My Thoughts….

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May03

Revision3 sold to Discovery…

by Keith on May 3rd, 2012 at 11:20 pm

http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/3/2996951/discovery-channel-purchases-revision3

According to this article http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/3/2996951/discovery-channel-purchases-revision3, Rev3 May 1st, 2012 was purchased for roughly 30 million dollars by the Discovery channel. Also, it sounds like Discovery will keep the 50 employees. The only way I think this purchase will benefit discovery is if they are going to start new tech shows. I really hope they continue to broadcast their shows on the web. In my opinion I think they will keep the major tech shows and drop a lot of the amateurish shows. I think its going to damage what made rev3 so great. It was always trying new shows but I will watch and see what happens.

Rev3 was one of the reasons I dont really need cable.
It will be nice to see real tech shows on tv again but will there be enough profit for tv producers to stay interested.

I’m not going to jump ship hastily. Ive invest many years in watching this channel and will see what happens from here.

Good luck Rev3

└ Tags: podcasts, technology

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May03

Mini Arcade Machines…

by Keith on May 3rd, 2012 at 10:47 pm

Posted In: Gaming, arcade, retro

This one is made from a GP2X.
youtube.com/33bender

This one is made from a GBA
youtube.com/vcoleiro1

Saving the best for last.
This one is a little better it is awesome
Its a Star Wars Micro Arcade Machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdaMG0Fh0bU

└ Tags: arcade, arcade machine, retro

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Apr30

Get Dirty

by Keith on April 30th, 2012 at 5:38 pm

Posted In: Make the World Better

A few weeks ago I went to a monthly free environmental movie showing at a near by theatre and saw a movie called “Dirt” http://dirtthemovie.org/. It was really interesting to learn how dirt is made and how thin a layer of dirt on this Earth is useful for crops. In the movie it showed some machines harvesting trees and other vegetation, some of the machines were HUGE! It makes me wonder can we develop machines on the same scale to manufacture soil. Can we do it with natural energies? We really need to put food security as a number one priority for all people. We cant do anything until we do that. I’m a big advocate for lower global population even for Canada but we can’t do this until we have food security.

Check out “Dirt”

definition of food security according to wikipedia “Food security refers to the availability of food and one’s access to it. A household is considered food-secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation.”

└ Tags: dirt, Earth, environmental, make the world better, soil

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Apr17

Space Shuttle Discovery final flight…

by Keith on April 17th, 2012 at 9:49 pm

Posted In: Canada, Space

The end of an era.
I remember when I was in grade school or high school and class was stopped to watch the shuttle to be launched.
While in Korea, I even stopped teaching few university students to watch a Russian/Korean rocket be launched.
The students thought it was odd that class would be stopped for such an event. For me it was fascinating watching another country involvement in a space program