Back to school already...

For all you nerds out there, here is Obama schooling Eric Schmidt:

On heading over to a girl's house...

Me: is it going to be awkward? am i going to have to say hi to your siblings and parents?
Her: Only my dad is here and he uses linux.
Me: Sweet! Can I meet him!?

EDIT

For sara, the comic version of this post.

Unfortunately I've probably violated an NDA with just the title, but check it out...



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There is a really amazing lightning storm going on above my apartment right now. I've been on the roof trying to make some videos on my cell phone, but fate has been really conspiring against me.

First, I run out with my 3G iPhone, not thinking for a second that its 2 megapixel camera will lack functionality that every cell phone I have ever owned had: the ability to make videos. How did they leave that out? How hard is it to take 10 photos a second while recording some audio? I try for a while just taking still pictures but manage to miss the constant stream of lightning every time, despite just rapidly taking photos and an incredible amount of lightning.

Second, I grab my old cell phone which I have been planning to ebay, run to the roof and start taking a video. After about one minute, with no good shots, it tells me I'm out of "memory" and can't record any more. Now, by memory, they mean hard drive space, which confused me for a while. Then I realized it was saving video to the on board storage rather than my 2 GB miniSD card. I found the settings to switch that and started recording. Got about 4 or 5 minutes of footage before it said the battery was too low to use the camera anymore (I haven't been charging my old cell phone, obviously).

Third, I come in, excited to transfer the files to my computer, watch them and share them with the world. Unfortunately file transfer doesn't seem to be working over bluetooth for some reason and I can't find a mini usb to usb cable. The 8-in-1 card reader I have doesn't appear to read miniSD and my usb card reader only reads microSD. Looks like the videos will have to wait, for now.