{"id":942,"date":"2013-08-08T22:21:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T03:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/08\/08\/130808-links\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T12:17:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T17:17:41","slug":"130808-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/08\/08\/130808-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruising the Interwebz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Note: This is an old timey blog post, the kind you might have read in the early Oughts, where people were still sharing interesting finds on the web. It&#8217;s not done much anymore. I&#8217;m not sure why.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been accumulating links over the past few weeks, primarily from Twitter but also from some random exploring I&#8217;ve done on my own. Here are some of them you might find worth checking out.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a guy named Bob Buckter who paints ladies. It&#8217;s not what you think. He colorizes Edwardian and Victorian houses, and the results are stunning. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontdoor.com\/people\/bob-buckter-the-man-who-paints-ladies\">a gallery of some of his work<\/a>; the before-and-after comparisons are particularly striking. But the obvious question is&#8230;who do you get when the need for repainting inevitably rolls around?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/paintedladies.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of painted house\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I mentioned Twitter above. Twitter gets a bad rap, primarily from people who either have never used it, or never figured out how to use it properly. Here&#8217;s a hint: pick who you follow on Twitter according to your hobbies and interests. You might then be surprised at its usefulness. But enough of the soapbox; if you use Twitter, you might find <a href=\"http:\/\/tweetping.net\/\">tweetping.net<\/a> interesting. Granted, it&#8217;s a hipster website (do we really need to see worldwide Twitter activity in realtime?), but it&#8217;s also a very pretty one. And the world needs more pretty websites.Are you as shocked as I am that the interior of Africa has apparently not discovered the joy of the tweet? But see that pinpoint in West Texas? Guess who. Uh huh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/tweetping.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of painted house\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At great expense to my emotional stability, I have resisted the urge to join the Johnny &#8220;Call Me Johnny Football But Only After You Allegedly Pay Me Some Money&#8221; Manziel imbroglio. And I&#8217;m still not going to waste valuable pixels at this point; I&#8217;m sorta over JFFM, especially after his parents <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/espn\/otl\/story\/_\/id\/9521439\/heisman-winner-johnny-manziel-celebrity-derail-texas-aggies-season-espn-magazine?src=mobile\">tried to go all medieval on my alma mater<\/a>. My message to them is simple: Don&#8217;t blame A&amp;M for your deficient parenting skills, mom and dad. You&#8217;re the Chief Enablers of his ingrained penchant for boorish behavior. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/collegefootball\/blog\/dennis-dodd\/23015877\/johnny-football-has-spit-on-all-the-help-texas-am-offered-him\">And read this article<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>For those for whom one or two pictures of your awesome burrito at Freebirds just aren&#8217;t enough, there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/snappycam\/id463688713?mt=8&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4\">SnappyCam<\/a>, a $.99 app that lets you use your iPhone 5 to take 20 full resolution photos <i>per second<\/i>. Even if you have an old-and-busted version like the iPhone 4S, you can grab 12 frames per second, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2013\/08\/01\/snappycam-lets-iphone-users-capture-20fps-at-full-resolution\/\">this review on PetaPixel<\/a> (which, by the way, is a recommended follow on Twitter for anyone interested in photography &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petapixel\/\">@petapixel<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/snappycam.jpg\" alt=\"SnappyCam screenshot\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of photography, whatever you think it might be like to be the official presidential photographer, you&#8217;re probably wrong. PetaPixel (there you go again) has <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2013\/06\/24\/a-brief-interview-with-george-w-bushs-presidential-photographer-eric-draper\/\">a great interview with Dubya&#8217;s photographer, Eric Draper<\/a>. I had no idea his access was basically 24\/7, which had to be simultaneously exciting and, well, creepy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/bushes.jpg\" alt=\"George W. Bush and the First Lady\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, I can&#8217;t resist throwing in a bike video. These guys have developed a shaft-drive recumbent, for reasons I don&#8217;t fully understand (heavier? yep. more complicated? check. more expensive? you bet.), other than that&#8217;s what engineers do. But they&#8217;re still cool-looking bikes, and the world could do worse than have more cool-looking bikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JAflhYgjFmw?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: This is an old timey blog post, the kind you might have read in the early Oughts, where people were still sharing interesting finds on the web. It&#8217;s not done much anymore. I&#8217;m not sure why. I&#8217;ve been accumulating links over the past few weeks, primarily from Twitter but also from some random exploring&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/08\/08\/130808-links\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cruising the Interwebz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-web","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12627,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942\/revisions\/12627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}