I’ve noticed this thing. Maybe you have to. You’ll be watching a tv show, or a movie, and they’ll give you this view of the car interior so you can see both the driver and passenger, plus the street moving in the background. You get a couple of back and forth camera shots, going back […]
If you’re a writer, editor, or book publisher, piracy is an obvious issue. To help build your strategies to encourage piracy, I wanted to offer up 3 quick steps you can deploy right now, if you haven’t already. First off, price your eBooks out of the market. Having an eBook priced at $15 or above […]
Welcome (back) to All Things From My Brain. Big Brother. Born of Orwell’s 1984, the term ‘Big Brother is watching you’ has become part of our culture. For some, it conjures images of tin-foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists hunkered down in cold-war era bomb shelters scribbling paranoid ramblings in a seemingly endless supply of notebooks. […]
Welcome to All Things From My Brain. eBooks. Ugh. Recently paid $13 for an eBook. I know, I know – you’re thinking, “What the Hell?” Me too. I did it because I was curious about the author, Elmore Leonard, whose stories about a U.S. Marshall named Raylan Givens, served as inspiration for the FX TV […]
Welcome to All Things From My Brain. 3D is Pointless (Except in Avatar). 3D. It’s the new, cool thing. Heck, Sprint even has a new phone capable of recording 3D video (EVO). They hope it will usher in a wave of amateur 3D videos. I think it’ll usher in a wave of 3D amateur porn. […]
Welcome to All Things From My Brain. Bottled Water. It’s hot, freaking hot. The A/C in your car doesn’t seem able to keep up with the heat bubbling up from the blacktop-road, causing sweat to bead on your forehead, in your armpits and, let’s face it – some other places you probably don’t want to […]
Welcome to All Things From My Brain. Text Messaging. Remember when text messaging was free? I do. The concept of the text message is a simple one – you have 140 characters or less to relay a message from yourself to someone else. The message flies wirelessly from your phone, through the air and to […]
I’ve been trying to come up with a format / column for me to contribute to Functional Nerds for quite some time, but nothing ever seems to feel right to me. Then I realized that I’ve already created it. So welcome to All Things From My Brain. Used books. Going to the library always bugged […]
I’ve been trying to come up with a format / column for me to contribute to Functional Nerds for quite some time, but nothing ever seems to feel right to me. Then I realized that I’ve already created it. So welcome to All Things From My Brain. Used Video Games I buy 95% used video […]
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