NCIS Rerun

I don't think I can ever get enough NCIS.  As I sit here watching a rerun on the A&E, I see Abby working on a computer to see if she can find any clues to solve a murder.  One of the clues was a song by Tim Lehrer.  The song is called, "The Elements Song".  Abby recognized that the elements had atomic numbers that corresponded to an off shore bank account. I thought I would blog the song.

	Tom Leher - Elements Song .mp3
	Found at bee mp3 search engine

Jeri Ellsworth and a Snowday

As I got my 5th or 6th snow day cancellation, I meandered around the house. Doing my usual, get a cup of coffee, sit on the recliner and start up the Vaio. I logged onto my Blog-lines Feeds and read my chosen blogs. I have become a real fan of Make Magazine.  If you are not familiar, Make is composed of articles showing hacks, tips  and the construction of a variety of things.  I came across the "Macgyver of the Day" column.  This week's column featured Jeri Ellsworth, the maker of a computerized joystick.

According to Wikipedia...
Jeri Ellsworth (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for, in 2004, creating a Commodore 64 emulator within a joystick, called Commodore 30-in-1 Direct to TV. The "computer in a joystick" could run 30 video games from the early 1980s, and was very popular during the 2004 Christmas season, at peak selling over 70,000 units in a single day via the QVC shopping channel.^[1]

 

Pictured above: Jeri Ellsworth showing her homemade (working) Nintendo purse at a semiconductor show the same day as a roller derby event she skated in. (Make Magazine Online Blog)

If you go to YouTube and search for Jeri Ellsworth you will find a myriad of videos put out by this hacker of  computer chips, pinball aficionado and videographer. 
Check it out if you like hacks and such.

Gladwell on Spaghetti Sauce

I found this great video presentation by Malcolm Gladwell on "Spaghetti Sauce". In a wonderfully interesting talk, Gladwell explains how Howard Moscowitz marketed the kind of spaghetti sauce that people wanted. Truly a wonderful insight into giving people what they want, even though they might not know
what that is.

YouTube Safe Mode Search

This is a great video if you have kids at home and you want to make sure that they are not watching anything inappropriate. As the website said, no filter is fool proof. Having the computer in the family room or a highly used area of the house will help with safe searches. It will also help keeping an eye on the computer habits of your kids.

Lifehackers

What neat site that has a great deal of interesting topics about technology and gizzmo's and such. Check it out. Lifehacker