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I've decided to open up the weblog archive. At one point is was closed off except to registered members due to an incident, However, that company has since closed its doors so they can just eat it. Use the search to find something that youmight be looking for. Maybe you'll find it.

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Saturday was Amy's graduation from Columbia College Chicago (not to be confused with Columbia College Hollywood). And as an extra bonus she graduated with honors! Way to go, baby! It was a nice ceremony and I was able to get some good video (I think - I haven't really checked it yet) so I you might see a clip of it on here after I edit it a bit in Adobe Premier or iMovie. At any rate, it's nice to know that school's is finally done with and now we can focus on other things like buying a home and getting married (yay!) As a bonus for graduating, Amy received a Super Nintendo from Kristen and Cooper along with some fun games. And while Kristen likes to joke that we're 10-20 years behind the times I like to think that we're "trendy". Perhaps the story in today's New York Times (Revenge of Pac-Man: Vintage Games Are Back) explains it best. We're not behind - we're cool :)

Yes, Ronald Regan is dead. Yes, he accomplished a lot in his life. No, I don't think he did more than this man.

Ray Charles, the innovative singer and pianist whose combinations of blues and gospel pioneered soul music and earned him the nickname "the Genius," has died. He was 73. Charles won 12 Grammy awards, including the award for best R&B recording three consecutive years ("Hit the Road Jack," "I Can't Stop Loving You" and "Busted"). His version of Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia On My Mind" was named the Georgia state song in 1979, and he lent his gravelly voice to songs ranging from "America the Beautiful" to "Makin' Whoopee" to the 1985 all-star recording of "We Are the World."

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ATTENTION!! If you have not seen this video yet drop what you are doing and do it NOW!

It's a 3D animation of Soundwave and a casseticon ("Lazer" - not a real Transformer; created for this video) with, in likelihood, some motion-capture used on some real dancers to capture the fluid movements. Mark Wilenkin is the man cited as the compositor and editor and is responsible for the London based firm, Wilenkin Group. Music is credited to "Lazer" - who ever that might be. Any info?

Memorable video moments:
~1:20 into the clip when Soundwave breaks it down. So old-skool
Well, pretty much all of it. The beginning is slow but stick with it!

Memorable audio moments:
"It is the year 2005. The treacherous Decepticions have conquered the Autobots' home planet of Cybertron."
"The evil Decepticon Transformers led by the maniacal Megatron have sworn to crush their enemies, the Autobots. To this end they have relentlessly pursued them across the galaxy from planet Cybertron to planet Earth and back again."
"Soundwave, play back Lazer's high beats."
"As you command."

Sweet Jesus it gives me chills - my weekend has just been made.

Special note: to download and save the video, you'll need two files: TRANSFORMERS_master_320x240.flv - video file as some native Flash animation (21.8 MB) Video_player_06.swf - the player. Once this is downloaded, and after the flv file has been downloaded of course, DRAG this file to your web browser. eNjoy!

MAD props to skallas at "Everything Isn't Under Control" for bringing this to our attention. Some Google-ing leads me to believe this was leaked to the world at the beginning of June.

Update 21 Feb 2005: Wilenkin.com is no more and as such the files are no longer available via Mark's web site. However, the video is still available and I have updated all of the links in my orginal post with new links to the files. Please eNjoy!

Update 5 April 2007: I converted the audio to MP3 awhile ago. Due to the popularity of this video even today I thought that it might be worth throwing the MP3 up here in the original post. Transformer_Breakdance.mp3

This whole Transformer Breakdance video is apparently getting more and more popular every day. tastypopsicle.com has become the destination of people looking for the video. We're glad we can be here to meet your needs and desires. It's neat to be in the top 3 results for a lot of the search terms - and it's even more interesting that even when I'm not the top result, at least tastypopsicle.com is the clearer choice. Let this be a lesson to folks who code and build sites. While I didn't make this video, tastypopsicle.com is ALWAYS a higher result than wilenkin.com - the folks that made this thing. I'm able to achieve this for a couple of reasons: 1) my code is marked-up correctly and is also semantically correct 2) content, content, content It's the words that you choose that make or break you. On the Internet, a picture is NOT worth a thousand words to a search engine like Google - nor is a Flash animation. You can make the best looking thing out there but unless you write about it and talk about it then no one is ever going to know you did it. Here's another one: lets say you wanted to see peoples' opinions about certain products and things. You might very well do a search for rate stuff - correct? Why is tastypopsicle.com 3rd? I have a not-used-at-all, second-rate rating message board that no one uses. But I get a lot of hits from people looking to "rate stuff" so I'm thinking I should do more with it. And you should too!

Google has search engines geared for most of the world. Meaning, when you perform a search from http://www.google.nl you get a search engine in your language and the results that you get are ranked based not on ly on which pages are the most popular, but also which are the most popular in the language(s) of the search site that you used. "But why bring this up, knuckle-head?" you ask. I don't know only that I am the recipient of a lot of searches for the Transformer Breakdance Video coming from http://www.google.com.au, http://www.google.nl, and http://www.google.co.uk. The story of the pop-and-lock Decepticons has crossed the Atlantic ocean. So I just wanted to say Hello, Namaste, Sawasdee, Ni hao, Shalom, Konichiwa, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Dzien Dobry, Hola, Dia Duit, Salam, Ciao, Gooie dag , Hei, Oi, Szervusz, Goddag, Zdravo, Chao, Jambo... to all of you. (I probably screwed that up). You can visit How to say and blame them.

Apple just introduced its new displays. They now come in 3 delicious flavors: 20-inch, 23-inch, and the super duper sized 30-inch cinema display. That's just ill. Unfortunately, the prices are far reaching at this time. The 30-inch is retailing for $3,299.00(US) and will only work with the new G5s. But with all the features like the 2560 x 1600 resolution and 100 ppi (pixels per inch) and 2 port USB 2.0 Hub and 2 FireWire 400 ports this monitor does more than anything else out there - and all from one single cable that plugs into the back of your machine. Oh and because it uses DVI that means you PC users won't be left behind. The Apple monitors will work with your machines as well. Hmmm, that's interesting. The monitors, iPods, iTunes, and Airport Express all work with PCs too. Something tells me Steve Jobs has thought this one through. It will only be a matter of time before people plunk down the money for a Apple Computer. So many other new things were announced by Steve Jobs at the keynote at this year's World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. Like OS X 10.4 Tiger and iChat AV which will support multi-person (up to 10 people) video conferencing. Which, of course, means that you'll want o get an iSight. And lastly, Apple has taken the long independent development of Konfabulator and turned it into Dashboard - even by still calling them widgets. It's great to see this built into the OS now. Developers can still build their own widgets using JavaScript - it just means more people will have access to them now. (Strike that, I just went the Konfabulator web site and Apple did NOT buy the technology behind it. They did what is typical Apple fashion - they did it on their own, probably better, and they have destroyed Konfabulator - ouch!) Oh, PLEASE take a look at these posters hanging up at the conference. "Redmond, start your photocopiers." [note: Redmond is in Washigton (the state) which is where Microsoft is located]