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Scuba Diving in the Bahamas

Eric Porres — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:02:43 +0000

A gravity-defying, shark-inducing experience!

The best intentions for this site

Eric Porres — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:49:32 +0000

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 are more likely to catch what I’m thinking about or doing via my Facebook (which is connected with Twitter) feed. As the song goes (name that band!), “Time is the measure before it’s begun, Slips away like running water…” and I’m just out of time to write down at-length prose on all of the various topics I’m interested in.

So, if you know me (and by know I mean more than just we met once and/or we’ve communicated more than once since we were in highschool), have a look for me on Facebook. Better yet, rather than pseudo-conversationalism through blogs, tweets, and the like, just pick up the phone and call. Cheers.

My iPhone apps

Eric Porres — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:52:18 +0000

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
Stanza

To date, apps used most often (AUMO):

Facebook
Twitterific
Simplify
Pandora

Private Air Hitchhiking

Eric Porres — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:58:02 +0000

Interesting article in the NYTimes about private jet interlopers…those who are the passengers in the lap of other people’s luxury travel.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/fashion/13hitch.html

Lance Armstrong Quote on Pain

Eric Porres — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:41:30 +0000

Pain is temporary, it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Montage of exploding structures

Eric Porres — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:35:18 +0000

What goes up, must come down.

Tribeca Film Festival – Fighter

Eric Porres — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:05:27 +0000

Yahoo was kind enough to provide me with a pass to the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday the 25th. Unfortunately client work got in the way of my ability to jet out of the office and rub elbows with anyone remotely famous at the activities during the day, but I did huff it across town Friday night to see Fighter (www.fighter-filmen.dk), a girl-power movie about an Copenhagen émigré Turkish high-school girl (Aicha) who secretly trains in Kung fu under the nose of her traditional parents, and the overt and covert strains that pursuit puts on her and her family. The Film Festival site has a much more detailed write-up. Suffice to say, it was thoroughly enjoyable. The director, one of the actors, and the actor/choreographer Xian Gao (same guy who trained the folks for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) were in attendance to do the Q&A afterwards. I hope this shows up for distribution somewhere so that I can see the first 20 minutes…I hate missing any parts of a film!

More Blu-ray stats than you can shake a disc at…

Eric Porres — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:39:38 +0000

I’m not sure who developed this site, but it is chock full of stats about Blu-ray discs, sales, etc. And ooh, Step Into Liquid, one of the seminal movie/documentaries ever made on surfing, is coming out in Blu-ray!

Talking Dirty for the Blind

Eric Porres — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:54:14 +0000

Porn meets audiobooks in this latest mashup:

Porn for the Blind, a nonprofit organization based in Cambridge, Mass., was established for the sole purpose of making the millions of free porn clips available online accessible to people with visual impairments.

Stunning photos from last NASA mission

Eric Porres — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:53:55 +0000

From the granddaughter who works at NASA of a friend of friend of a friend:

http://www.texasjim.com/NASApix/NASA%20pix.htm