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The mechanics of Vlogging vs. Blogging

Vlogging makes you lazy as a Blogger
It is just so much point, shoot and post!
Putting down images…
Where if you had to Blog about the same thing
You would have to compose words – stretch your vocabulary
Use phrasing – Titles – Syntax

Is that right brain or left brain?
Vlog being more mechanical technology driven
Where blogs are more intellectual

Both communicate
But the mechanics are so different!

An example: I am driving along Jefferson Avenue.
Lakeshore Drive, and the ice is slowly forming along the lake
The chill it must have, the crystallized nature of the ice
The cloud cover – The past posts we have made there
Watching the fireworks from a hill that overlooks the lake.

The composition of words needed to describe and justify the writing
Where as a Vlog post would be camera angles, light settings,
Tripod placement – Length of sequences – Arrangement of sequence

A much different artform…

Nokia N90 is now en route to its’ new owner

I know we tried to make it a staple of the ZuD Empire but you know video just doesn’t make it with me. I have composed and will post a further discussion of Vlog vs. Blog philosophical differences but it will suffice to say. It’s Gone! And boy did I get a good price amounting to the fact I paid probably fifty a cents a day to have that thing for a year. Not bad!

So I went to a wireless store, which was near the UPS store I shipped the N90 from, in hopes of having the sim card moved back to an old obsolete phone I had before the N90. That wasn’t successful because it isn’t a multi band phone and is just too damn old. So I got a charger and a refurb phone for fifty bucks that will hold me until the iPhone comes out this summer.

You all remember the iPhone? My head is still spinning from the demo of that device! What miracles of technology that critter will hold makes me dizzy even now.

CellPhones are EVIL!

From Wired

I knew it! Now they don't just cancer, they cause disease!

To Quote:

The irradiated warmth of a cellphone's interior is a vile, germ-infested bath loaded with more pathogens than any surface in your home, according to a study conducted by cell phone retailer Dial-a-Phone.

Dial-a-phone swabbed everyday household objects from toilet seats (which are actually very clean) to keyboards and the bottoms of shoes (which are not.) The results indicate that every time you heft that slab of plastic and silicon to your head, you're not only risking a Scanners-like explosive demise, but a genuine risk of illness.

Cable Versus Direct TV

I was reading in the Times that China has figured out a way to blow up Satellites.

Well that settles it for me.

I was looking to go from Comcast to Direct TV, with their hundred channel HDTV service.
But hell, if it's gonna get blown up during the Super Bowl or the night of the Academy Awards, I'll just stick with coax. Good old dependable coax.

Getting Excited Over Vonage Vphone

I  was getting all excited ready to sell my Nokia N90 and hit the buy button when I saw this lonely claim: Currently not compatible with Macintosh computers. I get a lot of that in my past years as a Mac user. This thing would of been so cool! Take your Vonage # on the road just by plugging in a thumb drive.

If your a PC user and have a laptop and can see the possibilities, click it out.

I'll just sit in the corner and suck my thumb! Here is another Pic of what it looks like in action:

One more thing, why folks don't get Vonage is beyond me, at 15 bucks a month call anywhere why wouldn't you sign up?

Did We Kill Andre Waters?

After having read this article on the NYTimes web site that I quote:

Since the former National Football League player Andre Waters killed himself in November, an explanation for his suicide has remained a mystery. But after examining remains of Mr. Waters’s brain, a neuropathologist in Pittsburgh is claiming that Mr. Waters had sustained brain damage from playing football and he says that led to his depression and ultimate death.

I am having great qualms about my patronage of NFL football. I usually get a little melancholy this time of year, realizing there are only 3 more games till the end of the season.

But having read this that the abuse Andre Walters experienced as being a player I am feeling more guilt and remorse than usual. As a result I thought this would be the place to share it and maybe you Zuddies might have an opinion, the killer quote is here:

Dr. Omalu’s claims of Mr. Waters’s brain deterioration — which have not been corroborated or reviewed — add to the mounting scientific debate over whether victims of multiple concussions, and specifically longtime N.F.L. players who may or may not know their full history of brain trauma, are at heightened risk of depression, dementia and suicide as early as midlife.

