tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63706583782714349882024-03-05T20:56:24.555-05:00TeamPaulCkirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.comBlogger166125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-77822551543656031652013-05-13T13:06:00.001-04:002013-05-13T13:06:19.930-04:00Black HolesI love Google+, it is fantastic for many reasons, let me give you one.
Right now I am having a discussion on Google+ on black holes and how exotic matter influences them. Now, I am certainly no expert on black holes, but the experts don't seem to mind holding my hand and helping me to understand.
Take THAT Facebook.
kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-39281964897046733972013-05-13T13:03:00.000-04:002013-05-13T13:03:36.687-04:00Relax...I get to work fairly early (6 a.m.), I just wake up early. I work all day and at the end of the day I am frustrated. Not overly so, I think its a normal amount. I am frustrated at the technical debt that my company is paying off, I am frustrated that sometimes I feel like I am adding to it, I am frustrated that we had a free company lunch on the day that the cafeteria had kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-31284983864315895492013-05-10T13:12:00.000-04:002013-05-10T13:12:25.117-04:00Parris, we hardly knew ye...Parris used to work with me, when he left, I sent this email mourning his imminent departure. This was several months ago, but somebody just reminded me of it, so I thought that I would post it here. This is the unedited email that sent, typos and all.
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As I am sure you are all painfully aware, Parris will be leaving
the show at the end of this kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-72623271960625544532013-04-29T07:56:00.002-04:002013-04-29T07:56:58.623-04:00That wolf better have papers.In a twist reminiscent of the Twilight Zone, there is talk about taking gray wolves off of the endangered species list. Their numbers have grown such that there are enough to be a sustainable community. Good.
BUT, the MEXICAN Gray Wolf is still going to be endangered, and thus it will still be a federal crime to shot one.
SO, check the papers on the next gray kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-38778511997638411992013-04-29T07:48:00.000-04:002013-04-29T07:52:20.072-04:00The Radicalization of AmericaSorry for the long hiatus, but I'm back...
I understand that we have concerns about the "radicalization" of young Muslims. Is it a valid concern? I certainly think so. Its far too easy to fire people up and make them do crazy and violent things. And even if they don't do something crazy, just having radical people in the wild is not good for society. It creates discontent, unrealistic societal kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-59555464134262653302011-04-25T07:34:00.008-04:002011-04-25T08:06:54.452-04:00Rebecca Black, best video everThere, I said it.I think that the Rebecca Black music video "Friday" is one of the top 10 Music videos of all time. Yes, I don't like it personally. I am 45 years old and I don't give a shit WHICH seat you choose while "kickin it" and the fact that you wake up with makeup on both scares and annoys me. BUT, I am not in 8th grade. Also, learn to sing in tune so that you don't need that dam kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-39298179785731784452010-09-09T07:26:00.001-04:002010-09-10T07:50:09.597-04:00Why I’ll never buy motorolaRead this article about the latest generation of Android handsets from Motorola and why they are so hard (maybe impossible) to hack. OK, THATS why I wont buy motorola headsets anymore. Moto is saying that if I purchase their phone that I can not then subsequently upgrade, modify or otherwise play with my phone. So you SOLD me a phone for $500, and I cant play with it? Ok, I only paid $200 cash kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-20515818506445153282010-09-09T07:25:00.001-04:002010-09-10T07:49:21.620-04:00The Droid X has been rooted…Reading that headline you might be thinking “Great PaulC, welcome to 2 weeks ago.” BUT, lemme ‘splain. The new Droids have a new feature called “efuse” that is built into the CPU. Efuse is used to confirm that the kernel on the phone is valid, if its invalid the phone can be bricked. NOW, Motorola DOES use efuse for its latest Android handsets BUT they don’t use the brick feature, they just bootkirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-33416625590469058042010-08-26T08:46:00.007-04:002010-08-26T09:05:25.919-04:00New