that they often deserve that death. What I am saying is this- when appropriate, we need to control the mystery of print. There’s a power there and it can help.

Stop motion wtf

Posted on May 29, 2009

Stop motion from the 1930’s. WTF-tastic

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