This evening when I put my juggling balls back into the air again, I noticed a startling effect. For a moment I felt as if I had all day to catch the falling balls! My mind was completely in tune with the falling objects.
Athletes talk about being “in the zone.” Today I was in the zone with my juggling. It’s a great feeling and a sure sign that my juggling is coming along nicely.
This month Wired magazine spills the beans on how Netflix plans to take over the world – or at least make your cable company irrelevant:
Today, nearly 3 million users access Netflix’s instant streaming service, watching an estimated 5 million movies and TV shows every week on their PCs or living room sets. They get it through Roku’s player, which was successfully launched in May 2008 …. They get it through their Xbox 360s—Microsoft added Netflix to its Xbox Live service last fall. They get it through LG and Samsung Blu-ray players. They get it through their TiVos and new flatscreen TVs. By the end of 2009, nearly 10 million Netflix-equipped gadgets will be hanging on walls and sitting in entertainment centers. And Hastings says this is just the beginning: “It’s possible that within a few years, nearly all Internet-connected consumer electronics devices will include Netflix.”
You know your Time Warner stock? I’d suggest you short-sell it, pronto. Netflix isn’t through with changing the media game – permanently!
I just found out by way of my friend Tanner that an old TriLUG friend died in a fall this month. Her name was Leah Kubik but we knew her by her IRC nickname of Heinous.
I’d only met her a few times in person but she was one of the few female Linux geeks I knew and had a quiet, sarcastic sense of humor. She moved from Raleigh to Toronto many years ago and I lost touch with her. Sad to hear of her untimely death at the age of 29.
