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Vimeo – Also Integrated into iOS 7

I tried out iOS 7’s integration with Flickr last night. Success. The other new service tied into the new OS is Vimeo. I didn’t have a Vimeo account until this morning. I’d be curious to see how the release of iOS 7 affects their account stats over the next few days. Anyway, I don’t have any video to upload at the moment, so I poked around for something to try to post here.

I found this cool Throwing Muses video from their tour of Europe a couple of years ago.
https://vimeo.com/32507394

And for fun, here is the Wizard of Oz set to Dark Side of Moon.
https://vimeo.com/11673067

Flickr has been integrated into iOS 7!

See this awful picture of Ms Patches? Why is it important?

Because I uploaded it to Flickr directly from my iPhone’s camera roll! Flickr has been integrated into iOS 7!

Woohoo!

Happy iOS7 Release Day

Today’s the day. iOS7 will be made available at some point today. It’s not out yet, but it will be.

Are you looking forward to upgrading your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch with a user interface that looks like it was designed by a five year old with a box of crayons?

I know, I know… I’m going to upgrade both of my iOS devices. Maybe not tonight, but definitely this week. The new UI doesn’t excite me at all. In fact, it makes me a little sad. It makes me hesitate to upgrade. The screen shots I’ve seen look… well… stupid. I can’t stop imagining a five year old with the smallest box of crayolas scribbling away on the screen. Despite that, I am guessing that within a day or so I won’t even notice the changes anymore, and I’ll forget what iOS6 looked like. I mean, it’s only a UI after all.

Happy iOS7 release day. Come on and party down with the Apple nerds.

Alonetone Playlists are Fun

Did I mention that I found a way to get around wordpress.com’s no flash policy in regards to posting playlists from alonetone.com? Did I mention how happy I am about that?

Here’s some more Break Even for your listening pleasure:

The Return of Tim Thomas

Tim Thomas agreed to a try out deal with the Florida Panthers. Let’s start by saying that no one was ever a bigger fan of Tim Thomas the goalie than I was. I watched him in Providence, I watched him come out of nowhere and steal an NHL job through nothing more than hard work, I watched him become a starter, a Vezina winner, and a Conn Smythe winning Stanley Cup champ. I rooted for him all the way. He was the best.

Off the ice he turned out to be a tea party-esque nut job, and while that was totally distracting and annoying, it never changed the fact that he was Tim “The Man” Thomas in net. I don’t care what his politics or personal life are like (although I’d draw the line at rooting for him if he turned out to be chummy with the Hitler or Stalin types, you know?), hell I don’t even care if you’re a complete asshole. If you work hard and do your best by us, the fans, then I’ll tip my hat to you and give you my sincere thanks.

But noooooooooooooo.

Timmy had to break the contract that he agreed to that would pay him a truck load of money in order to spend time with his family. What’s the truth? I would put money on Timmy not liking either his teammates, his management, or the city, but how do I know. What it comes down to is that he screwed us, the fans, last season and for that I say to hell with him. I hope he never plays another game in the NHL. It shows you how insanely desperate the Panthers are to give a deal, even if it’s just a PTO, to a 39 year old with a history of breach of contract. If he wants to go play in Finland again, then good luck to him. Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. I don’t ever want to see him playing in an NHL game again.

There is only one thing that Boston sports fans truly want from their professional athletes. We want them to work hard and do their best. That’s it. Really. If any fan base realizes that winning isn’t everything, it’s the fan base that stood behind a Red Sox team that went 86 years without a title. We want you to win, but if you work hard and do your best and come up short then we’re still going to hero worship the shit out of you. Thomas used to be the perfect guy for Boston, and then he screwed us over and went home for a year. To hell with him.

What is Almost as Good as Clinching the Division?

Want to know what makes a Red Sox fan feel almost as good as clinching the division?

Eliminating the Yankees.

The magic number for the American League East division is down to four, and the win over the Yankees last night mathematically eliminated New York from the division race. They are still in the wild card race, but losing six out of seven games to Boston over just the last 11 days has gone a long way toward putting a fork into them.

A few weeks ago I wrote a bit about which teams in the wild card race I wanted to see get into the playoffs. I have to tweak that a little now. I had said I wanted to see Oakland get in, but they have since taken over their division and built up a happy lead. As of now, the Rangers and the Rays are tied in the wild card race with Cleveland only half a game behind. Next comes Baltimore, 2.5 games out, and the Yankees are three games out. The last team with any prayer of getting in is the Royals, 3.5 games back.

I’m still rooting for the Royals to steal their way in, but it’s seeming less likely. I’d really like to see both Texas and Tampa Bay get knocked out. Obviously I want the Yankees eliminated both for Boston reasons, and for Alex Rodriguez reasons (although he left last night’s game with an injury). Baltimore is another AL East team, and if it’s possible I’d like to see the Red Sox be the only eastern team to get into the post season. That pretty much makes me a fan of Cleveland and Kansas City down the stretch.

Honestly though it doesn’t really matter to me who makes it into the playoffs, so long as they all lose to the Red Sox. That’s all I really care about.

Camera Accessory Acquisition Syndrom

I had the bug again today. That mean old camera accessory acquisition bug. I had to feed it. I had to scratch the buy-stuff-for-my-camera itch.

I bought a remote shutter switch and a tripod. I went el cheap-o on both of them. I’m crazy, but I’m not that crazy. The remote is a Rocketfish wireless, and the tripod is a Dynex 60″ Universal.

I set the tripod up in the dining room and took a few pics, including one where the shutter was open for more than a minute. Droooool.
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I then took it outside, just around sunset.
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The remote didn’t work outside. It worked inside, then I took it outside and it didn’t work, then I took it back in and it did work. ummm… I need to figure that out. It was really cheap, so if it’s an indoor toy then so be it. I pointed the camera at the woods and took some blind shots without being able to focus well.

Zoomed out
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Zoomed in
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I don’t see any camera shake, do you? I also pointed it at the sky for a half minute and it seems pretty steady.
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So far so good.