The Blog of Hans Eisenman

Executing Rockwell's Oscar Vision

via fastcompany.com

Timelapse video of the stage being set up for the Oscars. The related story on this is quite good as well. An awful lot of work and technology went into Oscar night this year.

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Can't Stop Laughing

via youtube.com

Found this while looking for something a bit more serious and I just had to share it in case anyone else could use a good laugh today. :-D

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Jeff Bezos - Regret Minimization Framework

via youtube.com

This sounds more geeky than it is. Good advice from a smart man!

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How to drown out noise when working from home

via simplynoise.com

This white noise generator is great for toning down sharp noises (like kids playing on trampolines) when you are trying to get a little work done, but don't want musician singing lyrics to you either.

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Try Google Chrome if you haven't already

Google Chrome is the Internet browser program from Google in answer to Firefox and Internet Explorer.  It's deliciously fast and simple.  Just downloaded it.  It also seems as if my fave music site, www.pandora.com, is playing music a little higher fidelity, but that may just be my imagination. 

Have you tried Chrome and if so, do you still use it?

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The Animal Odd Couple

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This is great! Watch it all the way through. We certainly could learn a lesson from these two.

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Fighting 1, Prospering 20

Spend about 1/20th of your day fighting off invaders (bills and collectors, taxes, mental anguish, legal threats, mean people, idiots, conspiracies [real or imagined], etc.) and the rest executing a Prosperity Plan.

To do this any other way is, I'm convinced, is to flirt a little too earnestly with Disaster.

Two years ago I lost a job that was paying probably in the upper .5% for compensation in an area of the country not particularly known for making people affluent.  The company I was working for got taken down by a lawsuit they didn't see coming that had been creeping up on them for two years prior to my even getting there.

In any case, this was a bit of a wake-up call for me.  How dependent I was upon others for my wherewithal!

The following two years I have spent reinventing myself and as a result have cut that dependence on others and put myself and my family into a situation where we are more in charge of our own destiny than ever before.   There are some loose ends to clean up and still a ways to go before we are as prosperous as we intend to be, but the point is: if you put the majority of your attention on getting there and damn the sometimes very noisy and even ugly torpedoes coming your way, you can pull out of any nose dive, even if it takes a while to do it. 

It is so worth doing and in this economy, more than ever!

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Else Cell Phone-Definitely Something Else!

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This is a whole new approach to cell phone user interface (the part the user works with to operate the device). You can run the whole thing pretty much with just your thumb. Wow!

The only thing I'm not seeing is how you would type, but presumably it has a virtual key pad of some kind.

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Techie Word o' The Day: Bricking

When used in reference to consumer electronics, "brick" describes a device that cannot function in any capacity (such as a device with damaged firmware). This usage derives from the fact that some electronic devices (and their detachable power supplies) are vaguely brick-shaped, and so those which do not function are useful only as actual bricks. The term can also be used as a verb. For example, "I bricked my MP3 player when I tried to modify its firmware."^[1]

via en.wikipedia.org

Here's a sentence from a real, live situation I had once: I bricked a pager one time by having it slip off my belt and into a toilet [insert slo-mo imagery of it falling and me grasping for it here].

What's your favorite bricking story?

[Bonus Word o' The Day: If you don't know what "firmware" is, it's the software that runs some devices, like cell phones or routers and it's "firm" because it can't be easily changed or uninstalled. Lots of little appliance type devices have firmware, like your cable TV box for example. Now go back and re-read "bricking" so you understand it! :)]

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HOW TO: Keep Your Facebook Updates Private

via mashable.com

Okay I was going to do a whole tutorial on this and these guys beat me to it so I'll save myself a ton of time and post their hard work instead. (If there are any funny characters when you see this on my blog, you can just click on the images to be taken to the source.)

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