Dave Metzener's Posterous

Just testing Instagram's location setting

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:29:55 -0700

Taken at country lane woods

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Untitled

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:26:45 -0700

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Wonderful ice world

Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:28:05 -0800

Taken at country lane woods

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Christmas Tree 2010

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:35:56 -0800

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Elements Of Twitter Style

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:49:21 -0700

Twitter has become hugely popular and is only getting bigger. Some users don’t understand that the formatting and content of their tweets has a huge impact on how well or poorly they are received as individuals, and by extension, how likely they are to be followed.

via red-sweater.com

A great style guide for Twitter! Please folks, if we all follow a standard style, Twitter will be an incredibly useful source of information.

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No, George Lucas, I Will NOT Buy Star Wars on Blu-Ray - Star Wars - io9

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:07:46 -0700

According to Lucasfilm, the Star Wars saga is slowly but surely making its way to the HD format. Are you really gonna pony up to own these films again? And again...and again?

via io9.com

NO! I will not go out and buy yet another copy of Star Wars. I have VHS and DVD versions of the first 3 movies (IV, V, and VI), and I have DVD versions of all 6 movies. I'm not about to go out and buy 6 more DVDs, Blu-Ray or no.

I'll be renting them from Netflix.com when the time comes that I want to watch them in HD.

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Steve Jobs Responds to Gizmodo (iPhone 4G)

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:04:13 -0700

via youtube.com

Great video by Hoggworks Studios about the Gizmodo iPhone 4G fiasco!

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Craig Hockenberry is boycotting gizmodo...

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:20:08 -0700

Until Gizmodo publicly apologizes to Gray Powell, this is going to be in my /etc/hosts and in all of the DNS servers under my control:
127.0.0.1        gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1        www.gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1        m.gizmodo.com
127.0.0.1        gawker.com
127.0.0.1        www.gawker.com
127.0.0.1        m.gawker.com
The person at fault is the shithead who stole the phone, not some overworked engineer drinking beer.

Please vote with your attention and do the same. Thanks!

(Thanks to @sebastianlewis for the idea.)

Update: I can’t believe there are some people defending Gizmodo’s actions. Let’s put the shoe on your foot:

You’re drinking beer with some friends.

You leave your wallet behind at the bar.

Some stranger finds your wallet and opens it up. Inside is a naked picture of your partner.

That stranger finds a website that wants to post the picture and they sell your wallet intact for $1.

Your partner finds their naked body on the Internet. Shit hits the fan. HARD.

The site that posted the pictures looks at the ID in the wallet and calls up with an offer to return the wallet. “Don’t worry, all the money’s still there!”

Then that website posts another article saying how dumb you were for leaving your wallet behind. And instantly millions of people associate your name with a stupid mistake.

How do you feel now?

Update: If you’re the kind of person who forgets that you edited your hosts file, use Marco Arment’s IP address of 66.135.33.106 instead of 127.0.0.1.

via furbo.org

I'm right there with him. This whole iPhone 4G thing has gone way out of control and gizmodo is right in the middle of it.

I've followed his suggestion and told my /etc/hosts file to take me to 127.0.0.1 when ever I accidentally attempt to head over to gizmodo or gawker. They don't deserve the hits until they reconcile.

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Dailymotion - PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. - une vidéo Art et Création

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:50:16 -0700

via dailymotion.com

Amazing real world/CGI animation!

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More Subliminal Pac-Man - Epic Win FTW

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:12:51 -0700

Check out more Epic Win!

via epicwinftw.com

Now that's a great pic! :)

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whiskey vapor : naked-sushi: ...

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:30:46 -0700

via whiskeyvapor.com

Really wild looking cloud and rain formation!

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20GB in 1980 vs. 32GB in 2010 | Cheated by life

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:24:22 -0700

via cheatedbylife.com

A nice example of miniaturization over the course of 30 years. :)

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The Video Game Bosses' Lament - CollegeHumor video

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:39:02 -0800

via collegehumor.com

Wow, there are some amazingly talented folks out there.

