Anybody who says your fish don’t go nuts for Arcti-Pods is full of it! Here’s proof. I screwed up and missed the Royal Gramma though, he’s just to the right of the camera view. 
Afternoon snack time…
My girlfriend started it… I swear! She took a video of our new clown fish and their host anemone. I liked it so much, I put it on YouTube. (Like anyone else in the world gives a crap about our fish)
Now I just made a new one. Couldn’t help myself, everything looked so nice this morning.
The first video…
The latest video….
Okay, the whole “Draft Spec” is getting ridiculous. Now they’re saying 2008 to 2009 for the official spec release of 802.11n. Just a heads up guys… smarter consumers just aren’t buying it. We’re not going to buy your “draft” 802.11n gear just to temporarily get some faster speeds. Buying now will inevitably lead us into having to buy new gear when the next “draft” or the final release of the spec comes out. The more intelligent consumer has already run their cables in their walls and doesn’t mind plugging in for some real speed. I personally use 802.11g Wi-Fi to surf and such, but when it’s time to stream HD video or do some heavy data moving, i’m all about that gigabit copper connection in the wall. Oh sure, maybe it’s a bit overkill for what I do with it… but I never wonder if it’s the network… Never.
And the other thing… how many YEARS does it take to create a specification? I realize that this is some complicated stuff… i’m not doubting that or trying to downplay the complexity of Wi-Fi. But I have a feeling that there are now a lot of players involved and the spec is really getting held up more by political problems, rather than actual technical issues. This always happens. In the early days of a technology, it’s just a few smart guys in a room who build something neat and make a product out of it. Once it catches on, the big business gets involved and then the consumer sits and waits while everyone argues about what color the new logo is going to be.
So, let’s just hope that this spec makes the grade. Every review i’ve read for the original 802.11n Draft spec has been dismal at best. I have to be honest, I haven’t been impressed with wireless gear since the days of the early Cisco/Aironet 802.11b products. I’ll probably never have kids because of the waves those things put out, but man did they have some range! Then again, that was commercial grade wireless. I have yet to be impressed with consumer grade wireless. The signal is always poor, the antennae are always crap, and the features are always lacking. “Good enough for most people” is about the best I can hope for with consumer grade.
Good luck 802.11n! I wish you well and hope you’ll bring me some decent speeds… but after the recent announcement of yet another draft and yet another delay, my hopes aren’t exactly high. But hey, there’s a new logo out! That’s important when marketing a technology! Get the logo done!
One final note on this one… Nice trick here guys. Very nice. Two drafts and a final spec = 3 lines of products… that means there is potential for people to buy their gear THREE TIMES! Woo hoo! Good for you! You’ve figured out how to sell nearly identical hardware three times!
In a previous posting. I cited the past history of Nintendo and their unwillingness to allow violent games to be published on their systems in the US. They’re “protecting” us.
DailyTech published an article today that shows how Nintendo AND Sony have both decided not to allow the new Rockstar title to be published on their consoles. I bet Rockstar is PISSED because of all of the times they’ve given Sony the edge on previous titles.
I hate to say it (again), but it looks like the X360 is the only console vendor right now that wants us to buy games, even if they’re 100% for adults only. I can’t believe Sony and Nintendo would be this shortsighted with their consoles. But hey, I don’t have to buy them either. 
(in protest of the name being changed from “Revolution” to “wii”, the word “we” will be incorrectly spelled “wii” throughout this article)
So, if I hear one more thing about the “amazing power” of the Wii, I think i’m going to vomit. I’ve had many gaming consoles over the years, dating all the way back to the Atari 2600, Intellivision, and Colecovision… I have pretty much owned all of the major ones and several of the obscure ones. I just don’t get the fascination of Wii. It’s a Gamecube with a trick controller! Sure sure, it has more horsepower than the GC, but not a ton.
The other thing.. have wii forgotten about Nintendo? Have wii forgotten about the days of the NES? When vendors were strong armed into selling more Nintendo. Does anyone remember that when Nintendo was in power, you had to agree to certain “conditions” to stock Nintendo products? Here’s a good one… you had to stock MORE Nintendo than any other competing product in order to stock Nintendo. If were a Sega shop, you had to make sure to have more Nintendo products on display at ALL times, otherwise Nintendo would pull your card. So basically, they got in early and got the big titles, then proceeded to break every rule of fair competition. Granted, they’re not the only ones… most companies have done it at one time or another. But still… practices like this should be discouraged by voting with our dollars and not buying things from people with horribly crappy business practices.
The other thing… violent video games. Sure sure… wii need parental controls in video games. Educated parents can disable all violent games in modern consoles like the X360. Of course, most parents don’t ever bother to look at all of those ratings and such that get shoved down my throat. So, I applaud Nintendo for their efforts in stopping excessive violence in video games, but hey, i’m an adult and I WANT MY EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE!!!! Don’t take away my right to be an adult.
