Sat night was earth hour Monday Grunions

I almost turned my power off last night, as in snapped the breakers off, now I see on GMA that it was earth hour, wow, I missed it, what a shame :( Then the first ad after the segment from Energy Tomorrow. What a cool idea, sorry I didn't turn off my power, but then I was already in the dark, so I guess I did it already.

So it came to my attention that Monday 29 the Grunions at 9:30-11:30 are coming ashore, I got to see this, 100s of fish jumping out of the water to spawn, how cool is that.

Ultra local turism

NBC4 just talked about a tour of Downey, $75, this Saturday at noon, cool. I guess with the savings in travel this is a real deal for us around the area.

Carpenter’s Home where Karen lived and died... plus "Close to You" and "Only Just Begun" Apartments
"Space Ship Factory" - cradle of the Apollo Mission
*no host* lunch at oldest McDonald’s on earth (1953)
Downey Historical Society Museum
Downey's great unknown ghost town, 1880’s thru 1920s remains of the LA County "Poor Farm"
Worlds greatest drive-in car Hop coffee shop, (1958) originally Harvey’s Brolier now Bob’s Big Boy Broiler
Meet Miss Downey and much more!

Seems there are many interesting things in that city and he has a good reputation according the NBC4LA so should be a blast.

Parking hassles

So I think I need to sell my car, this morning after being up all night I am trying to make a home movie at breakfest and hear the street cleaner, run down and am about 30 seconds late, the cop could only say want me to mail it to you? Hell no!

Plants Vs. Zombies is Addictive

Leo warned me, it really is addictive. I downloaded it and installed, no money needed, then played for 60 free minutes, I am hooked. As the Wired review says, the game is easy to learn and difficult to master. $20, PopCap

Job prospects

Seems like I might apply to a job right here in town! Yay, finally a chance to do what I do without driving all over Hollywood.

LAX to MAD millage via

MIA 13500

NYC 12080

DFW 12360

Perhaps on April 13.

Chat Roulette

I hate talking about this site, but after Stephan introduced me to it, I have been obsessed by it. Something about 100% growth a day got me to pay attention.

[2/22/10 4:48:17 PM] Stephen: Geez, awesome idea.

Why didn't I come up with it?

http://www.ChatRoulette.com

Lots of freaks out there!

So this 17 year old kid in Russia can't find random people fast enough on Skype, he is in the NY times. I hear about the bubble CD girl, and Sticher; consider moving LiLAX to Google AppEng, to save on free hosting and scaling it, but mostly to learn about their cloud services.

However, after some time, I went on the site and decided I should shave and get a haircut, I was being nexted every second. This site sucks, however it is featured in the NYTimes and has a million dollar valuation on SiteLogr. Even has some imitators: the defunct Polish AnoChat, which is working again, but sparsely populated, I don't get nexted as much, and often will get reconnected to the same people. So I google chat roulette and find that Youtube has many videos including the Chat Roulette: Eye Vagina so I try to put the crack between to fingers up on the site and I don't get nexted as much, people find it entertaining, and don't quite know what they are seeing until they see me through the fingers and of course I get nexted, but not after getting a good laugh. At this point I want to build my own CR using Skype.

[2/28/10 12:19:53 PM] Stephen: I see there is an app in Ubuntu that lets you play video to a loopback driver for use as a fake webcam.

apt-get webcamstudio

it worked for the test

http://oldes.multimedia.cz/swf/mx-webcam.html

but I couldn't get chatroulette's flash app to use it ... maybe they hard-coded to exclude loopback, I don't know.

But thought I would share the alternatives to CamTwist (for Mac) and SplitCam (for Windows).

This skype conversation goes on for weeks. I keep returning to the SiteLogr graph, from Alexa and am stunned. It just keeps going, they now have P2P, the idea I was going to implement on Skype, another idea I didn't have time to complete. WSJ has CR by the numbers.

[3/2/10 2:08:08 PM] Stephen: http://omegle.com/

[3/2/10 2:08:58 PM] RalfX: chatrt without video. hmmm

OK I try Omegle:

You: hi

Stranger: hi

You: chatrt without video. hmmm

Stranger: ?

You: http://www.chatroulette.com/

Stranger: i know that site

Stranger: it is bullshit

You: however it used to grow 100%/day

Stranger: sure

Stranger: evebody shows dick on that site

Isn't as much fun without sound and video, just like the old IRC, how 80s.

[3/2/10 4:53:38 PM] Stephen: http://www.good.is/post/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-chat-roulette-but-were-afraid-to-ask/

[3/8/10 11:15:30 AM] Stephen: Guess what I did with my Sunday:

http://ChatRevolution.Posterous.com

This is the coolest video I found on CR:

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

and I spent some more time trying to engage people to talk:

You: How many oranges would it take to fill up that room?

Stranger: 9000

You: hmmmm

You: are you sure?

Stranger: yes

You: so 30x3x10=900

You: or 10x10x9=900

You: sorry no tits for you

Stranger: are you a man ?

You: u will never know

You: :P

Stranger: lol

Stranger: where ae youy ?

Stranger: are you

You: 6:06 am

Stranger: ouf

You: so if you wait until the sun raises, you could see

Stranger: but where?

You: however you could see another 1000 people until then

Stranger: i dont understand i'm french

You: hmmm, that is no excuse

Stranger: who are you ?!

You: hey I just heard France in http://twit.tv/natn128

You: which is the sound track

Stranger: an you where are you ?

You: in the bedroom

Stranger: but where is your bedroom ?

You: Je habit a Nice un anne et demi

You: 2nd floor

Stranger: on habite a coté de nice

You: wow

Stranger: et ouai the world is small

You: Gambetta 1996-97

Stranger: ok

Stranger: we go

Stranger: good bye !

You: ok

You: bye

Stranger: goog next

and then I went on to other distractions and work.