Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Bob Marley (Jam Session)

Today my iPod switch to the Bob Marley song "I shot the Sheriff"  and for the rest of the day I was in a continuous Bob Marley jam session. I was remind how much emotion was in his music. The reason why he is just a beloved artist is you can feel the soul in his music. You feel that whatever he is saying in his songs are a part of him. My favorite Bob Marley song is "is this love" , what is yours?

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

A poem that captured a movie

One of my favorite poems from one of my favorite movies.  This movie captured the reality of falling for someone so deeply that that it feels like that person took residence in your heart and mind . At the end when this poem was read it utterly captured what the movie was about.  I won't ever get tired of watching Eric Schaeffer' s Fall and listening to the poem that solidified the message of the movie.

Eric Schaeffer- Fall (1997)

" I wanted so badly to tell you that I loved you. The words, each time, graced my lips like an impostor, only to fall away like some great blizzard that was taken out to sea to rain it's fury on the dark ocean, alone, unbeknownsnt to any hearing... And whether that day is tomorrow, or next week, or next year, or next lifetime...I will finally get to tell you to your sweet face. The face I will miss more than I could ever tell, that...I love You. And you'll smile wryly, close your eyes, say 'catch me baby,'...and fall."

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Taking the Chromecast to the Next level!

The latest reports from various sources suggest that in the next few days Google will be releasing an update to Chromecast which will include the mirror feature. This feature was first introduce at the Google keynote not to long ago. This feature is for those who have a chromecast a much anticipated feature. One downside  to the Chromecast was that at times if your internet was not particularly strong your Chromecast would not always connect to it. Also for those like me who often find themselves in hotel rooms are often times unable to connect to the Chromecast because of the login page that many hotels have before you can access their wifi. Hopefully with this added mirror feature these problems will be a thing of the past thus making the Chromecast much more of a great product rather than just good.

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Fx (The best network today)

Archer, The Bridge, The Americans, Fargo, Justified, Louie, American Horror Story, Tyrant, and Sons of Anarchy all shows on one of the best networks today, Fx. Fx has become the show hit maker of television today.  Part of the success of the network is that the network takes chances with styles of shows like no one else. Louie for example is not a type of show seen in other networks. Honestly it is not a show for everyone. I personally love the show but to some people I have suggested the show to have had opposite feelings towards the show . I imagine this being the case for the american population were some very much love the show while others sit on the opposite end of the spectrum . American horror stories being another example of the networks ability to take chances. The show has a different story line every season that is a crazy concept. If someone were to tell me years ago that this would be a successful concept for a show I would immediately tell them that no network would go for it merely for the risk factor of losing viewers who do not like the current season's story line. Aside from taking risk the network continues to hit homeruns. This year already the network has brought us Fargo a dark yet comical show that had us yearning for more at the end of each episode and Tyrant a show that depicts a perspective like no other.  I personally can't wait to see what FX bring us next.

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Smart Watches

Smart watches were one of the most important aspects of the Google keynote with the companies LG, Motorola, and Samsung presenting their versions of soon to be released smart watch models. The models presented LG G Watch, Samsung Gear Live, and Motorola 360 looked great and from the first impressions I have seen from various sites seems to preform great as well. One thing keeps looming in my mind however when I think of smart watches " is it a necessity " after all the purpose of a smart watch is that you do not have to take out your phone every time you want to preform a simple task on your phone. However does it really take that much time to take out your phone out to preform that task. Yes, I know there are those situations when it is much more problematic to take out your phone such as in the case in one recent Google commercial of the smartwatch where someone was riding a bike and instead of have to stop to get the phone out to preform a task she simply spoke a command to the smartwatch to complete the task. My thing is are those moments so frequent that it justifies the need for a smart watch.