blog.chadbailey.net http://blog.chadbailey.net technology, and making things posterous.com Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:04:00 -0800 Aurora Borealis over Norway http://blog.chadbailey.net/aurora-borealis-over-norway http://blog.chadbailey.net/aurora-borealis-over-norway

Here's some time-lapse video of the Aurora Borealis over Tromsø, Norway. Watch it in HD and full screen—trust me.

(via Devour)

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:17:43 -0800 Google Beatbox http://blog.chadbailey.net/google-beatbox http://blog.chadbailey.net/google-beatbox
Google Translate will speak translations out loud if you click the "Listen" button below the translated text. Combine some foreign language pronunciation with some nonsensical consonant phrases and Google will beatbox for you. Here are some of my favorites--click the "Listen" link below the translated text.

Basic Beatbox: http://is.gd/hXZPu

Slow Beat: http://is.gd/hXZSA
Serbian Techno: http://is.gd/hXZVj
Another Serbian Song: http://is.gd/hXZXY
Classic Techno Beat: http://is.gd/hY0ax

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:48:00 -0700 Seven 9s and 10s - Wynton Marsalis performs Paganini’s Moto Perpetuo... http://blog.chadbailey.net/seven-9s-and-10s-wynton-marsalis-performs-pag http://blog.chadbailey.net/seven-9s-and-10s-wynton-marsalis-performs-pag

Wynton Marsalis performs Paganini’s Moto Perpetuo Op 11.

4:33 seconds with nary a breath. Circular breathing is ridiculously difficult, and playing this transcription would be hard enough just based on the difficulty of the music itself, but combine the music with the circular breathing and you get the definition of a virtuosic performance.

Listen to this even if you don’t like classical music. Try to hold your breath the whole time. Good luck.

via steelopus.com

Give it a listen. Worth four and a half minutes of your time.

EDIT: What the Chinese lack in circular breathing, they make up for with armies of militarily-precise children.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:35:00 -0700 Round Rock Express « the secret lives of prothros. http://blog.chadbailey.net/round-rock-express-the-secret-lives-of-prothr http://blog.chadbailey.net/round-rock-express-the-secret-lives-of-prothr
via prothro.wordpress.com

World-class photographer and person Julie took some awesome photos of the family at a Round Rock Express game. (Take a look at the fourth comment, too.)

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:02:00 -0700 Flying With The Birds on Devour.com http://blog.chadbailey.net/flying-with-the-birds-on-devourcom http://blog.chadbailey.net/flying-with-the-birds-on-devourcom
via devour.com

When I was a kid, I thought the peregrine falcon was totally awesome. Turns out I was right.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Fri, 10 Sep 2010 13:51:00 -0700 All-Star http://blog.chadbailey.net/all-star http://blog.chadbailey.net/all-star

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:06:51 -0700 Nissan GT-R - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://blog.chadbailey.net/nissan-gt-r-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia http://blog.chadbailey.net/nissan-gt-r-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia
In a review by Motor Trend editor Scott Kanemura, it was revealed that the GPS system fitted to the GT-R would remove the 180-kilometer per hour (112 mph) speed limiter when the car arrives at a race track, but only on tracks approved by Nissan.
via en.wikipedia.org

I can't decide if this is totally awesome or totally Big-Brother-ish.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:39:23 -0700 Untitled http://blog.chadbailey.net/25301719 http://blog.chadbailey.net/25301719

I’m getting this helpful error from Lotus Notes about every 15 seconds or so.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:16:00 -0700 ella's schedule http://blog.chadbailey.net/ellas-schedule http://blog.chadbailey.net/ellas-schedule

From Katie:

Happy baby tips: Keep snack traps and sippy cups around for both of them when they get fussy. Stick a whole bunch of crap in a laundry basket (toys, clothes, whatever) and let them dump everything out. Apparently this is very fun. Blow bubbles if you want. Throw babies in the air if necessary.

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Dock of the Bay Wesley Lunsford (via wesleylunsford)

Worth a listen. (And what a long pier!)

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IRON BABY (via PatrickBoivin)

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OK Go - This Too Shall Pass - Rube Goldberg Machine version - Official (via OkGo)

I kind of use this blog as my own ‘repository of internet stuff’ as much as anything else. I wanted to make sure I kept this video around, so that if anyone ever tried to show me a music video that they thought was cool, I could immediately trump them.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:13:29 -0700 Untitled http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/551695610 http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/551695610

marco:

By Topherchris, internet genius.

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Steve Jobs (by Roberto_Garcia)

Unadorned white cup; simple, circular black table; industrial-style chairs; angular, geometric architecture. I bet this guy has enough money to make everything around him in his life look like this.

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It’s made its rounds on the internet today, but this video is classic. A tribute to doing it wrong.

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simpledesks:

Submitted by Andrew Green.

When I have a million dollars, my desk will look precisely like this. Minus all the wires, because by the time I have a million dollars everything will be wireless (and we’ll finally have flying cars).

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:12:15 -0700 Untitled http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/503871190 http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/503871190

We literally wrote the book on RF App Development.

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:52:40 -0700 Untitled http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/489335932 http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/489335932
One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker’s Guide that humankind has yet devised.

Stephen Fry, after a few minutes with an iPad

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:13:19 -0700 Untitled http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/487402422 http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/487402422

How’s your day?

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]]> http://posterous.com/images/profile/unknown75.gif http://posterous.com/people/4wzxP08OQBvb Chad Bailey chadbailey Chad Bailey Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:23:32 -0700 Untitled http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/486915662 http://blog.chadbailey.net/post/486915662

All signs point to Ella being much more like the original Calvin than the one depicted here, which I’m fully in support of.

(via)

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