Here are a couple of videos I uploaded last night. I have this posted for family viewing only so don't worry, I'm not sharing this with just anyone… only people I know in person.
Enjoy.
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steelie
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Dairy-free Chocoholic…
Okay, so I love my chocolate… especially dairy-free chocolate (me lactose-intolerant boy). I always find it hard to turn down the dairy-free chocolate… [sigh].
A co-worker showed up today with two containers of one-bite brownies leftover from a presentation/party/function-of-some-sort and she was trying to pawn them off on someone. I performed the standard lactose-intolerant-ingredient-scan before I agreed to anything I might have regretted later. To my absolute delight, these one-bite brownies were dairy-free. I decided to take a few — they are litterally only good for only one bite each.
Well… I was encouraged to take more.
So… I went to take more (I honest-to-God have a problem turning down dairy-free chocolate).
I was encouraged to take even more…
So, I just smiled and grabbed the one of two containers that had fewer brownies in it, while the other one was placed on the counter at the front entrance of our office… on the way to the washrooms… see where I'm going with this?
Okay, so now I have at least a dozen brownies at my desk and I know that I will have to use the washroom a few times today… I just heave a large sigh and concede to the fact that I will have way too many brownies today…
And yup… I did. At last count I had eaten sixteen brownies… I'm quite sure I ate at least twenty.
I feel kinda gross now.
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steelie
Just enough people watched “Nobody’s Watching”…
Well, this makes me very happy…
Not too long ago, I, along with 400,000+ other people were introduced to a canned-pilot-of-a-show called Nobody’s Watching. It was posted “anonymously” (actually by its creator, Bill Lawrence, creator of NBC’s Scrubs) to YouTube.com in three parts, in an attempt to introduce it to an audience that otherwise might have never of heard it. I laughed out loud… at work… repeatedly.
TV.com gives this summary of the show's premise:
“Two guys from Ohio, life-long best friends and devoted TV watchers are unimpressed by the quality of the current sitcoms on TV, far from the classics of old. They send a tape expressing this to all the Network executives in Hollywood and finally the WB answers the call.
The Network challenges them to come up with a better sitcom, and while they do that, they'll work and live on a studio soundstage, in front of cameras and a live studio audience.
While they create a sitcom, it turns out they actually ARE the sitcom. They are always on camera and under the constant supervision and manipulation of the network execs.”
Well, it appears that this once-canned-pilot is finally getting its big shot.
I’m laughing at the thought of it already… Here is the pilot in three parts, if you haven't seen it already… and if you didn’t know about LJ’s YouTube.com integration yet… Enjoy. ;D
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steelie
(heh heh heh)
A fun (but borrowed) idea for a post…
I've been meaning to post for a while but long days, family responsibilities, late-night freelance work makes for a tired steelie. However, I did happen across steph_k_d's lj with a great idea for a post. So, like the previous “Muppet” post, I decided to borrow the idea… at least I'll be posting something. Sorry fiver00, I'll try to post something more substantial soon…
“Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth day and month, but not the year. Then list 3 events, 3 births & 3 deaths that occured on your birthday. Post this in your journal.”
September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). There are 106 days remaining.
Events
1597 – Yi Sun-sin leads 12 ships of the Korean fleet against an invasion by 133 Japanese ships. The Koreans sink 31 enemy ships and force a Japanese retreat.
1956 – Play-Doh is introduced to the world
1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
Births
1925 – B. B. King, American musician (I knew this one already)
1956 – David Copperfield, American magician
1964 – Molly Shannon, American actress
1976 – steelie: Graphic Designer
Deaths
307 – Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder)
1824 – King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
1977 – Maria Callas, American-born soprano (b. 1923)
I also know that the first ever animation featuring Wile E. Coyote and The Roadrunner, “Fast and Furry-ous” was released in 1949. (I’m a long-time Wile E. Coyote fan) 😀
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steelie
A big week ahead…
Well, I decided to write over my initial VOX-test-post with something a bit more substantial… well, short but more significant.
I don't have a lot of time to post about it right now but this week, I've been given way more resposibility than usual. I'm am to essentially oversee all aspects of preparing display and event graphics for an even that happens in four weeks from yesterday. I've never done anything like this before… my managers are on vacation… all co-workers who have previously worked on these types of events — potential resources essentially — are on vacation… and I'm having a bit of brain freeze because I'm not sure of how to start.