Therefore after having read that does that make me a party to the death of Andre? And having raised my kids to be fans of NFL football are they also co-conspirators in this poor mans death and the suffering of others we don’t yet know about?

Sofia Vergara "A Rack That Can Be Seen From Space!"

That was the quote from last nights episode of Knights of Prosperity. Though the show has declined in humor, one can't but notice the scenery. To show you how much ZuD loves you here are the links to her personal site & ABC's site. Who loves ya baby? And look how old Mick Jagger is now:

A Video post to inspire a Visit to ZuD's RaG

Come on now! Everyone does Video come on back to Text Blogging.

Download Video173.mp4

Paintball Victim

    Although he is fine and wanting to go again to the Paintball killing fields. And although this Pic is some 3 days old, ZuD can’t help but wonder how this passes as the next great pastime.
    It is better than sitting like a monolith in front of CRT’s or LCD screens browsing the Internet or interacting socially via or within computer game societies.
    But the bruises, dudes!
    Can’t ya offer the kids paintball armor so it doesn’t penetrate the skin?
    I feel like we are opening the old debate on properly equipping our fighting forces in Iraq. Sending over vehicles improperly armored to be victim to IED’s. I have been off the grid on that one the past three days; did Bush get the approval to send twenty more thousand troops with targets on their backs for the insurgents to play duck duck goose with?
    But back to the bruised boy, give ‘em overalls or maybe they do tell you that and my guy just said, “I’ll be OK” which he is proud of saying. He’s my baby ya know, and it so it’s tough too see him bruised!

Benny Parsons Dead at 65

So not to get all caught up in who is a red neck and if NASCAR is cool or not. Benny Parsons a legend of the sport has passed away. I thought it appropriate we mourn his passing as in a previous life I once drove a cab out of the garage that Benny’s dad owned. So I feel obliged to bow ZuD’s head and say hot damn! And hope old’ race car drivers like Benny get a good seat up there in race car heaven or where ever it is folks that die get to go.

Ice Glazed Chevy HHR

For those Zuddies in climates where this doesn't happen:

As a child ZuD would have a glazed yellow cake consisting of cocoanut & brown sugar icing. Man it was tasty! Much more satisfying than this Pic depicts of having your ride glazed over with frozen rain.

Why USA Today is the best Sports Rag!

You might not know whats on TV today:

MONDAY, JAN. 15

College men's basketball: Delaware State at Maryland-Eastern Shore (ESPN2, noon); Marquette at Louisville (ESPN, 7 p.m.); Missouri at Kansas (ESPN, 9 p.m.); Gonzaga at Saint Mary's (ESPN, midnight)

College women's basketball: Connecticut at North Carolina (ESPN2, 7 p.m.)

NBA: San Antonio at Chicago (WGN, 2 p.m.); Phoenix at Memphis (TNT, 7:30 p.m.); Miami at Los Angeles Lakers (TNT, 10 p.m.)

NHL: Montreal at Detroit (Versus, 7 p.m.); Colorado at San Jose (Versus, 10 p.m.)

Tennis: Australian Open, at Melbourne, (ESPN2, 3 p.m., same-day tape; ESPN2, 9 p.m., live; and ESPN, 3:30 a.m., live)

And that's all cool but what about the behind the scenes glimpse and summary that their media writers provide:

Spice rack: For all the psychoanalysis of Chicago's Grossman, Fox's Bradshaw went further in offering a prescription for San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers on Sunday: "Put him on a little Ritalin to slow him down." Oyyy. … Fox analyst Daryl Johnston, as NFL Punt, Pass & Kick winners were on the field in a break in the Eagles-Saints game, recalled competing at age 10 and staying at the same hotel as the Pittsburgh Steelers. Johnston recalled asking Bradshaw for an autograph, and the then-Steelers star's concise reply: "Go away, young man." … TNT's Charles Barkley, saying he could outrun NBA ref Dick Bavetta, suggested an idea with TV potential: "I know I'm a has-been fat guy, but nobody in the world who's 67 can beat me." Could be a regular TNT feature.

