Is it even possible to do 100 push ups in a row? I never thought so. Until I heard about hundredspushups.com. They promise to train you to do it within 6 weeks or sooner.

So, what you’d do is to take the initial test. Since I could do 24 in a row, that places me at rank # 3, that is week # 3 on the 6 weeks schedule.

So, this is my week 3 schedule based on the initial test. I’ll see if this program has staying power :)

Indie Faye, Freddy Man, whatever... How did the sub-prime mortgage crisis happen? This American Life did a pretty good episode on it, entitled “The Giant Pool of Money.” Surf over their site for the transcript, or just listen here. Needless to say, there were lots of scoundrels involved.

I recently saw the debut of Microsoft’s new $300 millions ad campaign to counter those “I’m a Mac ads”, and I have to say, I’m confused. I’d always thought that Bill would make a great pitchman, like what Dave Thomas did for Wendy’s. Although, Bill had a reputation, over the years, of being a tyrant, his public image seems to be that of a lovable nerd.

So, here’s ad # 1

After watching it, I thought it felt disjointed. Perhaps it’ll make more sense as part of a series. Although, that’s never something you’d want to say for a debut to anything. But what I noticed was Bills quick, short lines. I fired up Excel and plopped in the transcript.

Bill had 1.9 words per line. That’s autism territory.

Come on ad people, let Bill talk.

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This viewer requires MS Silverlight plug-in. It was surprisingly easy (relatively) to make.

Badminton is an Olympic sport?

Seriously?

…and this is installation for the Java Environment.

This says only 1 thing:

• The Browser Bar is generating revenue for Yahoo, probably through the searching w/ Yahoo Search, & having displayed ads. I guess this shouldn’t be a surprise. This is how Google generate the majority of the revenue after all.

Once in a while words just pop into my head. Probably due to brain cells spontaneous combustions. But today's words are "object transmogrification." I'm not sure what they mean.

Now I have to invent concepts to fill out those words. What if "object transmogrification", in the context of computers, means that objects have the ability to upgrade themselves. For instance, from a Ford Escort, to a Lexus that knows how to parallel park on its own, because of mounted cameras.

What if this "object transmogrification" thingy can manifest itself in adaptive UI. Say, when you're working with an application, and you're a novice. You'd get a simple UI. And when you're ready to graduate to the next level, you just click on the "Transmogrify" button, and you'd get the next version of complexity of that application.

Cool. Hopefully, I can give this idea some more thoughts, as I'm easily distracted.

Look, tiny butterflies...