Author Archive
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Guess what this is?
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
SNL: Seth Meyers, Really?!?, and Michael Phelps
One of the most sublime commentaries made on the bong/Phelps/Kellogg’s fiasco (2 mins): SNL – Really?!? – Michael Phelps, 02/07/2009 It’s all so damn good that I transcribed the last bit: “…and if you’re at a party and you see Michael Phelps smoking a bong and you’re first thought isn’t ‘wow I get to party [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Humor,Things that make me go "hmmm" by Eric Porres
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Absolutely fascinating article
Anyone who has ever thought about the meaning of music, art, and/or contextual relevance should immediately put aside 45 minutes to ingest and ponder the experiment that The Washington Post conducted (Jan, 2007) in the DC Metro. I don’t want to give it away, as it needs to unfold on its own: Pearls Before Breakfast [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Piano Wire,Things that make me go "hmmm" by Eric Porres
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Clever subway ad for Flatrate moving company in NYC
Reposted with full image as twitpic crunched it.
2 Comments » - Posted in Humor,Marketing by Eric Porres
Monday, January 5th, 2009
Scuba Diving in the Bahamas
A gravity-defying, shark-inducing experience!
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Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Beyonce – Single Ladies
Damn, that’s a fine video…terrifically catchy tune: Curiously, YouTube has disabled external links/embeds (??? I’m using a plug-in to turn links from videos into views from my site), so here’s the direct link to the video for Single Ladies. I hope that SNL posts the skit from this past weekend with Beyonce, Paul Rudd (as [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Wine Podder of the Month – Me!
It has been a most interesting and enjoyable experience attempting to create wine with the WinePod so far. You can read more about my adventures here: WinePodder of the Month – Eric Porres
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
The best intentions for this site
Over the past couple of months I’ve been taking inventory of the various ways in which I communicate, whether is be for myself to keep track of news and information (on NetVibes), externally through tweets, Facebook updates, NYGrapes updates, dojo updates, or this blog. In short, while I hope to keep this site fresh, you [...]
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
My iPhone apps
Now that I’m a iPhone-toter, a number of folks have asked what apps I’ve purchased/installed. They are as follows: Simplify Media Pandora AOL Radio WeatherBug Twitterific Facebook Loopt WordPress Starmap Clinometer Recorder iTalk MyLite NYTimes Restaurants PointAbout Tris Enigmo Cube Runner BubbleWrap Italian (from Lastminute.com) Translator vSNAX Google Earth TrackThing iMapMyRide GPSLite Epocrates Rx Shakespeare [...]
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
The Tera Era or Peta is Better?
Here are some fascinating stats about data storage (thanks to my friend Glenn Rempe for finding some), spawned in part by my purchase of an Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ 3TB device: From an article in Computer Technology Review: In terms of raw numbers, IDC, a leading market intelligence and research firm, estimates the volume of digital [...]