Say what?: Fox, famous for its plentiful crowd shots, focused at the Saints game on a female fan wearing a T-shirt with an epithet that was decidedly not made for TV. Not tasteful. … Nick Saban, who left the Miami Dolphins coaching job for Alabama, in a two-part ESPN interview that concludes today, recalls arriving at his new job: "I needed a hug."

Gone: ESPN axed Stephen A. Smith's Quite Frankly ratings-challenged talk show; the last one aired Friday. ESPN will continue to use Smith, who's better on-air in small doses, for cameos on various shows such as SportsCenter.

It's what every Sports fan needs to know every Mon, Wed and Friday!

Crippleware! But the Products look so Sweet!

ZuD hasn't stopped drooling since the iPhone was introduced. But then you read in the NYTimes this kind of stuff and you realize how and why these toys get made:

STEVE JOBS, Apple’s showman nonpareil, provided the first public glimpse of the iPhone last week — gorgeous, feature-laden and pricey. While following the master magician’s gestures, it was easy to overlook a most disappointing aspect: like its slimmer iPod siblings, the iPhone’s music-playing function will be limited by factory-installed “crippleware.”

If “crippleware” seems an unduly harsh description, it balances the euphemistic names that the industry uses for copy protection. Apple officially calls its own standard “FairPlay,” but fair it is not.

And so it goes... I have never owned a MP3 or ACC player as I always felt the fidelity couldn't equal what i heard when I first heard played Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on a full sized HiFi system. But I still held out hope that the day would come we could all settle on something equitable and equally harmonic. Guess we aren't there yet:

it was 20 years ago to day sargent pepper taught the band to play they were
going in and out of style but the were promised to raise I smile so me introduce
to you Sargent Pepper's lonely hearts club band ( it's wonderful to be here it
is certainly a thrill we'd like to take you home with us we'd love to take you
home) I don't really want to stop the show but I thought you might like to know
that the singers going to sing a song and he wishes you'd sing alond you me
introduce to you Billy Shears and Sargent Peppers lonely heart club band.
B-I-L-L-Y S-H-E-A-R-S!!!!!!!!!!!

HDTV & MacBook

Passing Time Till Real Game Starts.
The Bears & Seahawks Suck!
Here is hoping the Saints Beat the Winner!
Otherwise the Super Bowl will really ...

I Don't think I have ever said suck on this Blog before.
What could be wrong with me?
A veteran observer of every Super Bowl except in '98 when
priorities were much different.
I should show more respect for the decline of civilization.

How Does It Feel To Loose?

It is the worst! Stolen from the USA Today site that just happens to be the best Sports Page in the universe.
Your missing out if you rely on your local sports site or ESPN. But then that is an opinion and just as personal as how you behave when you win or loose.

Hope your team wins today! I have a stake in the Chargers as they havent been to the dance ever and I use to glory in the exploits of Dan Fouts, Kellen Winslow and Air Coryell. But that is a story for another day. And should the Chargers win I am sure we will hear the story often!

ZuD's New MacBook

There is the little baby!
White and dignified.
A fine addition!

After all the hoopla about Intel chips and all it seems a little anti climatic

ZuDfunck returns to Text Blogging

There have been many format changes that may or may not have made sense in the last time we made a format change. From names of the blog to what media format we use. So it must be harder and harder to be a zuddie over the years and I apologize for that I surely do!

But think how it must be for ZuD to try and maintain an audience when all the gimmicks start failing to inspire me.

This format or that gets old after awhile and when technology comes that promises nirvana, well I just have to chase it down just to make sure it might not be the next best thing!

