We’ve figured out what’s been eating the peaches from our tree. An opossum! O RLY?
Summer Tomatoes
Our tomato plants are growing a bumper crop this year. Next up, trying to preserve them so we can enjoy them in the winter.
The Conan and Super Mario Brothers connection
Conan appears to have borrowed the Super Mario Brothers landscape as the source for his background for his new set. I thought it felt familar somehow. Link via Towleroad.
VirtualBox, the free VM alternative
VirtualBox is a free x86 emulator that is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and SunOS. It’s a great alternative to Parallels or VMWare. It even supports the Windows 7 Beta, so now you have a 100% free way to run Windows on your Mac (until the beta expires that is).
Ziggy Stardust Remixed
I’m digging a few of the tracks on this Ziggy Stardust bootleg remix disc. Give it a chance, listen to a few and see what you think.
Goodbye Ruckus, we hardly knew ye.
Legal music sharing site Ruckus.com has closed up shop abruptly. No doubt, the few folks who used the service are left with the balance of their 1 month lease on their music before it attempts to contact their licensing server for renewal. The idea of the service was to allow college students a legal way […]
Mr. T Shifts Careers to Sell Ovens, Make Bad Jokes
Oh thank you TV goddess for having blessed me with the opportunity to see this schmaltzy bit of over acting this evening. It’s a rotten slice of corporate America for sure. This is a video of Mr. T doing a product infomercial for some sort of hair-dryer Chinese-made oven. It’s surreal and unsettling to watch […]
We’re a WordPress whore now!
Yep, it’s official. We’ve moved to the WordPress blogging platform, a new server and a new hostname. Life on the Video Ranch is dead. Long live LOTVR. It took a little bit of twiddling to get the old blog posts over to the new server and ingested (or indigestion) properly but it’s worth it. The […]
Moment of Zen
Zooming into photo stitches
I've posted some of my photo stitches as Zoomify Flash applications which lets you zoom into the image to see more detail. Above, a shot from the 2009 President Inauguration Whistle Stop train as it passed through the Newark, DE train station. Link.