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20080821
master log
So, now I own a motorcycle. Again. If you've been watching my Qik feed, or following me on Twitter, then you already know this. It's a 1978 Honda cx500 that has been chopped and modded and re-wired and probably crashed and definitely painted a few times. But... It runs. I have decided to use the bike in the nice weather, and work on the bike during the bad weather. It will be my on-going and slow project. Craig Kuhns helped me decide on a name, something that I used on Xbox LIVE once upon a time: Kernel Panic. If you don't get it, that's ok.Heather got my iPhone, and I "down-graded" to a Nokia E61i so that I could stream video LIVE to Qik.com and then it dumps it straight to YouTube as well. Oh, and I just got in to the Alpha release of 12seconds.tv and it's a quaint little service that is basically a video version of twitter. Where twitter caps you off at 140 characters per update, 12seconds.tv caps you off at, you guessed it, 15 seconds. Oh wait, I mean, 12 seconds. I like the service, but I'm not sure how much I'm going to use it. I like Qik a lot, and I know I'm not going to replace it with 12seconds, but with two kids, I know I won't be able to fit their cuteness into a mere 12 seconds of footage. I'll probably use 12seconds for my personal updates, and qik will stay strictly on the phone.
Oh, and organic visual got a face-lift and botox injection last week. Matches the new business cards better, and includes more ways to contact me and view our stuff in a single page.
20080806
peak limiter
So I'm back in The United States, and I'm getting back in the groove. Jackson.After spending 2 weeks in India, and almost 3 days of that in the air, I arrived back in Carolina to pack up and drive up to Virginia to see family. I rented a car for the weekend, and used it primarily for the Air Conditioning. When you're taking a 6-hour car ride with a 2-year old and a pregnant woman, paying extra money for AC is well worth it. When we got up there, I started feeling sick, and spend a couple days in a bed, sneezing, sniffling, coughing and sleeping. I'm still suffering from the effects of having that cold all weekend, but those symptoms are for a different blog post.
Relatives I had never met, my father's siblings, and family friends all converged on a borrowed North Carolina cottage on an inlet to celebrate the fact that we were finally able to see each other. Four generations of the Bethune Family were represented, with my Father's mother as the matriarch. I met uncles and aunts I had never met, and my father got to see brothers of his that he hadn't seen in 25 years. It was a gracious and elegant reunion considering the potential for outbursts and tension. The combined culinary skills in the Bethune name made for amazing meals, and the humor that I thought was unique to only my father, was multiplied by his four siblings and their mother. We got to see some old pictures of the family growing up in the 50's, and hear some stories that my parents never told us.
I love my family, and my family name so much more, now that I know who's behind it all.
I'll be talking about India more and more as well, but that dialogue will be better portrayed at Hope Takes Flight along with Joel Khouri and the rest of the team.
Also, don't forget about organic visual and the featured videos.
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