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Brian Sullivan
Zope/Python enthusiast, open wheel racing fan, wannabe photographer, ELearning developer and charter geek
Kim Crawford Wines: Our Wines - Regional Blends - http://www.kimcrawfordwines.co.nz/our-win...
Just finishing a bottle of Kim Crawford 2008 Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc --good white wine.
- Brian Sullivan
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Laurel Speedway: 1925 | Shorpy Photo Archive - http://www.shorpy.com/node...
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Speed Racers: 1925 | Shorpy Photo Archive - http://www.shorpy.com/node...
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"Another look at the lineup on Laurel Speedway's board track."
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King of Pop tried to buy octuplets - http://www.theage.com.au/lifesty...
"Ms Suleman's publicist Victor Munoz confirmed the singer had offered to take care of the children but that he had turned down the "creepy" offer on her behalf." - he really was weird -- but no weirder than octomom I guess.
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So do wide screen digital TVs have non square pixels?
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Based on the information I have been uncovering (http://friendfeed.com/briansu...) that would seem to be the case.
- Brian Sullivan
Then again when have pixels ever been square?
- Alex Scoble
Well computer screens have always had at least nominally square pixels (as long as I can remember anyway).
- Brian Sullivan
I am getting really confused about video formats and aspect ratios. I am getting digital video from production that is marked and identified as 720x480 -- clearly a 1.5 or 3 x 2 aspect ratio.
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However this video has a black band at the top and bottom of (near as a I can tell ) 40 pixels making the video 720x400 or 1.8 aspect ratio (which is close to 1.78 or 16x9). Is this a common thing -- delivering produced digitial video like this? Is the producer of the video doing something weird/different?
- Brian Sullivan
No digital video experts out there?
- Brian Sullivan
OK so further exploration reveals that the 720x480 format is not based on square pixels but pixels that are 1 to 1.2121. Based on this thinking 480/1.2121 = 396 so the aspect ratio for PC square pixels is 720 by 396 which is close to what I observe. All this digital video stuff is real confusing.
- Brian Sullivan
How long can you watch this without turning away, getting sick or closing the window? http://friendfeed.com/search...
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Math jokes
- Brian Sullivan
OK I get it! ....................lol
- Kevin Hatton
Every time you enter the "tell me a joke" query (or click on the link) in Wolframalpha you get a new joke btw.
- Brian Sullivan
Marilyn Look-alike contest - http://news.cincinnati.com/apps...
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o_O
- Brian Sullivan
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I see the resemblance.
- Michael McKean
Wow, it's uncanny
- Rahsheen ™
OH MY
- BEX Happy Long Weekend
Fwd: I am getting really confused about video formats and aspect ratios. I am getting digital video from production that is marked and identified as 720x480 -- clearly a 1.5 or 3 x 2 aspect ratio. (via http://friendfeed.com/briansu...)
Hitler? He got things done, says Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone - Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
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"Mr Ecclestone said: “In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done"
- Brian Sullivan
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He said that?
- Brian Sullivan
Ecclestone is in a class by himself...a real piece of work.
- Alex Scoble
"Little man syndrome. Nothing dying couldn't fix." from Usenet.
- Brian Sullivan
So with Palin resigning (which no doubt lessens or kills her 2012 chances), other contenders in sex scandals or looking like Alfalfa, who is the potential future GOP star?
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Sarah Palin... it removes any baggage for a clear run
- Johnny Worthington
Brands her indelibly as a quitter though -- not sure that could be overcome. When the going gets tough Sarah quits and moves on?
- Brian Sullivan
Really, to who?
- Johnny Worthington
Not sure what you are asking... To whom is she moving on or to whom is she branded as a quitter?
- Brian Sullivan
I mean, how important will this be in the grand scheme of things? Really, besides how it is spun, you had a alcoholic cocaine head and a horny teenager the last few times
- Johnny Worthington
To everyone. You do not quit your current job to mount a run for a new office. Better to stick it out. She had 18 mos. left. It's utterly bizarre to give up a job with 18 mos. left to mount a nat'l campaign. If she is, then she's leaving to do some studying. Not good.
