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I almost forgot about this, but one day in Disney World a woman was taking a picture of her husband and their two sons, and the husband was trying to tell the wife to turn the camera from landscape orientation to portrait.

Man: "Turn the camera, honey."
Wife: "Huh?"
Man: "Just turn it, the picture will look better."
Wife turns her whole body so she's pointing to the right of her husband.
Man: "No, turn it 90 degrees."
Wife turns around and begins backing up to the husband so she can take a picture of all of them (or something).
Man: "No, turn 90 degrees!"
Wife returns to her position, and flips the camera to point towards her.
Man: "Honey, 90 degrees, point it at us."
Wife turns the camera upside down: "Like this???"
Husband walks over turns the camera in the wife's hand to portrait orientation, and starts to walk away."
Wife: "Oh, I didn't know it could do that."

🙂

Rands has a good post about working remotely.

Last year during the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Pittsburgh Penguins showed the broadcast on a large screen outside. Fans would gather on the lawn, watch the broadcast, and celebrate a great run by the Pens in the playoffs.

This year, they've done it again for the first two games (shown on FSN), but NBC has told them no way for tomorrow's NBC-broadcast game. NBC is not allowing the Penguins to show the broadcast on the big screen outside of Mellon Arena.

I - and many other Pens fans - see no reason for this. The broadcast shown is the same NBC broadcast that will be seen by those who will now be forced to stay at home to watch. The same advertisements, the same audio, the same images. Furthermore, NBC allowed it last year.

Pens fans are revolting. They're sending letters to NBC and its advertisers. Me? I'm just trying to figure out the logic of it. Bars show games all the time - same thing. Viewing on the lawn is free. They're not charging for a "performance" or a "showing." So what gives?

P.S. I've sent a few short, polite emails. I'm also going to look to cut back on my viewing of NBC shows. 30 Rock is safe, but partly because they make fun of this type of commercial bullcrap.

Fortunately, taking this photo did not cause the iPhone broken.

I've finished watching Mad Men, Season 1 (Netflixed it). I seem to be missing something. It's a good show, but I don't think I'd call it great. Does it pick up in season two and three at all? Do you have to be older than 31 to really get it? The stereotyping is pretty heavy and the character development, outside of about two people, is incredibly thin. As I watch the season one "behind the scenes" video, all anyone's talking about is the writing. The writing. The writing! Meh.

Again, not saying it's trash, but it's no Entourage - and it's sure as heck no West Wing - either. It's just good.

By the way, the official announcement is here, in case you were wondering about the previous post.

The highlights:

• Nine hole round support - this has been our most requested feature since 1.0 shipped.
• Graphing of almost all starts - the graphing system allows you to graph and compare up to three stats at once.
• Markers - Markers can be set for any date and can be used as the starting date for your stats. They also appear on the graphs so that you can see how we'll you've played since you bought the new drive, took a lesson, or for any other reason that you choose.
• Per hole notes - you can now keep a note for each hole to help track what happened when you played.

Release date? Two weeks, give or take.

Got a UI problem in Scorecard that I'm not entirely certain how to solve. Perhaps someone out there can help.

Big screenshot after the jump.

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I've never found it terribly difficult to get back into the swing of things after a break.

Perhaps the biggest problem is answering all the "how was your vacation" questions? Then again, those are greatly diminished by having a blog, and is perhaps one of the best reasons to have one. 🙂

Does this mean that this will no longer be possible (web.me.com/iacas) or is it just talking about "homepage.mac.com"?

If you've been wondering where I've been for the past week, the answer is spelled M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E.

Yeah, we took a one-week family vacation to Disney World. I didn't pre-announce it here on my blog for obvious reasons, and I didn't post "I'm in Disney World" for the same reasons, but I did write a post each day, and I'm going to work on finalizing those and posting them. They'll all be back-dated, but I'm posting them today.

I approved any moderated comments and caught up (~70%) on email. My feeds in Cyndicate will have to wait until tomorrow.

