Archive for the ‘Video’ Category
What to do if an airline breaks your guitar
Posted by: Chip in Entertainment, Marketing & Advertising, Uncategorized, Video on July 9th, 2009
You write a song and upload a video to YouTube.
Hamster Powered Roomba
There are lots of Roomba hacks but this is the first time I’ve seen a hamster powered Roomba.
Obama the Restaurant Critic
In 2001 State Senator Barrack Obama reviewed Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop for “Check Please”, a show on WTTW (a Chicago PBS station). The segment didn’t air at the time but will air on the shows 100th episode on January 16, 2009.
Can 30-year-old sitcoms still be funny?
Posted by: Chip in Entertainment, Video on May 5th, 2008
When I was young, I thought the funniest episode of any TV show I had ever seen was a Thanksgiving episode of WKRP in Cincinnati. A few weeks ago, I noticed it was on Hulu. I wanted to watch it but I was worried that it might not live up to my memory. Saturday night, my wife and I watched it. It was still funny after 30 years.
Switching to Apple TV and away from NBC
Posted by: Chip in Featured, Gadgets, Technology, Video on April 9th, 2008
We don’t watch much television. When we added up how much the shows we watch regularly would cost on iTunes, it averaged less than 14 dollars a month. It just doesn’t make sense for us to pay 60 to 70 dollars a month for satellite or cable.
With a new version available we bought an Apple TV. With it, we buy individual TV shows, rent or buy movies, watch video podcasts and YouTube videos and listen to our entire music collection from the couch.
NBC is the only problem. NBC pulled their shows off of iTunes which means we can’t watch The Office and Battlestar Galactica on the Apple TV. To watch those shows we have to fire up the Vista Media Center and either watch low-quality versions of them on Hulu.com or buy them from Amazon Unboxed. Either way the simplicity and ease-of-use is lost.
I will not be watching any new NBC shows and when The Office and Battlestar Galactica lose their appeal, NBC will be dead to me. The amount of content available online makes NBC unnecessary. If a network wants to compete when viewers have lots of options, they should make sure their content is everywhere their viewers are.
Paul Potts
A cell phone salesman who wants to be an opera singer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA
Big Jump
We shot this video in 2006 so my son could see how high he could jump. Read the rest of this entry »