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Waking Up with Oscar (Nominations)
Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and as a transplanted Southern Californian, I recognize that the importance these announcements carry diminishes with every mile that you travel away from the Kodak Theater in Hollywood. Still, old habits die hard, and I ran through the list of nominees eagerly, despite the fact that the only movies I've seen in a movie theater since last summer were The King & I and A Miracle On 34th Street.
One of the movies I did see last summer, An Inconvenient Truth, received two nominations, one for best documentary and one for best song. I don't have to peruse any historical tome to know that Melissa Etheridge's I Need to Wake Up is the first song from a documentary to be nominated.
Watching it on YouTube is fine and dandy, but you can get a higher quality version from iTunes too.
So how do I justify writing a post in my blog that is ostensibly focused on technology about Melissa Etheridge and the Oscars? Well, let's face it. Sometimes, no matter how much you want to geek out about the new 300 Mbs ieee 80211.n WiFi standard and its extended range and speed, you have to deal with the reality of the physical world.
Some technologies that will help:
Carbon credits - where do you buy them? How much do they cost? I won't pretend to know how this works exactly, but they seem to have done their homework.
Oh, and that Al Gore guy? He has a new version of his book coming out later this year geared toward children. I haven't listed to this movie fan's podcasts related to the movie, but find it interesting that two of the three reviews are ascribed to an 11 and 12 year old.
If you're cinematically inclined there is a contest at treehugger.com for green videos.
One of the movies I did see last summer, An Inconvenient Truth, received two nominations, one for best documentary and one for best song. I don't have to peruse any historical tome to know that Melissa Etheridge's I Need to Wake Up is the first song from a documentary to be nominated.
Watching it on YouTube is fine and dandy, but you can get a higher quality version from iTunes too.
So how do I justify writing a post in my blog that is ostensibly focused on technology about Melissa Etheridge and the Oscars? Well, let's face it. Sometimes, no matter how much you want to geek out about the new 300 Mbs ieee 80211.n WiFi standard and its extended range and speed, you have to deal with the reality of the physical world.
Some technologies that will help:
Carbon credits - where do you buy them? How much do they cost? I won't pretend to know how this works exactly, but they seem to have done their homework.
Oh, and that Al Gore guy? He has a new version of his book coming out later this year geared toward children. I haven't listed to this movie fan's podcasts related to the movie, but find it interesting that two of the three reviews are ascribed to an 11 and 12 year old.
If you're cinematically inclined there is a contest at treehugger.com for green videos.
