Generation X

Ypulse Essentials: 'Secret Life' Outdoes 'Gossip Girl,' Inside The World Of Trolls, Grandparents Love Texting

Pitfalls of popularity (While "Gossip Girl" is one of the most buzzed about shows on TV, '"Secret Life of the American Teen" has significantly more viewers. Could it be that wholesome "Secret Life" is appealing to TV watching Disney tweens while "Gossip Girl" appeals to older teens/college students who watch online? Thanks Becki! Plus more "backlash" [buzz building] press for GG from Reuters) (The Live Feed) - Inside the world of online trolls (big cyberbullying story in this Sunday's New York ...

Credit card fees and fine print: What's in your wallet?

This post comes from partner blog The Dough Roller. Credit card companies are masters of marketing. From cash back to travel rewards, and 0% introductory rates to gas rebates, credit card companies have turned a once fledgling industry (remember MasterCharge?) into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut. While taking advantage of credit card rewards can be a financial boon, care must be taken that fees and default interest rates do not ensnare us. Let's take a look at those fees and interest rates by ...

'Don't You Forget About Me': Rewatching 'The Breakfast Club'

On Saturday night, I joined hundreds of mostly Gen Xers to rewatch "The Breakfast Club" in Dolores Park here in San Francisco. It was sort of a "generational moment" if you will, everyone pumping their fists in the air and chanting, "hey, hey, hey, hey!" to Simple Mind's classic soundtrack "Don't You Forget About Me" -- we 80s kids didn't really have our Woodstock (maybe Live Aid?), but we did have our John Hughes movies. And with "The Breakfast Club" showing up in advertising for "American Teen...

My next gadget? I wish

I've been thinking about what the best format is for my next laptop for a long time. My good friend Zack blogged about his views and some of our discussions on his blog a while back. I think many of us have been thinking about this since the release of the Newton. A few things got me thinking about this again. The announcement a few weeks back of the iPhone 3G for one. The debate has been raging in the trade papers and blogs. Even Michael Arrington of TechCrunch fame recently dropped the gauntle...

Sony wake up finally to Mobile Market

Hi all! Finally Sony woke up to the latest mobile tendency. They announced a new cell phone line named XPERIA. This first model name X1 was designed by HTC and owned by Sony. So, it's powerd by a Qualcomm® processor and custom version of Windows Mobile 6.1. The most nice feature is that X1 version of WM6.1 that seems to be a mobile version of Microsoft Surface will mask the common WM6 UI that we already known on most of actual Smarthphones from Motorola per sample. His design remember a lot las...

Neo FreeRunner: More Hobby than a Phone

Buy the Neo FreeRunner if you want a hobby, not if you want a phone. The Neo phones are the world's first "open source" phone. If you want to build your own you can. The schematics and design drawings are available. It runs Openmoko, a free and open source mobile phone stack based on Linux. The FreeRunner is their second generation design and the first intended for general use. First availability of the Neo FreeRunner phones happened this month. A group of Austin folks got together and did a gro...

This is a call to arms against Millennials

Sure, Generation X survived AIDS, Reagan, the Cold War, Tipper Gore, and A Flock of Seagulls, but those adversities, suggest Strauss and Howe, pale in comparison to what Millennials face today. Consider the stress of having to juggle a 30-hour...

C 414 B-XLII condenser large diaphragm 5 polar patterns

High sensitivity and extremely low self noise Five switchable polar patterns for placement and application flexibility Two-color LEDs provide quick visual indication of selected polar pattern and output overload Elastic capsule suspension greatly minimizes structurally-transmitted noise from chassis vibration H 85 professional shock mount/stand adapter, PF 80 external pop filter and W 414 X external windscreen. A classic microphone with a distinctive timbre especially designed for recording of ...

London's Charon QC interviews What About Clients?

On Tuesday, Charon QC, London's velvet-voiced legal toastmaster, interviewed an early-rising Dan Hull in California for Charon's podcast series. Dan drank coffee, allegedly. Charon drank something, perhaps Rioja. Their first encounter, one of Charon's first shows, was live at Dan's hotel in the Mayfair section of London in 2007. Hear Tuesday's program here. Charon's posted summary: "We talk about the meaning of client service--the difference in attitude between Babyboomers and Generation X/Gener...

Simon Pietersz. Verelst (The Hague 1644-?1721 London) - Roses, chrysanthemums, morning glory and other flowers in a glas...

Simon Pietersz. Verelst (The Hague 1644-?1721 London) - Roses, chrysanthemums, morning glory and other flowers in a glass vase with a butterfly oil on cavas 21 5/8 x 17½ in. (54.9 x 44.5 cm.) - Price Realized: £11,875 ($23,501) Note: Verelst was the leading flower painter of his generation active in England, where he settled in 1669. Few of his still lifes are signed and even fewer dated. In the same year as Verelst's arrival in London, Samuel Pepys noted in his diary that on 11 April 'one Ev...