antipaucity » cool http://antipaucity.com fighting the lack of good ideas Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:21:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 where google makes its money http://antipaucity.com/2011/07/20/where-google-makes-its-money/ http://antipaucity.com/2011/07/20/where-google-makes-its-money/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:01:32 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=964 ]]> Wired has an interesting infographic today from WordStream on where Google makes its money in advertising.

No surprise on some of the top entries: but the last was surprising (both to me, and the folks who did the analysis): Cord Blood. Seems “rich parents” are wanting to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood for the stem cells contained, in the hopes that they could be used later in life if some health crisis arises.

Fascinating.

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This’ll be my first time ever involved with 4-H, whereas my wife has been doing something with them every year for about 15 years :)

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2011/07/08/4-h-judging/feed/ 0 about time :) http://antipaucity.com/2011/05/26/about-time/ http://antipaucity.com/2011/05/26/about-time/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 14:38:09 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=912 ]]> Saw in a tweet from David Pogue that someone has finally implemented a DVR-for-radio. Only took three years for someone to build :)

I haven’t started playing with DAR.fm yet, but it looks pretty cool!

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2011/05/26/about-time/feed/ 4 new residence http://antipaucity.com/2011/02/07/new-residence/ http://antipaucity.com/2011/02/07/new-residence/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:44:40 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=789 ]]> Though it’s not the ideal we have of owning our own home, my wife and I will be one step closer in a few days as we will be signing a lease on a rental home here in Lexington and moving out of the apartment complex we’ve been in since we got married.

I think she’s pretty excited :)

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2011/02/07/new-residence/feed/ 1 jeopardy! was wrong http://antipaucity.com/2011/01/06/jeopardy-was-wrong/ http://antipaucity.com/2011/01/06/jeopardy-was-wrong/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:13:44 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=742 ]]> A recent Final Jeopardy! question said there are two pairs of countries which differ in spelling by only two letters: Australia/Austria and one other. The answer they were looking for was Niger/Nigeria.

Well, I was thinking about this recently and realized there is a third pair: Mali/Malawi.

It’s not often you see errors on Jeopardy! :)

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2011/01/06/jeopardy-was-wrong/feed/ 0 cloudy driving in progress http://antipaucity.com/2010/05/13/cloudy-driving-in-progress/ http://antipaucity.com/2010/05/13/cloudy-driving-in-progress/#comments Thu, 13 May 2010 20:48:03 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=671 ]]> In follow-up to a previous post, I saw this on Wired.com today.

Seems Ford sponsored a class at UMich to develop Cloud Computing apps… for the Commute.

The new Fiesta can Tweet while it’s driving. Not sure I like that idea… but it’s interesting, to say the least.

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2010/05/13/cloudy-driving-in-progress/feed/ 0 nook http://antipaucity.com/2009/10/21/nook/ http://antipaucity.com/2009/10/21/nook/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:48:28 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=449 ]]> I’ve not yet been impressed by any of the e-book readers I’ve seen – with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader being the apparent “market leaders” in the segment.

However, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook may change my mind. From the early reviews, it appears to have a better screen, longer battery life, and more natural navigation than either the Sony or Amazon offerings.

My previous experience with eBooks has not been overly positive, with proprietary software and awkward navigation on my PC. However, with the multi-format-capable Nook – I may be ready to give eBooks a try again.

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2009/10/21/nook/feed/ 0 avoiding the voicemail prompts http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/10/avoiding-the-voicemail-prompts/ http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/10/avoiding-the-voicemail-prompts/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:57:00 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=409 ]]> I just found this article from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings:

It turns out that each carrier offers a “bypass the instructions” keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person’s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.)

To be as evil as possible, the carriers do not promote or tell you about the existence of this keystroke. Furthermore, the key to press is different with each company:

* for Verizon

1 for Sprint

# for AT&T

# for T-Mobile

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/10/avoiding-the-voicemail-prompts/feed/ 2 wedding plans http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/04/wedding-plans/ http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/04/wedding-plans/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:18:43 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=370 ]]> Have begun.

I just got a site setup for my fiancee and I to keep our friends and family up-to-date on what’s going on: http://warrenmyers.com/wedding/.

And yes – she picked the blog theme :)

]]> http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/04/wedding-plans/feed/ 0 more help from stackoverflow http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/03/more-help-from-stackoverflow/ http://antipaucity.com/2009/09/03/more-help-from-stackoverflow/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:52:54 +0000 antipaucity http://antipaucity.com/?p=399 ]]> I realize I asked this question a while back, but in reviewing some of my history, I was reminded of how helpful the site has been for a variety of issues.

And I’m sure that questions like this one regarding VMware and VPNs is something “I should have known” – but not knowing where to look for appropriate data is what makes sites like these so helpful.

I do still wonder, though, how we remember what we know, and whether out-sourcing our collective minds is still a Good Idea™…

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