Reading Time: 2 minOur recent trip to Disney World was great — we had a blast! However, a few things struck me as very technologically inferior and I thought I’d share them here. First, though, I’ll touch on what they did right. The card they give you when you check-in is amazing. This single card allows you to: […]
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Spotify released for iPhone, but US users still left out
Reading Time: < 1 minThe excellent Spotify app has just been released for the iPhone and the Android Market, but users in the United States still can’t use it. The problem is that the app is only for premium users of the service, and users in the US still can’t access it. Spotify is essentially just a streaming music […]
The best baseball players are measured by RAF
Reading Time: 2 minI’ve long felt that RAF is the best measure of a baseball player. RAF? Yep, Runs Accounted For. It’s a stat I made up years ago and used for softball stats. It’s a very simple formula, with a very powerful result. It’s simply: [runs]+[RBIs]-[HRs] This tells you how many runs that each player has had […]
I love the Wii “Virtual Console”
Reading Time: < 1 minIf you still haven’t picked up a Wii yet, there’s another great reason why you should. Every Monday Nintendo releases a couple of games for the “virtual console” — old classic NES, SNES, Genesis and TG16 games that you can play right on the Wii. Included in today’s release was the original Tecmo Bowl! Enough […]
Why is revenue dropping for new movie releases?
Reading Time: 2 minYeah, piracy is probably part of it. Not nearly as much as the studios would have you believe, though. The lack of great movies is part of it, but that comes and goes. The problem is the experience. A typical movie makes you sit through over 20 minutes of previews and commercials before the show […]
Disney FastPlay isn’t so fast
Reading Time: < 1 minDisney movies are great, but the DVDs (and VHS tapes, for that matter) annoy me a lot. They always have a TON of previews, and they’re hard to skip. Recently, they came out with “FastPlay” to help people get the movie started more quickly. Of course, it doesn’t work. I saw that to point out […]