Archive for April, 2009
I’m #1 in my category on the wefollow.com twitterer directory!
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Yeah, I’m #1 FTW!
It’s a little lonely at the top, but someone’s got to be the trailblazer.
Technorati Tags: Garbanzo Beans, Celebrity, Twitter, WeFollow
Matzah and horseradish: my Passover
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
As Passover 2009 winds down, I eat what is to me the quintessential Passover food item. I should eat this combination during the year as well, but maybe that would make it less special?
Yes, you can upgrade a Creative Vado HD’s firmware on a Mac, in VMWare Fusion
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Here’s the shocking, photographic evidence, which proves what so many have wanted to know for so long: It is possible –nay, simple, to upgrade the firmware of the Creative Vado HD on a mac, using the Windows-only Vado firmware updating application1, running inside an instance of Windows XP in VMWare Fusion. How exciting!
If this upgrade makes it so that my Vado HD stops freezing every-other time I connect it to my computer, that would be fantastic. The reboot process for the Vado involves opening it up and removing the battery2. This is a very annoying process, especially after I’ve spent the effort to slip the thing inside its protective silicon case3, at which point the battery door is inaccessible. I’d bet that’s something they fixed in the first firmware update, or else this thing would have accumulated a greater number of negative reviews by now.
If this upgrade makes it so that my Vado HD stops freezing every-other time I connect it to my computer, that would be fantastic. The reboot process for the Vado involves opening it up and removing the battery2. This is a very annoying process, especially after I’ve spent the effort to slip the thing inside its protective silicon case3, at which point the battery door is inaccessible. I’d bet that’s something they fixed in the first firmware update, or else this thing would have accumulated a greater number of negative reviews by now.
Technorati Tags: Creative Vado HD, filmmaking, Garbanzo Beans, Hack, hot deal, Macintosh, OS X, Vado HD, software, unix, video, virtualization, vmware fusion, Windows XP
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- It’d be nice if, as on the iPhone, one could reboot the Vado HD by holding down an unholy combination of buttons for a few seconds. Requiring users to open up the device and manually power-cycle it is bad design and/or optimism regarding the device’s stability to the point of naïvete. [↩]
- That silicon case is tight during the installation and removal process, I’m worried about tearing it just for a reboot [↩]
Painted on the plane: A Dell laptop
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
The rambunctious fellows in the seats ahead of me eventually stopped their attempts at flirting with the stewardess and settled in to watch Iron Man on a Dell laptop. I amused myself by “painting” the laptop using the “brushes” app on my iPhone. This is the result.
I think the screen is a little small because I started off too close to the edge of the canvas.
Sorting pills on the plane…
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Heading back to LA, risking more SkyMall exposure
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
I wonder if Essie will be able to make it all the way back to LA without buying a marshmallow gun with laser sights or inflatable movie screen.
Minneapolis, where the Manischevitz never ends!
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Worst transliteration ever!
Friday, April 10th, 2009
Chad gad-yo?
Ey-lee-yo-hu?
The transliterations in the ancient Manischevitz Haggadah are befuddling to me, maybe because they’re just nutty, or maybe because I was raised with to pronounce Hebrew with a more Sephardic pronunciation.
These transliterations crack me up, I’d be curious whether they make sense to anyone.
Ey-lee-yo-hu?
The transliterations in the ancient Manischevitz Haggadah are befuddling to me, maybe because they’re just nutty, or maybe because I was raised with to pronounce Hebrew with a more Sephardic pronunciation.
These transliterations crack me up, I’d be curious whether they make sense to anyone.
This is the wine of affliction
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
I think the Jews developed this wine, as well as its Kedem and Manischevitz siblings, in order to smuggle sugar out of Egypt during the exodus. It is truly a struggle, and ultimately, an achievement to finish four full glasses of the stuff –and here outside Israel we get to drink our way out of Egypt two nights in a row, and we drink it all, year after year. That’s the kind of stuff we’re made of. Yah!
