Harold Check's blog, Offhand Remarks tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-26074 2009-06-15T10:42:36-07:00 TypePad blogging with increasing infrequency since 1997http://www.haroldcheck.com/favicon.icoThis is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Best Chuck Taylor Ad Evar tag:typepad.com,2003:post-68130937 2009-06-15T10:42:36-07:00 2009-06-15T10:42:36-07:00 (via The Big Picture) On a related note: The stuff going on in Iran is simultaneously frightening and thrilling, but mostly thrilling since all of the abuse-of-power elements are pretty much a given, in my worldview. I truly hope they... Harold Check
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On a related note: The stuff going on in Iran is simultaneously frightening and thrilling, but mostly thrilling since all of the abuse-of-power elements are pretty much a given, in my worldview. I truly hope they get some progress out of this cataclysm. Looking at the people taking to the streets, it seems like they deserve it.

http://www.haroldcheck.com/2009/06/best-chuck-taylor-ad-evar.html Minors and "Minority Report" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-67542203 2009-06-02T06:15:25-07:00 2009-06-02T06:15:25-07:00 It occurs to me, watching this Microsoft teaser reel for Project Natal, that it will indeed be the 12-year-old kids that get to live in the sci-fi future while the homicide police, pictured using similar technology* in Minority Report, will... Harold Check

It occurs to me, watching this Microsoft teaser reel for Project Natal, that it will indeed be the 12-year-old kids that get to live in the sci-fi future while the homicide police, pictured using similar technology* in Minority Report, will be stuck with Cold-War-era PCs and old copies of Excel.


* Similar, but more primitive. There were control gloves, as I recall.
 http://www.haroldcheck.com/2009/06/minors-and-minority-report.html This is really funny... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-63262347 2009-02-23T18:46:56-08:00 2009-02-23T18:46:56-08:00 Great bit by Louis CK. Too bad about the resolution and aspect ratio on this YouTube clip. I mean, I'm just broadcasting NETWORK TELEVISION on my BLOG. Why isn't it in HD? Geez... Harold Check <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jETv3NURwLc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jETv3NURwLc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> <p>Great bit by Louis CK. Too bad about the resolution and aspect ratio on this YouTube clip. I mean, I'm just broadcasting NETWORK TELEVISION on my BLOG. Why isn't it in HD? Geez...</p></div> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/HaroldCheck/~4/owXfH4TN6CA" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.haroldcheck.com/2009/02/this-is-really-funny.html I'm So Ready for the Next Four Years... tag:typepad.com,2003:post-61681158 2009-01-20T19:09:13-08:00 2009-01-20T19:09:13-08:00 I got new shoes! Hooray! (And the whole new government administration thing is cool, too.) Harold Check

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I got new shoes! Hooray!

(And the whole new government administration thing is cool, too.)

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