- Anika Malone
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@Anika I was thinking the same thing but, maybe she intends to use the time to crack a book and step her game up? I hope...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
That's the thing, just say she she stays on and also stands for the Republican nomination. She will be fighting the nomination battle at the same times as trying to get reelected. Getting defeated as Governor right before that does look good
- Johnny Worthington
Anika, that would normally be a fair point, but even an englishman like me is aware that she's not exactly known for her ability to consider all the possible angles before opening her mouth. :-)
- Slippy 2.0
ooh, accidental double entendre. apologies, lol :-)
- Slippy 2.0
It's common for people to run for office while holding office or even running for two different offices (their current and a new one) at the same time. And Palin getting defeated as governor is moot. She didn't just say she's not running for reelection, she's resigning as governor effective in two weeks. As I said before, you don't just quit your current seat if you want to run for a...
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- Anika Malone
maybe she'll go back to college
- BEX Happy Long Weekend
And you have to understand that for political junkies it's not interesting that she's not running for reelection. It's not even that interesting that she's resigning. It's the fact that this was announced on a Friday (typical time for bad political news to be dumped) of a long holiday weekend. The Friday news dump is where most of the more interesting political things happen. Over a long weekend, means there's a scandal or something fishy brewing.
- Anika Malone
Anika++
- Andrew C
Hence my first comment
- Johnny Worthington
Palin to resign as Alaska governor - More politics- msnbc.com - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id...
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"Sarah Palin announced Friday she plans to resign as governor of Alaska in a few weeks, saying she will try to "affect positive change" from outside government."
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...by hiding in a cave.
- Dead Silence
Peace Out!
- *Tiffany Diamond*
That should be "effect positive change," as in *cause to occur* -- unless she means she's going to be influencing the "positive change" in some way.
- Christopher Carr
Real time feed of everybody (at least as close as I think I can get -- English only)
A Day at the Races: 1925 | Shorpy Photo Archive - http://www.shorpy.com/node...
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"The 1⅛-mile wooden oval at Laurel Speedway."
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My only quibble with the real time search/filter mechanism is that all the services and posts that I have hidden show up there. I wish there was some option to apply all the other hide criteria that I have established to the filter.
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Thanks for the feedback Brian. I've added it to our suggestions list.
- Ross Miller
me too ... :)
- Bwana
So it is time to go back to using "filter" instead of calling it "real time search"?
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Pet Python Strangles Toddler in Bedroom - ABC News - http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technol...
He's Barack Obama | Funny Video Animation by JibJab - http://sendables.jibjab.com/origina...
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I continually get email on my gmail account (briansullivan at gmail dot com) that is clearly intended for some other Brian Sullivan(s). It is not spam but seems like legitimate email. I am guessing that I have had email for 6-9 other different Brian Sullivans. Now my name is reasonably common but surely there can't be this many mistakes? Are other...
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...people supplying my email address by mistake, are the multiple senders just making a mistake, or does gmail have some flaw?
- Brian Sullivan
Really cleverly written spam? To make you open it? Or maybe Google has become TOO smart...
- Joshua Nunn
Not spam as far as I can tell -- nothing commercial about the messages -- they seem randomly personal and specific -- just for someone else's life not mine.
- Brian Sullivan
They're leaving out an initial or an underscore. Or perhaps they have chosen the wrong the provider.
- Christopher Harley
Brian, clearly, you've got an Alan Berliner/Sweetest Sound problem on your hands: <http://google.com/search...> / <http://imdb.com/title...>
- ianf ⌘
ian -- maybe (had to poke around a bit to interpret your reference)
- Brian Sullivan
I get emails for other Holly's all the time too. I think it's usually people leaving off a last initial or number, etc. or just guessing very incorrectly. what I love is when I get email confirmations for web orders or things like that when it's the other Holly who obviously entered her email address wrong.
- holly
So Brian, what's this other Brian like?
- Toby Graham
Don't know -- there is more than one that I have received mail for - I have in the past politely told the senders of their mistake though sometimes that doesn't stop the flow.
- Brian Sullivan
I use canned responses for these. I get all kinds of pictures, sensitive materials, government contracts... it's ridiculous. One lady even forwarded my response BACK to me asking me why was this happening.
- Bwana
people are dumb. expect it.:)
- Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
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