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Great creative video - Via: 1FPS

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:01:00 -0800

Cycles, by cyriak

I have to agree with Phil Ryu: this short is far more interesting than Logorama. The song, also called “Cycles,” is for sale too.

via davebc.com

All I can say is... WOW!

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Hands On: Unboxing the Fake Intel Core i7-920 - Gearlog

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:16:54 -0800

By now, you've probably seen many of the homemade videos from people who ordered an Intel Core i7-920 processor from Newegg.com and received a bogus processor and hunk of plastic shaped like a fan. Newegg has thrown supplier IPEX Infotech of Freemont California under the bus for this fiasco; in a statement released to Information Week, the retailer said, "We have since come to discover the CPUs were counterfeit and are terminating our relationship with this supplier."

via gearlog.com

OMG! That's amazing. At first I felt that NewEgg was at fault, at least that is what I was getting from the article. After reading further I found that NewEgg was buying the "processors" from a supplier: IPEX Infotech of Freemont California.

NewEgg has terminated the relationship with the supplier and hopefully will be either refunding the folks who were screwed or sending them a real i7 processor.

Wow, I hope IPEX gets sued to bankruptcy! That's just unbelievable.

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RIAA Claims File Sharers Are 'Undermining Humanitarian Efforts In Haiti', But Leaves Out The Facts | Techdirt

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:19:17 -0800

Wow. The RIAA is getting seriously desperate these days. In the past, at least, its arguments made a little bit of sense, if you didn't understand the details or have the data. But these days, they're really reaching. We've already covered Mitch Bainwol's bizarre attempt to link Chinese hackers breaking into Google with copyright law -- despite the two being totally unconnected. And, now, the RIAA is claiming that P2P file sharers are "undermining" humanitarian efforts in Haiti. Now that's quite a claim, and you would think the RIAA would have some evidence to back it up, but (of course), it doesn't. It's just making stuff up.

via techdirt.com

All I can say is: Wow RIAA, what a load of crap!

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Worlds Fastest Lego Mindstorm RCX Speedcubing Robot

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:18:59 -0800

via youtube.com

Wow, that's simply amazing. Not so much that a computer hooked up to a Lego Mindstorm robot could solve Rubic's cubes, but that the robot itself can actually do all the spinning without dropping the cube or falling apart.

The robot looks like something out of a SciFi movie, but man does it do what it's built to do and fast!

Cool stuff!

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Silly to make way for sophisticated in App Store

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:38:03 -0800

Super-smart iPhone apps will replace silly iFart-like apps in the second wave of iPhone app development, said iPhone app developers at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco last week.

“If you want your app to kick ass today, it must be more sophisticated,” says Mike Goos, director of product management at Frog Design, a 40-year-old design firm that launched a division for mobile app development last year.

via macworld.com

It makes sense. However, what "silly" is making way for these days is PORN.

If you watch the new apps being published like I do, you will see about 20%-30% of all the new apps being approved are "porn" apps. Now, when I say porn, I'm not talking XXX stuff here. I'm talking the NC-17 stuff that Apple is approving like gangbusters. They are filling all the categories too, not just Entertainment, but Utilities, Lifestyle, Photography, Games, etc...

If Apple is going to approve all these stupid porn apps, the least they could do is create a separate category for them so that we can ignore the category if we want to and not have to see them flooding in.

Anyway, minus the porn apps, I do hope that more sophisticated apps start pouring in. It would certainly make a pleasant change from what is coming in now.

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1FPS (“Hewlett Packard computers are racist. And the...)

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:03:30 -0800

“Hewlett Packard computers are racist. And the worst part is: I bought one for Christmas.”

via blog.davebc.com

Sometimes you just have to laugh... :)

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"Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq": 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered - whitehouse - Gizmodo

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:27:36 -0800

According to the AP, soon-to-be-heroic technicians have uncovered 22 million email messages from the George W. Bush administration—far more than the Bush White House said they'd lost in the first place.

via gizmodo.com

Holy crap! I really hope that there are some really incriminating messages in there that will ultimately send Bush and Cheney behind bars for a long time!

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