So Chris and I decided to come down to the Water Island of the Virgin Islands to get married on Honeymoon Beach. The following video is the ceremony. You may find some pictures by clicking this link.

This all happened on June 1st it has taken me a long time to post this because I have been pretty busy.

I spent plenty of hours of my childhood playing the old NES punch out. I have seen advertisements for the new Punch Out Wii game, but I’m thinking that maybe the following mod to the original trumps that.

When I hear a bunch of ignorant people freak out about how the swine flu means the end of the world is coming, I laugh to myself a little. I laugh because those silly videos that we were all forced to watch in first grade come to mind. Videos like the following:

Support the future, not the past. Apparently today is National Record Store Day. I had to laugh out loud when I heard that. It’s about supporting the archaic way of obtaining a file: getting in your car, on your bike, ride the bus, or walk to a store; thumb through some poorly organized CDs; possibly wait in a line to purchase your selection; likely pay more than you would at various online retailers; use previously referred to transport to get home; put CD into your computer and convert to a format that works on your portable player. This archaic process which will take you at least 30 minutes, but probably more, for a process that can take about 5 minutes if you prefer to live in this century. Even attaining the physical medium online takes less of your time.

Do not cry for store fronts that are being shut down because they are not being competitive. The people who have local businesses that I know of are still alive because they also embrace the online model of selling products, which in most cases exceeds the sales of their walk-in traffic. So if you want to support your local record stores today, in my opinion you should encourage them to move forward by visiting their website to make your purchase. If your local record store does not have a website, let them know what they can do to keep customers buying from them. If you are looking to support your local artist, go to their show and buy their music directly from them. Then share the music you like with your friends. Then, tell your friends to go to artists shows to support them.

Turntable Cat

Ninja Cat

Cat vs. Printer

Roomba Cat

Cat Jump Fail

Cat Gets Shot

Engineer’s Guide To Cats

I think it’s funny that Sony finally won a digital format war. They tried so hard with Betamax, and I’ll admit, it was the superior format of the time. Almost no one remembers the SA-CD format that was meant to overcome the standard CD format. However when Blu-ray went up against HD-DVD, Blu-ray won. So you may be wondering why I think this is funny.

Let me start with a little background with video formats. Before Blu-ray Discs there were, and still are, DVDs. Prior to DVDs, VHS was the popular format. The are various reasons that people adopted DVDs over VHS. There was obvious quality improvement, the ability to skip back and ahead, smaller size, etc. So DVD was adopted. It was adopted very slowly. In fact some people still swear by VHS, but DVD has met it mass market potential. Blu-ray has one advantage in consumer eyes over DVD. Quality. This is not enough for the majority of people who have in the past ten years upgraded their entire library from VHS to DVD to upgrade again. Most think that DVD quality is good enough.

Personally, I am already seldom putting a disc into a device just to watch a movie. High Definition content can now be streamed into homes over the internet, and while the speed isn’t there for everyone yet, it will be by the time that Bluray has a chance to catch on with the mass market. At this point it is just a matter of pointing and clicking to watch whatever movie you want from a huge library. You don’t have to go to the store and get a disc. You don’t even have to wait for it to come to your house. Just point your remote at the TV and receive your movie when you are ready to watch it.

Systems like Netflix and the Apple Store are already pioneering this way of life. It’s too simple to think that Blu-ray will be able to compete once the streaming quality gets as good as Blu-ray is. Because of this, I say that Blu-ray could die and almost no one would cry.

Nanoblogging!

Whether you celebrate Eostre, great mother goddess of the Saxton people and Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility (and orgins of the name Easter); the resurrection of Attis, the son born the virgin mother Cybele (a Pagan fertility goddess); the resurrection of Jesus, the son born to the virgin Mary; the Spring Equinox; or something completely different, have a Happy Easter. Spend time with and celebrate family, that is what it is about to me. Men, do not forget to spank your woman tomorrow in proper Czech Republic and Slovakia tradition. Make sure to read or watch murder mysteries as is the tradition of Nordic countries. If you don’t celebrate Easter, have a good day also!