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08/08/08

jough — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:53:07 +0000

Has it been a year, a month, and a day already?

The 2008 Summer Olympics are opening in Beijing tonight, and it’s reported that there were a record number of marriage licenses requested for today, so that Chinese couples could be married at the Olympics. I wonder if China will have a small surge in population in nine to ten months?

I’ll be back to post a follow up next September.

Jough Dempsey 2008

jough — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:50:20 +0000

Yes, you’ve probably heard by now that I’m running for president. Jough-mania is sweeping the country. Here’s a Channel 3 News story about how my campaign got started, and how YOU can help.

Yes, we can have change we can believe in!

iPhone’s First Birthday

jough — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:03:45 +0000

iPhone turns 1 today. It’s amazing how quickly I came to take it for granted. Just a few minutes ago I looked up a location on Google Maps, coordinated movie plans with four people via three different media (email, SMS, and phone), bought movie tickets online, checked the weather, posted to Twitter, took a photo…

… and wrote this post. All of it was second nature and simply an extension of myself. Really, it’s that second-nature to me now that I don’t even think about the technology.

What Are You Thinking?

jough — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:06:51 +0000

Really, if someone had to guess which verbs and nouns I’m thinking about 90% of the time, they probably wouldn’t need a brain scan device to do it.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/30/mindread?gusrc=rss&feed=technologyfull

How Do You Know Michael?

jough — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:39:54 +0000

I made my first edited movie in iMovie ‘08 finally. Enjoy:

Internet Jackass Day 2008 *

jough — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:21:57 +0000

Google is Going to Mars - with Richard Branson no less (this one is almost believable)
Classy Query - for those who like jQuery but could use something more verbose.
Apple Releases “iPhone SDK” - they released this one a little early, I thought, but I realized it was a joke when I read about the distribution model, and how you couldn’t run background processes which meant that you wouldn’t be able to do anything really useful while mobile. Good one, Apple!
ThinkGeek’s “Betamax to HD-DVD Converter - watch the demonstration video
Every Featured Video on YouTube
Google Wake Up Kit
InfoWorld on Microsoft’s Acquisition of Yahoo - this one isn’t funny at all
Gmail Custom Time - yet another I wish wasn’t a joke - this could be useful (”I sent that to you yesterday!”)
Google Calendar “I’m Feeling Lucky” - push the button to have a new random event added to your calendar
PC World: Google to Organize all Human Ignorance - I thought they’d already done that?
New Xbox Accessories - that helmet is pretty sweet looking
iLounge Parodies Apple’s “Hot News” - the trick to good parody is to be only a few degrees off-center
Butterfinger becomes “The Finger”

Way, way more listed at Wikipedia.

* Otherwise known as “April Fool’s Day.” Tip of the hat to Andy Baio for this term.

Trajan is the Movie Font

jough — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:47:32 +0000

In a world where Trajan is ubiquitous…

This video cracked me up:

Movie Sequels I’d Like to See

jough — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:56:11 +0000

I was recently answering a question about sequels on Amazon’s new Askville service and figured I’d post my response here, since I was cracking myself up writing the list:

Pulp Fiction 2: Walkin’ the Earth Like Kane in Kung Fu
Gooderfellas
A Clockwork Purple
Ei8ht
Grandchildren of Men
Malcolm XI
Singin’ in the Snow
Casablanca 2: A Beautiful Friendship
3:51 to Yuma
Losing Nemo
Found in Translation
The Princess Divorcee
8 2/3
The Pears of Acceptance
Planespotting
Lock, Stock, and Three Smoking Barrels
The Elephant Woman
Stalag 18
Blade Jogger
Fargo II: Chipper Madness
The Manchurian Incumbent
The Eight Samurai
Saving Lieutenant Johnson
The Shawshank Transgression
13 Angry Men
Side Window
The Unusual Suspects
Lawrence of Suburbia
Braveheart 2: Brave Hearter
Leonard Part 7
Million Dollar Toddler
The Deer Hunter 2: Electric Boogaloo

All Went To Heaven In A Little Row Boat

jough — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:13:30 +0000

Three, six, nine
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobacco on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little row boat

I was back in Philadelphia this weekend visiting my family and my dad was singing The Clapping Song to himself, and I was reminded of yet another source of the line “… and we [or ‘they’] all went to heaven in a little row boat.” It’s in my favourite Radiohead song (and one of my favourite songs ever), “Pyramid Song,” as well as the earlier Tom Waits song “Clap Hands” (from Rain Dogs, arguably his best album).

So I started to think if there was a precedent to the line, such as some religion that believes this. Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table would be sent out to sea on a little boat to Avalon when they died, until such day as they are needed again. That’s all I can think of offhand. This site claims that the lyrics to “Pyramid Song” are inspired by the Divine Comedy and the Egyptian Book of the Dead, among other sources, so maybe it goes back even further.

Anyway, the line feels significant in some way, like Dreyfuss’s mashed potatoes in Close Encounters. This means something.

Moved to Chicago

jough — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 15:16:03 +0000

I haven’t updated Jough.com in like, forever. Cobbler’s children, no shoes, etc.

So yeah, I’ve moved to Chicago to work as a web developer for Duo Consulting.