Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Hey Jayne Mansfield Superstar!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hey-Jayne-Mansfield-Superstar-by-Sigue-Sigue-Sputnik/58646911566

Someone created a Hey Jayne Mansfield Superstar! page, following in the footsteps of my "Rhythm Heritage Theme from S.W.A.T." page and "Shep Pettibone remix of 'Something About You" page. What is it they say about there are no truly new ideas? Or that for any idea you have, someone on the opposite end of the planet is coming up with the same idea?

And they have 297 followers! I'm jealous.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Commercial with dollhouse using smartphone as widescreen TV - that was just adorable

I had this great red Chinese dish on white rice with Albert at Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas
http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=25570923

"Ready to rumble? Police cars are deploying new sirens with heavy bass that you can actually feel coming even if you can't hear them, helping cops respond to the 240 million emergency calls every year."

Actually, this has been going on in San Francisco for quite a while. And the bass is meant to augment the siren, making you pay more attention.

Friday, June 10, 2011

While playing Metalstorm

Ads in games should have the same look, the same stylesheet as the look and feel of the game. For an ad to look like an ad is disjarring. An ad should look like the game.

Monday, June 6, 2011

On the wildfires

Why do people in New Mexico fantasize about the "end times" and the "apocalypse"? I took one look at the ash-covered sky and thought "Mars" ... guess my sensibilities are different. Alternate realities, life on other planets .. setting foot on other planets - this is what I saw. Why do New Mexicans fantasize about the world coming to an end? It's bizarre and I don't understand it.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

DJ Baby Anne page

Someone is posting weird comments on my DJ Baby Anne page : grief-stricken comments, to a girl he loves. I've been there. The need to post grief, messages to a girl you love, that you lost, that you cannot do face-to-face ... Ive been there.

In a strange way, I have inadverdently done someone a public service - I put up this page and it allowed them a venue to vent their feelings. The image of the beautiful girl, was a type of psychology, a type of therapist's couch .. he got to talk to her, through this page.

I guess DJ B Anne, the image he sees on the page, is a symbol for the girl he lost. Just a guess. Men pine for women just as much as, if not in different ways, but just as much as women do for men. Men feel the pain also. Men hurt just as much.

General technology rant

Technology should do what you want. It should be doing as much as possible behind the scenes to do simply what you want on the surface.