So yeah, let’s not forget what the gaming world was like under Nintendo’s reign. Think twice and vote with your dollars. Rent games, get demos, don’t just buy everything b/c it looks hot on the TV commercial. Demand that game producers provide those demos and PROVE that their games are good by letting you play them. Shop smart people… these companies will OWN us (again) if wii don’t start shopping smart.
And really people… it’s a controller with a motion sensor in it. Come on now…
(The Intellidick.com blog will now return to the normal way of spelling we.)
I just wanted to say a kind few words about a really pleasant shopping experience I had today. In the never ending quest for neat aquatic stuff, we stumbled upon Rod’s Reef in DeKalb, IL. That’s about 40 miles from my house, but i’ve heard LOTS about this place. He makes his own food and has a famous pair of Onyx Clowns that he breeds. And it’s not like I haven’t driven further to go to other shops.
Anyway, long story short, this is apparently a small shop with one guy at the helm. He’s a really nice and helpful guy that obviously LOVES the marine aquarium hobby. He’s got lots of tank setups that are obviously not for sale, so he’s just doing it because he’s into it. The guy has multiple fish that will eat out of his hand and such. It’s really amazing.
Another note is the fact that he didn’t try to push anything on me. He sells food and he’s proud of it, but he never tried to hard sell it to me. He just told me about how he makes it and all of the ingredients that are in it and what it’s good for. That’s absolutely fantastic. I did buy some of his food because i’d heard lots of good things from other people. That stuff makes my fish go WILD! My anemone loves it as well and was perky for hours after being fed some of Rod’s food. So, he’s definitely got a reason to brag!
So, if you’re ever in the DeKalb area, call Rod and stop by his shop. He’s a great guy to talk to and it’s worth the drive. I’ll definitely be returning there for some more of Rod’s food. I don’t think my fish can go back to their old flake food after this stuff. Between this an Arti-Pods, I should have some really happy fish.
If you’re interested, there is a link to his site on my fish links section. CALL FIRST though… he’s apparently a one man show and sometimes things come up that keep him away from the store.
So, we got all excited, bought some more live rock and a second Hydor Koralia pump… we pulled the fish out along with all of the rock, moved the return into the center of the tank, and then split the live rock into two sections. We re-inserted the coral beauty and he acclimated to living on one side of the tank. We re-inserted the Royal Gramma on the other side of the tank… and he acclimated to living on the same side of the tank as the beauty does… so now I have two giant mountains of live rock, and both fish living on one side.
The moral of this story is, you can lead a fish to water… but you can’t make them live on opposite sides of the tank.
Okay people… get a domain name with some style to it. <yourname>.com is silly. Don’t get that one. (And don’t get the .net/.org/.info/.us/.wtf variant either.) Get something with some style to it. How about something with humor?
Take this domain for example… Intellidick. Still love it. What does it mean? Nothing. Nothing at all. It started out as a joke gift from a friend, but I just think it’s funny so I keep it. It makes me smile when people ask me what my web site is and I tell them.
UnixWarHammer.com, although I don’t really use it anymore… I still love it. (That’s why I bought it!)
Some other classics from friends and other various sites i’ve seen.
Dopplercow, Wickedtiki, SquishyPickle, NuclearElephant… *chuckle*. NuclearElephant gets me every time.
Anyway, enjoy yourself people. It’s funny. Laugh at it.
So, apparently I have a crappy memory. I apparently tell people the same thing on a repeated basis because I can’t remember that I have told them already.
What the hell man? I can remember the shortcut keys for applications I used 20 years ago! I can remember faces! I can remember places! Now… can I remember that I already sent you a link to a funny article yesterday? No. I can’t. Maybe it’s just that I don’t remember irrelevant or unimportant stuff. I’d love to believe that one. Based on the fact that I can’t remember my girlfriend’s birthday, i’d say that’s wrong. Especially considering the fact that it’s two days after a major holiday. Or is her birthday irrelevant to me? No, not really. I just have a shitty memory for this sort of thing?
So hey, if I sent you a link to this post yesterday and I send it to you again today? I forgot. Deal with it.
PLAY IT AGAIN ED!
The joy of running content management systems like WordPress and image galleries like Coppermine is trying to find a theme that has been ported to both of them. Needless to say, this blog and the accompanying photo gallery don’t match… It’s not because I couldn’t find a port of the Ocadia theme, it’s because the port of the theme to CPG didn’t really work out so well. Fixed width and all kinds of nastiness… About my only choice here is to go to something that has a built in image gallery and blog engine (like BitWeaver) and then have 8,000 features that I don’t use!
This is almost worse than trying to get all of my skins on my desktop applications to match.
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