Drive Safe with Biz Markie
Did you catch the Heineken beer commercial featuring Biz Markie’s classic “Just a Friend?” I like the singing cab driver.
Passion
The Dedication of Team Jacob
Talk about dedication! For New Moon, Taylor Lautner got pumped, and he’s maintaining his physique while on set by working out from the back of a car. Check out this video but mute the sound (some loud background noises).
That’s some dedication by Team Jacob.
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Mother’s Day is coming up, you know.
Cheryl Burke’s Real Strategy of Winning Dancing with the Stars
Ah, now I get it! It’s so obvious, but I missed the big picture of Cheryl Burke’s Dancing with the Stars strategery. In Week 6 of DWTS, I took a look at each couple’s strategy of winning the competition. Basically, I thought Cheryl Burke’s strategy for Gilles Marini was showcasing only this Frenchman’s dancing skills. But let’s take a look at the past weeks shall we?
In Weeks 1-4, Cheryl and Gilles indeed focused on the dancing artform. Then in Week 5 came Gilles’ “pecs-o doble” where he started the routine shirtless.
Week 6’s jive featured Gilles and Cheryl in form fitting black leather outfits.
Cheryl and Gilles danced the Viennese Waltz in Week 7, but in preparation, Cheryl had Gilles practice his fluidity with a synchronized swimming instructor which yielded this.
And most recently in Week 8, Gilles flashed the fans his beans and frank via the old moose knuckle.
You see the trend here? It’s not just Gilles’ superb dancing on display. Oh no, Cheryl’s strategy of showcasing the wares of her man candy is in full effect and might lead her to yet another championship. Very, very clever Miss Burke.
Gearing Up with Ultra Trance 09
Needed some new take-me-away tunes so bought the newly released Ultra Trance 09 from 
. 24 tracks for $16 and available for download right now!
From Fly to Amazing
From fly white guy, we go to bad a$$ brother who did some “Amazing” work while in Hawaii. Check out Kanye West’s video of Amazing featuring a ton of unreal scenery from the 808.
Loving My Nike Structure Triax+ 12
My Nike Air Moto 6+ running shoes were already wearing down so I picked up the Nike Structure Triax+ 12 in silver and black.
So far, loving these shoes. Usually, I go for the cushioned ride provided by Air Max technology, but the Structure has responsive Nike Zoom instead. I think the Foot Bridge is giving the stability and comfort I need.
All this tech including the Nike+ iPod integration ain’t helping my runs but the runs ain’t hurting me either so it’s all good.
Who Pushed the LOST and Ace of Cakes Turbo Button?
Wow, who pushed the turbo button? All of a sudden there’s a bunch of hits coming in to Pulpconnection. Hmmm, looks like the topic of the LOST cake created by the Ace of Cakes crew is trending. I haven’t seen last night’s LOST special, but I’m guessing the show talked about the cake made for LOST’s 100th episode?
A picture of the LOST cake is in this post. But the source of these pics is Jorge Garcia himself from his Dispatches from the Island. If you want to read about the Ace of Cakes season finale taping, this is the post you’re looking for.
New Cast Members of New Moon
Did you catch the new cast members joining the Twilight saga in New Moon? No? Then here’s a useful video rundown.
Wanted: Tweetie Groups
The new Mac desktop Twitter client, Tweetie for Mac, is great but has some missing features (it’s only v1.x you know). One feature that I would like to see is the inclusion of groups. As the number of Tweeters you follow grows so does your timeline, and keeping up with the various conversations gets harder and harder. That’s where groups come into the story.
With groups, you can assign users to defined groups to better segment and track conversations. Natively, Twitter doesn’t support groups so third party Twitter clients like TweetDeck have implemented their own groups solution (though Ginx.com has developed a groups solution within the confines of the Twitter API).
Typically, groups in Twitter clients are handled with another column or window for each group. From an UI perspective, I wonder how Tweetie would address groups. The Tweetie interface is single column focused though you can open more windows with tear off searches. Right now, Tweetie color highlights conversations, and I wonder if this technique could apply to groups? Assign users to groups and assign a color to that group. Any conversation from grouped users would be highlighted in your normal timeline.
To augment this color coding, there should be a keyboard shortcut to toggle between only tweets from a group and all tweets in your timeline. Maybe there would be a tiny image graphic in user’s “speech bubble” when double clicked would show only tweets of that group.
Hmmm… what if users belonged to more than one group? Drats, back to the drawing board.
Extra DWTS Videos
Normally, I post only my favorite Dancing with the Stars performance in my weekly recap. This week though, there were several solid performances, so I had to add bonus material.
Here’s Mark Ballas and Shawn Johnson doing a cha cha cha to Michael Jackson’s PYT.
Later on, I’ll post Melissa and Tony’s intricate Argentine Tango. As promised, here is “Maneater” Melissa with an almost perfect routine.