Everybody’s Famous For 15 Minutes (or more) on YawpBox
January 14, 2008
I had a goofy friend in college who thought Andy Warhol was the most visionary artist ever. My friends even cried the day he died. Maybe my friend was just as visionary, because Warhol’s famous saying that everyone is famous for 15 minutes seems more true today than ever. That saying reflected Warhol’s ability to see the beauty and art in common objects like soup cans and bananas. The website YawpBox provides a forum for users to create and display their own entertainment content. Members can post their own stories under a wide range of topics ranging from things like “Have you ever had a mullet” to “Tell us about the day your life went wrong”.
National Radio show hosts Lex and Terry also have challenges for viewers to either create original content or post others content. Challenges include things like “have you ever made headlines?” or “the best tattoo”. Lex and Terry will also be filming a YawpBox TV show that will include the user submitted content, videos and stories. They utilize their national radio show to give out their “home work” assignments to listener/members. They film the show before a live audience in Dallas, Texas. It will be different from other viewer content based show like “America’s Funniest Home Videos” in that the content will all come from member of the YawpBox social networking web site. Lex and Terry will add their quick wit and humor in the form of commentary on the videos and YawpBox members will have opportunities to appear in studio with Lex and Terry. It should be fun to see a TV Magazine show about ordinary people and not just the rich and famous.
My favorite video under “The day your life went wrong” shows a deer that has fallen through broken ice and and the helicopter rescue. They didn’t pull the deer from the water, but instead, once the deer got on a bit sturdier ices, used the helicopter to blow the deer across the ice to the shore.
It is pretty amazing footage.
Connection Issues and Call of Duty 4
December 20, 2007
For the last two or three weeks, we have been struggling with connection issues. Its one of those issues that you occasionally deal with living in rural America and having to use a wireless setup for your broadband connection.
The connection from my provider has been occasionally dropping for a minute or two, which isnt that big a deal. However, the connection has had a pretty large amount of latency, sometimes as high as 500 ms. Again, not that big a deal for normal web browsing and website work. However, it is a big deal for the internet gaming of Sean and I.
That amount of latency just makes any kind of twitch game almost unplayable. Sean, in particular, has been extremely frustrated when trying to play our favorite game, Call of Duty 4. I can’t say the lag has me too please either.
I have been working with my provider and his network guy both of whom I know personally – another benefit of small rural community living. They haven’t had much luck locating the issue, but have at least recognize that I/we are having some sort of issue.
Last night, all of a sudden, about 9 pm, everything cleared up and gaming glory was back in session. Sean and I were so happy to be able to play Call of Duty 4 lag free that we ended up playing until about 12:30 am last night – probably not the best thing for him since it was still a school night.
I don’t know if they actually fixed anything or not. I will check with them today, but I suspect it will be back to not operating correctly. My personal thought is some sort of RF interference is causing the issue and it just went away late last night. If that’s true, it could well be back today. At a minimum, this will give us some additional info to troubleshoot if it does indeed come back today.
Speaking of Call of Duty 4, if you haven’t played the game yet, what are you waiting for? For me, and probably Sean too, its the best game made to date. It easily blows away other FPS’s and we have played a bunch of them. It is leaps and bounds ahead of Halo 3, often considered a benchmark. In fact, our copy of Halo 3 only gets played these days when one of our friends invites us to play a game on Xbox Live. And the only friends that do that are the ones that haven’t gotten Call of Duty 4 yet.
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