Google voice featuresSO,now that Google is finally integrating the integration of the VOIP provider that they purchased, we can now get some of that voice over IP love in Google voice that we have been craving.The "call phone" button just showed up in my GMail today, so thats cool, I can call people from within GMail. yeah, I guess thats cool, I have a microphone and a headset, so why not. BUT, when I go to google kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-74774686949254039162009-12-30T12:43:00.001-05:002009-12-30T12:43:42.121-05:00Bruce Schneier on securityBruce Schneier’s blog “Schneier on Security” covers everything from cryptography to terrorism and in this day and age I would call it a “must read” for every American. Period. He’s pretty level headed and many of his posts talk about how the government uses “movie-plot threats” to keep people afraid and to appear as if they are doing something useful. Anyway, he has a new article on CNN that I kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-90347762170262759152009-12-30T10:25:00.001-05:002009-12-30T10:25:30.549-05:00Peanut ButterOk, you know that I loves me some peanut butter, but I really hate hydrogenated oils (well, hydrogenated anything really), so I have been buying natural peanut butter lately; saltless, sugarless abomination. Its actually pretty unpalatable and makes me want to punch a baby. BUT, if you lay down some honey on your toast, THEN the natural peanut butter, its all good. The problem with natural kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-52213302363325696202009-12-28T12:18:00.001-05:002009-12-28T12:18:42.489-05:00YAPR #2Or “Why is your site so dam slow?” I can not believe how many sites take more than 10 seconds to load, its absolutely astounding. Pay attention and note how many times you have to wait for a page to load, its unacceptable. I get that there may be some congestion in the pipes and that will slow down the interwebs, but that is rarely the problem, its almost always bad site design. When I go to akirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-87719767854097621342009-12-27T23:13:00.001-05:002009-12-27T23:13:18.467-05:00YAPCASo Andy and I have had several discussions lately, and as you would probably predict, we end up using the same argument to make the same point in multiple discussions. So we started naming them. Hey, it made sense at the time, and in fact, its a handy shortcut. For example in our discussions regarding the Verizon early termination fee, I used both the Dvorak Keyboard argument as well as the Star kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-73937844815365724792009-12-27T19:12:00.001-05:002009-12-27T19:12:37.896-05:00Cookbook errataEveryone go  get your Malecha Valek Family Cookbook, I’ll wait here. Got it? Good, turn to page 346 (note that page 347 is “Chocolate Revel Bars” so I KNOW that you have it bookmarked) make the following changes to the recipe “Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies”: It should be 12 oz chocolate chips, not 6 recipe is missing 1 tsp salt (kosher is best, no iodine taste.) That is all. kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-40541380859834968992009-12-22T17:57:00.001-05:002009-12-22T19:34:15.705-05:00StoneKettle StationEvery week or two I cruise through my list of “Recommended sources” in Google reader. Sometimes I get lucky and find a good blog, but I rarely find a GREAT new blog, and I FREQUENTLY find really bad blogs. Part of the problem is that I tend to fall on both sides of almost any issue. :( Guns. Love ‘em. Gimme. Want. BUT, I don’t want to carry it around and I don’t want YOU to either.  They kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-31996282699512393352009-12-22T09:29:00.001-05:002009-12-22T09:29:26.346-05:00New WorkflowOn December 11th Twitterfeed stopped feeding my blog posts to Facebook, but the Twitter feed was still fine. The only answer that I could find was “its a free service, what do you expect?”  