It isn't easy being a trailing indicator and it certainly isn't great fun chasing tails of fashionable media revolutions. But we try and we try and we try and most of the time we come back to posting text and realizing how basic and fundamental methods often times are the best!

So for all the hub bub about pod-casting, vlogging, image posting, and the rest we have returned to the basic text on a blog approach and hope we have enough to offer to keep you enthralled and motivate you to burn a feed via feedburner or click a bookmark so we can maintain some continuity in these troubling and difficult times.

ZuDfunck now is Using MacBook

Well what the heck is happening now?

ZuDfunck never stays dormant! As a result of iListen being too cumbersome for the retarded curator a crisis meeting was held at ZuD headquarters and it was determined something dramatic was required! As a result it was determined that a more affable means of communication would best serve the Zuddies...

So an emergency expenditure was made and a MacBook was purchased to further the endeavor of reaching the audience that is YOU. Take a bow folks...

Again this is an example of the fact that price is no object when it comes to engaging and maintaining the intimacy that is needed to retain the ZuDfunck masses...

I hope this rings clear and is appreciated by you all. And even if it isn't, it is our primary goal!

Be a Web based Snitch!

Many Web sites -- some general, some specific -- catalog everyday misdeeds committed by average people. Here is a sampling:
TRANSGRESSION SITES COMMENTS
Bad driving PlateWire.com; AboveAverageDriver.com; Irate-Driver.com; BadDriving.com On these sites, users can report bad drivers and cite license plate numbers. At some, people can also report good drivers, though far fewer do so. At least eight PlateWire users have chastised themselves online, including one in Nevada last month who apologized for cutting another driver off in a post titled "Telling on Myself."
Bad or illegal parking MyBikelane.com; Caughtya.org; youparklikeana**hole.com Parking on the sidewalk, taking up two spaces, cramping in another driver -- they're all there. IParkLikeAnIdiot.com doesn't show many photos, but it says it sold about 30,000 bumper stickers displaying the site address last year, up from 10,000 in 2005.
Leaving dog droppings Flickr.com; YouTube.com Photos and videos on the two sites have captions like "bad owner." One YouTube chronicle, "a nice doggy's bad owner leaves a landmine on Dean Street in Brooklyn," has been viewed nearly 1,300 times since it went up in April.
Leering, whistling at women HollaBackNYC.com and other HollaBack sites Women can post pictures and videos of men who leer or make comments like "hey baby, wanna make love??!!" HollaBackNYC.com launched in 2005, inspired by one woman who photographed a lewd man on the subway. Now, there are at least 14 other local sites in the U.S. and Canada.
Littering LitterButt.com Site doesn't post license plate numbers of littering drivers, but it does act. Reported plateholders in participating states (Pennsylvania, Texas and North Carolina) get a notice -- the site sends the details to the state, which then mails a letter to the vehicle owner. For other states, the site may send an email to the governor.
Loud talking on a cellphone Flickr.com; RudePeople.com Flickr abounds with pictures of people talking loudly on cellphones or displaying bad cell etiquette. Could you be there? Photos have titles and comments like "TalksTooLoud," "Loud talker" and "Chatty McBlabsalot."
Yelling at children Isawyournanny.blogspot.com Five-month-old site has about 190 sightings so far, and most relate tales of bad behavior. Two more sites for nannies -- Isawyourmommy.blogspot.com and Isawnannysemployer.blogspot.com -- have since been launched in reaction.

Hat Tip: Wall Street Journal: The Snoop Next Door

ZuD uses iListen 1.7

This is my first post using iListen 1.7. My fingers are Idle! I am speaking into a microphone. And the words are being presented to you via iListen Software.

We would use this method of communication to post to this Blog more often and hopefully get to better know each other as a result.

I would love to hear from you in the comments section of this blog if you care to, if not we will continue this one way soliloquy.

Will vlog about this shortly once I’m a little bit better at using. Just another indication of how much we value your time spent here. Please burn a feed or bookmark this site, thank you for your attention.