Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-25
Posted on July 25, 2010
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- I need a good idea for a chrome web app (not extension). #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-18
Posted on July 18, 2010
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- Just made some SOS
# - loved Star Wars Subway Car on Boxee http://bit.ly/bsgvey #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11
Posted on July 11, 2010
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- Going to nc #
- I am an uncle 7.21 lbs 21 inches 10 fingers 10 toes #
- Awake at like 4 in the morning at my sister's in NC. So I decide to try to get some work done. And I'm starving, but no one else is awake! #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-04
Posted on July 4, 2010
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- 3 day weekend ! #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27
Posted on June 27, 2010
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- Futurama returns Thursday on Comedy Central !!! #
- New geeknotions post: Why I’m a Console Gamer http://geeknotions.com/2010/06/20/why-im-a-console-gamer/ #
- In Decatur. #
- I look stellar in this suit . My Best Friend in the whole world is getting married tomorrow, I can't be happier for them! #
You’ve Been Pink Flagged
Posted on June 26, 2010
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So I was the best man at my friend Josh’s wedding. And we had pink ties. We also had pink handkerchiefs that we didn’t use. I came up with the great idea that we should use them as a “Too Feminine Violation”. Yes, I’m talking about throwing a pink flag. So be ware, I may throw the pink flag on you and ask you for your man card if you do something too feminine. But we rocked those pink ties like true men! Congratulation Josh and Jenna!
Tags: manhood, pink, ties, violation, weddingThe Great City of Huntsville (a history)
Posted on June 22, 2010
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A friend of mine at work sent me this.
A Brief History of Huntsville by Matthew Pierce
Huntsville was founded a long time ago by someone who is now dead. In the beginning, the city was called Twickenham. This was before Bridge Street, so it was not a good time to be a resident. Later on the town was renamed Huntsville, because, come on, Twickenham. The name “Huntsville” was taken from an Indian word that roughly translates to, “We’re getting out of here, there’s a tornado coming.”
Huntsville was an important part of the Civil War. Confederate forces willingly surrendered the town to the Yankees, who did not know about the tornadoes. The rebels thought this was very funny. Several Yankees were sucked up and landed on Monte Sano, where they remain to this day. They are called Presbyterians.
The first mayor of Huntsville was Wernher Von Braun, who was a scientist who invented the vacuum cleaner. Von Braun came to Huntsville and started inventing rockets, presumably to blow up the tornadoes. He never did figure out how to do this, so he gave up and invented Space Camp. He was very good at inventing things.
Starting in the 1960s, Huntsville was subjected to another invasion. Only this time it wasn’t Yankees who were invading, but engineers. These engineers were mostly short men, and all of them drove very fast cars. No one really understood what they did for a living, but they all had lots of money. The engineers are still here today, because engineers never really die — they just keep inventing ways to stay alive.
In the 1980s Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco formed a minor league baseball team called the Huntsville Stars. The Stars played at Joe Davis stadium, where they excelled at making it all the way to the Southern League Championship and then losing. Back then McGwire and Canseco were not using steroids, probably because they were too busy eating the ice cream at the concession stand that comes in the little plastic helmets, which is excellent.
The most famous person in Huntsville is Dan Satterfield, who is a television meteorologist and loud person. He is the arch nemesis of the tornado. Whenever it begins to rain in, say, western Kansas, Satterfield immediately interrupts television programming to broadcast warnings for the next seven hours straight. Many tornadoes have gone away sad because Dan Satterfield ruined their sneak attacks.
Today Huntsville has a bright future, and not just because it has more restaurants than people. It is a modern city on the cusp of research and technology. It is a crossroads, where the spirit of the Old South meets the expression of the arts. It is a bustling, thriving community where diversity and tradition mingle.
Basically, it is a city that prides itself on not being Birmingham.
Tags: history, huntsville, parodyYoutube Subscriptions in Google Reader and Boxee
Posted on June 13, 2010
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So I got fed up of not being able to watch my youtube subscriptions in google reader or boxee. If you make an embed video file in the body of the text of a blog post, you can see that video in Google Reader. Well Youtube’s feed for subscriptions http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/user/newsubscriptionvideos doesn’t include an embed. So I did my magic and made it make an embed, I skipped yahoo pipes because, honestly it confuses me too much. I wrote a quick something in php to take care of it. Just hit http://webutils.bryanprice.info/YoutubeSubscriptionEmbed/?user=yourusername replacing “yourusername” with your username and you will have a feed with the embeds that you can pop into google reader. If you want to view your subscriptions in Boxee, take an extra step of running the feed through feedburner make sure you choose the option “i’m a podcaster”. Now add this subscription via the Boxee web interface and now you have your YouTube subscriptions in Boxee!
SageTV Rename
Posted on June 6, 2010
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Many of you may remember that I wrote a script for BeyondTV (BeyondTV Renamer) that utilized a command line tool that someone had written to create an XML file giving detailed information about the given file. My script compared the airdate from this dumped XML file with airdates of matching shows on TVRage.com to rename the files in such a way that XBMC or Boxee could read the file and get the metadata (like show description and images).
Well today I’m releasing a script that I wrote that does something similar for SageTV. Technically speaking, it does not actually rename the file. It creates symlinks to the files named in such a way that XBMC or Boxee can read the files and pickup the metadata. And instead of needing the command line tool, you need the SageTV Web Interface that was written by Neilm. By creating symlinks, it allows for only 1 true copy of the file to exist and for the show to remain in SageTV and in Boxee or XBMC.
Original BeyondTV Renamer | New SageTV Rename
Tags: BeyondTV, BeyondTV Rename, SageTV, SageTV RenameMeeting with the Pope
Posted on April 22, 2010
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So a while back I came across Old Jews Telling Jokes. This one is great. Enjoy!
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