Exclusive: 'The Dark Knight' Video of Joker's Semi Flip

The Dark Knight filming in Chicago

12 on 12: Tech Cockatil 5

Tech Cockatil
Originally uploaded by bcbeatty.

Tech Cocktail always seems to happen on the 12th of the month. This was the 1st Anniversary of the Chicago networking event.

My Photo is Published! on Schmap! Chicago

My flickr photo of a Steak Salad at Park Grill Millennium Park has been selected in the online city guide Schmap! Chicago.
Check it out:
Chicago - Local Traditional Cuisine

Speed up your podcasts

Here's how I speed up my podcasts on a PC.

I use Juice to download my podcasts.
Juice has a feature to run a program when a file has been downloaded.
I run use Microsoft's WMP9 Encoder to speedup the mp3 file. Combined with Wmcmd.vbs, I can speed up or slow down an mp3 file to any speed, even convert avi to wma for video podcasts.

I've gotten used to listening podcasts at 2x speed. A side effect is the mp3 file gets converted to wma, and looses all the tags, but my iRiver supports wma so I haven't looked into keeping them mp3.

Tech Cocktail 5

Ink Jet Ink, Cost Per Gallon

Chanel #5 costs more than ink, but not much else does.

	Approx. Price	Equivalent Price in $/gal	Conversion factors
Crude Oil	$60/barrel	$1.09	1 barrel=55 gals
Refined gasoline, supreme unleaded	$3.90/gal	$3.90
Bottled water, Calistoga at 7-11	$1/500 ml	$10	1 gal=4.53 L
Starbucks Latte, 16 oz.	$4/16 oz.	$32	1 gal=128 oz
Blood (if you can get it)	$100 to $200/pt	$800-$1600	1 gal=8 pts
Cristal Champagne, 1999	$300/750 ml	$1,812	1 gal=4.53 L
HP Inkjet ink, black #14	$23/23ml	$4,530	1 gal=4530 ml
Chanel #5	$100/0.25 oz	$51,200	1 gal=128 oz

What's Wrong With This Picture?

just take a moment and figure it out - you'll laugh when you do



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FRAK! Battlestar Galactica To End!

Sci-fi channel announces next season to be the last.



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My Fall Tivo Schedule

Now that the Networks have figured out their schedule here's my Tivo workout for the week.

Monday: How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, 24, Dancing(Melissa), Journeyman
Tuesday: Dancing(Melissa), Boston Legal, Reaper, Biggest Loser(Melissa)
Wednesday: Private Practice, Bionic Woman, Lost
Thursday: Betty, Grey, CSI, ER, Smallville
Friday: Moonlight and Sci-Fi Friday
Saturday: Nothing
Sunday: Football, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, BSG, Desperate Housewives(Melissa)

Other Misc and Cable: Rescue Me, Entourage, Big Love, John from Cincinnati, Mythbusters, Stargate, Eureka, The 4400, Dead Zone, Nip/Tuck, The Shield, Dirty Jobs

So far nothing overlaps too much, but I have Vista Media Center for backup

Wine vs Water

After a number of carefully controlled trials,
Scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service.