What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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If you haven't heard the buzz lately, 3D television is headed our way. As early as this summer if you have DIRECTV. When I first read the 3D television announcement, I was immediately taken back to a question my wife asked me when we bought our current 42" LCD television. She asked, "If we spend this much on a television, is it going to last 10 years or are you going to want to buy something newer 2 years from now?" In my best George Washington voice, I explained to my wife that there was no way I could guarantee… Continue reading...
I've gone back and forth a hundred times on whether Facebook or Twitter is the more useful social network. By useful, I mean suppose you have a question and want to pose it to your friends (Facebook) or followers (Twitter). Which network will give you a higher number of responses? I decided to find out by conducting a highly scientific experiment. And by highly scientific I mean I thought of the idea in the shower and spent 15 seconds implementing it. Here's what I did. I posed the same exact question on Facebook and Twitter and then monitored the responses… Continue reading...
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Here is this week's roundup of Twitter highlights posted from my Twitter account: Looks like Amazon is going to let customers who purchase Office 2007 to download Office 2010 for free when it comes out. http://ow.ly/1fHo4 Just found out my volleyball team won the year-end championship last night. My wife and I didn't play. I don't understand why people back into parking spaces. To me, it's harder backing in than backing out. Fast food company engineers that design kids meal toys that make sounds obviously don't have children of their own. Movie industry officially out of ideas. Missile Command, Asteroids… Continue reading...
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How many of you remember Abbott and Costello's famous "Who's on first?" routine? If you don't, do yourself a favor and watch the video below before reading the rest of this blog post. If you can't see the embedded video above use the following link: Who's on first? Modern day version Now if Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, "Who's on First?" might have turned out something like this. For the record, I did not write this. It was originally written by Tom King and you can find his original post here. COSTELLO CALLS TO… Continue reading...
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Have you ever heard the Steven Wright comedy bit that goes something like this: I moved into a house that had one of those light switches that didn't appear to do anything. Every once in a while I would walk by it and flip the switch on and off. 6 months after moving in, I got a letter from a guy in China saying "Cut it out." I had a very similar moment earlier this week. When Reply to All goes bad An email was distributed to my entire family with a typo in my sister's email address. In some… Continue reading...
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