George’s Vox

Mr. Belding belts out some Journey

nobody@vox.com(George) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:39:49 -0800

Metal Skool w/ Tony Romo and Mr. Belding

Ever wonder what happens to actors like Mr. Belding from Saved By the Bell? Well, wonder no longer. This video drifts between scary and sad.

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"Eagles are so awesome…"

nobody@vox.com(George) — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:39:05 -0800

Eagles Fly on IYI

Just in case you didn't realize how awesome eagles are.

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Why so chalky?

nobody@vox.com(George) — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:44:48 -0800

Robot-valentine-blog

We at Widgetbox decided to get into the Valentine's Day spirit today by letting our mascot tin toy robot hold a chalky Be Mine candy. All I can say is I love iStockphoto. I did all this in under an hour thanks to iStockphoto. The image was even vector-based which made it so much easier.

I realize we need to come up with a decent name for our robot now. Oh well, one of these days.

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QotD: I Was The Sous Chef

nobody@vox.com(George) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:12:21 -0800

Who taught you how to cook?
Submitted by Donna.

I was your typical latch-key kid growing up so believe it or not, all the great cooking shows on public television like The Frugal Gourmet and Julia Childs.

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OK, this guy's talented

nobody@vox.com(George) — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:21:47 -0800

beatboxing flute super mario brothers theme

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QotD: Complimentary

nobody@vox.com(George) — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:31:30 -0800

What is the greatest compliment you've received?
Submitted by Maraschino.

That I was more genuine than John Cusack.

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Who You Gonna Call?

nobody@vox.com(George) — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:56:45 -0800

ZootFly Ghostbusters

ZootFly Ghostbusters Ecto2 chase

Check out these slick videos of (hopefully) an upcoming Ghostbusters game. Makes the old Sega game look silly. Well it was silly then too.

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QotD: It Was Kismet

nobody@vox.com(George) — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:48:54 -0800

How did you meet your current, or most recent, significant other?

Lennox Mall, Atlanta for the premiere of Jurassic Park.

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QotD: I'm Working. Really.

nobody@vox.com(George) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:05:44 -0800

We know you never slack off at work, but if you did, what would you do?

Hmm, I'd probably play some video games. In fact, we got an XBOX 360 in the office just waiting to be hooked up. We're all just too busy right now to consider it. Maybe I'll slack off once we push out our next set of features.

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iPodworld Expo 2007

nobody@vox.com(George) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:56:01 -0800

Spectators at the iPhone Display

Well, I was able to make it for my traditional tour of Macworld today. Noah and I met up and grabbed a quick lunch at the Metreon (Who would think that Buckhorn has really good veggie options). On the way out, we ended up holding the door open for Jason Snell, chief editor of Macworld magazine. So that was a befitting way to start into Macworld Expo tour.

This week at work has been pretty busy so I wasn't sure I'd make it to Macworld this year. But honestly with the lack of any pure Mac products that I can get my hands on relatively soon, I didn't really care that much. I was bummed a little that I couldn't find the Panic booth this year even though I know Cabel Sasser is in town. The Apple mega-booth was pretty low key aside from some minor interest in the Apple TV and the not-so-surprising heightened interest in the iPhone. There was always about a 4-5 person deep perimeter around the thing so I didn't even bother getting too close.

I did see John Nack at the Adobe booth. I was going to say hello (so he could put a face to an email address) but he seemed to have a captive audience he was working with. Both Noah and I agreed of all the booth setups, Belkin had the best. I've always admired their products but this year the booth design and products were really top notch.

Through the years since the iPod really fell into favor, Macworld has sadly become iPodworld. I really think they should just go ahead and make an iPodworld (or just iWorld?) so that we can have our Macworld back, but as Noah pointed out all the friggin' plastic skin stuff-you-don't-need for your iPod sellers would still show up at Macworld.

So do I think the iPhone is cool? Of course I do! It's a UI designer's wet dream. Watching the keynote it really sunk in. This is the stuff (UI stuff that is) of Star Trek: Next Generation and Minority Report. But just as always this is what makes Apple, Apple. Others consider these shows and movies just science fiction intended merely to entertain. Apple questions why the hell we don't have that now. And while I probably think just about anything Apple does is cool, I have to say this is by far one of the most innovative, inspiring products they've ever conceived. Thank you Apple for truly bringing us the future today. Well, maybe not today but in about five or six months.

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