Wow. Well, fair enough, it is a free service. I really like twitterfeed’s UI and the bit.ly integration, but being down for a week and a half just wasn't worth it to me, so I switched (back) to  kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-28742123983771668742009-12-17T18:21:00.001-05:002009-12-17T18:21:49.664-05:00EngrishYou know how sometimes we make random sounds that SOUND like a specific foreign language, but aren’t? Think Eric Cartman in “The China Problem”, or the Swedish Chef, or anytime that PaulC cooks French food. See here’s the thing, English is “foreign” to a LARGE majority of the worlds population, so what does English sound like to non English speakers? Thankfully in 1972 some Italians recorded a kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-76042490968891586722009-12-17T09:29:00.001-05:002009-12-17T09:29:16.319-05:00I AM a great dancer…I think that Dr. Peter Lovatt is my new hero, nay, I will go so far as to say my new SUPER HERO.  First of all, his area of specialty is “Psychology of dance”; too funny. Sure you COULD call him a “cognitive psychologist”, but really, why would you? Does he have an advanced degree in the “Psychology of dance” and work at IBM? No, he actually runs The University Dance Lab at Hertfordshire, kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-55601755766957396002009-12-15T11:07:00.001-05:002009-12-15T11:15:52.475-05:00Hybrid HysteriaOk, really, this hybrid shit has GOT to stop. Yes, I get that you can make an all electric car that hauls ass and takes names for a mere $125,000. And strictly from a “wow, that is SO cool” perspective, I have to say, wow, that is so cool. But come on, can we PLEASE get real? And I don’t mean “real” as in a Toyota Prius. Are you kidding me? The NEXT generation, that will be out in TWO YEARS does kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-47822630604812593302009-12-15T10:18:00.001-05:002009-12-15T10:22:44.726-05:00Passwords and SynchronizingSo as you undoubtedly know, Andy, Sam, Hanson and I got new Droids a few weeks ago, and the shinyness STILL hasn’t worn off yet. They are great little phones and every day I find something that makes me go “oh, yeah!” Then I spend a day or two playing with the new feature/software, and it either gets rolled into the PaulC SOP or discarded. Well this week I have TWO new applications that have madekirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-13945383306156743732009-12-12T19:25:00.001-05:002009-12-12T19:25:07.526-05:00Country CaptainMelanie asked me to post this recipe, its a good and easy chicken dish. Turn the oven to 400F. Throw your biggest frying pan on the stove and crank it to high. Get a 6 pack of bone in, skin on, chicken thighs. That is, by far, the best part of the chicken; tender, juicy, and with the bone in the flavor is outstanding. Rinse them off with cool water, then run them through some flour mixed kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-22838472128688686362009-12-12T09:10:00.002-05:002009-12-13T11:36:30.071-05:00Qik see what happensZowers. So Qik just updated their Android client to fix a few bugs and add Chinese language support; this caused it to to bubble to the top if the TeamPaulC information pile. Its basically a service that allows you to upload streaming video files and share them on the Qik site as well as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. They even have a live url that shows what the user is currently streaming (kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-37840089107508952952009-12-10T09:51:00.001-05:002009-12-10T09:51:40.278-05:00ZemantaI was talking to Andy about fixing his blog layout and I suggested that he try Zemanta, he did both, and wow. Now I can ALMOST read his blog, there are still a few minor issues like the comments are black text on dark grey which is very difficult to read. But now I can see that he has photos on his blog! yay! Zemanta has a plugin for Microsoft Live Writer or you can use it as a web app via a kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-35113727819897278132009-12-08T10:02:00.003-05:002009-12-08T10:05:03.406-05:00YAPR #3ZOMG! LOOKOUT! ITS ANOTHER PAULC RANT! RRRRRUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!! Seriously, duck AND cover. Uncle Pat and Andy were kind enough to open the Climategate discussion in a private email thread. Andy is 27 years old and Pat is my older brother, so I felt like I could let loose on them, so I did. In fact, Andy may still be crying in a corner, if you see him, give the little guy a hug. :| This has kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6370658378271434988.post-82554036003403108032009-11-22T12:19:00.002-05:002009-11-22T12:20:42.729-05:00Religious Right == Taliban?Hole EE Cow “There are not many steps left on this insane path.” Look, I get that its an 8 minute video, but you really need to watch it.kirwooddhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461069606353975518noreply@blogger.com10