Today we were let into Epcot an hour early so that we could make our way back to "Norway," where that morning's breakfast with the princesses would take place.

The princesses came around rather quickly, so we finished up and walked leisurely to Test Track. Carey obtained some fast passes (for 9:30) and we were first in line before Epcot had even officially opened. A wave of people came rushing towards us minutes later, but we were in the first row of the first car of the first ride that morning - a unique, bizarre experience.

We went on the ride inside the Epcot dome, used our Fast Passes to ride Test Track for the third time, and then sampled (again) the sodas from around the world before heading out. The guides I mentioned before also schedule your Fast Passes, and we made ample use of them throughout the trip. Carey told me only 10-15% of people ever use a Fast Pass, so that's the one tip I'll pass on to you even if you don't get the guide book: use the Fast Pass feature.

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My feet and legs have stopped complaining. Though I was never in even a moderate amount of pain, I did notice mild discomfort from all the walking we were doing. They've given up complaining even a little at this point.

I will use this otherwise waste-of-a-post to point out that Carey did a great thing in buying the Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World prior to our trip. Along with the accompanying website, touringplans.com, we were able to see everything in Walt Disney World that we wanted to see and with minimal fuss and bother.

Some days we had finished our "morning" plan - going on/in 15-20 rides and attractions - in two hours! The longest we waited to ride any attraction was 30 minutes for the packed (to us) Toy Story ride, but we'd gone to Hollywood Studios on a lark that night and didn't have a plan.

The site lets you build a plan for all sorts of setups: parents riding adult rides with small children, children of mixed ages (i.e. how do you accommodate a 6-year-old and a 16-year-old on the same trip), etc. We always chose the "Dumbo Do Or Die" plans, which is the plan you choose when the trip is 100% about your kid getting on as many rides as possible without a care for anything else.

Some people may not like to have their whole day planned out like the book and site helps you to do, but then again, the 15 minutes we waited for Soarin' was one of the longer waits we had all week. Another family waited 2½ hours. Spontaneity's great sometimes, but at Disney World, not so much.

I don't really care to share anything here about today's activities, so instead I'll talk about the camera setup I took to Disney World.

Carey had mandated that I not take either of my 5Ds, the lenses, etc. I'd bought a new camera bag partly for Disney World (more so for my yearly trip to a golf tournament in Columbus, OH), and obviously I'm quite comfortable with the capabilities of the 5Ds and the images I can create with them, so instead I took only the G10.

The G10 - with which I'd spent no time getting familiar - performed admirably, but I still wish I had been able to bring my cameras. It may have taken a day to understand what to bring and what not to bring, but if I was going to Disney World now, with what I know now, I'd bring:

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The Epcot light show is one of the few things I remember from my visit to Disney World when I was six years old.

Back then, the light show was more about lights than fireworks. I remember lasers playing a heavy role, drawing things in the sky and flashing about through most of the show. The modern Epcot light show is more about fireworks than lasers - which is fine, I suppose.

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I'm not going to list what we did every day, but today started in the Magic Kingdom and was the location for something which had the potential not to ruin our vacation, but to put a serious dent in the enjoyment.

Carey'd misplaced her card, so we waited for her to get a new one (the old one was just turned around backwards in her wallet). We watched the opening ceremonies from outside the gates, and when we went inside, Carey picked up a small blue Mickey-shaped metallic piece of confetti. We put it in the stroller.

We then walked quickly straight for Dumbo - a ride Carey's guide said to ride first and then ride again if possible before the lines got too long. We rode the carousel. We rode the Pooh ride. Then we parked our stroller and went in two or three shows and rides (Peter Pan, the Philharmagic show, and perhaps another one or two).

Carey saw the stroller prior to us riding It's a Small World. When we came out of Small World, Carey said "wait here, I'll be right back." Five minutes later I see her waving, so we walk down to find that our stroller had been stolen. The person who stole the stroller had apparently taken my large Titleist umbrella out of the stroller before stealing it because the worker mentioned that he'd just found an umbrella lying on the ground moments before Carey showed up to get our stroller.

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