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Thanks for the Bold, Klout!

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Now this was a welcomed surprise. Klout.com tagged me as an influence on Twitter coffee discussions, and as part of a new experimental promotion, gave me samples of Starbucks coffee. Cool!

No, I didn’t solicit Klout for anything, I just blog and tweet about Starbucks… a lot I suppose. So waiting at home, I found a delivery containing Starbucks’ Pike Place Roast, the bold Caffe Verona, and some coupons.

Oh, and since I did receive these goodies free of charge, I have to disclose that fact. But really, how can you complain about getting free goodies about something you enjoy and love?  And how can you not appreciate a company for rewarding its customers?  So kudos to Klout and Starbucks for a great partnership and promotion!

Now excuse me as a brew my cup of morning coffee.  Will it be Pike Place or Verona? 🙂

Buzz Returns to Earth

On Week 3 of Dancing with the Stars, American icon and astronaut, Buzz Aldrin, returned to Earth after his meteoric dancing voyage. While Buzz had the fan support of the seniors, you kew his dancing time would end sooner rather than later.

Week 3’s performances were pretty weak in my view. No real great dances that stuck out; they were all kinda meh. Derek and Nicole were good but were blasted by the judges for taking too many liberties with their quickstep. Looks like D-Hough changed up his strategy this year and decided to break the rules early in the competition.

The most gimmicky and therefore fun performance belonged to Maks and Erin with a blindfolded waltz.

This blindfolded dance reminded me of other blindfolded moments like Luke Skywalker light saber training or this sudden death ending of Dodgeball.

Time Magazine Reviews the iPad

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This week’s Time magazine features great, well-written articles about Steve Jobs and the introduction of the iPad.  I love these two quotes:

Once upon a time, there was a very rich, very clever man. He got up on a big stage and held up a new kind of computer. It was flat, and it didn’t have a keyboard. This very rich, very clever man then tried to convince a bunch of reporters that in five years this flat, keyboardless computer would be the most popular kind of computer in the country. Some of them even believed him.

The year was 2000. The man’s name was Bill Gates.

One of the things that makes Apple unique is that it never holds focus groups. It doesn’t ask people what they want; it tells them what they’re going to want next.

Give the articles a read even if you’re not an iPad fanboy.

What a Wuss!

Here I am with a coughing fit for the past few weeks.  Then, like last time, all this coughing has strained the muscles around my ribs.  So I’ve been taking anti-inflammatory medication to reduce the pain.  The doc has now prescribed antibiotics, so I’m on Day 2 of the handy “Z pack.”  To top it off, my coughing might be due to allergies which I’ve never had so I got meds for this too.

What a wuss!  Getting old ain’t fun. 🙁

Oh wait, Truly Madly Deeply is playing on KRTR 96.3…

Contrasting Views of the iPad

Here are two contrasting views of Apple’s new iPad, the review from Engadget:

The buyer of an iPad is one of two people, the first is someone who sees not just the present, but the potential of a product like the iPad… and believes in and is excited about that potential. This is also a person who can afford what amounts to a luxury item. The second is an individual who simply doesn’t need to get that much work done, and would prefer their computing experience to be easier, faster, and simpler

and this one:

Rawr

Playing Around with Animoto

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I had heard about the movie making magic of Animoto.com but never really checked it out until now. Very cool and easy to use. For an automated system, the end product is very good. There’s not much you can do to edit the movie but really, you don’t have to. Here’s a movie I “made” from a few still pictures.

Warning: the default audio is very loud. Turn down the volume before you start playing.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Only bummer is that the free version of Animoto limits movies to 30 seconds. Otherwise, you have to pay per movie or an annual fee. Animoto is a well thought out service, covering the basics of movie making to easily sharing the great results.

Pulp on Pad!

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What’s pulp look like on the new iPad? Like this!!

Not mine, but thanks Jason.  I gave this pic a standing ovation when I saw it!

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