I'm sure posting this is not the best use of my time… I don't even know what the event space looks like to plan where any graphics would go… I only found out about this on Friday morning when I was asked to “participate” in a tele-confernece, when in-fact, all I did was stared wide-eyed at a telephone as some disjointed voice — that I only know as JP — laid out the schedule of my life for the next three weeks.
First things first… I need to find out who TF JP is and get info on the space…
Oh, there will be way more to say about this four weeks from now…
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steelie
I’ve decided to get over myself…
For quite some time now, I've been doing the internal debate-thing over how much of myself I would like to share on my blog. I've decided to really just get over myself, stop my internal whining, and post what and when I feel like posting.
My first name is Stephen and my middle name is Elie. I came up with steelie by combining the two names (Stephen+Elie) when I was trying to think up a new name for my graphic design company — Steelie Design Communications — and liked it as a nickname too. I realize this little “coming-out” event of mine is far from a big deal to anyone out there, but it's a big deal to me…
..so, I wrote about it.
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steelie
Blinklife…
If anyone has tried the online-bookmark-managing services of Blinklist, by MindValley,then you may already be familiar with BlinkLife by the same company. It is an email/blog combo service that will “change the way you communicate…” I signed up to test it out.
The service boast an impressive unlimited amount of space, 100% Spam and Virus Proof “email”, video and picture embedding (no attachements) with Blog Integration. That's right, you can embed your video clips from any (any I've tested anyhow) online video hosting services — not just YouTube and Google Video, but other lesser known and better quality services like DropShots, VideoEgg and Vimeo, just to name a few.
Now, I'm trying to find a way to create a family blog where I can invite only certain people (family) to read certain blog entries (which BlinkLife lets me do). However, when I send people email-notifications from my BlinkLife site, people are directed from sent email to my linked “username.blinklife.com” they only get to see the most recent post associated with their name and not all previous posts that have been previously sent to them. Or, at least, this is all my tests have been able to produce.
Here is a scenario that, I hope, illustrates what I am attempting to do:
Let's say I have two groups of contacts. Group A has Scott, Stephen, Marc, and Michelle and Group B also has Michelle and Marc, plus Julien, Gerald, and Thomas. If I send a “post” to Group A, Scott, Stephen, Marc and Michelle will get this message. If I then send a “post” to Group B, Michelle, Marc, Julien, Gerald and Thomas would get the second message. Also If I post a general message to the “blog” anyone and everyone can read it. I understand all of this, however, at this point I would expect Michelle and Marc to be able to see both the first and second “posts” they were sent, AND be able to see the general message that was posted. I would expect this because both messages were associated with their names and the general post is associated with nobody’s and everybody’s name.
What I understood, when I signed up, is that BlinkLife could remember who you sent the individual “posts” to and that every time they clicked on another message-link they were sent, they would always be able to see ALL email/posts that were ever sent to them AND any general messages that were posted — almost like BlinkLife could generate a custom list of “recent entries” for each person that was invited to read a message.
Ultimately it would be great to have different groups of people or individuals, able read different combinations of “recent entries” — which LiveJournal, for example, can do — without the need for everyone to create an account — which LiveJournal, for example, cannot do. Or, maybe, BlinkLife could create an option that would allow people to create “Read/Comment -only” accounts so they don't have to go through the messiness of creating a Blog account if all they want to do is keep up-to-date with what their family members have been up to. This way it would be easy to add the people with the “Read/Comment -only” accounts to a friends list. So far, in my tests, people who have a BlinkLife account CAN see a custom list of “posts” associated with their account and a “Read/Comment -only” option would allow to happen easier. Of course they would always have the option to upgrade to a full BlinkLife “blog/email” whenever they wanted to. 😉
So far, I really like what I see but, unless I'm doing something wrong, the service just seems to missing something for me get into it completely.
Now my fingers are tired and it's late here. I hope it all made sense. BTW, Blinklist is great — all of your bookmarks available all the time… Nice!
Cheers
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steelie
UPDATE (Okay… so it's not really an update because it's being written at the same time the original entry is… What? Okay, fine…)
AFTERTHOUGHT (…happy?)
LiveJournal should create the option for people to create “Read/Comment -only” accounts for all the good reasons listed above… Maybe this should be put in their suggestion box. Oh, and a pull down menu for tags associated with my account… yeah, that'd be cool too.
G'night
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steelie