Someone should remake The A-Team for Cable TV
Apr 07, 2008
Crazy Idea #5150 Cue the background military music and authoritative announcer: Ten years ago / In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire… The A-Team.…more
Keynote: The Next 20 Years of Gaming
Feb 21, 2008
Speaker: Ray Kurzweil [Aside: One of the best talks I’ve ever been to…ever] Rough notes below Acceleration of Progress Studying exponential growth of technology * Games are the cutting edge, VR will be more competitive * VR advantages - become someone else, Ray became 25 year-old female named Ramona Perspective of next several decades Study last several decades to make forward looking predictions * 1980’s book, predictions tracked very well (Arpanet doubling) * Predicting world wide web connecting world * Chess supercomputer doubling power and beating machines * Decentralized electronic communication - effect on Russian totalitarian control * Democratizing tools of creativity - Kid in dorm room can build full HD video * What are the trends?…more
Cribs for Geeks: Who's Geek-Crib would you want to see?
Oct 11, 2007
Jeff Sandquist is looking for potential Microsoft employees who wouldn’t mind showing how they’ve pimped their house with technology like X10, Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server, and more. This is an awesome idea and it rocks that Jeff and team are doing this. Amusingly, I dug up an old email from June, 2004 with Jeff and I talking about doing this, but he wouldn’t be able to until July because he was slammed.…more